I am happy to learn thru the Teaching News RSS feed that Adobe has a free resource available to educators called Adobe Education Exchange. For educators who were unaware like me, all that’s needed is an Adobe account which I already had from some years ago and choice of a screen name for exchanging information. Subjects range from Administration and Management to Art, Language Arts, Math, Science, and Professional Development. I have already begun exploring the Information and Communications Technology section to find ideas that will enrich my content. I admire that Adobe who is notorious for software has cultivated a give and take environment for educators across the globe. It still amazes me sometimes that there is so much teacher content on the web that countless hours of lesson planning is not particularly necessary. In fact, it could be a waste of time given that the “wheel is already invented” for the most part. The need will always exist of course to modify and differentiate lessons, but with sites like Adobe’s corner of the web for educators much of the work is already done. In a sense, sites of this nature and the web in general for that matter have become just like a grocery store for teachers—pick up what you need and leave what you don’t want.
The link to Adobe’s FREE collaborative resource for teachers is: http://edexchange.adobe.com/pages/home.
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