Edutopia

Dan Germundson

Edutopia []

Edutopia is a product of the George Lucas Educational Foundation. Its purpose is to connect with people improving education. It offers a variety of resources revolving around six core concepts: comprehensive assessment, integrated studies, project-based learning, social and emotional learning, teacher development, and technology integration.
 * __Purpose__**

"A place where kids and parents, teachers and administrators, policy makers and the people they serve, all are empowered to change education for the better. A place where schools have access to the same invaluable technology as businesses and universities -- where innovation is the rule, not the exception. A place where children become lifelong learners and develop the technical, cultural, and interpersonal skills to succeed in the twenty-first century. A place of inspiration, aspiration, and an urgent belief that improving education improves the world we live in."

The website is free and designed for anyone wanting to learn more about innovative teaching and learning in the 21st century. The website serves kids,parents, teachers, and administrators of all academic levels.
 * __Members Served__**

__**Benefits**__ The website offers videos, blogs, and a specialized section on schools that work, a collection of success stories from schools across the nation. The following is a sampling of some of the current topics on the website:

When Technology and Project Learning Meet []

Blog: Join an Online Learning Group []

[|Online Education Is a New Way of Learning -- and Teaching] Educators can find being a teacher for a virtual school to be a challenge.

Online Learning: West Virginia Virtual School []

//Edutopia News// highlights what works in education by delivering some of the newest content and resources from Edutopia.org directly to your in-box. (//View the latest issue.//) [|//http://www.edutopia.org/edutopia/enews//]
 * __Weekly Newsletter__**

Free educational widgets and badges for your website or blog. RSS feeds [] Facebook [] Twitter []
 * __Outreach__**

Edutopia is a free website that benefits all stakeholders in the education world. The website offers current information on successful strategies from across the country within six categories of education. Technology and distance education can be weaved into all of these categories and the website provides useful, practical, and innovative information.
 * __Why would I join?__**