It seems that there will be a rather big player jumping in to the educational social networking market. Yahoo! is currently in Beta with Yahoo! Teachers, a site aimed at bringing large-scale peer networking/sharing to educators worldwide. At first glance it looks rather interesting, but it seems that we will have to wait until later this year for the public release:”Source(Via the Educational Technology News Blog)”:http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/27/BU81RNIF0.DTL …
The brief Sneak Peak video on the site shows what looks like a fairly easy to use tool for collaboration. Teachers can upload content to share, view content shared by others, and compile information together using the oddly-named “Gobbler”. Although there was no specific information offered, the site also seems to have information about state educational requirements built-in to the system. That alone seems like a lot of work to get things going…
Overall, this looks like an interesting social content repository that may have promise. It currently seems to be limited to K-12, but there do seem to be Beta users across the globe, so Yahoo! Teachers just may be coming to a village near you soon…
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