NBC and HotChalk Team Up to Provide Resource

This morning I had the opportunity to participate in a conference call with NBC's vice president of educational services, Nicola Soares, and HotChalk CEO, Edward Fields.

Wow, is all I have to say. NBC has teamed up with Hotchalk, an educational resource provider, to open its vast archives to the educational community. This is truly Web 2.0 at it's best. The archive is carefully tagged and contains an efficient search tool. Teachers can develop their own lessons to accompany these short video segments. Obviously, they can be posted. But, HotChalk has already provided numerous learning resources. Teachers can also list assignments and due dates on a user friendly interface accessible to both teachers and students.

This service is free until the beginning of 2008. NBC will then charge a nominal fee to schools that choose to access the archive.

It's simple. Register for a free account at HotChalk and then start exploring. Oh, I sure hope you have self-discipline. If you don't it might be hard to leave your computer. For a news junkie like myself playing on this site was like a kid playing in a candy store.