Standards Browser with Aligned Resources

[joe hobson]

Navigation North is pleased to announce the release of another open source project aimed at better exposing the wealth of resources available in the Learning Registry. Over the last few months we've been playing with Node.js as a means of creating a simple front-end to academic standards data. Using the JSON provided by Jes & Co, we were able to develop a very lightweight app that can import standards data directly and then give the users a simple tree view of different standards sets. With some additional funding from the US Department of Education we were then able to improve upon the initial app and add links to resources aligned to standards as shown by metadata and paradata in an LR node. This is all thanks to the great work Jim Klo and the dev team have done on the data services.

You can see the app in action: http://nodejs.e-cdl.org/browser

some Common Core standards with linked resources: http://goo.gl/Q37V6

The code has been released under the Apache 2.0 license and can be forked and contributed to on github: https://github.com/navnorth/LRNodeJS

We would like to continue using this project repo as a place for other Node.js interfaces to LR data and services. If you're interested in contributing to it or have ideas for other collaborations, please contact me. ... .joe

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joe hobson, owner / director

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