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Ogment [2]
What’s It Like?
Ogment is a lesson-planning and curriculum-mapping web platform. It’s intended to be used at the school or district level: When a district buys a subscription, they can work with the developer to load resources from their existing curriculum maps and lessons plans onto a shared content library — called My Stream — that teachers and administrators can view. Teachers can clip content from the Stream and share it to their own My Stuff content library, where they can use tags to organize and develop their own collection of content.
Price: Free to try,Paid
Grades: 6-12
Rating: 4/5
Pros: Endlessly customizable features make it easy for teachers to remix content and share it efficiently with their students.
Cons: Some teachers and administrators might balk at having to start from scratch.
Bottom line: If you invest some serious time in pre-loading your content, this is an exceptional tool for building and using your lesson plans.