T2T - The Teacher to Teacher marketplace

In an earlier post I had commented that teachers will use those technologies that improve their efficiency or efficacy.

And, lo and behold, in today's NY Times Winnie Hu describes the emergence of an online marketplace for Lesson Plans [Selling Lessons Online Raises Cash and Questions .] This is so exciting, as it represents the thin edge of the wedge. If teachers are shopping online for anything to do with their pedagogy, that cracks the door open just enough for any manner of technologies to start streaming into their classrooms.

Out of curiosity I went to the two sites mentioned in the article (Teachers Pay Teachers, and We Are Teachers) and searched for the following terms:

• Geometer's SketchPad: (11 items on TPT. On WAT there were 23 hits, but all from the publisher)
• Yola: (zero hits)
• VocieThread: (0 on TPT, and 3 on WAT)
• Wordle: (5 on TPT, 0 on WAT)
• SchoolTube: (zero hits)

[Note: there is an entirely different discussion on what one feels about teachers selling lesson plans. Which I personally believe is a waste of time - the discussion, that is.]