Step-By-Step Example: Mashedge For Teachers

Are you a teacher who uses the internet a lot to find information? Then Mashedge can help you be more productive.

Let's say you want to find information on the internet about the "Famous Inventions made by Kids". Normally, you would use a search engine to do your research and save the information somewhere on your computer.

Here's how to use Mashedge to do the same thing and yet be more productive.

1. Create a web book titled 'Famous Inventions by Kids'
2. Make the book "private" while you build the book. (This is the default option).
   
3. Add chapter 1 title: Invention by under 10 years old.
4. Add chapter 2 title: Invention by under 15 years old.
5. Add chapter 3 title: Inventions by Kids in India
6. Add chapter 4 title: Inventions by Kids in America
7. And so on. Add how many ever chapters you want.
8. Click on "Create" and the outline of the book is created for you. The table of contents is now displayed for you.
   
9. Click on any chapter for which you want to add content. Now search the internet. When you find relevant content, cut and paste the URL of the website and click on "Add Web Page Link". That link now appears in the recommended content. Slowly as you add links, the book becomes better and better over time. Since you anyway search the web, the only additional step for the teacher is to cut and paste the link into the web book.
   

Now, to unleash the real power of Mashedge, a set of teachers can collaborate to build the web book. To enable this, click on the link "Manage Private Book Users" from the main page of the web book. You can now enter the email addresses of the teachers with whom you want to collaborate. When you do this, the other teacher gets instant access to the web book and can also add content that she discovers into the same book! Now you have multiple people working to build the book, each can see the content that the other person is adding, and can avoid duplicate work.

Once the book is built, you can grant read-only permissions to your students to browse through the book and allow them to see the websites you discover. If you want to share the book with the world, you can make the book "public" at that point in time.

And this is not all. Come next year, the teacher in charge of the subject can update the book. She does not have to start from scratch once again. She can simply update the books with new links and make the book current!

Mashedge allows teachers to provide better personalized learning experience to the students with very little additional work. At the same time, it allows the teacher to be more productive by collaborating with other teachers. It's a win-win for all - the teachers, students, and the school.