Technology and teacher Professional Development

Today, during our Diigo assignment, I learned about a cool site called scholastic.com which includes a bunch of information for teachers including lesson plans, educational articles, and teacher blogs in order to help educators professionally develop. The site also included a very helpful article about the top 25 most useful sites for educators, which gave some great examples of resources teachers could use in their classrooms.

From viewing others' teacher professional development tools, I learned about a cool site that has different forums for different types of educators. There was one forum for teachers of foreign languages. I found this one particularly interesting because I plan to teach English as a foreign language one day abroad, so any tips I can get from others who have already done so and know more about it are greatly appreciated. Also, I found a cool forum on there that allowed teachers to have debates about education. I made a sticky note that said this has potential to be both fun and productive: fun because friendly debates are usually pretty fun when they're about topics you're passionate about, and productive because it can give educators new insights about topics they care about.

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