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1. 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.

2. Yahoo! For Teachers teachers.yahoo.com 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.

3. Yahoo! For Teachers teachers.yahoo.com 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.

4. Yahoo! Teachers teachers.yahoo.com 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.

5. Yahoo! For Teachers teachers.yahoo.com 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

6. Yahoo! For Teachers • 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.

7. Yahoo! For Teachers • 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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10. 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.

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12. Yahoo! For Teachers • del.icio.us is a social bookmarkingwebsite, 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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14. 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.

15. Yahoo! For Teachers • 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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