"Educational Network" Lets Teachers Collaborate, Use the Web More Effectively
ChitChat gives teachers unique tools to post, share, and assign course materials; company offers free laptop contest to teachers who sign up.
Brooklyn, NY (PRWEB) November 27, 2007 -- ChitChat, Inc. today announced the release of its free, easy-to-use Educational Network, allowing teachers to create rich multimedia course content, share it with other teachers, and post it on interactive class websites.
"Most teachers want to make better use of the web; whether it's to have their students take online quizzes or blog for class, or to share their course content with other teachers," said ChitChat founder Jack Phelps. "But there's no simple way to share content, and they find that collecting work, evaluating it, and providing feedback via the web is difficult if not impossible. Where's the stack of papers on their desk, and how do they scribble comments on student responses?"
ChitChat says its Educational Network is the only product built around the fundamental model of education: teachers assign, students respond, and teachers provide feedback. The product has unique tools that show teachers a simple list of all student responses to each assignment, allow them to write comments directly into the text of students' work just like they would with a red pen, and automatically send feedback to students.
With the release of the Educational Network, ChitChat is building a thriving ecosystem of quality course content that teachers can easily plug into their classes, and makes rating and discovering content easy. But teachers who use ChitChat's Educational Network aren't tied to using it as a course website; ChitChat is flexible, so educators might use it just to find or store course content, to host or collect uploaded files, to improve distance education or home schooling, or to easily share standardized, up-to-date course content among teachers across a school or district.
"We're excited to release a powerful product that educators can use in a variety of ways to help get the most out of the web. Aside from simple student research, there hasn't been a clearly articulated vision for how access to the web improves learning, so we're proud to help schools move in that direction" said Phelps.
In conjunction with the release, the Company is offering a free XO laptop - the creation of the One Laptop Per Child Foundation - to a random user in a drawing on December 7th. To win, the user must be a K-12 educator, post at least one lesson or assignment to ChitChat, and be legally eligible to win.
About the Company
ChitChat was founded in 2007 to develop educational software that helps schools get more from their technology. The Company, based in Brooklyn, New York, also offers a product designed for schools with 1:1 computing - those in which each student has a laptop - that provides more powerful benefits not just to teachers, but also to students, administrators, and parents.
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