Happy 2010 to everyone! Looking forward to this New Year, and we’re starting it off right. We’ve added several more colleges to our ever growing list of continuingeducation providers.
Community Colleges of Spokane (Spokane, WA)
Spokane Community College, Spokane Falls Community College and the Institute for Extended Learning have come together to provide the community a wide array of courses in continuing education. Totaling over 200+ different classes, they have a comprehensive selection of classes from gardening classes to career development courses for this economic climate.
South Puget Sound Community College (Olympia, WA)
Looking to learn how to draw or paint and don’t know where to begin? Need to update your computer skills? Have you always wanted to play the guitar? You’ve come to the right place—whether you want to learn a new skill or just sharpen up one you already have. South Puget Sound Community College has over 190+ classes in the Olympia area for anyone looking to learn something new.
Looking forward to having more colleges join TeachStreet in 2010.
They just keep on coming. We’ve just added our largest college to our site in Bellevue College who boasts over 400+ classes in the Bellevue area. Along with Bellevue, we’ve already added classes from Green River Community College. We’re starting to get really great coverage from Shoreline Community College to Clark College loaded in previous weeks to what we’ve loaded just this week.
Bellevue College (Classes in Bellevue, WA)
As the third largest institution of high education in the state Washington, they also have a great Continuing Education program with over 400+ classes. From technology classes to local cooking classes, they most comprehensive selection of classes among technical and community colleges in Washington state. Bellevue College also has classes that begin every week and are offered during the day, evening, and weekend to suit your schedule.
Green River Community College (Classes in Auburn, WA)
With over 170+ classes in the Auburn, WA area — Green River Community College believes in learning as a lifelong process. Whether you want to learn to play the guitar, travel, start your own business or get valuable professional certifications, they can help. Their continuing education classes are convenient, affordable and flexible—you can take them in the morning or evening at one of our campuses or online.
We’re excited to announece we’ve brought on three more colleges onto TeachStreet. They cover wide range of subjects in their communities, so we’re happy to have them on.
Tacoma Community College (Classes in Tacoma, WA)
Focusing on professional development, corporate education, and continuing education — each quarter Tacoma Community Colleges bolsters over 200+ classes in it’s community. If you’re looking to better yourself professionally or even just that Spanish class for the vacation you’re taking to Mexico in the Spring — you can do it here.
It’s nothing new that TeachStreet has been the place for teacher, school, and organization to promote their classes, lessons, and workshops. Well, now is the time to let the world know exactly what you’re doing and one of those ways is through Facebook.
As you may have noticed in the past, we’ve already made steps to integrate TeachStreet with Facebook — but now we’ve taken it to another level and improve our Facebook Connect experience. They’ve said more folks are starting share on Facebook a lot more, and it only makes sense to make it easy for you to do that. As a teacher, we know you’ve been using other social media platforms, like Twitter, in order to get the word out about you business and what you teach. Now with the seamless integration of Facebook Connect, you’ll be able to easily broadcast your actions on TeachStreet to your network.
When logging into your account, you’ll be prompted to Facebook Coonect and once you’ve connected — you’ll be good to go. You can also connect by visiting your “Settings” and clicking the Facebook Connect button. Now, once connect, upon creating a class, article, or review you will be prompted with the option to choose whether you would also like share it via Facebook Connect — simply fill in a comment and your done.
You will always have final say on what gets posted to Facebook, and you’ll also be able to change your setting on TeachStreet by just visiting your “Settings” page under “General Settings”. Don’t forget to connect today and share what you’re teaching with your network on Facebook.
Have you had an issue finding the best test prep class in your neighborhood or even online? We’ve now made it easier for you by introducing our new TeachStreet Test Prep page. We highlight the best test prep classes in your area (both live and online), whether you’re looking for SAT prep, LSAT prep, or even PCATs — we have it here. You’re just one click away from the test prep class near you.
