All boxes should be in place by the end of March. To support the technology, the company has established a DVD production facility in Honolulu to develop educational titles with interactive features for kindergarten-12th grade educators. We are hiring teachers on a contract basis to write the lesson plans and all the materials that are on the Web, which includes lesson plans and project lists. By the end of the end of the year the foundation expects to have 1,000 DVD titles and related Web sites. The lesson is on an actual DVD that's broken up into segments.
Teachers can show the whole thing or break it down into segments.
The DVD also contains all the links. It's a seamless integration of DVD and Internet use. Haas says the eWhiz player was specifically designed to meet the requirements of teachers who understand the state's teaching standards, but lack the necessary tools to implement them. We talked to 300 teachers and asked them what they wanted and we designed the product to respond to their needs. The success of the project lies in its curriculum and ability to meet state teaching standards, says Kerry Koide, educational specialist with the D.O.E.'s Advanced Research Technology Department.