SANTA ROSA, Calif.,
Jan. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
Democrasoft, Inc. (OTC: Pinksheets: DEMO) today announced a major
milestone development related to Collaborize Classroom™, the
company's flagship collaborative education platform. The company
announced that more than 1.1 million individual topic-based lessons
have been delivered to students since the official launch of
Collaborize Classroom in January of 2011. Collaborize Classroom has
been steadily gaining recognition and high marks from teachers,
students, and the education and technology industries.
Collaborize Classroom (http://collaborizeclassroom.com), is
available to all grade levels, and provides the ability to extend
in-class conversations into private and secure online sites that
are accessible with any Internet browser. Teachers post topic-based
lessons on any subject in their own Collaborize Classrooms and
invite their students to participate after school. Each time a new
student receives a new lesson for the first time, it is counted as
one "lesson served". Lessons served on Collaborize Classroom have
been increasing by about 5,000 per day, and are to be expected to
top 1.5 million by the end of next month.
"Reaching this important milestone is important for us because
it validates, for us and for the education and technology
industries, that Collaborize Classroom is being recognized as an
effective way of delivering curriculum to students outside of the
classroom," says Richard Lang, CEO
of Democrasoft. "It not only improves student engagement
significantly, but it also makes teachers' jobs easier and more
effective."
One of the keys to successfully being able to deliver well over
a million lessons to students in the past year has been the
recently created Collaborize Classroom Topic Library. This
free global repository of topic-based lessons enables teachers to
share the best and most effective individual lessons that they
create with other teachers around the world. This sharing
capability includes a peer-rating system and enables teachers to
easily find the most interesting and appropriate lessons for their
own students. With just a few clicks, any topic on any number of
subjects from the Collaborize Classroom Topic Library
(http://library.collaborizeclassroom.com) can be copied to any
Collaborize Classroom anywhere in the world, at any grade level. To
date, more than 16,500 teachers worldwide have launched their own
Collaborize Classroom sites, sustaining a 25% average monthly
growth rate since January of last year.
All of this momentum has been is getting noticed. Collaborize
Classroom has recently added two top education awards to its
growing list of awards in educational technology. District
Administration Magazine named Collaborize Classroom one of its
Readers' Choice Top 100 Products for 2011. While Edudemic.com
readers chose Collaborize Classroom as one of the Top 100 Best Web
2.0 Classroom Tools
(http://collaborizeclassroom.com/blog).
"These awards are particularly satisfying because they originate
from teachers themselves," said Lang. "These are the actual
teachers deriving the benefits of Collaborize Classroom first-hand,
so when they select us as a "top tool," it means a lot."
The company also announced today that Collaborize Classroom is
featured in a short documentary video that was recently released by
GOOD Magazine on its online site
(http://www.collaborizeclassroom.com/blog/good-video-sharing-the-wisdom-of-we-in-the-classroom/).
Entitled "Sharing the Wisdom of We," the video highlights
Collaborize Classroom's contribution to education. It is part of
the magazine's series entitled "Future Learning," featuring
visionaries in the field of education technology.
For more information about Collaborize Classroom, or to schedule
an interview with Democrasoft senior management, please contact
Shana Ray, Digital Media & PR
Manager at: shana@collaborizeclassroom.com or call 888-993-8683 x
706.
About Democrasoft:
Democrasoft, Inc., headquartered in Santa Rosa, CA, is a 20-year-old public
company (OTC: PINKSHEETS: DEMO) with a history of pioneering
technology. The Company's flagship product, Collaborize®, is a
web-based solution for organizing groups with a common purpose into
powerful, decision-making communities. It is designed to empower
groups of all sizes - educators, businesses, non-profits,
organizations, governments, their members and citizens - to resolve
real problems and drive toward actual implementation of collective
solutions. Democrasoft is dedicated to facilitating a vision of
online "social networking with purpose." For more information,
please visit http://democrasoft.com.
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SOURCE Democrasoft, Inc.