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Teacher Magazine: A Lesson Earned
There's a venerable legend about inventing the high-tech world's Next Big Thing: All you need is to do is disappear into your garage with a computer and a really terrific idea, and what you come out with may change the world. Scaled down to the teaching world, and allowing for a few variations in time and place "it's not the late 1970s, and New York City has few garages of the type Microsoft founder Bill Gates or Apple co-creator Steve Jobs did their fiddling in" that's what former teacher Paul Edelman has in mind with teacherspayteachers.com.
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Ed Week: Site Launched for Teachers to Sell Their Lesson Plans
Teachers who think the lesson plans and worksheets they have created are good enough to sell now can test that idea in an online marketplace.
Launched earlier this year by a former New York City teacher, the TeachersPayTeachers.com Web site charges teachers $29.95 a year to offer their wares. The site functions much like eBay or Amazon.com's marketplace, with buyers deciding whether the products are worth the cost and then providing user ratings to help those who come after them. Prices, set by the sellers, go from a dollar or two up.
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AP Story: A lesson in finance: Teachers sell their original work online
WASHINGTON (AP) -- For all those teachers who take work home at night, creating lessons they hope kids will like, the reward is a good day in class. Now there could be another payoff: cash...
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LA Times Story: Educators across the U.S. are using a new website to buy and sell reliable class materials
As a young teacher, Kristen Bowers toiled night after night, struggling to grade tests and come up with innovative teaching materials for her English courses at South Hills High School in West Covina.
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For the First Time New eBay-like Website Allows Teachers to Buy and Sell Original Course Materials
TeachersPayTeachers.com, the first open marketplace for original teacher-created materials, launched this month and is expected to help thousands of teachers buy and sell original curricular resources. According to Paul Edelman, founder of this program and a former New York City public school teacher, 'When I was teaching, I felt a great need for better sharing among teachers, not merely in my school but across the country and world. I believe this site will transform the way teachers share - and teachers will have the extra bonus of raising additional cash.'...
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Lessons for Sale: Looking for a cool curriculum? Step right up.
Need to teach a class on Death of a Salesman? Or perhaps you've created a lesson on the Industrial Revolution that wows your students. You're in luck.
A new cottage industry for time-pressed teachers has flowered, one in which classroom lessons are the coin of the realm. Earlier this year, for instance, a new Web site called TeachersPayTeachers.com -- essentially an eBay for educators -- was launched. For a $29.95 yearly fee, sellers can post their work and set their prices. Buyers rate the products.
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