I work at Cengage Learning. One of our products is Mind Tap. I've never worked on Mind Tap, but was able to participate in a Code Jam today. Mind Tap supports Mind Apps, which are web applications that live outside of the core product, written with whatever technology the creator sees fit. You include a URL to a JSON response that allows your application to be registered to Mind Tap. We are actively looking for people who want to develop Mind Apps for Mind Tap.
I was part of a small team that choose to create a Mind App using Play Framework and Heroku. It's cool, because it's a solution that we don't normally use. We had five hours to create an application and integrate it into Mind Tap.
Our idea was to allow students to highlight a work in their lesson, then search that word in Fox News and The Onion. We randomly picked one article from one of these sources, and asked the user to guess the source -- Fox News or The Onion.
Here is our final product (stand-alone, before the mind tap integration. Will it live to see production? Time will tell.
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