Press Release
Diane Hagan
BASCOM
(631) 434-6600
media@bascom.com
New Global Chalkboard Lesson Creator Gives Educators an Immediate Productivity Burst!
Hauppauge, NY - November 18, 2004—BASCOM Global Internet Services, Inc., a Suffolk County-based, software developer of award winning, Internet management solutions, today proudly announces the successful release of its new Global Chalkboard Lesson Creator. Designed to be intuitive and a snap to use, the new Lesson Creator gives educators an immediate boost in classroom productivity — making it even easier to build Internet-enabled lessons.
The new and improved Global Chalkboard Lesson Creator is built to reinforce exactly how educators work. The clean-cut design enables teachers to become instantly productive with all functions (adding, editing, copying, deleting and setting a lesson) based from a single screen — the new Lessons screen.
Now educators with all levels of expertise can easily start creating Web-based lessons for their classroom. Designed for both beginners and advanced users, the new Lesson Creator offers the initial settings needed to build a basic lesson on the Add Lesson screen — with more advanced features as clickable links to provide the increased functionality an experienced user may want.
Also in direct response to customer requests, the Lesson Creator offers new functionality on its Student Start Page, the first page students see when they begin a lesson. Teachers can now reorder the placement of Web links on the page, add additional links and enter a title for each link — all with the primary objective of raising the bar on classroom productivity!
"BASCOM is always looking for new ways to improve its Global Chalkboard and consequently, a teacher's productivity." says Peter Cirasole, the President/CEO of BASCOM. "Our development team took feedback directly from customers and used it as the basis for building the new Lesson Creator."
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