This paper is written in order to contribute an ideas regarding to the importance of theudInternet as a part of professional development of vocational school teachers. Teachers have audstrategic role on empowering and learning in schools. Nowadays in Indonesia, teachers as audprofession, consequently they should be aware to improve performance, competency, maintainudand also their professionalism. On the other hand, rapidly information technology developmentudallows the Internet can be used as an alternative medium for teachers’ professionaluddevelopment. Varied information can be retrieved openly and quickly via internet. But theudquestion is, how can teachers convert information from internet into useful knowledge to: theirudself development, produce scientific papers, and to work innovatively. Those are a product ofudteacher professional development. To be effective information into knowledge, knowledgeudmanagement is required to vocational secondary teachers, which can be briefly stated asud“learning to know what we know”. This paper will describe knowledge management approach asuda strategy to optimize the information from the Internet into useful knowledge for teachers’udprofessional development of vocational secondary schools.
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