Professional+Development

Professional Development Opportunities = = [|edWeb.net] A professional online community for educators to network and expand their knowledge. A GREAT place for an array of free professional development webinars focusing on everything from flipped classrooms to portable libraries to using the fantasy genre to teach science. All webinars provide you with a CE certificate for attending. Each webinar is thorough, provides time for Q&A and has many other educators to connect with.

[|Classroom 2.0] A wonderful website for teachers in a digital media age. There are numerous groups and discussions based on interest, projects for students and educators, blogs for you to create or read, and MY personal favorite: online workshops. The workshops are run through Elluminate, which you need to sign up for, but they allow for real-time, interactive and engaging workshops. You can easily watch a presenter's computer via this live program, and interact with others at the workshop. It's a great source to look to for learning and collaborating with other educators concerning digital media sources.
 * [|Classroom 2.0 Live! Calendar]

[|Concept to Classroom: A Series of FREE Workshops] I haven't fully explored this website, but it provides free professional development workshops online. Work at your own pace, learn from experts in the field, and of course, it's free! All student teachers knows that "free" is the key word in any sentence.
 * A course on using and creating WebQuests in the classroom: [|WebQuests]
 * A course on how teachers may best use the internet in classrooms: [|Why the Net? An Interactive Tool for the Classroom]

OK2Ask A wikispace for "TeachersFirst's newest offering, OK2Ask 'snack sessions,' a series of free, live, online 'snack sessions' (available live and in archived format) for self-directed teacher professional development and exploration," according to their website.
 * Check out their summer 2012 schedule here: [[file:Summer+2012+OK2Ask+Schedule.pdf]]