FunTeaching.Com,
LLC • P.O. Box 94474
• Albuquerque, NM 87199-4474
•
505-822-0585
Funteaching.Com, LLC is
a company devoted to making life easier for all teachers.
Including School to Careers teachers, Career and Technical
teachers, CTSO advisors, School Clubs, Club and Chapter
Officers, Cheer and Drill Sponsors, and the whole student
body. Founded by Dotty and Don Clark, FunTeaching also
offers fun, yet educational solutions to teachers and
students.
Dotty
Chamberlain Clark: Teacher, President &
Founder
Dorothy (Dotty) Chamberlain Clark was in DECA in high school and then earned her Bachelor of Science in "Distributive Education" at the University of Arizona. She began teaching DECA in New Mexico in 1977 and resigned in 1984 to raise her two children.
From 1985 to 1989 she helped her husband manage their resort business comprising of a restaurant, cabins, a trailer park and a marina. From 1989 to 1997 she and her husband owned a computer store. She learned database development during this time developing database systems to improve processes and controls for their store.
Dotty went back to teaching DECA and Marketing again in 1996. To her dismay, the same forms were still being used and teachers were still using typewriters to complete these forms. Her computer knowledge gave her the opportunity to recreate the forms on the computer and enter her students into a database she had created so that she would not be wasting her time typing names over and over all year long. As the database evolved, she realized that other teachers and sponsors could also benefit.
Dotty spent a large part of the summer of 1998 moving the program into the new engine: she chose FileMaker Pro ®, a more powerful database engine that offered cross platform compatibility as the development tool. and sold the first copy that fall. Since then, "D.O.R.O.T.H.YTM,.." as it was named has been updated and expanded to handle not only DECATM,, then BPATM,, but also other Co-op programs and CTSO's such as FBLATM, and SkillsUSA.TM, The acronym stands for Database Opportunities and Report Outcomes That Help YouTM, and was named after Dotty only because this new educational era of computer software brought other names of people such as: Athena, Merlin, and Eric. Consequently, Dotty (without investigating) assumed that was the trend.
Dotty played a DECA Jeopardy Game with her students as early as 1978. She called her first primitive version DECARDY and it consisted of 100 questions and answers from student LAP's using index cards and an overhead projector. In the early 90's, Dotty developed a black and white Macintosh only version of "DECARDY" with 70 questions and answers. Upon retuning to teaching marketing in 1996 she found out that National DECA now had a competitive event called DECA Quiz Bowl! Dotty's husband, Don, then developed the current, cross platform version, featuring questions from the Quiz Bowl contest, in the winter of 2000. DECA requested that it be called "The DECA TM, Quiz Bowl Software Game."
This software also was then used for all areas of curriculum by creating The FunTeaching GameTM,--an empty game shell that any teacher can use. Other empty shells, as well as ready-made games have followed. The FunTeaching WayTM, a method of playing these games which really "Leaves No Child Behind" and promotes full participation of all players--not just the fast, quick-thinking, smart kids! These games are exciting and motivating in the classroom. These are not Jeopardy Games. They are educational tools that allow printing of all information that is typed into them, including tests, quizzes, answer keys, and answer grids.