Yahoo! Teachers Open Content for K-12

Yahoo! Teachers was unveiled last week at the National Science Teacher Association (NSTA) Conference in St. Louis, MO. On the preview site you can learn how to use the Y! Gobbler to easily search, collect, and organize materials from across the web and save them directly into your own Yahoo! Teacher ePortfolio.

There's also a ton of social networking features integrated into the Yahoo! Teachers community. Members can see what other teachers have Gobbled and created, and if they find something they like, they can copy the project (along with attribution) into their own Yahoo! Teacher ePortfolio.

Essentially, Yahoo! Teachers is providing the infrastructure for teachers and educators to create a repository for Open Educational Resources (OER). This will be an invaluable tool for teachers and NGOs working with developing countries in Africa, Southeast Asia, and other areas of the world.

Almost a year in development, Yahoo! partnered with teachers on this project who helped steer the design and usability of the service. Yahoo! Teachers will be released this summer and teachers and other educators from around the globe are invited to sign up so they can be among the first to join and contribute to this new teaching community.