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﻿Dear Fellow Educators,

Welcome to the BP Professional Development Emporium, where as this space develops you'll find a broad scope of PD activities on a wide variety of topics. To navigate this site, simply scroll through title list along left side until you find something that appeals to you. On this homepage you'll find links to many items of interest to educators, and before each link will be a brief explantion of where it will take you.

All of the activities in this wikispace have been developed by your peers, and you may have been directed here by the author of an activity, or you may just be here exploring the site to see what it has to offer. Please keep in mind that this is and always will be a work in progress. This is truly a virtual learning environment where one can come and get information, and leave something as well. Most of the activities posted here will have a discussion area where participants can weigh in on their experiences. As you browse this space and perhaps participate in some of the activities, please take some time to consider what you may have to offer towards the development of this site. If you think you'd like to add something that may be of value to your peers, you should request to become a member of this wiki and then start a new page wherein you can post your activity. If everyone contributes something, then this site will evolve into a substantial peer-driven resource.

Because wiki's are collaborative environments, it doesn't hurt to have some general rules to live by. Even though this space is protected, any member of this wiki can edit any part of it, but please remember that any edits you make will be tagged with your ID. I think it only fair that we respect each others work, and thus ask that no member edit another member's work unless there has been some sort of agreement about what will be done. Also, when adding items to the homepage, please keep the general format consistent and provide a brief description of any links you add so people will know where it takes them. The intent of the homepage items is that they are placed here for the benefit of all the developers, so if an item is specifically related to your PD activity, please put it on that page and not here.

If you need a refresher on our district network acceptable user policy, you can see it here: [|BP-TECH Acceptable User Policy]

If you need to access the Massachusetts Vocational Technical Frameworks, you can find them here: [|CVTE Frameworks]

If you need to access the Massachusetts Technology Literacy Standards and Expectations, you can find them here: [|MTLS&E]

If you'd like to know more about the topic of Universal Design for Learning, you can find some info here: [|Cast UDL Page]

If you'd like to see a document pertaining specifically to CTE on the Partnership for 21st Century Skills website, go here: [|P21CS - CTE]

If you need to see the ISTE NETS for teachers, here is a PDF that you can view or print:

If you'd like to deepen your confusion on teacher copyright rules, here's a chart in PDF form to help you:

If you'd like a storyboarding template for use when creating vodcasts, here's one in PDF format: