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Visual Thesaurus uses its growing collection of words and contexts in an interesting manner in their 'vocabgrabber' script, pulling out words out of any source and cross referencing them to their lists and categories and metadata, selecting for you queries like 'all the words that have shown up on SAT tests'. This is just the tip of the iceberg. | Visual Thesaurus uses its growing collection of words and contexts in an interesting manner in their 'vocabgrabber' script, pulling out words out of any source and cross referencing them to their lists and categories and metadata, selecting for you queries like 'all the words that have shown up on SAT tests'. This is just the tip of the iceberg. | ||
As an educator I bear witness to the increasing meaninglessness of education to my classically under-performing students of a troubled urban school system. The more top-down education becomes the less they care to play in the game. Quizlet represents one small place where | As an educator I bear witness to the increasing meaninglessness of education to my classically under-performing students of a troubled urban school system. The more top-down education becomes the less they care to play in the game. Quizlet represents one small place where students can take some control over their own education. The world is ready for a bottom-up revolution in education. Arming students and teachers with tools, there is the potential to turn the tables. Moving from hosting lists to hosting more complex classroom interaction seems to be a logical next step. | ||
I am interested in the job. I bring skills if software development, I am an educator and I have a background in project management. Thank you for the opportunity to apply. | |||
Revision as of 22:23, 1 November 2010
Hello Quizlet API Developer,
Since you've signed up as a Quizlet developer, we thought we'd run this opportunity by you to see if you or anyone you know might be interested. We're looking for a couple good PHP / JavaScript developers to join our team in San Francisco. More details about the job are below.
Please let me know if you or anyone you know might be a good fit.
Thanks, ________________________ Phil Freo, Jr. Product Manager / Developer phil@quizlet.com Quizlet.com
What is Quizlet?
Quizlet.com is the best way online to study languages, vocabulary, or almost anything. We're building educational tools and study games to help students learn in a fun and effective way.
We've got a lot of traction, with over 1 million registered users, and are growing quickly. We're a small, fast-moving team looking for 1 or 2 smart developers to join us as we build some exciting stuff!
You'd be a key part of our development team and would help brainstorm, design, and implement new features.
You should be really great at:
* PHP5 (object-oriented) * MySQL * JavaScript / Ajax * XHTML or HTML5, CSS
It's also a bonus to love any of these:
* Dealing with scalability issues * UI / UX: making things look good and be really usable * Performance optimization - shaving off milliseconds * Beautiful, maintainable code * Source control (SVN or Git) * UNIX sysadmin - managing servers * Education - helping students learn!
Check out our Jobs page, with a live activity feed of our users: http://quizlet.com/jobs/
Or our About page, with some stats: http://quizlet.com/about/
You must be in the SF Bay Area and be able to commute to our SOMA office in San Francisco (full-time, on-site only). We are very close to MUNI / light rail, and BART.
We want the best and we'll pay competitively.
Hi,
I like your company and feel it is poised to be a major player in the huge untapped social network called the education system. It would seem the next logical step would be to expand from your definition/term model and take millions of users with you.
I have been using your 'you should be really great at' technologies + jquery to build tools for my classes. On one hand I am motivated by the ideas that students can have the opportunity to create their own knowledge, create questions and move freely between academic contexts and their normal discourse enough times and in enough ways for new words and ideas to become part of who they are. On the other hand there is the new reality of national standards and top down testing. The opportunity here is to play national standards into products that every teacher and student in the US will want to use. Every suggested piece of literature, every mathematical concept in the standards is a potential data point in a suite of tools.
Visual Thesaurus uses its growing collection of words and contexts in an interesting manner in their 'vocabgrabber' script, pulling out words out of any source and cross referencing them to their lists and categories and metadata, selecting for you queries like 'all the words that have shown up on SAT tests'. This is just the tip of the iceberg.
As an educator I bear witness to the increasing meaninglessness of education to my classically under-performing students of a troubled urban school system. The more top-down education becomes the less they care to play in the game. Quizlet represents one small place where students can take some control over their own education. The world is ready for a bottom-up revolution in education. Arming students and teachers with tools, there is the potential to turn the tables. Moving from hosting lists to hosting more complex classroom interaction seems to be a logical next step.
I am interested in the job. I bring skills if software development, I am an educator and I have a background in project management. Thank you for the opportunity to apply.
