New SMART microsite offers interactive whiteboard resources at popular teacher destination
CALGARY, Alberta --- March 7, 2008 --- SMART Technologies announces its new Scholastic.com microsite (www.scholastic.com/interactivewhiteboards/) designed to provide teachers with digital resources to complement their SMART Board™ interactive whiteboards and Senteo™ interactive response systems. The microsite features SMART lesson activities for Notebook™ collaborative learning software, resources to help with lesson activity creation and links to customizable tools and templates. Math and science lesson activities are currently featured, and additional lesson activity subjects will be added regularly. Scholastic.com, the Internet site of Scholastic Inc., the global children’s publishing, education and media company, is the #1 site for teachers on the Web, with more than two million unique visitors each month.
The new microsite provides digital resources for teachers using SMART Board interactive whiteboards, which lead the interactive whiteboard category with a 58 percent share in the United States and a 47 percent share globally. At the site, teachers can
- Search more than 800 professionally developed lesson activities by subject, topic or grade level
- Use customizable tools and templates for creating their own lesson activities
- Learn best practices for creating and presenting lesson activities in Notebook software
- Subscribe to the SMART Learning Marketplace, a content subscription service offering over one million digital resources
The site also features different categories of activities at different times of the school year. For example, in April, to coincide with Earth Day, lesson activities from SMART focusing on the environment and climate change will be posted. The site will also host ongoing lesson activity contests. Teachers can upload their best lesson activities to the SMART Exchange, SMART's online community network for teachers, for the chance to win a SMART classroom package valued at over US$3,500.
“We are excited to work with Scholastic to provide this rich, online resource for educators,” says Nancy Knowlton, SMART’s CEO. “So many schools are now using SMART Board interactive whiteboards to engage all learners in the classroom, and this new site gives teachers powerful, standards-based lessons and resources to maximize use of their SMART product.”
“Every day thousands of teachers visit Scholastic.com in search of lesson plans, teaching strategies and time-saving tips and ideas,” says Michele Robinson, group publisher at Scholastic Professional Media “The addition of a SMART-focused microsite gives teachers access to classroom-ready, digital resources.”
About Scholastic
Scholastic Corporation (NASDAQ: SCHL) is the world’s largest publisher and distributor of children’s books and a leader in educational technology and children’s media. Scholastic creates quality educational and entertaining materials and products for use in school and at home, including children's books, magazines, technology-based products, teacher materials, television programming, film, videos and toys. The Company distributes its products and services through a variety of channels, including proprietary school-based book clubs and school-based book fairs, retail stores, schools, libraries, television networks and the Company’s Internet Site, www.scholastic.com.
