Jack West's List: Aggregator Portal

• • Some interesting tools. I could see using this in a flipped classroom model for interdisciplinary subjects. UI needs serious work.
• • Met with InstaGrok team. Wow. tool has real potential. New UI is in the works. This could be the next exit ticket. Turn in your Groks before you go, please!

• • Gooru looks like the real deal, but is still in alpha. Their tutorial shows a simplified LMS that allows teachers to search catalogued resources that appear to largely be visual, and then organize them into lesson resources, and perhaps even stand-alone lessons?
• • Students appear to have access to free text resources on any topic that are organized by their teacher. I really want to get in and kick the tires.
• • Finally got an account today after meeting with Pram. The classplans are random assortments that may or may not fit together well, but they are a great start for a beginning teacher. What impressed me was the ability to create your own classplans. I did this for the slope of velocity graphs. There weren't many resources, but tthere were a few and I love the way the construction interface works. One problem, the suggested resources are repeated many times.

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• • Solves the single sign on issue for most major tools. What about for instructional tools?

• • Interesting website. I found it from the LinkedIn profile of a DOE person I met while at Big Ideas Fest. It seems that it is an attempt to connect different online communities of educators. Will have to look more closely later.

• • Whoa. This is cool. If you want to find other sites that do the same thing and then compare them, come here.