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27th
May 2009

Our Videos & Homeschooling

homelaptopIrrespective of the method of homeschooling you feel best meets your needs, and regardless of your motivations for homeschooling, one of the most important considerations must surely be the format that is used to provide the relevant material to the student.

While books and written material surely have their place and their benefits, it is important to provide that material in a format that is firstly going to capture and maintain their attention – and hopefully make the learning process fun, and secondly providing that material in a manner that enables the individual student to learn and absorb the information at their own pace, thereby enabling that student to reach their greatest potential.

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27th
May 2009

Our Videos & Reading Literacy

Subscribers and students using our online K-12 educational video’s, each enjoy the additional academic benefit of being able to improve their reading literacy while learning the subject of their choice.

Each of our videos is deliberately subtitled so as to provide each student with the option of either listening to the video soundtrack, reading the subtitles, or listening to the soundtrack while at the same time reading the presentation using the subtitling.

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25th
Apr 2009

Zane Education Videos and Improved Reading Literacy

Research work being carried out by the Availll Institute represents a significant discovery and offers a long sought after solution in reading improvement for students.

Data results that have been generated by university based research indicate a direct link between significant improvements in students reading abilities and literacy skills and the use of subtitled videos and movies. In fact in a 2008 email, Warwick Elley, a world leader in reading education, observed that Avail is onto something significant.

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