[Bridging_the_digital_divide] TouchSmart Publishing Press Release 10/21/04

[bridging_the_divide at touchsmart.net]

TouchSmart Publishing to Jointly Present Paper with professor Michael
Seth Mott PhD, Purdue University Calumet

TouchSmart Publishing and Purdue University researcher are presenting a
joint paper at the Association of Educational Communications and
Technology conference in Chicago.

(PRWEB) October 21, 2004 -- TouchSmart Publishing LLC, today announced
a joint presentation at the Association for Educational Communications
and Technology (AECT) Conference in Chicago, Illinois in the Hilton
Chicago’s Lake Ontario Room, 8th Floor for 75 minutes. The presentation
will be conducted from 800am until 915am, EST on October 23, 2004, in
the Hilton Chicago located at 720 South Michigan Avenue, telephone
1.312.922.4400.

This is the first joint presentation between TouchSmart Publishing and
professor Michael Seth Mott, Purdue University Calumet.

“With our technology and Dr. Mott’s research prowess, this should be a
great first presentation in an international forum,” said Jason
Barkeloo, TouchSmart Publishing’s President. “I cannot think of a
better partner in presenting the possibilities for the future of
textbook publishing and accessibility to digital content for students
than Dr. Mott.”

According to researcher, Dr. Mott “TouchSmart Publishing products could
meet the needs of a wide-array of struggling readers."

The joint presentation (41-LO) is entitled “Providing Prescriptive
Digital Content to All Students: One Student - One Book versus All
Students – One Book.” This presentation will cover a new educational
textbook development model best described as a customized textbook
model instead of a generic textbook model forcing the teacher or
instructor to modify for those students with special needs. The enabler
for this model of customized content distribution is a new technology
that allows a student to press pictures and/or words on the printed
page in the book that then connects wirelessly to the digital content.
This technology, referred to as a touch user interface (TUI)
technology, allows front-end, paper-based content to serve as a remote
control to back-end, digital content. The digital content is then
presented on a PC/Mac or TV via DVD player.

For further information, please contact TouchSmart Publishing at
513.225.8765 or visit TouchSmart's website at
http://www.touchsmart.net.

About TouchSmart Publishing, LLC.

TouchSmart Publishing is developmental-stage company poised to
distribute touch-sensitive wireless textbooks to K-12 math, science,
and special education needs students. The Company's mission is to
create and distribute exciting and easy-to-use interactive textbooks
that connect to digital content by using touch user interface (TUI)
technology that allows a student to touch pages in a book that wireless
connect to digital content.

TouchSmart Publishing expects to be a bridge over the digital divide
for more students, regardless of learning style, special needs or
socioeconomic position, than are current connected. As a result,
TouchSmart Publishing is the only complete No Child Left Behind (NCLB)
solution poised to meet the National Instructional Materials
Accessibility Standard (NIMAS).

TouchSmart Publishing is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio as a Main
Street Ventures company, www.digitalrhine.com.

For more information, please visit the TouchSmart Publishing web site
at www.touchsmart.net.

About the Association of Educational Communications and Technology
(AECT).

The Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is
a professional association of thousands of educators and others whose
activities are directed towards improving instruction through
technology. Technology is interpreted as process, not merely in terms
of hardware (such as computers or television or projectors), but in
terms of learners and their relationship to the people, events, places,
and things through which they learn.

For more information, please visit the AECT website at www.aect.org.

Contact:

TouchSmart Publishing
Jason Barkeloo, 513.225.8765

AECT
Phil Harris, 812-335-7675

Source: TouchSmart Publishing

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