Over 1.1 Million "Lessons Served" to Students on Collaborize Classroom

SANTA ROSA, Calif., Jan. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Democrasoft, Inc. (OTC: Pinksheets: DEMO) today announced a major milestone development related to Collaborize Classroom™, the company's flagship collaborative education platform. The company announced that more than 1.1 million individual topic-based lessons have been delivered to students since the official launch of Collaborize Classroom in January of 2011. Collaborize Classroom has been steadily gaining recognition and high marks from teachers, students, and the education and technology industries.

Collaborize Classroom (http://collaborizeclassroom.com), is available to all grade levels, and provides the ability to extend in-class conversations into private and secure online sites that are accessible with any Internet browser. Teachers post topic-based lessons on any subject in their own Collaborize Classrooms and invite their students to participate after school. Each time a new student receives a new lesson for the first time, it is counted as one "lesson served". Lessons served on Collaborize Classroom have been increasing by about 5,000 per day, and are to be expected to top 1.5 million by the end of next month.

"Reaching this important milestone is important for us because it validates, for us and for the education and technology industries, that Collaborize Classroom is being recognized as an effective way of delivering curriculum to students outside of the classroom," says Richard Lang, CEO of Democrasoft.  "It not only improves student engagement significantly, but it also makes teachers' jobs easier and more effective."

One of the keys to successfully being able to deliver well over a million lessons to students in the past year has been the recently created Collaborize Classroom Topic Library.  This free global repository of topic-based lessons enables teachers to share the best and most effective individual lessons that they create with other teachers around the world. This sharing capability includes a peer-rating system and enables teachers to easily find the most interesting and appropriate lessons for their own students. With just a few clicks, any topic on any number of subjects from the Collaborize Classroom Topic Library (http://library.collaborizeclassroom.com) can be copied to any Collaborize Classroom anywhere in the world, at any grade level. To date, more than 16,500 teachers worldwide have launched their own Collaborize Classroom sites, sustaining a 25% average monthly growth rate since January of last year.

All of this momentum has been is getting noticed. Collaborize Classroom has recently added two top education awards to its growing list of awards in educational technology.  District Administration Magazine named Collaborize Classroom one of its Readers' Choice Top 100 Products for 2011. While Edudemic.com readers chose Collaborize Classroom as one of the Top 100 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools (http://collaborizeclassroom.com/blog). 

"These awards are particularly satisfying because they originate from teachers themselves," said Lang.  "These are the actual teachers deriving the benefits of Collaborize Classroom first-hand, so when they select us as a "top tool," it means a lot."

The company also announced today that Collaborize Classroom is featured in a short documentary video that was recently released by GOOD Magazine on its online site (http://www.collaborizeclassroom.com/blog/good-video-sharing-the-wisdom-of-we-in-the-classroom/). Entitled "Sharing the Wisdom of We," the video highlights Collaborize Classroom's contribution to education. It is part of the magazine's series entitled "Future Learning," featuring visionaries in the field of education technology.

For more information about Collaborize Classroom, or to schedule an interview with Democrasoft senior management, please contact Shana Ray, Digital Media & PR Manager at: [email protected] or call 888-993-8683 x 706.

About Democrasoft:

Democrasoft, Inc., headquartered in Santa Rosa, CA, is a 20-year-old public company (OTC: PINKSHEETS: DEMO) with a history of pioneering technology. The Company's flagship product, Collaborize®, is a web-based solution for organizing groups with a common purpose into powerful, decision-making communities. It is designed to empower groups of all sizes - educators, businesses, non-profits, organizations, governments, their members and citizens - to resolve real problems and drive toward actual implementation of collective solutions. Democrasoft is dedicated to facilitating a vision of online "social networking with purpose." For more information, please visit http://democrasoft.com.

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SOURCE Democrasoft, Inc.