WVPubcast - Education

Chalkwaves is a rich media server delivering curriculum-based instructional video using no Internet connection.

It may be connected to a school’s existing LAN, used in a computer lab, or used on a single classroom computer. As many as 30 users can use the server, accessing the same or different modules.

Each stand-alone, pre-loaded hard drive contains 1,200 videos and up to 12,000 learning modules, including teacher guides.

Content is searchable by subject, keyword,

grade/age, and the West Virginia Content Standards and Objectives (CSOs).

Who Uses Chalkwaves?

Schools in 13 counties used Chalkwaves in the 2010-2011 school year, reaching 23,136 students in the following counties: Braxton, Calhoun, Gilmer, Greenbrier, Jackson, Lewis, Mason, Morgan, Nicholas, Ohio, Preston, Uphsur and Wood.

Contact Craig Lanham at 888-596-9729, ext. 7857 for more information.

How to get Chalkwaves at your school

A one-time purchase of the device(s) which are available in two versions:

- $500 for each 500GB internal drive
- $550 for each 500GB external drive

Annual per student subscription fee of $1.00

Annual contract with West Virginia Public Broadcasting.

School Equipment Requirements:

School network: 100Mbps or greater Ethernet LAN

Server Requirements (for the internal drive option):
- Slot for IDE or SATA internal hard drive
- Pentium III 1 GHZ
- Windows Server 2000, 2003 or XP SP3
Client Requirements (for external drive option)
- Pentium II
- Windows XP or above
- 512MB RAM
- Windows Media Player
- Adobe Acrobat Reader

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