A professional development site for educators. It offers collaboration and professional development opportunities.
According to the site: edWeb.net is a professional social and learning network that makes it easy for anyone in the education community to connect with peers, share information and best practices, spread innovative ideas, and provide professional development.
edWeb provides an easy and intuitive Web 2.0 platform that includes blogs, discussions, file-sharing, shared calendars, wikis, live chat, messaging, polling, and shared links. Communities (groups) can be created and linked for closer collaboration.
Teachers and administrators can share best practices, information on what’s working, and support each other across schools, districts, states, the country, and even around the world.
Schools and districts can create professional learning communities and practice groups, improve teacher and principal quality and technology skills, and provide mentoring and support.
Colleges can use edWeb to support their teacher education programs and to stay connected to cohorts of new teachers as they move on to their teaching positions and begin their careers. Faculty in any department can use edWeb to connect with peers anywhere in the world.
Associations, legislators, and community leaders can discuss research, policies, regulations, and guidelines to break down the silos that exist at all levels of education, and to draw in a wider group of stakeholders.
Education companies can connect with educators to get feedback on products and services, to discuss the educational materials that are needed to improve education, and to provide continuous, online professional development.
edWeb welcomes all professionals in education and creates a new communication channel for educators, associations, legislators, community leaders, and companies to break down traditional barriers to communication and promote broader collaboration.
edWeb is free for professionals in education and for educational institutions. Education companies are invited to join as sponsors.
Type of Material:
Collection
Recommended Uses:
This website can be used for professional development of those currently in the field. It can also be used by instructors to supplement classroom learning. The site offers live as well as saved edWebinars.
Technical Requirements:
internet connection
Identify Major Learning Goals:
To provide a free resource for teachers, districts, school administrators, etc. to view webinars on a multitude of topics that fit into professional development.
No special knowledge or skills needed to use this material.
Content Quality
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Strengths:
This website offers timely topics that any educator could use to improve or learn new skills and concepts for classroom teaching. The variety and scope of educational topics makes this a site that could be used in multiple classroom and professional development situations.
Concerns:
None
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
Rating:
Strengths:
When a "student" completes the webinar it is possible to earn continuing education credit. This should help for salary increases and to show administrators that professional development has been taken. Learners can select specific topics to focus on, and join focused learning communities. Users can click on a state to learn about the earning and application of PD credits.
Concerns:
None.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
Rating:
Strengths:
Site is very easy to navigate. Links are active. Labels are clear. Buttons that lead to the webinars are clearly marked.
Concerns:
None.
Other Issues and Comments:
Offers archive of free edwebinars.
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