Why yakToAnyone is targeting the wrong market

Why yakToAnyone is targeting the wrong market by ZDNet's Russell Shaw -- Now, it's time for us to consider this new YakForFree service and its yakToAnyone video and voice offering.The concept is, you join up, and get to make and receive voice and video calling to other YakForFree members for free. Standard PC to phone calling is pre-payable in $5 increments.You do all this via Toronto-based Yak Communications' YakForFree Virtual [...]

The Federal No Child Left Behind legislation has changed the landscape of K-12 public education and has uniquely impacted the rural practitioner, compounding challenges for teachers who already face a lack of proximity to higher education, limited collegial networks and a lack of teaching resources (Pitler, 2005). In an effort to provide professional development for the widely distributed and unique public school educator, the United States Department of Education (USDOE) has created the Teacher-to-Teacher Initiative http://www.paec.org/teacher2teacher (USDOE, 2005). The Teacher-to-Teacher Initiative is designed to assist the nation’s teachers through workshops, summits and electronic resources (USDOE, 2005). As a tool for professional development, web based seminars and archives have gained recent popularity for their use as asynchronous training and review tools. The ambitious multimillion dollar effort by the USDOE is one part of this larger community of web based training