Award Winning

Winner of the Education and Training Category of the 2007 Asia Pacific APICTA Awards.

Winner of the Australian 2007 Community iAward.

Winner of the Product Category of the 15th WAITTA Information Technology Awards.

"In summary, we found a great many strengths in the ReadOn software product. As an assistive tool, we concluded that it has a great potential to provide struggling readers and writers with a motivating way to access and create texts in both home and school settings."

"Students can choose to upload texts to be read aloud, such as e-mails, news accounts, magazine articles, and textbooks, and can select personalized settings to optimize the reading experience. In the writing mode, ReadOn gives students the all too rare opportunity to hear their own composition read aloud. This capability can serve as a proofreading aid and would certainly serve to make writing more pleasurable for the struggling writer. ReadOn also provides the capacity for textual and pictorial help with unknown vocabulary."

"In total, it is our judgment that when placed in the hands of a well-trained teacher, ReadOn can make possible for the struggling reader more full participation in both academic and social worlds. Moreover, ReadOn could easily and rewardingly be utilized for the benefit of struggling readers within a Reading First context."
 

Dr. Julie Wood (Literacy and Educational Technology Specialist) - Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Dr. Kathe Simons (Reading First Specialist) - NH Reading First Educational Consultant
Dr. Frances Hurley (Director of Literacy Research) – Hezel and Associates LLC