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edWeb Community News  
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edWeb News
Welcome to our community of over 20,000 educators who are using edWeb.net to 
join and create professional learning communities and online communities of 
practice.  

Our communities and free webinar programs make it easy for you to collaborate 
with educators all across the country on a wide variety of topics. We’re excited 
to let you know about two new communities:
Team 21: Teachers for Educational Access to Media for 21st Century Learning
>edWeb members frequently tell us they are frustrated that so many sites are 
>blocked in school. Blocking access to online media denies kids the chance to 
>practice sharing their knowledge with the real world in a supervised setting. 
>Join this new community to exchange ideas about the open and responsible use of 
>media for teaching and learning.  Join the community.
>TechTools for the Classroom: Easy Ideas to Engage Students
>In this community and series of free webinars you'll gain new resources, free 
>technology, and learn ways to integrate technology into the classroom in order 
>to engage your students. Converse with others who are using technology in  
>classrooms across the country, even in districts where access is limited. CE 
>Certificate provided for webinar participation.
>Join the community  
We are delighted to announce that we have two new sponsors for our professional 
learning communities. BrainPOP is now the sponsor of our Game-Based Learning 
community, co-presented by edWeb.net and SIIA. Summit Professional Education is 
sponsoring Effective Strategies for Teaching Students with Autism, presented by 
Eden Autism Services. We are very grateful to our sponsors. Their support makes 
it possible for us to provide free, high quality Web 2.0 professional 
development for the education community.
edWeb is free for educators and educational institutions.  Think about ways you 
can use edWeb during the next school year to work more collaboratively with your 
colleagues.  We’re here to help you get more connected.  Contact us for help at 
support at edweb.net.  
         
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Free Webinars 
Preview our free webinars - then join the community
ViewHelp Students Manage Their Destiny
Join Using Your Student Data for Student Achievement 
View How to Effectively Communicate and Work with Parents
Join Teaching Students with Autism 
View Your Teacher Evaluation
Join New Teacher Help
View Getting Administrators & Other Skeptics on Board with Game-Based Learning
Join Game-Based Learning
View What Is Really Happening in the Classrooms?
Join Learner-Centered 
School Leadership
ViewVideo Instruction: Using video to increase instructional availability
Join Emerging Technology for Librarians
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New! Listen to interviews with educators and leaders in the education industry 
on edWeb's Education Talk Radio.
Michelle Luhtala on School Libraries and Media: Banned Sites Week. Listen now.
Shannon Holden on NewTeacher Training. Listen now.
Neal Goff on eBooks for education and his new digital bookstore, 
K12TeacherStore.com. Listen now.
Mari Pearlman on School Leadership: Creating a Culture of Evidence. Listen now.
Elizabeth Evans on Getting Teachers Involved in the Public Debate. Listen now.
Tom Carroll on The National Commission on Teaching and America's Future. Listen 
now.
Lisa Schmucki on Using Social Networks to Create Professional Learning 
Communities. Listen now.
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The National Education Technology Plan Calls on Educators to Use Social Networks 
to Create Communities of Practice
The DOE plan, issued in November 2011, endorses using social networks to create 
communities of practice that help educators share tools and resources, evolve 
skills over time, tap into experts and best practices, and provide platforms for 
educators to design and develop resources with and for colleagues.                                          
edWeb.net is a free professional social network for the education community that 
makes it possible to realize this vision. 

Join edWeb.net today  and create your own online community of practice.! 
Download the National Education Technology Plan 
Learn about the DOE Connected Online Communities of Practice Project 
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Here's what educators are saying about edWeb.net 
The work you are doing is real, relevant, and informative. Thank you for leading 
this collective engagement in thinking and processing about teaching, learning, 
and leadership. 

