Save Time and Search Smart with the CyberSmart! Free Educator’s Toolbar Download the beta version at www.cybersmart.org
Bernardsville, New Jersey -- October 23, 2007
The CyberSmart! Free Educators’ Toolbar meets educator’s needs for a timesaving tool to help them manage the challenge of locating and identifying quality online resources to support student learning and lifelong learning.
The CyberSmart! Free Educators’ Toolbar provides 24/7 just-in-time ready access to
- education news, journals, newsletters, support, research and blog sites
- lessons, collaborative activities, and curriculum in language arts, science, math, social studies, and the arts
- documents, pictures, video, and audio that is often hidden from common search engines
- professional connections
Jim Teicher, CEO of CyberSmart! Education Company, explains “We think that helping K-12 educators teach with 21st Century tools requires simple-to-use practical just-in-time support, which is what this toolbar offers.” A unique annotation for each web resource helps educators easily identify the relevance of the resource. A search function in the Toolbar, helps the user to apply multiple strategies to locate the best information, to participate in the CyberSmart! lifelong learning community, and to encourage other 21st Century skills practices.
The Free Educator’s Toolbar integrates itself into Internet Explorer and Safari (cross platform) browsers and can be used by educators both from school and home.
Responding to the Department of Education and State Education Agencies that have adopted policies to ensure the infusion of 21st Century skills needed to succeed in a highly technological world — and state mandates that teachers use online resources to address content standards and technology standards — CyberSmart! has created a powerful yet simple tool that connects all K-12 educators to online educational resources when they need it.
To download the Free Educator’s toolbar go to www.cybersmart.org.