MySyllabi & EDU+AID
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MySyllabi is an online tool that teachers use to automatically send home relevant digital learning materials. When a teacher signs up, she declares her subject and grade interests. We can then populate her calendar with the right learning games, educational videos, web pages, and quizzes. Teachers are free to rearrange the order for which particular topics are taught and when particular resources are scheduled. For example, a teacher can move up her unit on volcanoes from week four to week three. The end result is a list of daily resources that a student and parent receive in their email, MySpace, or Facebook inboxes.
MySyllabi encourages collaboration within the education community by allowing teachers access to each others calendars. Users can create their own original postings, or they can drag and drop postings they like from the calendars of their colleagues. To make this collaboration process easy, we group teachers based on their subject and grade interests, then provide a daily list of the most popular resources scheduled on classroom calendars throughout the site. Teachers can then customize their own calendars with materials shared amongst the community.
EDU-AID is a non-profit that rewards teachers with merit-based pay raises based on the consumption rates of each teacher's parents and students. The non-profit bridges goodwill between corporate sponsors and the teacher community by adopting classrooms. The aim is to motivate teachers to use the MySyllabi tool and improve communication with their students and parents.