— Kelly Meyers
Associate Executive Director
Association of Wisconsin School Administrators
 
Our program on edWeb.net really engages our customers and creates a sense of 
community.  It's a two-way conversation where we get great market information 
and learn about ways to improve our products and their implementation.  And we 
get great leads. We do Facebook and Twitter, but edWeb is how we do social 
media.  This is the model we want to have.
— Michael Campbell, Director of Marketing, Follett Software Company 
 
edWeb has proven to be a valuable resource for our learning community. The 
number one complaint of all educators is not enough time.  edWeb provides an 
online meeting spot where ideas and resources can be shared with ease. We can 
use it in school or in the comfort of our own home. It easy to use and has so 
many useful applications.
— Cory Radisch
Principal
Maple Place Middle School
 
This website ROCKS! I set up my community and sent out the email invites to all 
my teachers and 5 minutes later 3 had already joined! I kid you not. I tried 
using a Ning and this beats it by a mile! Thank you so much.
— Marth Vincent, Special Services, Region 8 Education Service Center, Mt. 
Pleasant TX 

 
Thanks!  I am so excited about all the opportunities I am learning about through 
this forum!  Thanks so much for offering it! 

—Sarah Murray, 
Teacher-Librarian 
St. Joseph High School
 
I would like to compliment you on the wonderful work you and your team have 
done. We spent months looking at various options for a social networking site or 
framework able to accommodate our ambitious dreams and edWeb is it. We haven't 
regretted the decision for a minute.
—Carl Falsgraf
Director of the Center for Applied Second Language Studies at the University of 
Oregon
 
"Thanks for yesterday’s Webinar.  It was the first one that I have participated 
in and I found the content informative and the system of delivery easy and 
convenient… I was impressed by the number of participants from all over the 
globe.  I would like to receive CEU documentation, the slides from the 
presentation and chat thread.  Thanks again for a great professional development 
session."
--Robin Magistrali
Library Media Specialist, Torrington High School (CT)
 
edWeb.net provides a very user friendly platform to support making connections.
— Gregory Whiteman Director of Technology Integration, Kent School District (WA)
 
I am so excited to be a part of this community! I can't wait to hear how other 
teachers are engaging their students in math and look forward to sharing what 
the teachers in our district are doing.
— Middle School 
Technology/Math Coach
 
Thanks all--- you are all very helpful. Your website helped me immensely my 
first year teaching at Sobriety High.
—Aleida Connel, 
Escape from the Textbook Community
 
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We're pleased to announce that edWeb.net was awarded a Distinguished Achievement 
Award for Technology-Social Media at the Association of Educational Publishers 
Annual Conference on June 8th in Washington, D.C. 

  

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Join a Professional Learning Community on edWeb 
Connect with peers, share information and resources, spread innovative 
ideas...communities allow you to collaborate using tools like blogs, 
discussions, messaging, calendars, polling, wikis, and file sharing. Many also 
offer ongoing webinar series.
Attend  Webinars
We offer webinar series on a variety of education topics, many listed below. The 
webinars include live chat discussion, and  community blogs and discussion 
forums continue the conversation on an ongoing basis. The webinar recordings are 
archived in the community for viewing at any time.
These continuous communities of practice make it possible to share and enhance 
the knowledge of the entire community of participants.
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New
TechTools for the Classroom: Easy Ideas to Engage Students
This series of monthly webinars takes advantage of the power of soclal 
networking to help teachers explore critical aspects of educating students.  In 
a series of webinars, live chats, and online discussions, teachers will 
collaborate with each other to share techniques that engage students by using 
technology.  

Upcoming topics include: Making Videos Using the "Flip" Camera, Making Videos 
Using "Screen Capture" Programs, Utilizing Free Internet Resources, Assessing 
Student Projects Made with Technology, Building Teacher Websites, Making 
Podcasts, and more!
This series is presented by Shannon Holden, current assistant principal at 
Republic Middle School in Missouri.  He has been a high school and middle school 
teacher and administrator in North Dakota, Texas, and Missouri for 20 years. 

