So I've been surfing and searching...A lot of sites looked interesting, but I bypassed many them because I wanted to find things that would help me on a practical level with my teaching, On the other hand, I wanted to locate sites that had varied things offer.

I finally chose three sites, but I suspect that I will be lurking on several others to which I've been exposed. Now that I've bookmarked them, I can peek whenever I have a free moment at the computer.

One of the things that I found interesting about these sites is the level of security of each one. My first  choice was http://www.teachertube.com, a site which posts various types of videos. In order to sign up for this site I had to fill in a registration form, create a password and enter an anti-spam code. I had some trouble at first, but my persistence was rewarded, when I found a video about another site called http://www.prometheanplanet.com which has interactive whiteboard activities. Since I've felt for a long time that our board is underused, and this site has postings from Israeli ESL teachers, I felt that I'd already hit the jackpot. In any case, I wondered at the level of security, especially when the next site I checked out had no security at all.

My second choice was http://www.theorganizedclassroomblog.com/index.php/blog/latest. I'm not sure it will help me on a practical level, because many of the ideas presented aren't appropriate for my students, but they are interesting, easy to read, and may generate other ideas. One article I read there was about using Google Drive. Although I've filled out forms in it, I have no idea what to do with it. The article sparked my interest, and I hope to look into it further.

My last choice was http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet, because I wanted one place for just reading what other teachers had to say; a site where theories and unusual thinking were put forward and pragmatism was out of style.