Using Tech to Smooth the Transition to Common Core

From Jeff Kahn With most new reforms, educators have to ask the question: “How will this change the way I teach and the way students learn?” This is a particularly important question to ask about the current nationwide implementation of … Read More

They like us, they really like us!

We are proud to announce that SoftChalk is a winner of the 2012-2013 eSchool Media Readers’ Choice Awards. That means our content authoring software was chosen by practicing college and university educators as leading technology product for higher education. Over … Read More

How a Training Website, built with SoftChalk, Helps Hurricane Victims

Cindy Smith, Director of Instructional Design at the University of Texas at Tyler, is one of the presenters for next week’s Innovators session. Smith will be presenting with Instructional Designer, Jana Brown, and Web Technician, Gina Parkins, about the Medical Needs Shelter … Read More

Taking to the Cloud to Make OER Available

From Sue Evans, Co-Founder and CEO With the recent release of SoftChalk Cloud, you’ll have to excuse our eager chatter about all things cloud. We have many good reasons to be enthusiastic, including the ways in which the cloud enables … Read More

Best Practices in Online Learning

From David Evans A recent Time magazine article, “The Teacher You’ve Never Met: Inside an Online High School Class,” profiled Jane Good, one of Colorado’s 21st Century Virtual Academy K-12 teachers. As a teacher who only sees her students’ hands … Read More