{"id":11,"date":"2007-09-12T13:20:50","date_gmt":"2007-09-12T04:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edtechtesol.org\/blog\/2007\/09\/12\/yahoo-teachers\/"},"modified":"2007-09-12T14:01:39","modified_gmt":"2007-09-12T05:01:39","slug":"yahoo-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edtechtesol.org\/blog\/2007\/09\/12\/yahoo-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo Teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that there will be a rather big player jumping in to the educational social networking market.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yahoo.com\" target=\"_blank\">Yahoo!<\/a>  is currently in Beta with <a href=\"http:\/\/teachers.yahoo.com\/home\" target=\"_blank\">Yahoo! Teachers<\/a>, 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:&#8221;Source(Via the <a href=\"http:\/\/people.uis.edu\/rschr1\/et\/2007\/09\/yahoo-enables-teachers-to-share-lesson.html\" target=\"_blank\">Educational Technology News Blog<\/a>)&#8221;:http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2007\/08\/27\/BU81RNIF0.DTL &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/teachers.yahoo.com\/home\" title=\"Yahooteachers\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edtechtesol.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/yahooteachers.jpg\" alt=\"Yahooteachers\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>The brief <a href=\"http:\/\/teachers.yahoo.com\/sneak_peek\" target=\"_blank\">Sneak Peak<\/a> 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 &#8220;Gobbler&#8221;.  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&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/teachers.yahoo.com\/home\" target=\"_blank\">Yahoo! Teachers<\/a> just may be coming to a village near you soon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1u7IY-b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edtechtesol.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edtechtesol.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edtechtesol.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edtechtesol.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edtechtesol.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edtechtesol.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edtechtesol.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edtechtesol.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edtechtesol.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}