We have several aspects of this page that is unique making it easier for students to navigate to their test prep class they’re looking for:
We highlight the Top Test Prep Subjects: SAT, LSAT, GMAT, and GRE
You can sort through Test Prep courses closest to you
So when you’re thinking of taking a test prep courses to get into college, business school, medical school, or law school — come to TeachStreet Test Prep for all your test prep needs.
We’re excited to unveil our upgraded profile for teachers! We’ve listened to the teacher feedback, and have revamped this page to be more clean and focused on what teachers care about most — getting more students. With this, you’ll notice the following changes live on our website today.
Cleaner Profile: We make it easier to scan teacher profiles and understand who they are.
Prominent Listings: Quickly see the classes, events or workshops teachers offer.
Better Visuals: Less clutter and more visually appealing, with bigger photos!
Consolidation: Contact and reputation information are grouped together.
Navigation: Tabbed navigation to highlight teacher offerings
We’re excited about these upgrades and we’re hoping you’re excited too. We know there may still be some kinks, so if you have any questions about the improvements on the profile page, feel free to visit our Profile Help Page or Known Issues Forum. We’re eager to hear your feedback!
Another week in a row, we have a special guest teaching us something new. One of our software developers, Scott Windsor, brought in his wife, Jane-Anne Egerton, to teach us how to make beer bread. Doesn’t that just have a good ring to it? Beer bread — the best of both worlds. Along with teaching us how to make bread, she’s also taking some photography classes at Photographic Center Northwest. If you want to take a look at her current work, check out her site at Venomous Swan.
Ingredients:
3 cups white flour
3 tablespoons brown sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 warm 12oz bottle of warm (room temperature) beer
4+ tablespoons butter
Instructions:
Mix all the dry ingredients
Pour in the bottle of beer
Mix the ingredients together until the batter is wet
Pour the mixture into a greased pan
Pour melted button on top of bread
Bake for 30-45 minutes at 375 degrees
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Do you want to teach us something? We’d love to invite you on one of our Fridays to help us learn something new! E-mail me at joseph@teachstreet.com.
Getting ready for Halloween? We were lucky enough to have a guest teacher come in today to get us in the mood for Halloween. Elizabeth Romatz, a Psychology graduate student at Seattle University, taught us how to make entertaining brain shots for your upcoming Halloween costume party. It was great to learn bartending skills at the office, even only for just one shot. Here’s how to make this tasty concoction below:
Ingrediants:
1 1/4 oz. Peach schnapps
3/4 oz. Irish Cream
Splash of grenadine
Instructions:
Chill all of your liquors before making this shot
Pour in your peach schnapps into a shot glass
Slightly tilt the shot glass and pour the Irish Cream so it hits the glass before touching the schnapps
Splash the grenadine on top and watch the braininess ensue
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Do you want to teach us something? We’d love to invite you on one of our Fridays to help us learn something new! E-mail me at joseph@teachstreet.com.
Are you looking to take tennis lessons from a real tennis coach? If you are, Stephen is definitely not your guy. But if you’re looking to have some crazy fun on a tennis courth which involves pelting your opponents with tennis balls — he’s your go-to-guy. Stephen Travieso is the creator of a game called Xtreme Tennis, widely famous in the Baltimore area and wanting to slowly grow here in the Northwest. Here are the rules for Xtreme Tennis on TeachStreet.
If you walk by a tennis court and see someone running across while a person is trying to pelt them with a serve, you know what’s going down — XTREME TENNIS!
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Do you want to teach us something? We’d love to invite you on one of our Fridays to help us learn something new! E-mail me at joseph@teachstreet.com.
Our CTO, Daryn Nakhuda, takes time away from his computer screens to teach us how to draw — his way. I’m not sure how many art classes he’s taken before, but judging from the video — I think it may have been a couple years…or more. Although, his story telling is always funny. Maybe he should provide public speaking training or even a comedy class to pass down his quirkiness. I know I’d be in line for that one.
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Do you want to teach us something? We’d love to invite you on one of our Fridays to help us learn something new! E-mail me at joseph@teachstreet.com.
