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Professional Educational Technology Teacher Websites


 * 1) Learn North Carolina ([]) is a site which supports K-12 educators by providing lesson plans, learning materials, projects, special collections, and blogs. This website also provides articles, multimedia tutorials, and entire books explaining the best practices for teachers (and administrators) with a wide range of self-guided professional development. This website also contains a list of online courses for those interested in professional development and who want to earn renewal credit online. The lesson plans and extra materials found on this website can be very useful. They are very specific and easy to follow. When searching for lesson plans at this site, you can search for a very specific topic or a general one. The lesson plans list the required time, materials, pre-activities, activities, assessment, and sometimes more. I found this to be a very useful website.
 * 2) Internet4classrooms ([]) is a professional educational technology teaching website that offers tutorials for many different tools that teachers may use. This site has a tutorial for web 2.0 tools such as podcasting, blogs, graphic organizers, wiki, photo/video, social bookmarking, presentation tools, and several others. It also has tutorials for Excel, Powerpoint, and Word, Dreamweaver, Explorer, Inspiration, and Kidspiration, and the different operating systems. This website is very helpful for teachers of all subjects.
 * 3) Education World: The Educator's Best Friend has a section specifically for Technology Integration ([]). This site has a lot of resources for educators. It always has new tips, articles, lesson plans, blogs, templates, worksheets, and even surveys. You can find the top ten articles of the week, clip art gallery, the tech lesson plan of the week, sites to see, article archives, and tons of other resources. It even has Techtorials. This site could be very useful to many educators but I think it is a little jumbled. It seemed to have too much going on in too many places.
 * 4) Best Practices of Technology Integration in Michigan ([]) This site has a lot of lesson plans which demonstrate how to use technology in the classroom. The site does a great job of organizing the lesson plans. They are separated into levels (Elementary, Middle, and High) and subject (math, english, history,etc). These lesson plans were written by practicing teachers and they were actually used on students to determine they actually work. I really like this site especially because it was so easy to navigate.
 * 5) Tech & Learning ([]) This site is another resource rich website. This site offers tips, resources (podcasts, web tours, ebooks, etc.), blogs, forums, video, magazines, webinars, and best practices in new articles, classroom, leadership, professional development, and tech/media coordinators. This is a very useful site in which educators can learn from other peoples' ideas, opinions, achievements, and mistakes. We can learn so much from eachother through blogs and forums. We, as educators, should use the resources that we have such easy access to in order to become great teachers. These are just a few of the websites I was impressed with.