Show HN: Planboard - Intuitive lesson planning for teachers

Show HN: Planboard - Intuitive lesson planning for teachers(planboardapp.com)

13 points by shadowz 13 years ago | 3 comments

samstave 13 years ago |

This is cool, seems like a really underserved market.

An app I think that would be interesting, and could be an addon to this would be Khan Academy integration.

Have a cirriculum planner that is in calendar form like this that has links to Khan vids for a topic, and then links to worksheets and tests.

So you have a full cirriculum wrapped into a plan that can be managed and tracked. This would be superb for home teaching as well. Especially with parents like myself who have their children do the Khan Academy vids at home in addition to their schoolwork.

This would help me track how my kids are doing..

shadowz 13 years ago | |

Thanks for the feedback. Education is for sure an underserved market. One of the reason is the high barrier to entry. It's a completely different ballgame when you're selling to schools rather than small businesses.

Having a bundled lesson plan, multimedia attachments, and links to resources is definitely something we want to look into. Our goal is to have the teacher eventually teach from his or her Planboard. We're still far away from the digital classroom but we believe the next big change will happen in education.

samstave 13 years ago | | |

Look at the feasibility of making a version for parents specifically.

And charge 4.99 for it. I'll pay that for my kids without question. Make it so that if I have multiple kids, I swip to the side to get to the next kids panel. Make a teacher panel and a student panel. I need an ipad or multiple to give the lessons -- kid does lessons and then I review...

Seriously, youll make more money enalbing this than trying to sell to schools.

Partner with whomever appropriate to get rev support... build it beautiful and maybe Khan will buy in...

This space NEEDS disruption!

(Imagine this app being used to disrupt schooling in 2nd and 3rd world as well)

Lots of possibility.