Yahoo! For Teachers By Teachers, For Teachers. In July 2006 Yahoo! invited a group of educators to...

Yahoo! For Teachers By Teachers, For Teachers.

• In July 2006 Yahoo! invited a group of educators to partner with them to build technology that addressed their unique needs in the classroom.

• Teachers talked. Yahoo! listened.

• The result? Yahoo! Teachers, the first free tool building a community of teachers to create, find, and share standards-based resources, project documents, ideas, and best practices.

• Yahoo! Teachers: Built for teachers, by teachers. Fall 2007.

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Find• Down the hall or Down Under: The

teachers lounge has gone global.

• Yahoo! Instant Messenger is integrated into Yahoo! Teachers, providing teachers with real-time opportunities to collaborate with peers.

• Yahoo! Teachers have 24/7 access to the community generated curriculum and resources gathered by a global network of educators.

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Create• Yahoo! created the Gobbler, a search

widget that allows you to easily find and gather resources on the web and save them into your own Yahoo! Teachers ePortfolio.

• The Yahoo! Gobbler lives on your toolbar and can be used on any page on the web.

• Your projects (along with the assets and attribution) are shared with any teacher in the world who is a member of the Yahoo! Teachers community.

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Share• Yahoo! For Teachers enables teachers to

build a network of support and tap into a knowledge network of their peers.

• The Yahoo! For Teachers Explore feature allows you to search for teacher vetted resources by state, grade level, state standard, or subject matter.

• Yahoo! For Teachers are working together to build a “community of generosity” where teachers can instantly search, communicate and share.

• The combination of gather, organize, and share creates a powerful community of practice.

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Join Us!• Yahoo! For Teachers gives educators the tools they need to create high-quality

classroom materials quickly and easily.• Visit teachers.yahoo.com for a sneak peek and an invite.• Find your colleagues and add yourself to the Yahoo! Teachers Peer Network Map.• Connect with other Yahoo! Teachers: groups.yahoo.com/group/yteachers_community

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• The easiest way to upload, edit, and share your video and photos. Free.

• Create movies using the Jumpcut suite of video editing tools.

• Import images from Flickr, mobile phone, or Facebook.

• Publish and share your movies with other members of the Jumpcut community or create a private group to share movies.

• And you don't need to download anything, it's all online.

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• With millions of users, and hundreds of millions of photos, Flickr is an amazing photographic community, with sharing at its heart.

• Use Flickr groups and privacy controls to share your photos with students and parents or collaborate with other teachers.

• Groups can either be public, public (invite only) or completely private. Every group has a pool for sharing photos and a discussion board for collaboration.

• Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license.

• Basic Flickr account is FREE!

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Yahoo! For Teachers

• Yahoo! Answers is an online community where you can ask questions on a range of topics, from the serious to the purely fun, and get answers from real people.

• Young users might look to Answers for help with school research projects, such as finding out about the Revolutionary War, the moons of Jupiter, or how the Amish live.

• Educators, like you, can use Yahoo! Answers as a professional development tool to collaborate with colleagues, share ideas, and find new resources for the classroom.

Yahoo! For Teachers

Yahoo! For Teachers

• del.icio.us is a social bookmarking website, which means it is designed to allow you to store, tag, manage and share bookmarks on the web, instead of inside your browser.

• With emphasis on the power of community knowledge, del.icio.us makes it easy for you to discover, remember and share resources on the Internet and with your students.

• del.icio.us is web-based, you can get to your bookmarks from anywhere, no matter whether you're at home, at school, or in a library.

• Why not try using del.icio.us as part of a school or district teacher development program? del.icio.us is an easy and quick way to create a cache of articles, interesting resources, or other things you find on the web.

• http://del.icio.us/yahoo.teachers

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Yahoo! For Teachers

• Connect with other teachers who share your passion for teaching.

• Create a Yahoo! Group for your classroom and use it to share information with students and parents.

• Keep parents in the loop by posting homework, field trips and other information on the calendar.

• Safely share links, files, photos, and other information with students.

• Engage your students with polls and discussions on class materials.

• Yahoo! Groups is a free and easy way to manage your classroom and engage both students and parents.

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• A fun guide to Internet safety.

• Informative guides, games, and video on web safety for parents, kids, and educators.

• Multiple resources on the safe use of social networking sites, search, and other on the internet.

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