Note — we sent this our via email to our TeachStreet Homepage Subscribers, so some of you may see this twice (if you subscribe to the blog as well)!

We hope you had a great Thanksgiving — we spent the day away from the glow of our computer screens, and it was wonderful — and, from the look of things this morning, most of the team’s decided to sleep in today as well

Everyone’s earned a few days off — we just finished our second ’sprint’ and TeachStreet’s really starting to take shape. (Note - a ’sprint’ is a term used in software development to describe a duration of work that usually lasts from 2-4 weeks - it helps the team to break the entire project down into more manageable pieces) We have two more sprints between now and Christmas, so things will really start to bloom in the next few weeks!

Here are a few quick updates for our TeachStreet fans!

1) We’re excited to have been selected as one of six startups to present at the MIT Startup Demo 2007 event on December 13 — we’d love to see you at the event (it’ll be a live demo, so come check out our progress!)

2) Want a little more background detail on what we’re building? We posted a TeachStreet presentation on our blog that includes audio — go grab a coffee or hot chocolate, turn up your speakers and sit back and enjoy.

3) Our learning-focused blogging has continued (topics have included Jazz, Sailing, Microfinance, Swing Dancing, and more) — we invite you to sign up for more frequent blog updates (use the sign-up box on the top right corner):

http://blog.teachstreet.com

As the site starts to take shape (and in anticipation of the MIT Demo event), we’ll be looking for some volunteers to help us with site testing — let us know if you’d be willing to lend a hand in early December!

Yours in learning,

Team TeachStreet (Dave, Katie, Fred, Scott, Leandra and Jon)