EdCrowd: The fast, free way to find answers to your questions about teaching.

From the founder, Matthew Pasternack:

” Knowledge sharing platforms in law like Lexis are very advanced, but in education they have been very weak, and as a result most teachers ask for help offline from other teachers who teach near them.  Those questions and answers are one-off—the same questions get asked over and over again across the country year after year.  The likelihood that those questions lead to helpful answers depends on the precision of the question and the experience of the answerer, both of which are somewhat random.  This randomness hurts kids.

EdCrowd is built on the leading platform for scientific collaboration and uses a Wikipedia and Facebook-like sensibility, gaming components, and social network integration to make sharing questions, answers, and best practices fast, efficient, and fun.  The site is also completely free.”

We’ve just joined, and think this is wonderful tool for teachers and education.  Go check it out!