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Social networks can help educators find jobs, learning resources and other colleage. Whether you want to improve your classroom, your contact list or your professional know-how, Education Dive has assembled this directory to help you evaluate some of the best online networking resources available. If you know about a social network that we should add, just fill out this form and let us know.
Entries (36 entries)
Academia.edu
For researchers to track down documents and stay up to date on what others are working on
Audience: Academics who want to share their research and provide feedback to colleagues
Cost: Free
Cost: Free
BetterLesson
Place for educators to connect and share more effective curriculum
Audience: Pre-K-12 instructors
Cost: Free for instructors with paid premium options for school districts
Cost: Free for instructors with paid premium options for school districts
Blackboard xpLor
Blackboard's LMS-agnostic platform for content sharing across campuses and the world
Audience: Higher education and K-12 educators
Cost: Free for users, variable for institutions
Cost: Free for users, variable for institutions
BloomBoard
Free observation and evaluation tools for educators to improve their methods
Audience: Teachers looking to give and receive feedback
Cost: Free, with premium features for purchase
Cost: Free, with premium features for purchase
Classroom Earth
Social network for environmental education created in partnership between The Weather Channel and the National Environmental Education Foundation
Audience: K-12 teachers
Cost: Free
Cost: Free
Discovery Educator Network
Community for educators looking for live and virtual collaboration, information, and professional development around education technology
Audience: K-12 educators
Cost: Free to use but must purchase $295+ license for online streaming content
Cost: Free to use but must purchase $295+ license for online streaming content
Edcanvas
Online boards to organize and share digital content; ability to create multimedia lesson plans
Audience: Teachers and students of all levels
Cost: Free
Cost: Free
Edmodo
Social learning site to manage classrooms, deliver assessments and share lesson plans
Audience: K-12 teachers, parents and students
Cost: Free to use
Cost: Free to use
Edthena
Professional development and teacher coaching with direct observation and feedback
Audience: Teachers in schools of education (CTE), public schools, and post-secondary schools
Cost: Varies
Cost: Varies
edWeb
Free online community for professional educators, offering networking, resource sharing, collaboration, and professional development webinars
Audience: K-12 adn post-secondary teachers and administrators
Cost: Free
Cost: Free
English Companion
Social network for English teachers
Audience: English teachers of all levels
Cost: Free
Cost: Free
ePals
A network that connects classrooms around the world for project-based learning
Audience: K-12 teachers, students and parents
Cost: Free
Cost: Free
Epernicus
A place for members of scientific communities to showcase their backgrounds and expertise
Audience: For scientists and researchers
Cost: Free, but offers additional services for institutions
Cost: Free, but offers additional services for institutions
Facultyrow
A private communication network for academics
Audience: Higher education academics and faculty members (by invitation only)
Cost: Free to use
Cost: Free to use
GoingOn
A collaborative platform for higher education to set up private social networks that encourage interdisciplinary exploration
Audience: Campuses, students, and faulty (higher education)
Cost: Variable
Cost: Variable
HotChalk
Online education community for free content on the internet and services provider to non-profit universities
Audience: K-12 students, parents, educatorss and administrators
Cost: Free
Cost: Free
iAMscientist
Crowd funding site for scientific research
Audience: By invitation only (professors and researchers)
Cost: Free to propose project
Cost: Free to propose project
Learni.st
A social learning platform with online learning boards for digitally curated information
Audience: Teachers and students at all levels
Cost: Free to use
Cost: Free to use
LinkedIn
One-stop shop for professional networking
Audience: K-12, higher education, professional and corporate organizations
Cost: Free with premium features available for purchase
Cost: Free with premium features available for purchase
Lore
Free platform for instructors to manage their courses and host class discussions
Audience: Professors and their students
Cost: Free
Cost: Free
Mendeley
Collaborative, research-focused management of documents and references
Audience: Researchers working on long-term projects and with teams
Cost: Free with premium options at additional monthly rates
Cost: Free with premium options at additional monthly rates
ResearchGate
A platform for academics to share their work, get criticism from their peers and get to know colleagues
Audience: Scientists and scholars in the fields of engineering, medicine, and biology
Cost: Free to use
Cost: Free to use
Sakai Project
Project to build an open-source collaboration and learning environment
Audience: Higher education
Cost: Free for users, variable for institutions ($10,000+/year)
Cost: Free for users, variable for institutions ($10,000+/year)
ShareMyLesson
Free teaching resources by teachers, for teachers to share best materials
Audience: K-12 teachers
Cost: Free
Cost: Free
SmarterCookie
Classroom observation tool to facilitate professional development and teacher coaching
Audience: K-12 instructors looking for feedback from peers
Cost: Free for individual teachers, $25+ schools and school districts
Cost: Free for individual teachers, $25+ schools and school districts
TeachAde
Online community for teachers with groups, research articles, cases studies, comparison tools and fund-raising options
Audience: Secondary education teachers
Cost: Free
Cost: Free
TeachersPayTeachers
Open marketplace for teachers to buy, sell, and share original teaching resources
Audience: Mostly for instructors at K-12 levels
Cost: Free to join, variable to purchase lesson plans
Cost: Free to join, variable to purchase lesson plans
Tioki
Online professional network exclusively for the education community
Audience: Professionals in the education industry
Cost: Free for educators
Cost: Free for educators
Twiducate
A site for educators to create private social networks for their classes
Audience: K-12 educators
Cost: Free
Cost: Free
WeAreTeachers
Teacher social network with lesson plans, articles, and help with classroom technology skills
Audience: K-12 teachers
Cost: Free
Cost: Free
Wikispaces Classroom
Social writing platform for education and safe social networking site
Audience: K-12 educators (higher ed version coming)
Cost: Free
Cost: Free
Zotero
Provides tools for organizing, citing, and sharing information over the course of ongoing projects free and open source reference management software to manage bibliographic data and related research materials (such as PDF files)
Audience: Multidisciplinary researchers (higher education)
Cost: Free
Cost: Free
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