Jump to content

Teacher Experience Exchange

» Contact HP
United States - English

Do you want to replace textbooks with digital content in your classroom?
Submit »
View results

Learn and share – exchange lesson plans, tips and questions with other teachers.

null

About Teacher Experience Exchange

This page explains the interactive community features and how-to content types you'll find here on Teacher Experience Exchange.

Teacher Experience Exchange content types

Here are the main types of content you'll find on Teacher Experience Exchange:

  • Course: Teacher Experience Exchange courses require enrollment, and include lessons, assignments, and quizzes.
  • Article: Teacher Experience Exchange articles are short, instructional pieces that focus on one aspect of a topic.
  • Quick lesson: Teacher Experience Exchange quick lessons are instructional pieces that focus on one aspect of a topic and are a few pages long. They are similar to articles but just a little longer.
  • How-to: Our How-to content gives you a quick interactive visual lesson. These flash-based tutorials will show you exactly how to perform a task on your own computer. You can follow along with the instructor by listening to the audio and watching the demonstration.
  • Lesson plan: Teacher Experience Exchange lesson plans are shared resources for teachers. To search for a specific plan, use the search feature at the top of the page.
  • Virtual classroom tours: Teacher Experience Exchange virtual classroom tours offer resources to lead students through creative, constructivist, technology-rich projects for all grade levels. The tours are mainly downloadable Microsoft Office PowerPoint presentations that may contain links to other types of files within them. These files include project background and planning information, teacher and student reflections, content-rich teaching resources and assessment and standards information.

Teacher Experience Exchange community features

Here are the interactive community features you'll find on Teacher Experience Exchange:

  • Ratings: Registered Teacher Experience Exchange community members can rate any piece of content--courses, articles, tutorials and videos--as well as moderators. If you enjoyed a particular piece of content, click the stars to rate the content. The stars indicate the average rating among all users who have rated the content.
  • Reviews: Registered Teacher Experience Exchange community members can write a review of any piece of content: courses, articles, quick lessons, how-to content and videos. If you're a community member, you can also tag other users' reviews as innovative, valuable or tech savvy.
  • Forums: The Teacher Experience Exchange site as a whole has an ongoing forum for interacting with other members. Members can reach the discussion forums by clicking Discussions in the right navigation. If you're a community member, you can also tag other users' forum posts as innovative, valuable or tech savvy.
  • Enhanced profiles: In addition to the basic user profile, which lists the current and past courses you have enrolled in, a profile can include ratings (list of each rating you have submitted), reviews (list of how you reviewed content and whether other users found that review innovative, valuable or tech savvy) and posts (list of forum posts, and whether other users found your post innovative, valuable or tech savvy). You can also upload an avatar, which will be visible within your profile and also next to your reviews and forum posts. You can choose to hide all or part of your profiles from other users.
  • Social tagging: The Share/tag this page link gives you quick access to some of the most popular social news and bookmarking sites. Click the link and then choose the appropriate service with which you already have an account. You will be taken to a page where you can easily share Teacher Experience Exchange with others via your favorite social service. If you're not currently logged into the destination site, you may be asked to log in.
  • RSS: RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. As the name implies, RSS provides an easy way to combine feeds from different sites into a single location, such as an RSS reader. The Subscribe to this page link gives you one-click access to add the Teacher Experience Exchange site RSS feed to the RSS reader of your choice. You can also sign up for RSS feeds of discussion forums.
  • Site search: To search across all types of content on Teacher Experience Exchange, enter a term in the search window and click the arrows.

Member benefits

Registering for Teacher Experience Exchange is simple--all you need to do is supply a username, your email address, a password and answer a few questions. By registering on the Teacher Experience Exchange site, you can enjoy the following benefits as a member of the community:

  • Enroll in courses.
  • Interact with other members on the site forums.
  • Rate and review any piece of content or moderator.
  • Tag other users' reviews and forum posts as innovative, valuable or tech savvy.
  • Create and enhance your user profile.

Opt in for more benefits

When you register, you're asked whether you want to receive communications from Teacher Experience Exchange and Hewlett-Packard (if you select yes, this is called opt in). By agreeing to receive communications from Teacher Experience Exchange, you get updates on:

  • New content available on Teacher Experience Exchange
  • Teacher Experience Exchange events, sweepstakes and contests

You can visit Your profile at any time to change your opt-in status.