I agree!!!
From the 10k:
The Company has developed eSchool Online(TM) ("eSchool"), a Java-based
software suite that permits a teacher to use the Internet as an accompanying
instructional tool during a lesson. (Java is a programming language developed
for the Internet by Sun Microsystems.) eSchool integrates Web content and a chat
application with educational video effectively to create a "virtual" classroom.
eSchool software can be used for pre-recorded as well as live programming, while
the video can come from any source.
With eSchool software, a student can receive a traditional video lesson
through a frame in his or her Web browser, or from a television in the
classroom. Simultaneously, eSchool provides separate frames in the Web browser
that display 1) Web sites with supporting information/examples; 2) dialogue with
teacher and/or other students during a live lesson; and 3) a "playlist" of Web
sites received to permit navigation from one to another. eSchool content
creation software allows an instructor to easily select and order the addresses
of the Web sites and related questions to be included in the playlist. The Web
site addresses and questions can be assigned times and sent automatically to
students during a pre-recorded program, or in a live lesson. The instructor can
trigger any Web site address or question to be sent to the students at any time.
eSchool's components include instructor and student user software,
authoring software and database assessment software. The Company expects to
continue to refine and upgrade its eSchool software in the future. In addition,
the Company provides Internet content development assistance, hosting of eSchool
programs on its computer servers, and consulting to schools and universities.
The Company recorded its first eSchool sale in mid-1997 with the School
District of Philadelphia. The Philadelphia City Schools are using eSchool to
create and deliver new instructional and staff development programs. Since that
time, the Company has entered into contracts to deliver eSchool to educational
institutions in Nebraska, New York, Massachusetts, and Georgia.
The Company has also developed two-way analog and digital programming
technologies for distance learning. The Company offers a point-to-multipoint
broadcast system that can deliver pre-recorded individualized lessons or can
integrate individualized segments into live distance learning lessons. Students
receive individualized responses to their input made with a simple remote
control. At the end of the lesson, the system's memory component can recall each
student's performance throughout the lesson, giving the local facilitator a
detailed accounting of the results. |
