Curriki Announces Significant Partner Contributions of New Content and Video Tools



Curriki, the Global Education and Learning Community today announced a series of new partnerships that provide additional premium content and video tools to Curriki's expanding repository of high-quality open source learning resources and curricula. Curriki's open source model allows the education community to share, improve and collaborate on the development of curriculum and curricular resources. With the additional content from Atomic Learning, CyberSmart!, Road of Life and Listen for Life, students and educators worldwide can take advantage of the content generously offered by these organizations at no charge. Additionally, VIDITalk Corporation, a leading provider of video publishing solutions is supplying VIDITalk Integrated Video Messaging Solution on Curriki.org. Through the use of the VIDITalk tool, Curriki members will be able to integrate open source educational video content into their lesson plans.

"Eighteen months after its creation, Curriki continues to gain momentum," said Dr. Bobbi Kurshan, Executive Director of Curriki. "Our new partnerships will make excellent K-12 educational resources available to our global community of more than 35,000 educators and continue to demonstrate that non-profit and for-profit publishers can each benefit by supporting open source learning. We are delighted to welcome these organizations into the Curriki community and look forward to working with them to develop a complete online repository for K-12 curricula in the areas of mathematics, science, technology, reading and language arts, and languages."

Atomic Learning is an award-winning provider of online software training will provide a series of free tutorial movies. The content will include step-by-step tutorials on uploading, editing and collaborating using the Curriki site. Additionally, Atomic will make a Lesson Accelerator available, which teaches essential software skills while using tutorial movies to demonstrate how to create curriculum-based technology projects. "We see Curriki as an increasingly prominent component of the educational publishing landscape. We are thrilled to be able to contribute our expertise in software tutorials to their growing global education community," said Dan Meyer, CEO at Atomic Learning.

Curriki will now benefit from CyberSmart's comprehensive K-8 curriculum, which was originally co-published with Macmillan/McGraw-Hill and is currently used by educators in all 50 states, Canada and Australia. This award-winning 21st Century Skills curriculum provides schools with standards (ISTE-NETS) aligned lesson plans and student activities on safe, ethical and effective Internet use. "These CyberSmart! materials teach students about learning and living in today's connected world, and Curriki provides a means for us to share and enhance our content in a true 21st Century context," said Jim Teicher, Executive Director & CEO CyberSmart! Education Company.

Road of Life has agreed to share its full health curriculum for 3rd-5th grades which includes the complete 31 lesson curriculum focused on general health, tobacco use prevention, physical activity and nutrition. The content of the health curriculum is integrated into core academic subjects including math, English language arts, science and social studies. Road of Life's curriculum is an ideal partner for Curriki as the program's modular design allows educators to teach a single lessons or the entire curriculum. All of the content is aligned with National Health Education Standards and Ohio Academic Content Standards.

Listen for Life is a global family of music listeners, educators, performers and producers all working together to further cross-cultural communication and understanding through music outreach, education and production projects in 42 countries. Listen for Life Productions has recently released an award-winning series called Travels with Music, which uses world music as a standards-aligned vehicle to integrate all core curriculum subjects. TWM offers an interactive, audiovisual experience of world cultures with their master musicians as the tour guides. Listen for Life is honored to be sharing with Curriki many of the cross-cultural videos from TWM Series One.

VIDITalk's partnership with Curriki extends the company's commitment to education, expanding upon their integrated solution for Colleges and Universities, where college communities use the same technology for enabling students and parents to send video amongst one another and to provide schools video communications with alumni, college fund raising and recruiting abilities to prospective students. According to John Hayes, Executive Vice President of VIDITalk, "Making video content available as both stand alone assets and just-in-time professional development will help make Curriki a richer and more engaging environment for educators everywhere."

About Curriki

Curriki - the Global Education & Learning Community is a nonprofit dedicated to improving education by empowering teachers, students and parents with universal access to free and Open Source Curricula. Curriki is building the first and only Internet site for a complete course of instruction and assessment for K-12. The organization will create a world-class educational environment that is community developed and supported. Founded by Sun Microsystems in 2004, Curriki now operates as an independent nonprofit. For more information about Curriki, visit



Curriki Announces Significant Partner Contributions of New Content and Video Tools