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Professional Resources

Web pages developed to assist social studies teachers in their professional development. These resources may include professional organizations' home pages, online journals and magazines and resource development web sites.

Professional Organizations

International Society for Technology in Education - the largest teacher-based nonprofit organization in the field of educational technology.
National Council for the Social Studies - a professional organization for social studies educators.
Organization of American Historians - professional organization devoted to the investigation, study, and teaching of the American past.
Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education - an international association of individual teacher educators, who are interested in the creation and dissemination of knowledge about the use of information technology in teacher education.

Teacher Education Resources

ERIC Clearinghouse for Teaching and Teacher Education - a federally funded, nationwide information network designed to provide you with ready access to education literature.
College and university teacher education programs - from Yahoo.com.
National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education - a coalition of 33 specialty professional associations of teachers, teacher educators, content specialists, and local and state policy makers providing professional accreditation of schools, colleges and departments of education.
The Faculty Connection - designed to assist faculty of post-secondary institutions in becoming familiar with issues, examples and discussion topics associated with using emerging technologies in teaching and learning.
WWW 4 Teachers - a collection of online resources made by teachers for teachers from South Central Regional Technology In Education Consortium (SCR*TEC).

Collaborative Teacher Education Resources

ALN Center - dedicated to understanding and distribution of knowledge about Asynchronous Learning Networks.
EdGate - Educational resources from Copernicus.
EDUniverse.com - providing educators, authors, and institutions the means to develop and promote content.
H-Net's High School History and Social Studies Discussion Network - discussions about social studies curriculum, instructional strategies, and educational resources.
Leadership and New Technologies' Online Professional Development Workshops - opportunities to explore education/technology with educators around the world.
Nicenet - a free, web-based tool for use in the classroom. Create a custom site for your classroom with features like document sharing, messaging, conferencing and much more.
Teacher's Net - chat rooms, discussion boards, and resources for teachers.
Teacher Vision - an online community of teachers providing education related information and resources as well as tools for building classroom webpages.
TELUS Learning Connection - resources facilitating the effective use of information and communication technology - for, by and with teachers.

Resources for Teacher Training and Professional Development

WNET School - practical web services for teachers and teacher educators from WNET public television in New York.