| Type | Privately held |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education, Internet, Media, Technology, Online Advertising |
| Founded | 2004 |
| Founder(s) | Edward Fields, President & CEO |
| Headquarters | 1999 S. Bascom Avenue, Suite 1020, Campbell, California, U.S. |
| Website | HotChalk.com |
HotChalk is an education technology company with several divisions. Founded in 2004 by Edward M. Fields, HotChalk, Inc. is based in Campbell, California, with regional offices in Bethesda, Maryland, 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, 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.
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The HotChalk Media Group (formally HotChalk Network) comprises more than 70 web sites. According to online monitoring and data company, comScore, Inc. comScore (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'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 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 capabilities where school and school districts can create, enhance and perform curriculum mapping correlated to state educational standards.
HotChalk covers a variety of Pre-K-12 subjects, including Math, Science, Music, Language Arts, Technology and Internet, Social Studies, Art and Physical Education.
HotChalk partners with various content provides to offer both premium and free digital content to educators. Current partners include Dosity (WGBH-TV), Globe Trekker, Mathematica, National Geographic, Scholastic, Teachers Domain Video Education America (VEA) and many other digital content providers.
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.
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 and GlaxoSmithKline on product development programs. Prior, Fields was director of Interactive Publishing at The Learning Company.
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