Why Should I Use It?

ReadCloud provides the answer to one of the most pressing questions librarians and teachers are facing today: What is your eBook strategy?

ReadCloud is the world's first social eReader software with built-in learning tools and a Digital Library Management system that works on any platform.

Our immersive digital library system connects teachers, students and eBooks through online and offline social reading classrooms. ReadCloud facilitates classroom conversations embedded within eBooks through rich media such as comments, videos, pictures and sound bites.

Our technology mimics real life classroom discussions. ReadCloud provides a digital reading ecosystem for each school.

Social Interaction

ReadCloud enables conversations to take place real-time within each book and tailored for each classroom. Teachers can seed a book with comments progressively splattered throughout the book viewable in the margins. Students can participate by commenting further within the book and marking the annotations as private, public or for the attention of a specific classroom. Annotations can be filtered by teacher or classroom discussion. Rich text and media such as video, images or sound bites can all be embeded within the margins of each book by student and teacher alike.

Every annotation can be shared within the classroom, copied to an email or posted to a social network such as Twitter, Facebook or Myspace. Books are about learning through stories and the sharing of information. ReadCloud gives students and teachers a toolset to spread and share the contents of books like never before.

Embeded Learning Aids

Embeded into each book are learining aids for encyclopedia, dictionary and Google search. The learning aids are non-disruptive to the reading experience. For example a word can be found in seconds through an online lookup as opposed to fumbling though a paper bound dictionary. The ease of learning encourages exploration.

Digital Library Management

Each student is allocated an account and access to 30,000 books within the digital library catalog which is stored centrally within the school ecosystem. All books, comments, group membership and interactions are stored within the central library system. Content follows the students and teachers no matter which computer, laptop or mobile device is utilised. Content is also available in offline mode when not connected to the internet. Any comments or changes made within books offline are syncronised when next connected to the Internet.

Ecosystem

Each school is allocated their own learning ecosystem with digital library management.

School administrators maintain their own ecosystem with full access to supervision of student activity

• moderate conversations
• administer accounts
• report on site activity

Customisation

As each school's digital library is hosted at ReadCloud further customisations are available such as: 

• Custom digital library website theme development. Institutionally branded website with school logo and web address
• Integration with single sign-on authentication systems for schools