CE credit is provided for your participation.
Join Tech Tools in the Classroom
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Game-Based Learning
Co-hosted by edWeb.net and the Software & Information Industry Association 
(SIIA)
Sponsored by BrainPOP
Are you interested in learning more about how you can incorporate gaming into 
your curriculum?  In this community K-12 educators, game designers, 
college-level educators, and education industry executives are coming together 
to discuss gaming and education, forming new connections, and encouraging the 
growth of this emerging field. Members of the Game-Based Learning community are 
invited to a  series of free monthly webinars on  topics in gaming and 
education, and CE credit is provided for your participation.
Preview the program by watching the recording of the webinar Getting 
Administrators & Other Skeptics on Board with  Game-Based Learning
Join Game-Based Learning.
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Using Your Student Data for Student Achievement 
Sponsored by Follett Software Company
This community provides administrators and educators at the school, district, 
and state level with a forum to share information, voice opinions, engage in a 
dialogue with peers, and gain support for using student data to improve teaching 
and learning.
Each month, we host a webinar and live chat.  The conversation doesn't stop 
there, but continues in the online discussions, providing a forum for continuous 
dialogue and support.  The webinars and all resources are archived in the 
community, creating a valuable resource center.  This is a unique way for 
educators to work together and explore this important topic.
Preview the program by watching the recording of the webinar Help Students 
Manage Their Destiny
Join Using Your Student Data for Student Achievement.
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 Effective Strategies for Teaching Students with Autism
Presented byEden Autism Services
Sponsored by Summit Professional Education
Eden Autism Services has launched a new professional learning community for 
teachers who are working with students with autism.  The program provides free 
monthly webinars and "live chats," free lesson plans, and online discussion 
forums to help teachers connect and collaborate on the best practices for 
supporting students with autism. This is a new way for teachers to connect and 
share perspectives and experiences. 

Members of the community can post questions and start discussions on topics to 
get feedback from the educational experts at Eden, and also from peers who are 
dealing with similar issues.  This new program will take advantage of the power 
of social networking to bring teachers together to expand access to resources, 
and to get feedback, mentoring, and support.
CE credit is provided for attending the webinar or watching the recording and 
taking a short quiz. 

Preview the program by watching the recording of the webinar on How to 
Effectively Communicate and Work with Parents
Join Effective Strategies for Teaching Students with Autism
	* Grades preK to 5
	* Grades  6 to 12 
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Using Emerging Technology to Advance Your School Library Program  
Sponsored by Follett Software Company
Join this innovative program that combines monthly webinars with an edWeb social 
networking community to explore how emerging technology can be used to engage 
students and transform your school library program.  The program is presented by 
Michelle Luhtala, Head Librarian at New Canaan High School and winner of the 
2010 National School Library Program of the Year.
Here are the topics being explored in year 2 of this active and engaging 
program:  Video Instruction, Enlisting Volunteers, Internet Filtering, Keeping 
Up With the Standards, Digital Citizenship, Learning Commons, Global 
Collaboration, PD 2.0, e-Content, Mobile Learning, e-Learning, and more. 

CE credit is offered for participation.
Preview the program by watching the recording of the webinar Video Instruction: 
Using video to increase instructional availability
Join  Using Emerging Technology to Advance Your School Library Program. 
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 New Teacher Help
This innovative online professional development program presents a free monthly 
webinar for new teachers and provides a great way to connect and share 
perspectives and experiences. 
The series will help new teachers learn how to think analytically about evidence 
as it reflects what is really happening in their schools—with student 
performance, with instructional practice, and with school culture. In the 
year-long series of webinars, live chats, and online discussions, new (and even 
experienced teachers) will collaborate with each other on the challenges and 
rewards of teaching. CE credit is provided for your participation.
Presented by Shannon J. Holden
Shannon Holden has been a high school and middle school teacher and 
administrator in North Dakota, Texas, and Missouri for 20 years.  Holden built a 
website, www.newteacherhelp.com in 2009 to help reduce the 50% five-year 
attrition rate for new teachers in the educational profession.
Preview the program by watching the recording of the webinar on Your Teacher 
Evaluation
Join  New Teacher Help.
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 Learner-Centered School Leadership: Creating a Culture of Evidence
Sponsored by NASSP
Join this innovative program for professional development that combines monthly 
webinars with an edWeb  community to explore how a culture of evidence can help 
school leaders understand and influence what is really happening in their 
schools.    

The program is presented by Dr. Mari Pearlman who has written and presented 
extensively on the topic of the role of evidence-centered thinking in improving 
teaching and learning, and, in particular, the ways in which school leaders can 
use empirical evidence to change the conversation about a school’s learning 
results with faculty, staff, and students. 

Here are the topics being explored: Empirical Evidence, First Steps, Changing 
the Conversation, The Vision Thing, The Master Plan, A Taxonomy (Content, 
Instruction, Students, Culture), The Instructional Core, The School Culture, The 
Idea of Collective Leadership.
Preview the program by watching the recording of the webinar What is Really 
Happening in the Classrooms?
Join Learner-Centered School Leadership.
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Technology in Schools — 
What, Why, and How? 
This professional learning community will help technology directors and other 
school administrators and educators learn and collaborate with peers about how 
to evaluate, select, and purchase the best technology for your classroom, 
school, or district.
As a member of the community, you'll be invited to a series of free monthly 
webinars that will talk about voice, video, and data hardware, software, and 
curriculum. The webinars and follow up discussions will cover purchasing 
considerations, but also, and importantly, how to integrate the latest 
technology into teaching and learning. 

