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TeachStreet: A New Social Learning Site
By Richard Nantel | April 21, 2008
A new social Web site has just appeared, designed to put learners and instructors together. TeachStreet’s (www.teachstreet.com) beta launch currently focuses on the Seattle area and boasts a listing of 25,000 available classes. Topics include anything and everything:
- Languages
- Fitness
- Hobbies
- Academic subjects
- Etc.
How It Works:
- Search for a topic you’d like to learn. (Since I’m currently experiencing a bit of insanity in considering running a marathon this fall, I typed in “Marathon Training.”)
- The system provided a list of instructors who provide marathon training in the Seattle area.
- I could sort the list to find an instructor close to me geographically, or I could sort the list based on ratings by other TeachStreet users.
- Clicking on an instructor provided a description of the training provided, a Google map showing the person’s location, photos, links to see who “favorited” this teacher, links to send an e-mail to and write a review of the instructor, and a link to forward the listing to a friend.
The service is free and makes money through ads and providing links to related products on Amazon.
This looks like a great Web service. I can hardly wait for it to include resources in my geographic area. Well done, TeachStreet!
Topics: Learning |
April 30th, 2008 at 12:40 am
Richard — thanks for the post. We really appreciate it — and, we can’t wait to come to your area, too! It’s been an extremely busy 8-9 days since launch, almost so much so that we forgot that we’re still not double-digits old yet!
Onward!
Dave Schappell
Founder and CEO
TeachStreet
June 4th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
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