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Did you know that when you search for a project in Explore, the project(s) with the highest number of points are displayed at the top of your search results? Yes, it’s true. But you may be asking yourself: What are these points? And where do they come from?

Here’s the scoop…

The number next to the star is the project rating. The number equals the total number of teachers who have copied the project or left feedback for the author.

These project points will help you gauge both the reputation and quality of a project and/or author. This built in system of “peer review” helps push the highest rated projects to the top of the Yahoo! For Teachers Explore results.

Here’s how to leave feedback on a Yahoo! For Teachers Project:

• Click > “I like this project” button
• Write > Use the default message, or leave your own feedback, tips or suggestions
• Click > “Send My Comment”

You can view comments left by your colleagues by scrolling to the bottom of the project page and hovering your mouse over your icon. To learn more about the colleague who left a comment, click on their name and see what resources and projects they have in their portfolio.

So go ahead and copy projects or leave feedback on your colleagues’ projects! Doing so will help make the Explore results more relevant, save you time, and help build a vibrant and robust community for teachers, by teachers!

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to post your question over in our Yahoo! For Teachers group.

Derek
Yahoo! For Teachers Team

Atomic Learning is offering its Web 2.0 for Educators workshop free of charge for the month of November. The Web 2.0 workshop discusses blogs, wikis, RSS feeds, social networking and other online tools.

The workshop was created by Vicki Davis, a classroom teacher who has been recognized for her innovative use of Web 2.0 tools in the classroom and for her Cool Cat Teacher blog. Vicki is a talented and innovative teacher and I know that you will learn a lot from her workshop!

Related Resources

• Atomic Learning > Web 2.0 workshop
• Totally Wired
• Atomic Learning Workshops
• Generation Sputnik, Gen Y & Education

Derek
Yahoo! For Teachers

So did you hear? Yahoo! Search has new features designed to help you save time and find exactly what you’re looking for. Check out these video demos to learn more!

And if you’re looking for a plain white search box, Yahoo! has one of those too!

Derek
Yahoo! For Teachers

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