Multimedia: Chalkwaves
Chalkwaves Ohio is an Ohio-standards-based version of the popular digital media-on-demand content library. The full K-12 collection contains 1200 outstanding video titles, each chunked into 13,000 two- to eight- minute clips for easy integration into lesson plans. Custom video clips can also be created with only a few clicks of the mouse, so teachers can use only what they need. Because Chalkwaves lives on your Local Area Network, you pay NO bandwidth or data transfer costs. Chalkwaves Ohio is available for an annual licensing fee of $1.45 per student, plus a one-time cost of $600 for the content-library on a USB or Firewire hard drive ($370 for K-6, 5-9, or 7-12).
What is the Ohio Digital Classroom?
Ohio's Public television stations and educational technology agencies have formed a statewide coalition to offer new digital media products and services to Ohio's K-12 classrooms. Initially, the Ohio Digital Classroom will include video-on-demand, technology training for teachers, and other related services. The Ohio Digital Classroom will be aligned with Ohio academic content standards, to support school performance and student achievement.
Chalkwaves Ohio
- Chalkwaves Ohio features immediate access to a collection of thousands of educational media segments.
- Chalkwaves Ohio includes outstanding content from respected media producers, including Ohio-specific content from Ohio public television stations
- Each program is outcomes-based and developed by and for classroom educators.
- Each program is indexed for easy previewing and searchable by subject, grade level, keyword, and Ohio Standard, Benchmark, and Grade Level Indicator.
- Chalkwaves Ohio meets the mandates of No Child Left Behind legislation.
Technology
- Chalkwaves Ohio is delivered to your school on a 300 GB hard disk storage device with a searchable database.
- Chalkwaves videos are in the high-quality MPEG-1 format-- far too robust to stream through the Internet -- which offers high resolution with no visible buffering, snags, or video/audio dropout
- Chalkwaves Ohio is pulled into the classroom through your local area network (LAN) with none of the bandwidth issues or hidden expenses of Internet streaming.
- Chalkwaves can be accessed using desktop computers and networks already deployed in classrooms.
- Teachers can take advantage of learning opportunities instantly -- without the delay of advance ordering or waiting for downloads.
Advantages Over Streaming Video
- Instant Access --no advance ordering or waiting for large files to download.
- Better Video Quality --Chalkwaves is installed onto your LAN with none of the bandwidth issues of Internet Streaming.
- Correlated to Ohio Content Standards and Grade Level Indicators.
- Provided by Ohio PBS and Ed Tech agencies -- as your partners in education for more than 50 years, we are dedicated to supporting school performance and student achievement -- not accountable to shareholders or driven by profits.
What is the cost and what is included in the package?
- Chalkwaves is provided to school districts on PC or Mac formatted hard drive. Schools have the option to purchase the complete K-12 hard drive or the K-6, 5-9 or 7-12 hard drive. The hard drive becomes the schools property upon purchase. The cost is $600.00 for the complete K-12 series or $370.00 for the K-6, 5-9 and 7-12 series
- The school district will pay ITSCO a license fee of $1.45 per student per year.
- Installation -- ITSCO will provide a consultant to meet with your district technician to install the hard drive.
- Contact names and numbers will be provided to answer questions.
- An ITSCO consultant will provide one training session per school for your teachers.
