The Sacramento County Office of Education has recently contracted through a competitive bid a multimedia development group, pear transmedia, Inc., to begin the development of a CD-ROM authoring tool, a deliverable of the Cyberstep Project. SCOE and pear will be using online technology to observe progress through an exclusive Web site where creative developments will be posted for viewing. Now online, thestudyplace.org has many ready-made activities available to ABE and ESL teachers and adult learners. More are being added all the time. Teachers can also create original activities as well as class homepages using simple online forms.
Teachers can share the activities they develop through The Study Place's archive.
Students can do class assignments or learn what they want, when and where they want. Simple menus make it easy to find what they are looking for. Teachers and students can even review records of activity completion and performance online. It has more sophisticated learning games and greater capacity for saving student work and records.