Firm to Develop Product for Home

  • 10/01/96
MediaSeek Technologies has been established to develop and distribute a family of products emerging from Chancery Software's Curriculum Orchestrator software. Composed of key project personnel at Chancery, MediaSeek aims to empower educators, enabling them to efficiently plan lessons, while relating available resources to multiple state and national learning standards. A Curriculum Orchestrator spinoff, Home Orchestrator will be released in early 1997; this product will augment school studies with activities in the home. Over 80 major publishers of curriculum resources support the Intermediate Education Substrate Standard (IES), which indicates to a Curriculum Orchestrator user where and how their materials support particular educational philosophies presented in guiding documents. MediaSeek Technologies, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, (800) 372-3277.

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