Sustainable, high quality professional development is critical for comprehensive technology integration. Professional development must change teacher practice and instruction to effectively increase achievement.

Currently, over 40% of students in grades 6-12 cite their teacher as an obstacle since it is the teacher who increasingly is limiting the “when and where” of using technology at school (Speak Up 2007).

Below is a table highlighting some high quality professional development programs as related to Web 2.0 technology integration. 

TECHNOLOGY	STATE	PROJECT SUMMARY
Blogs	Indiana	Indiana: The Director of Instructional Media at Portage Township Schools in northwest Indiana teaches a web page creation course for teachers within the district, which includes blogging. Once a teacher completes the course, they can start to add blogs and be linked to the Portage Township district home page.
Blogs	New Hampshire	The Office of Educational Technology at the state education agency began using blogs and wikis for information dissemination and as a model for other DOE staff to follow. This year OET will use a wiki to engage in a statewide dialogue as it crafts the next State Educational Technology Plan. Online resources at www.nheon.org/science and www.nheon.org/opennh
Blogs Wikis	Ohio	The Blogs and Wikis course provides an opportunity for participants to grasp the pedagogical potential of incorporating Web 2.0 tools into their curriculum.
Blogs	Tennessee	Some training on blogging has been provided to teachers with more training planned. Administration has begun to use blogs as a means to meet and communicate online in some districts.
Chat Video	Ohio	Elluminate is a collaborative tool that adds real-time interaction to distance learning via chat, video, application and file sharing. Elluminate extends the boundaries of the traditional classroom by engaging course participants in a live virtual collaborative environment.
General	California	The Education Technology Office funds the California Technology Assistance Project (CTAP) which provides technology coordination and professional development services in education technology based upon local needs in each of the 11 regions in California.
General	California	The Education Technology Office funds Statewide Education Technology Services (SETS), four distinct free web services that provide learning resources, administrator training, technical support, professional development, and technology planning resources.
General	Illinois	Established in 1995, the Learning Technology Centers assist the Illinois State Board of Education with statewide initiatives by supporting Illinois school districts with hardware and software infrastructure, as well as classroom and teacher readiness for integrating technology in the classroom and curriculum.
General	Illinois	The Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) is providing professional development for more than 340 teachers in 26 districts statewide with a series of in-depth, online courses focused on bringing technology into the classroom. The classes are an integral part of the Illinois Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT) grant program, which aims to improve access to technology and to provide technology integration training to teachers and students in the state.
General	New Hampshire	To address the policy side of Internet safety, an OPEN NH course was developed called "School Policies for 21st Century Learning." Schools are encouraged to register teams of teachers to take this course along with the CyberSmart! online workshops and other courses. The focus is on helping teachers to better understand the landscape that their students are engaged in outside of school, so that their work inside the school room walls can promote a higher level of digital citizenship.
General	Texas	In a recent case study, Burleson Independent School District works with an on-demand professional development program to increase the quality of instruction and increase student engagement.
Podcasting	Delaware	Apple conducted podcast training for middle school teachers who were mainly science teachers who would use podcasting during "field studies.” (Appoquinimink School District)
Podcasting	Florida	The Director of Instructional Technology and Library Media, George Perreault, at Orange County Public Schools (OCPS) in Orlando, Florida helped to provide tools and training for over 3,000 teachers and administrators within the district to create and distribute content via blogs and podcasts. Perreault encourages teachers to use these tools to connect students and deliver engaging content. Perreault sees streaming video, podcasts, and other delivery methods, as an increasingly effective and important way to engage students.
Podcasting	Ohio	The Podcasting course provides participants an opportunity to explore instructional examples of podcasts and learn how to create them for instructional use with students and staff.
Podcasting	Tennessee	Chanda Parker, an instructional technologist in the East Tennessee School District, created podcasts for teachers to use in the classroom. Some of the podcasts included a field trip to a water treatment plant, a teacher working with students as they learn about math concepts, school plays and other events. Parker uploaded the podcasts to servers so that teachers, parents, and students can easily access them.
Web 2.0	Alabama	The Division of Instructional Technology offered Web 2.0 training sessions around the state. They have also offered the training in house to other areas within the agency and created the Best Practices Center with the goal to improve student achievement through professional development.
Web 2.0	Arizona	The state-provided teacher web portal IDEAL v2.0, contains multiple Web 2.0 tools, including assess to Goggle Apps and iTunesU.
Web 2.0	Arizona	Intel Teach courses have a component of using Web 2.0 tools and have been successful throughout the state.
Web 2.0	Arizona	For the past three years, the local ISTE-affiliate, AzTEA, has offered workshops and conferences which highlight Web 2.0 tools.
Web 2.0	Connecticut	One of Connecticut's regional educational service centers (RESCs) facilitates monthly meetings along with a wiki that promotes open source and Web 2.0 technologies. Each of our RESCs has offered half-day or full day Web 2.0 professional development sessions.
Web 2.0	Massachusetts	The state has participated in the AT&T/EDC online course, Web 2.0. The five-member MA Team Members will teach the course to other educators in their districts and other districts.
Web 2.0	New Hampshire	Over the past few years, the ISTE-affiliate (NHSTE) has enlisted the help of leading Web 2.0 educators (Alan November, Will Richardson, Kathy Schrock, etc.) to provide professional development to educators in our New England region via keynotes at conferences, summer institutes, and workshops. See www.nhcmtc.org/extensions for materials from many of these sessions. The state’s educational media organization (NHEMA) has sponsored sessions on blogs, RSS, and wikis at conferences.
Web 2.0	New Hampshire	New Hampshire educators and policy makers have had lively discussions about the promises and pitfalls of using Web 2.0 tools in schools. These discussions take place online via listservs, at state conferences, and within online courses. Several workshop and conference venues have focused on Web 2.0 tools. Lyndeborough Central School recently piloted a CyberSmart! online workshop which engaged all of its teachers in learning, discussing and applying the 21st century skills needed to safely harness the Internet’s potential — promoting students’ creative inquiry, collaboration and critical thinking. The online workshop had an unusually high completion rate of over 80 percent with positive overall feedback from the participants, including administration, teachers and staff.
Web 2.0	Virginia	The Virginia Department of Education staff in the Office of Educational Technology offers a Library 2.0 workshop designed to acquaint library media specialists with Web 2.0 tools and to suggest ways that these social networking applications can help them to expand and enhance existing services provided to teachers, administrators, students, parents, and the community.
Web 2.0	Virginia	The technology staff of Goochland County Public Schools uses face-to-face and online courses to provide professional development to educators on the use of Web 2.0 type technologies. Educators are also shown a QuickTime video that shows how to use the school division's wiki-based system to sign-up for courses.
Web 2.0	Virginia	The Virginia Department of Education is training staff in the Office of Educational Technology to facilitate online courses on the use of Web 2.0 type technologies for educators in Virginia
Web 2.0	Washington	Professional development strategies that help teachers use Web 2.0 tools in the classroom tend to be used on a district, building, and/or classroom basis only. Web 2.0 tools such as Google Docs, wikis, podcasting, blogs, social bookmarking (i.e., del.icio.us), and content management systems (i.e., Moodle) are being used in professional development workshops for teachers across the state. Also being used is TeacherTube, as YouTube is often blocked by district content filters. Some teachers have begun exploring using these types of tools in their classrooms with students.
Web 2.0	Washington	A workshop recently offered in partnership with WSU and OSPI was Teaching 2.0: 21st Century Project-Based Learning. It includes information online technology tools that help turn a classroom into an exiting, dynamic learning community.