Henry Blue, Co-Founder of Alchemy Learning at Walnut St. Labs

Henry Blue is the cofounder of Alchemy Learning who is dedicated to build “the first Web 3.0” platform for K-12 teachers that has “social and software from the ground up,” and collects and organizes data on students’ comprehension and engagement with different classroom lessons. For that, there’s SmartBinder, the Hampden-based startup’s first product. It’s free, and the duo launched it in late July of 2013.

It’s a digital lesson binder, said Blue — who for the last three years was a teacher at Boys’ Latin before leaving to work on Alchemy full-time — that provides teachers drag-and-drop functionality to include or remove a variety of teaching resources, like videos, worksheets, outside websites and more.

Alchemy’s academy creation tool, SmartBinder Reach, will enable your organization to take powerful control over its digital education initiatives. It will provide you with intuitive solutions to create device-ready and standards-aligned lessons, assessments, surveys, and courses with dynamic control over how these resources are branded and disseminated to teachers, students, and patrons.