Press Release

Diane Hagan
BASCOM
(631) 434-6600
media@bascom.com

BASCOM Showcases its Global Chalkboard Solution at the Eastern Suffolk BOCES's Celebration of Technology

Hauppauge, New York - January 10, 2003—BASCOM Global Internet Services, Inc., a pioneer and leader in curriculum-based Internet management, this month co-sponsored and attended the Celebration of Technology exposition hosted by Eastern Suffolk BOCES at Stony Brook University. BASCOM proudly showcased its Global Chalkboard-an instructional tool enabling educators to FIND Internet resources, ALIGN these resources to curriculum frameworks and learning standards, and DELIVER high-quality lessons to students. BASCOM's Global Chalkboard solution offers unique educational advantages and helps teachers to make their classrooms more powerful learning environments for their students.

Global Chalkboard installations are growing substantially both nationwide and in BASCOM's home-based, Long Island area and surrounding New York City suburbs-including a recent grant from the New York City Department of Education. According to its founders, President Peter Cirasole and Chief Technology Officer, Robert DeRosa, "the Global Chalkboard is a unique educational solution, far exceeding traditional filters and firewalls, that offers teachers professional development and an instructional approach to managing Internet resources."

About Eastern Suffolk BOCES
Eastern Suffolk BOCES, an educational cooperative of 53 Long Island school districts, provides educational leadership, direct instruction, management and support through quality, cost effective instructional programs and shared services. These programs and services maximize educational and career opportunities for Long Island's diverse community of life long learners, both children and adults, and enhance the operational effectiveness of its schools.

About the Global Chalkboard
BASCOM's Global Chalkboard is an innovative and flexible teaching tool that uses the Internet for learning. The Global Chalkboard provides immediate access to educational Web sites and builds Web-enriched lessons mapped to curriculum goals and state standards.

The Global Chalkboard is both flexible and easy to use. It offers a novice user immediate access to educational sites with the Web Library; it offers an intermediate user prepackaged, ready-to-use BASCOM lessons; and it offers an advanced user a method of building their own, Web-based lessons using the Global Chalkboard's Lesson Creator.

About BASCOM
BASCOM Global Internet Services, Inc. is a software development company specializing in curriculum-based, Internet management solutions for K-12 schools. From our beginning in 1996, BASCOM has focused on producing, next-generation, curriculum tools for the K-12 education market.

BASCOM's goal is to help children become successful learners by safely extracting the educational content of the Web. This is accomplished by building Internet teaching tools based on input we've received from K-12 educators. We are constantly adapting our products to meet the changing needs of today's teachers.

BASCOM is a privately held company located in Hauppauge, New York. For more information, visit www.bascom.com