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Yahoo! Teachers was a social networking service operated by Yahoo! made available in 2007. It enabled teachers to (share lesson plans ), curated web search results, the ability to share learning materials with parents' and students', maintain blogs, groups and lists, create and share lesson plans with other teachers' and create a public profile. In addition, Yahoo! Teachers provided a way for teachers to easily align their lesson plans to their state educational standards. This service was never officially launched; Yahoo! prematurely stopped developing this service in March 2007. ==History== Yahoo! Teachers was developed as part of an internal Yahoo! Digital Youth & Education initiative designed to attract a younger demographic to the aging portal. In addition to attracting youth, one of the goals of the project was to incorporate social networking and other Yahoo! services (Flickr, Jumpcut, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Messenger into the education ecosystem. The service was built around the feedback of a teacher user community and enabled educators to create, modify and share standards-based curriculum. One of the key features of Yahoo! Teachers was a web tool called "The Gobbler" which allowed users to grab snippets of text, video and images and use them in their lesson plans. The Gobbler tracked the attribution for the various media clips and annotated it at the bottom of the lesson plan. The project was an internal start-up established with executive sponsorship and wasn't tied to a specific business unit at Yahoo! The project team first began working on the project in late 2005. The Yahoo! Teachers project was publicly launched in March 2007 at the National Science Teachers Association conference held in St. Louis, Missouri. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yahoo! Teachers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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