Building Capacity for Teachers to Use New Web Tools with Online Professional Development

EDC’s EdTech Leaders Online program (ETLO) is providing online facilitator training to teams from five state departments of education (Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York and Virginia) to prepare them to deliver online training to teachers in each of their states on incorporating new Web tools such as blogs, wikis and podcasts into their classroom curriculum. Participants will learn to facilitate ETLO’s “Learning and Teaching with Web 2.0 Tools” online workshop, which prepares educators to help students use these tools safely and develop classroom curriculum that incorporates these tools.