SIMPLY CHARLY, A 'RICH AND VIBRANT' WEBSITE LAUNCHES EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW SERIES WITH RENOWNED EXPERTS
SimplyCharly.com, an educational suite of websites for students and teachers that brings to life, in a compelling and engaging manner, some of the world's most prominent historical figures, has expanded its offerings to include exclusive interviews with famous authors and renowned scholars.
Bestselling author Gay Talese talks about how he and scores of other famous writers of his generation have been inspired by Ernest Hemingway. World-renowned astrophysicist and author, Dr. Michio Kaku, explains Albert Einstein's genius.
Other experts in their respective fields, including Colin McGinn (William Shakespeare), Dr. Tamas Pataki (Sigmund Freud), Richard Schickel (Charlie Chaplin), Peter Bondanella (Federico Fellini), Gregory Chaitin (Kurt Gödel), and Simon Tormey (Karl Marx), also share their unique insights into the lives and works of the groundbreaking individuals.
"The exclusive interviews reveal interesting and little known facts about these personalities," says Charles Carlini, CEO of New York-based multimedia company, Carlini Group, who launched SimplyCharly.com in October 2007. "I developed the sites to be a fun, accessible, and interactive learning experience. Their aim is to buck the current educational trend that places emphasis on reading, writing and math at the expense of art, music and other personally enriching electives."
Eventually, SimplyCharly.com, which Teacher Web Magazine praised as "a rich, vibrant, and evolving resource," will morph into dozens of sites dedicated to the masters of the arts, music, science, literature, philosophy, architecture, and politics.
New sites featuring Charles Darwin, Amadeus Mozart, René Descartes, Niccolò Machiavelli, Ludwig Witgenstein, Isaac Newton and Plato, among others, will be launched soon, making SimplyCharly a "comprehensive, one-stop portal to a wealth of information about each individual we present," Carlini says. "Rather than seek out a disparate collection of links, we want the visitors to come to just one reliable, accurate and credible source - our website."
In addition to the already available features, such as complete histories of each personality, e-newsletter, forums, wiki, blog, "Ask the Expert" section, and an e-store, the sites will also present book reviews, starting with Richard Schickel's newest work, Film on Paper: The Inner Life of Movies, posted on SimplyChaplin.com.
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Leading Online Educational Content Provider Adds Simply Charly to Their Award-Winning Search Engine Nettrekker
Thinkronize, a leader in the digital delivery of K-12 educational content has added Simply Charly to its award-winning search engine
Nettrekker.
Thinkronize was first to market with its standards-based educational search engine, netTrekker d.i., the #1 educational search engine in K-12 schools. Utilizing the services of Academic Benchmarks, the premier provider of comprehensive standards-based K-12 educational databases, alignment tools, and integration services, netTrekker d.i. is currently used in over 19,000 schools nationwide. The company's consumer product, netTrekker home, gives parents and students whose school or district has not yet purchased a netTrekker d.i. subscription access to its 180,000+ educator-selected resources.
Peers, educators, and parents have honored Thinkronize and the netTrekker product suite over 20 times for their contribution to education. Most recently, netTrekker d.i. was named the 2007 Best Education Solution in SIIA's CODiE award competition. In addition, Thinkronize was named to the 2007 Inc. 5000 and 2006 Inc. 500 lists as one of the fastest growing private companies in the United States. The company currently serves over 10 million students in all 50 states, including adoptions by key districts and states nationwide.
KEEPING
ARTS ALIVE AS SIMPLE AS SIMPLY CHARLY
New Company Aims to Make Arts Education Not Only Accessible
But Also Fun
The Carlini Group, a fast-growing multimedia company spearheaded
by musician and entrepreneur Charles Carlini, has launched
a new online educational division that will focus on the art,
science, music, literature, philosophy, architectural, political
and economic world’s leading historical figures. Currently
covering such legends as Charlie Chaplin, Albert Einstein,
Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, W.B. Yeats, Pablo Picasso, Le Corbusier,
Igor Stravinsky and Salvador Dali – and with dozens
more planned for the near future, including Elvis, Napoleon,
Kafka and Darwin – SIMPLY CHARLY’s mission is
to become a one-stop source for everything one desires to
know about the groundbreaking individuals it covers. Inquiring
minds who would like to learn more about the historical world’s
most notable movers and shakers can do so online at www.SimplyCharly.com.
When the Council for Basic Education – a nonprofit organization
that advocates for liberal arts subjects – conducted
a study a few years back, 33 percent of school principals
predicted that they would witness decreases in the time their
districts devote to the arts over the next two years. This
trend was even more highly anticipated in schools with large
percentages of minority students, where 42 percent of principals
made the same dire prediction. Since that survey, those prognostications
have, sadly, been becoming a reality in public schools across
the nation. In the years since, liberal art subjects like
foreign languages, music and art history have taken major
hits but even other non-essential electives like political
science and economics have experienced cutbacks.
As a musician himself, SIMPLY CHARLY’s founder, Charles
Carlini, is personally pained by this arts-related educational
decline…so much so that he decided to do something about
it. Says Carlini of his latest entrepreneurial endeavor, “I
developed the SIMPLY CHARLY suite of sites to be a fun, accessible,
interactive and engaging learning experience. Designed for
all ages, their aim is to buck the current educational trend
that places an emphasis on reading, writing and math at the
expense of art, music and other personally enriching electives.”
The SIMPLY CHARLY portals more than live up to their fun and
engaging mission. The first thing that visitors to the sites
will notice greeting them is a lively caricature version of
the historical figure they’ve come to learn about. From
there, a clean layout with “About,” “News,”
“Multimedia,” “Works” and “Links”
tabs points browsers to accurate and thorough coverage of
the featured historical individual. In this way, SIMPLY CHARLY
hopes to supplement the liberal arts education so many of
today’s public schoolchildren are missing out on.
