TeachBuzz.com - For Teachers By Teachers

Teachers from all over the world can now share experiences, tips, material, and news on TeachBuzz.com. This free service is ideal for teachers of all levels and fields who are sick of re-inventing the wheel every time they come across a new problem or lack of creativity. The content on TeachBuzz.com is completely teacher generated to ensure that promotions and ads stay out and important information is spread. Teachers can submit articles for other teachers to read and if they like the content they “buzz it” and with enough buzzes, the article is published to The Buzz. The Buzz is the main page of popular articles. Members can get communicate with the teacher who wrote a specific article to ask questions, give input, and share other experiences. Topic categories include: teaching & education in general, pre-school, K-8, alternative education, special needs, random/miscellany, and Too Cool! Current Buzz articles include brand new teaching resources for productivity and activities, current events in teaching news, free laminating services and fresh suggestions for the first day of school.

“TeachBuzz is a new community-driven web site that aims to provide a new way for the teaching community to share valuable information related to various categories and user groups, including k-8, High School, Special Needs, and Alternative Education Models. The primary objective for TeachBuzz is to allow users from the teaching community to post, share, vote, and comment on news, stories, online articles, blog entries, and other information commonly available on the world wide web. Users will notice that TeachBuzz resembles the popular technology site Digg. TeachBuzz is based on the user participation model established by Digg, whereby users can vote on posted items of interest to assign higher priority/popularity to information that has been posted by other users. By using this model, we hope to move in a new direction that will highlight what is popular to teachers that elect to participate.”

The articles are important and interesting and really give teachers the chance to be informed and improve. Fresh ideas and materials are like gold and now teachers have more access than ever. Teachbuzz.com also offers support to teachers who are suffering from a lack of creativity or camaraderie.

Can this site be used by teachers around the world? Can articles be translated from other languages to help teachers understand foreign teaching techniques?