Hartman Ed. Tech: Clients

Hartman Educational Technology provides curriculum development and instructional design services to multimedia publishers, print publishers and educational institutions nationwide. The following are just a few of our clients and brief descriptions of current and past projects:

Apple Computer
Conceptualized and wrote Units of Practice, a series of Web-based lesson plans, for Elementary Curriculum Connections Bundle, Teacher Solutions Bundle and Writing and Publishing Tools Bundle.

California Association of Nurseries and Garden Centers
Wrote Investigations in Horticulture, a middle school curriculum designed to help students understand how the practices of horticulture impact all aspects of human life—from the growing of trees and other plants to beautify and improve our environment, to the ways in which we feed and clothe the world's booming population, to the overall management and sustainable development of the earth's resources. Lessons were aligned to State and National Education Standards.

Dairy Council of California
Continuing to develop nutrition education curricula. Past projects include:

• Nutrition Pathfinders at Camp Eatawella*—Wrote CD content scripts, Teacher Guide, Student Workbook activities, and State and National Education Standards alignments for this (grades 3 to 5) health and nutrition education program.
*Selected and recommended by the California Learning Resource Network.

• Healthy Choices, Healthy Me—Wrote enhancements for this (grades 1-2) literature-based nutrition education program. Project included authoring The Market Mystery, an original story, the related Student Workbook activities, Teacher Guide and State and National Education Standards alignments.

• Deal Me In ... Food and Fitness*—Wrote Game Cards, Activity Books, Leader Instruction Cards, and a Parent Newsletter for this (K-6) after-school nutrition education and physical activity program.
*Listed with the Harvard Out-Of-School Time Health Database.

• Exercise Your Options*—Wrote video scripts, Teacher Guide, Student Workbook activities and State and National Education Standards alignments for this Middle School health and nutrition education program.
*Winner, Children's Audience CD-ROM and Academic Education CD-ROM, 2005 Silver Davey Awards.

Educational Simulations
Created a series of lessons and interdisciplinary extension activities to help middle school and high school students successfully drive Real Lives, an interactive life simulation program. Aligned lessons to State and National Education Standards.

Grolier Online
Created print and electronic teaching aids to help educators integrate Grolier Online (GO) into their curricula. Projects included:

• The GO Guide 1.0,* The GO Guide 2003, and The GO Guide 2004—Ancillary materials to help teachers, librarians, and media specialists navigate the Grolier Online web site and integrate the Grolier Online suite of references into grades 4-12 curricula. Each Guide includes interdisciplinary classroom activities (aligned to National Education Standards) and assessment strategies.
*Winner, 2002 APEX Award for Publication Excellence.

• 90 comprehensive science experiments and classroom projects to enhance the utility of The New Book of Popular Science.

• GO News—an interdisciplinary classroom activities newsletter, published four times per year.

• GO Update—monthly teaching tips for integrating Grolier Online into the classroom.

Incwell/Spectrum Magazine
Designed early learning activities for From the Tales of Edgeriver Wood story series.

Library of Congress, National Digital Library
Curriculum consultations for the American Memory Fellows program.

MC2 Learning (Centrinity)
Designed, wrote and built "Managing Our Waste," a prototype environmental science project using Zebu, a Web-based groupware application that enables teachers and students to create, publish and participate in interactive, online projects. Also wrote four related Teacher Guides.

Paragon Solutions
Instructional design and writing of functional specifications for the graphical user interface of Web-delivered computer courses developed by Harcourt College Publishers.

Patria Press
Continuing to write Teacher Guides and WebQuests for The Young Patriots Series of historical fiction books that spotlight the lives of such figures in American history as Amelia Earhart, Lew Wallace, William Henry Harrison, James Whitcomb Riley, Juliette Low and Mahalia Jackson.

Steck-Vaughn
Assessed training needs and tasks in order to design and write the Learning Director User Guide, a manual for a filtered database system that enables teachers and systems administrators to organize students' work, student assessments, Education standards and curriculum resources.

Sunburst Technology
Continuing to write CD-ROM content, Teacher Guides, Classroom Activities, Education Standards correlations and User Guides for software, including:

• Field Trip series—A Field Trip to the Rainforest Deluxe, A Field Trip to the Earth and A Field Trip to the Sea Deluxe.*
*Awards include Codie Award Finalist, Best Curriculum Software; Rated Outstanding, CUE Newsletter; Teachers' Choice Award, Learning Magazine; Best of Show, TCEA; Best Software, Science Books & Film; Media & Methods Awards Portfolio 2000.

• Learn About Science series—Plants; Weather; Simple Machines; Astronomy; The Senses; Matter, Measures, and Mixtures; Animals; Dinosaurs, and The Human Body.*
*Awards include 2001 Award of Excellence, Technology & Learning; EDDIE Award, Education Software Review Awards; 2001 Teachers' Choice Award, Learning Magazine.

• Web Workshop and Web Workshop Pro.*
*Awards include Award of Excellence, Technology & Learning; EDDIE Award, Web Creation Tools, ComputED; Awards Portfolio, Media & Methods; Silver Honors, Parents' Choice; 2002 Children’s Software Revue All Star Awards; Finalist: 2001 Teachers' Choice Awards, Learning Magazine.

• Instructional design of Hot Dog Stand: The Works,* a math simulation game.
*Awards include Bronze Apple Award, National Educational Media Network, Desirable Rating, California Clearing House, and Recommended rating from Kids' First!, Coalition for Quality Children's Media.

• Conducted needs assessment, task and content analysis and created functional specifications for the graphical user interface of Sunburst's first presence on AOL and the Web.

Teacher Street
Conceptualized and wrote Project Card classroom activities, assessment strategies and Education Standards correlations for Multimedia & Publishing, Writing Skills, Teacher Productivity Tools and Custom Collection bundled software collections.

The Phoenix Zoo
Designed and wrote two Teacher Guides (K-3 and 4-6), filled with classroom activities and background information on the science/ecology of tropical rainforests for the Forest of Uco, an interactive zoo exhibit.

The Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum
Conceptualized and wrote a curriculum to support and enhance their Trunk Shows and Museum Tour school programs. The interdisciplinary student activities serve to nurture students' appreciation of quilts as art and as a reflection of our cultural heritage and history.

Whirligig Software
Consultations on storyboard design and K-12 content development projects.

Women's Foundation of Colorado
Consultations on projects geared toward encouraging girls and women in the fields of technology, science and math.

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