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New
Release of Web4ClassroomTM 2.5 Features Curriculum ExchangeTM
Beverly, Mass. – March 5,
2001 – River Logic, Inc., (RLI), a market leader for enterprise
optimization technologies and decision support applications, and EBSCO Publishing, a leading producer of
subscription periodical databases announced today the release of
Web4Classroom 2.5 (W4C). This
milestone release features Curriculum ExchangeTM, a complete
education solution for managing content in an online classroom
environment. River Logic’s Curriculum Exchange enables content
providers, from teachers to major publishers, to extract and make
available relevant,
up-to-date information to the online classroom. Curriculum ExchangeTM
offers teachers new opportunities to create, share, and search curriculum
with their professional colleagues within a school, district, state, or
globally. Furthermore, Curriculum ExchangeTM allows publishers
of high-value content, such as EBSCO Publishing, to rapidly create
web-based learning applications for use in the W4C learning environment. Underlying Curriculum
Exchange™ is River Logic’s proprietary royalty tracking system that
allows publishers to recover royalties when their content is used by W4C
learning applications in a variety of revenue models. Other enhancements
include a brand new look and feel designed to make the W4C learning
environment for K-12 easier to use than ever. Web4Classroom simplifies the
process of obtaining and using world class content in classroom lesson
plans, and provides state-of-the-art tools designed to track student
progress easily and efficiently. W4C integrates award-winning
standards-based learning applications and comprehensive reference
databases with a simple yet
powerful class management system. Learning
applications currently available in W4C include Reading Room (featuring
the Curriculum Reference Series), Online Reader (featuring content from
hundreds of leading publishers), EBSCO Learn Science Series (featuring
content from Scientific American) and EBSCO Learn Social Studies Series
(featuring content from US News & World Report, A&E Biography and
Cobblestone.) These learning applications comprise lexiled content,
customizable assessments, and teacher’s guides. W4C tools help teachers
individualize instruction, customize lesson plans, assign learning
activities, and measure student progress in a secure environment. Standard Web4Classroom tools
include Calendar, Curriculum Manager, Attendance, Messaging, Grade Book,
and Reports accessible by students, teachers and parents from anywhere
there is an Internet connection. “The Curriculum Exchange
component of Web4Classroom offers exciting new possibilities for making
use of Internet content classrooms. It is a win-win situation for teachers
and publishers. Teachers can now share their very best teaching ideas with
each other and their ideas are always linked to the very best content.
Publishers who are looking for new ways to use their valuable content are
motivated to develop new learning activities and make them available in a
compelling market place,” said Adam Berg, director of product
management at River Logic, Inc. About River Logic, Inc. – is a
leading developer of technologies and infrastructure products and services
for creating and managing 3rd Generation Networks. River Logic is located
at 800 Cummings Center, suite 355W, Beverly, MA 01915. More information is
available at www.riverlogic.com
or via email at info@riverlogic.com
or at (978) 753-5029. About EBSCO Publishing -- offers
solutions to complex information needs with a collection of specially
designed, comprehensive full text databases, available online via EBSCOhost
and via CD-ROM. EBSCO’s
reference products offer a familiar, user-friendly interface in addition
to sophisticated software and specialized customization options. EBSCO
Publishing is located in Ipswich, Massachusetts. Further information about
EBSCO Publishing is available at www.ebsco.com
and www.web4school.com. |