HotChalk is an education technology company with several divisions. Founded in 2004 by Edward M. Fields, HotChalk, Inc. is based in Campbell, California

Campbell, California

Campbell is a city in Santa Clara County, California, a suburb of San Jose, and part of Silicon Valley, in the San Francisco Bay Area. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, Campbell's population is 39,349...

, with regional offices in Bethesda, Maryland

Bethesda, Maryland

Bethesda is a census designated place in southern Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, just northwest of Washington, D.C. It takes its name from a local church, the Bethesda Meeting House , which in turn took its name from Jerusalem's Pool of Bethesda...

, Chicago, Illinois and New York, New York.

The HotChalk Media Group division of the company comprises of education-focused websites and helps advertisers reach a targeted audience of teachers, parents/moms involved in their child's education

Education

Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...

, students involved in study, women, and school leadership personnel. 

HotChalk's LessonPlansPage web site contains lesson plans that were written and contributed by the users of the site. 

HotChalk Media Group

The HotChalk Media Group (formally HotChalk Network) comprises more than 70 web sites. According to online monitoring and data company, comScore, Inc. comScore

ComScore

comScore is a Internet marketing research company providing marketing data and services to many of the Internet's largest businesses. comScore tracks all internet data on its surveyed computers in order to study online behavior....

 (Report: comScore Media Metrix Ranks Top 50 U.S. Web Properties for September 2009), the HotChalk Media Group reaches 12.5 Million unique visitors per month (as of Sept. 2009), serves approximately 150 million ad impression per month, has broken into the comScore Top 100 (#89) of all properties and has become the second largest property in the Education category. The HotChalk Media Group growth rate has also been in the top 10 of all internet properties two months in a row and 5 times since 2007. For information on advertising and publishing opportunities with HotChalk Media Group, visit HotChalkMediaGroup.com. 

HotChalk Learning Management System

HotChalk's Learning Management System lets teachers automate daily classroom tasks including assignments, homework and grading. Teachers are able to communicate daily progress and assignment status to students and parents via a secure login and email, and access lesson plans and Web-based teaching materials contributed by educators from around the world through a faceted browser.

HotChalk's MyLibrary is a new type of digital distribution

Digital distribution

Online distribution, digital distribution, or electronic software distribution is the practice of delivering content without the use of physical media, typically by downloading via the internet directly to a consumer's device. Online distribution bypasses conventional physical distribution media,...

 system where schools and school districts can create and manage a custom repository of free, licensed and proprietary digital content delivered electronically to teachers, students and parents. MyLibrary also includes curriculum and content management

Content management

Content management, or CM, is the set of processes and technologies that support the collection, managing, and publishing of information in any form or medium. In recent times this information is typically referred to as content or, to be precise, digital content...

 capabilities where school and school districts can create, enhance and perform curriculum mapping

Curriculum mapping

Curriculum Mapping is a procedure for reviewing the operational curriculum as it is entered into an electronic database at any education setting. It is based largely on the work of Heidi Hayes Jacobs in Mapping the Big Picture: Integrating Curriculum and Assessment K-12 and Getting Results with...

 correlated to state educational standards.

Subjects

HotChalk covers a variety of Pre-K-12 subjects, including Math, Science

Science

Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...

, Music

Music

Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...

, Language Arts

Language arts

Traditionally, the primary divisions in the language arts are Literature and Language, where language in this case refers to both linguistics, and specific languages....

, Technology

Technology

Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...

 and Internet

Internet

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...

, Social Studies

Social studies

Social studies is the "integrated study of the social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence," as defined by the American National Council for the Social Studies...

, Art

Art

Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....

 and Physical Education

Physical education

Physical education or gymnastics is a course taken during primary and secondary education that encourages psychomotor learning in a play or movement exploration setting....

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Partners

HotChalk partners with various content provides to offer both premium and free digital content to educators. Current partners include Dosity (WGBH-TV

WGBH-TV

WGBH-TV, channel 2, is a non-commercial educational public television station located in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. WGBH-TV is a member station of the Public Broadcasting Service , and produces more than two-thirds of PBS's national prime time television programming...

), Globe Trekker

Globe Trekker

Globe Trekker is an adventure tourism television series produced by Pilot Productions. The British-based series was inspired by the Lonely Planet travelbooks and began airing in 1994...

, Mathematica

Mathematica

Mathematica is a computational software program used in scientific, engineering, and mathematical fields and other areas of technical computing...

, National Geographic, Scholastic, Teachers Domain Video Education America (VEA) and many other digital content providers.

Awards

HotChalk was named 2008 Codie Award finalist for "Best Education Solution" and won a 2007 Technology & Learning Award of Excellence for "Teacher Resources."

Most recently, HotChalk was awarded "Best in Class" in Education Innovation Network by Skysong, the ASU Scottsdale Innovation Center

Skysong, the ASU Scottsdale Innovation Center

ASU Skysong, the ASU Scottsdale Innovation Center, located on a center in Scottsdale, Arizona, is a robust platform that supports firms entering or expanding within the United States...

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Founder

Edward M. Fields is Founder, Chairman and CEO. Before establishing HotChalk, Fields was founder and CEO of ProductFactory. There he worked with notable firms such as Eclipse Aviation

Eclipse Aviation

Eclipse Aviation Corporation was the Albuquerque, New Mexico-based manufacturer of the Eclipse 500 very light jet and also at one time proposed developing the Eclipse 400 single-engined jet....

 and GlaxoSmithKline

GlaxoSmithKline

GlaxoSmithKline plc is a global pharmaceutical, biologics, vaccines and consumer healthcare company headquartered in London, United Kingdom...

 on product development programs. Prior, Fields was director of Interactive Publishing at The Learning Company

The Learning Company

The Learning Company is an American educational software company, founded in 1980. It produced a grade-based system similar to Knowledge Adventure's JumpStart series. The products for preschoolers through second graders feature Reader Rabbit, and software for more advanced students features The...

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External links

• http://www.HotChalk.com Company Home Page
• http://www.HotChalkMediaGroup.com

Free Resources for Educators:

• http://www.LessonPlansPage.com Over 4,000 Free Lesson Plans
• http://www.HotChalk.com/mydesk Educational Articles and Blogs
• http://www.HotChalkMath.com Math Resources
• http://www.HotChalkScience.com Science Resources
• http://www.HotChalkArt.com Art resources
• http://www.HotChalkEnglish.com Language Arts Resources
• http://www.FreeTeacherTools.com Teaching Technology & Tools Resources

International LMS versions:

• http://kr.hotchalk.com Korean (simplified)
• http://es.hotchalk.com Spanish
• http://de.hotchalk.com German
• http://it.hotchalk.com Italian
• http://fr.hotchalk.com French
• http://ru.hotchalk.com Russian
• http://ar.hotchalk.com Arabic
• http://br.hotchalk.com Portuguese (Brazil)
• http://zh.hotchalk.com Chinese (simplified)
• http://ur.hotchalk.com Urdu
• http://grn.hotchalk.com Dari
• http://pus.hotchalk.com Pashto

Social Media:

• http://www.facebook.com/pages/HotChalk/103710643001223 HotChalk on Facebook
• http://twitter.com/HotChalk HotChalk on Twitter