Yahoo For Teachers
Now Teachers Throughout The US Can Help Each Other Out
Yahoo Inc. is developing a free online service designed to make it easier for educators to create, find and share lesson plans, worksheets and ideas. The product, Yahoo for Teachers, is a sort of social network that allows teachers to collaborate on course work and store information that they find online and want to showcase in class. Teachers have long complained about a lack of time to prepare for class and of the difficulty in collaborating with colleagues, even those just down the hall. Curriculum requirements that vary by state have also complicated the issue.
Yahoo for Teachers will be accessible from teachers.yahoo.com, which features a brief description of the service, video tour and announcement that the site will soon be open to the public. The service allows teachers to create and store lesson plans, worksheets and projects online rather than preparing class materials using a Word document, for example. Teachers can also search lesson plans posted by others and leave comments. For Yahoo, focusing on teachers is a departure from its usual mass-market business strategy and may signal a new willingness to cater to more-specialized users. Brillant idea!
