Dive Summary:
- ClassConnect, a Pinterest-meets-Dropbox networking service for teachers, has relaunched on Claco.com.
- The site's founder, Eric Simons, who made headlines earlier this year for squatting at the AOL campus, announced the new changes on ClassConnect.com.
- "On Claco, you'll have the ability to showcase your curriculum to the world as well as find/use curriculum from other great teachers," Simons wrote.
From the article:
"... An early trial of the service opened up in March—before Simons ended up sneaking around the AOL office—which netted 16,000 K-12 teachers. A second-grade teacher from Michigan named Erin Klein called the teacher-sharing platform a hybrid between Pinterest and Dropbox. A teacher interested in using the internet to find educational content may need to devote several hours to searching. Claco is designed to bring teachers together in one network, allowing quick access to content. ..."