Edutopia, a PLC

Teachers love to share ideas with other teachers, including lesson plans, research findings, professional resources, test questions, performance assessments, and rubrics. So it was only natural with the birth of the information age and boom of the Internet, that teachers would form online learning communities. In the education world, these websites are known as Professional Learning Communities (PLCs). They generally require sign-in memberships to access articles, lesson ideas, and other sources.

One PLC that I came across and have spent a lot of time on is Edutopia. What makes Edutopia an exemplary online community is the site contains information for both professional development and practical-daily advice for educators.Edutopia's horizontal navigation bar cleanly organizes the website so your average person can easily find the desirable information. Horizontal navigation tabs include browse by grade level, videos, schools that work, classroom guides, community, core strategies, and blogs. The blogs on Edutopia are targeted toward specific topics such as new teachers, education reform, neuro-logical learning and educational equity. The blogs and articles on the PLC were of particular interest to me and I think this is definitely a website that I will use in the future as a professional educator.