BENEFITS FOR SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS
The Global Chalkboard is a curriculum tool developed to empower educators to meet local as well as national learning goals and objectives. Administrators will realize the following benefits:
- Curriculum decisions on Web 2.0 content—including YouTube videos, wikis, and blogs—can be delegated to teachers. This simplifies the processes between the IT Department and teachers and resolves conflicts on content.
- The Global Chalkboard manages all aspects of permitting educator access to Web 2.0 content without compromising a school's Internet access Acceptable Use Policy.
- Teachers now have a platform for lesson collaboration to streamline course development, while also facilitating policy and curriculum standards.
- Since the Global Chalkboard stays current with the latest Internet developments, parents and your entire educational community can witness true educational value from their technology investments.
- Delivers preloaded BASCOM lessons so that educators with even modest technical proficiency can immediately use Web-enriched lessons in the classroom.
- Facilitates the integration of technology into the curriculum to advance specific as well as global learning objectives.
- Focuses Web-enriched instruction by giving educators complete discretion when choosing Internet resources for a lesson.
- Provides a teaching tool used to modify lessons for the general class so that At-Risk students can benefit from Academic Intervention Services while in the general classroom.
- School-district determined Web sites; restores local control over a district's learning guidelines and goals (unlike filtering solutions whereby access is determined by the technology provider).
- Significantly reduces the risk of educationally-inappropriate content being accessed on school grounds.
- Dramatically expands classroom resources.
- Delivers more value from the technology budget and reduces overall costs by maximizing existing bandwidth and minimizing system administration.
- Makes students comfortable with research and reference sources.
- Opens students to cultures beyond the classroom, and breaks down the walls inherent in any learning situation.