SmartStuff Software, Discourse Technologies Release Discourse LabLearner.Business, Education & High Tech Editors Joint E-Learning (Electronic-LEARNING) An umbrella term for providing computer instruction (courseware) online over the public Internet, private distance learning networks or inhouse via an intranet. See CBT. initiative marks start of Strategic Marketing Agreement PORTLAND Portland, town, England Portland, town (1991 pop. 12,945), Dorset, S England. It is on the Isle of Portland, a small rocky peninsula. Portland stone has been used in St. Paul's Cathedral and other important London buildings. Lobsters and crabs are harvested. , Ore. & MILWAUKEE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 2, 2000 SmartStuff Software, Inc., the leading supplier of desktop security and management software to schools, and Discourse Technologies, Inc., the leading developer of educational groupware Software that supports multiple users working on related tasks in local and remote networks. Also called "collaborative software," groupware is an evolving concept that is more than just multiuser software which allows access to the same data. , today announced the release of Discourse LabLearner(TM), a pioneering new software product for interactive group learning. LabLearner is the only teaching tool that lets teachers easily create and integrate Web-based lessons with real time classroom discussions and assessment. Discourse LabLearner(TM), which is aimed at schools with state-of-the-art computer labs, gives every student browser browser Software that allows a computer user to find and view information on the Internet. The first text-based browser for the World Wide Web became available in 1991; Web use expanded rapidly after the release in 1993 of a browser called Mosaic, which used the same Web page at the same time, fosters 100 percent class participation and allows for immediate two-way feedback between teacher and students. Discourse LabLearner(TM) allows students to learn with the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the in an instructionally appropriate way. The teacher starts by displaying a Web site on all student computers simultaneously. Teachers can add customized questions or comments to each Web page. Students can independently follow hyperlinks from a starting page to research lesson answers, but the teacher can bring all of them to the next page in a planned sequence of Web pages at the press of a button. In addition, Discourse LabLearner(TM) enables the teacher to display related lesson questions within the students' browsers, and instantly see answers from every student, keystroke key·stroke n. A stroke of a key, as on a word processor. key  stroke by keystroke.
Selected answers can be posted to all students' browsers, either by
name or anonymously. Real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. , meaningful assessment is provided
through charts and reports that teachers can create for each student or
for the class as a whole.
The release also marks the beginning of a strategic marketing agreement between SmartStuff and Discourse. "We believe that LabLearner will change the way educators view and use their computer labs," said Brian The name Brian (sometimes spelled Bryan) comes from an Irish backround. It is of Celtic origin and its meaning may be "hill" or "strong, noble, and high"[1]. Chapin, president of SmartStuff. "With LabLearner, the computer lab becomes a schoolwide center for Internet-enhanced learning that can be used by any teacher, in any grade, and in any subject." "SmartStuff has the experience and expertise to effectively sell and support Discourse LabLearner(TM) to computer labs across the entire education market," said Simmy Ziv-el, president of Discourse Technologies. "This is an important milestone because for the first time teachers will have an easy-to-use tool at their disposal to integrate the Web with core curriculum." SmartStuff Software, based in Portland, is a leading supplier of desktop security, management and e-learning software to the education market. The company's products, marketed as the FoolProof(R) Solutions line, are licensed on over 2 million computers in 25,000 schools in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and worldwide. Discourse Technologies, of Milwaukee, is the leading developer of educational groupware products. Its primary product, the Discourse Teaching Suite(TM), is sold in the United States through a direct sales force and in the United Kingdom through a strategic partner. |
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