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In an effort to service web savvy educators, yahoo.com will soon be releasing its Yahoo Teachers web site. (See video here).
According to Ars Technica writer, Thomas Wilburn, the site will offer a combination of bookmarklet, archive, and collaboration space for educators, Yahoo Teachers was originally meant to be a research tool for trip planning.”
I found the following to ring most true based on my own experiences sharing Web 2.0 technologies to date:
…tech use in education falls across a wide gradient—while students are generally more wired than ever, teachers may be tech savants, total Luddites, or anywhere in between. In their discussions with educators… they heard that teachers must spend large amounts of time outside of their workday working on lesson plans and preparation, and they feel disconnected from other teachers; after all, they can’t just walk out of the classroom to chat around the water cooler, particularly at lower grade levels.
I’m going through a similar shift in my own teaching style. While I am excited about implementing my class blog, wiki site, and our new Moodle tool, I find that I’m struggling to make time to get things Web 2.0 up and running. Joe, from Global Classrooms has been a great help, and I will continue to look to my fellow educator friends, like Lisa Durff, who is always ready to offer a swift kick in the technological pants!
Anyway, I’ve signed on to be notified of Yahoo’s release of this product, as the tool chest still isn’t quite filled to the brim! 
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