What’s New in TeachersFirst 3.0?
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Cleaner, fresher, faster
- New technology “behind” the site, making it run briskly and smoothly
- Clean, crisp new colors and images
- Quick access from the newly designed home page to our most popular areas
- Improved organization to help you what you need at a moment’s notice
- One-click tabs replace slow menus
- Improved technology functions well on any modern web browser
- Mobile-browser friendly
Smarter
- Search from any page in the site
- Improved search technology with highlighted keywords in results
- Refine your search by adding keywords
- Collapsible resource listings so you can get the gist or read the details with one click-- and less scrolling
- Icons in reviews indicate content and needed plug-ins
- Clickable “tags” in reviews to find similar resources
- Resources open in new tabs/windows (depending on your computer’s settings) so you can pop back the full search result page and compare resources
Designed by Thinking Teachers
- Tabs organized the way a teacher thinks
- Professional resources to make your life easier
- Reformatted TeachersFirst Edge listings to use today’s web 2.0 tools safely
- TeachersFirst Exclusives—on their own tab to use at a click
Social features
- Share any resource review, any special topic collection, and TeachersFirst Exclusive content with a click: via email, Twitter, Facebook, or your preferred social bookmarking tool
- See what other teachers have to say in resource ratings and comments
- Join (for free) to add your opinions
Improved member features
- Quicker, easier signup—always FREE
- Customizable landing page when you log in
- Remembering recent searches
- Rating and commenting on resources
- Improved “public” pages for members to share favorite TeachersFirst resources with students and parents
What TeachersFirst will ALWAYS provide:
- Free, ad-free access to the very best of the web, written and reviewed by experienced, Thinking Teachers like you
- Teacher-reviewed resources—over 12,500 and growing daily!
- Creative classroom ideas across your curriculum
- A place for you to learn and promote learning
- A trusted service since 1998 from The Source for Learning, a non-profit learning and technologies corporation. For teachers. For families. For excellence.
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