Start-up helps teachers learn their lesson
What do you get when you cross teachers, tech, and social networking? A BetterLesson.
Although not the first or the only Web site that hooks teachers up with friends and new curriculum, BetterLesson takes a different approach.
"Teachers mine content on other sites," says Erin Osborn, the field director for BetterLesson, based in Somerville, Mass.
But here, teachers are compelled to create and add content, she says. The Web site, still in beta, has been built with a curriculum organizing and filing system specifically for teachers, that's done using cloud computing, so teachers don't need to … Read more