Yahoo! Teacher Tools

Slide 1: Yahoo! Teacher Tools Yahoo! has a suite of services educators can use to support teaching and learning in the 21st century classroom.

Slide 2: Yahoo! Teacher Tools • Turn on SafeSearch. • Lock SafeSearch. Yahoo!’s SafeSearch can be set to filter out explicit, Teachers can make sure the SafeSearch settings adult-oriented images from search results. While are not changed by selecting Lock SafeSearch on SafeSearch filters out a large quantity of mature the SafeSearch Preferences page. content, no filter is perfect, and Yahoo! cannot guarantee that all explicit images will be removed from search results. This prevents anyone on your computer who is using the same browser from changing SafeSearch To turn on SafeSearch, click the Advanced Search settings unless they are registered as a Yahoo! user link next to the search box or Preference in the upper- over 18 years of age. right corner of any Yahoo! Image Search results page. If your family uses multiple browsers, such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Opera, consider locking SafeSearch on each. • Yahoo! Search + Creative Commons: • What is a Yahoo! Shortcut? This Yahoo! Search service finds content across the Web that has a Creative Commons license. While most stuff you find on the web has a full copyright, A Yahoo! Shortcut is a quick way to get to the this search helps you find content published by information you want. A Yahoo! Shortcut authors who want you to share or reuse it, under automatically appears when it is relevant to your certain conditions search and can contain links to useful content from Yahoo!, its partners, or across the web. Learn More: http://search.yahoo.com/cc

Slide 3: Yahoo! Teacher Tools • The easiest way to upload, edit, and share your video and photos. Free. • Create movies using the Jumpcut suite of video editing tools. • Import images from Flickr, mobile phone, or Facebook. • Publish and share your movies with other members of the Jumpcut community or create a private group to share movies. • And you don't need to download anything, it's all online.

Slide 4: Yahoo! Teacher Tools • With millions of users, and hundreds of millions of photos, Flickr is an amazing photographic community, with sharing at its heart. • Use Flickr groups and privacy controls to share your photos with students and parents or collaborate with other teachers. • Groups can either be public, public (invite only) or completely private. Every group has a pool for sharing photos and a discussion board for collaboration. • Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license. • Basic Flickr account is FREE!

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Slide 6: Yahoo! Teacher Tools • Yahoo! Answers is an online community where you can ask questions on a range of topics, from the serious to the purely fun, and get answers from real people. • Young users might look to Answers for help with school research projects, such as finding out about the Revolutionary War, the moons of Jupiter, or how the Amish live. • Educators, like you, can use Yahoo! Answers as a professional development tool to collaborate with colleagues, share ideas, and find new resources for the classroom.

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Slide 8: Yahoo! Teacher Tools • del.icio.us is a social bookmarking website, which means it is designed to allow you to store, tag, manage and share bookmarks on the web, instead of inside your browser. • With emphasis on the power of community knowledge, del.icio.us makes it easy for you to discover, remember and share resources on the Internet and with your students. • del.icio.us is web-based, you can get to your bookmarks from anywhere, no matter whether you're at home, at school, or in a library. • Why not try using del.icio.us as part of a school or district teacher development program? del.icio.us is an easy and quick way to create a cache of articles, interesting resources, or other things you find on the web.

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Slide 10: Yahoo! Teacher Tools • Connect with other teachers who share your passion for teaching. • Create a Yahoo! Group for your classroom and use it to share information with students and parents. • Keep parents in the loop by posting homework, field trips and other information on the calendar. • Safely share links, files, photos, and other information with students. • Engage your students with polls and discussions on class materials. • Yahoo! Groups are a free and easy way to manage your classroom and engage both students and parents.

Slide 11: Yahoo! Teacher Tools • A fun guide to Internet safety. • Informative guides, games, and video on web safety for parents, kids, and educators. • Multiple resources on the safe use of social networking sites, search, and other on the internet. • Yahoo! Online Safety Pledge: – http://tinyurl.com/4unmbm

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