Are You a Totally Wired Teacher?
This July at the 2007 Y Pulse Mash-up in San Francisco, Yahoo! Teachers and the George Lucas Educational Foundation / Edutopia will honor a teacher who has successfully used social media (blogs, wikis, social networking, photo/video sharing or audio groups) in the classroom.
The winner of the Totally Wired Teacher Award will have successfully navigated their school ecosystem and overcome challenges from parents and/or administrators in order to use technology in the classroom.
The Totally Wired Teacher also understands how Gen Y students use social media outside of school, and have worked collaboratively with students, sharing their insight and knowledge with their colleagues.
If you, or a teacher you know is Totally Wired, you can nominate them by sending and email along with why you feel they are deserving to : jdaly@edutopia.org.
Yahoo! Teachers will be at YPulse Mash-Up, so be sure to come by and say hello!
Related Resources
Yahoo! For Teachers + Yahoo! Groups
We have a new public Yahoo! Group set up for Yahoo! Teachers. This group will be the main hub for our new community. Think of it as a virtual teachers lounge where you can get the latest Yahoo! Teachers buzz, share ideas and connect with other educators just like you!
And it’s free! So what are you waiting for? Join us today!
Open House @ Tapped In
On Wednesday May 16th there will be a 1 hour Yahoo! For Teachers open house in our Tapped In Group Office (Yahoo!Teachers_Grp) at 4pm & 6:30pm Pacific Time.
Tapped In (TI) is free, but if you don’t have a TI login and password you’ll need to get registered in order to attend the Yahoo! Teachers open house. My TI handle is DerekB, so look for me!
I’ll be answering questions about Yahoo! For Teachers and other Yahoo! tools you can use in your classroom. It’s also a great opportunity for you to get ideas, support and connect with other teachers. It’s going to be pretty casual, so drop by and say hello!
If you haven’t already, check out Yahoo! For Teachers, an exciting new community built by teachers, for teachers. You can watch a video and see how Sue Wright, one of the teachers we’ve been working with to help develop this new service, has been using Yahoo! For Teachers and the Gobbler in her classroom.
I’ll see you there!
Yahoo! For Teachers Impresses Prime Minister
On Monday, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong spent some time here on the Yahoo! campus to learn more about our innovation process and to take a look at some of the newest products being developed here at Yahoo!
In addition to the new Yahoo! oneSearch mobile service, the prime minister also got a sneak peak at Yahoo! For Teachers. Karon Weber, our principal designer, showed him how teachers can use the Gobbler and Yahoo! For Teachers to create, collaborate, and connect with each other.
The entire team is honored to have the opportunity to share Yahoo! For Teachers with Prime Minister Lee and look forward to sharing this new service with the rest of the teaching community this summer.
If you haven’t seen our Yahoo! For Teachers preview site, go check it out. Be sure to sign up for an invite and get connected on our Peer Network Map.
Look Ma! No Downloads: Yahoo! Messenger for the Web
Last November, at our second Yahoo! For Teachers Workshop, we had the Yahoo! Messenger team pop over and share some tips, tricks and features of Yahoo! Messenger with our cadre of teachers. Needless to say, they were pretty impressed and quickly saw how Yahoo! Messenger can be used to collaborate with parents, students, and each other.
One of the really cool features of the soon-to-be-launched Yahoo! For Teachers tool is that we’ve integrated Yahoo! Messenger to make it even easier for you to collaborate with members of the Yahoo! For Teachers community.
Using Yahoo! Messenger, teachers will have real-time access to colleagues and their curriculum so they can ask questions and discuss ideas via Yahoo! Messenger. Think of it as a virtual teachers lounge! Our cadre of teachers were so happy to learn that Yahoo! Messenger had been mashed into Yahoo! For Teachers, they could barley contain their urge to yodel.
Last week our friends over on the Yahoo! Messenger team released a new web-based version of Yahoo! Messenger that requires no downloads! Yes, you heard that correctly–no downloads.
Here’s the skinny from the Yahoo! Messenger blog:
“Ever wish you could use Yahoo! Messenger without having to download or install anything? Well, today is your lucky day: please give a big Yahoo! welcome to the all-new Yahoo! Messenger for the Web .
Now you can sign in from any web browser (PC or Mac!) and immediately start IM’ing with friends. This is great for when you’re on someone else’s computer or traveling and need to stop in an internet café.
Plus, time at work just got a lot more fun. If you or a friend is prevented from IM’ing at the office due to firewalls or other IT restrictions, you’ll love this new version. Because Yahoo! Messenger for the Web runs in a regular web browser window, it sidesteps these obstacles and lets you connect easily with your friends.”
Pretty cool eh? So why not give Yahoo! Messenger for the Web a whirl? And if you haven’t signed up for a Yahoo! Teachers invite, do that too!