The program is presented and hosted by Gail Palumbo, former Director of 
Curriculum and Technology, Montgomery Township Schools (NJ), and national 
consultant for schools, districts, and corporations. 

Preview the program by watching the recording of the webinar on Online Math 
Intervention Services
Join  Technology in Schools

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School Gardens
This community shares information about starting outdoor classrooms, and 
discusses the challenges of initiating garden classrooms where there are no 
state educational standards driving the process. 

Join in on discussion forums about tips and tricks to maintaining a school 
garden, summer planting, and starting a school garden.  You can also begin 
discussions and collaborate with peers in the educational gardening community
Members of this community also have access to resources such as curriculum to 
support school gardens, funding opportunities, seeds and plating information, 
and more.
Join School Gardens 
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The Big Deal eBook of Resources for 21st  Century Teaching and Learning: 
Information, Media and Digital Literacies 

Explore this collection of resources to help students locate, evaluate, use and 
manage information efficiently; interpret and communicate messages effectively; 
and master the digital tools to become informed citizens and productive 21st 
century workers.
The Big Deal Book of Technology has created the Amazing Resources for Educators 
community on the edWeb, and invites teachers, technology directors, tech 
coordinators, media specialists and anyone involved in education to join the 
community and to bring colleagues along. 

Amazing Resources for Educators focuses on identifying valuable resources for 
educators. It provides information on grants and other attainable funding, rich 
resources for 21st century skills, professional development opportunities, free 
and inexpensive finds, and help with research and assessment.
Learn about new resources, survey results, and grant deadlines in the weekly 
blog. Meet new colleagues and share outstanding resources you have discovered. 

To get your free copy of the guide, join Amazing Resources for Educators.
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The VIVA Project: Where classrooms and policies connect to make policy work for 
schools

The VIVA Teachers Community provides classroom teachers across the United States 
a chance to collaborate with peers who share their passion for teaching and want 
teachers to have more leadership in how our schools work.
This school year, we plan to launch three new statewide online events and a 
large district online event.  We also offer classroom teachers ongoing 
opportunities to work in smaller collaborations after the events conclude. The 
VIVA Teachers Community on edWeb currently is hosting a debate in the discussion 
forum over how much of a teacher's evaluation should be based on standardized 
tests.
If you are a classroom teacher interested in adding your voice to the education 
reform debate, please join The VIVA Teachers Community.
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Escape from the Textbook
The Center for Innovative Teaching at the Urban School of San Francisco has 
started an Escape from the Textbook! community on edWeb.net to help launch and 
nurture ongoing collaborations among middle and high school math teachers 
everywhere.
Secondary school math teachers find that almost every off-book activity planned 
is well received by students, leads to greater interest and motivation, and 
promotes deeper learning. Freeing from the constraints of set-in-stone curricula 
allows for teaches to better respond to the realities of the individual 
classroom. However, the pressure of coverage, lack of time, external mandates, 
and isolation from like-minded teachers can undermine these efforts.
Working together, secondary school math teachers can help each other escape from 
the textbook, whether for a lesson, a unit, or an entire course.
Join Escape from the Textbook!
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Conversations about Helping English Language Learners Succeed
The explosive growth in the English language learner population has increased 
the stress level of educators across the country. If you are one of the many 
educators who want to do right by your students but aren’t sure exactly how best 
to do it, the new edWeb community on ELL Conversations is for you. Not only will 
you find practical, easy-to-implement ideas, there is no cost to join. Whether 
you are trying to communicate with Spanish-speaking parents, increase student 
test scores, or teach science to students who aren’t yet proficient in English, 
this new edWeb community will give you an immediate launching pad to success.  
“Conversations about Helping English Language Learners Succeed” is sponsored by 
Bentiva Education Solutions. Bentiva specializes in bilingual teacher reference 
materials. 

Join Conversations about Helping English Language Learners Succeed
  

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