Learn how to use the Reading Lab by watching the FREE ONLINE VIDEOS!
Make YOUR OWN interactive lessons and reading labs and have your students work on them (individually or in groups) at your classroom's or lab's computers!
NEXTCENTURY INTERACTIVE READING LAB Type of Software: Teaching Resource Method of Delivery: Download or CD-Rom Operating Systems: Win 95, 98, 2000, XP, Vista Trial: 30 days (Download Here) License: One Instructor (unlimited number of students and stations) Buy: Either 1) on CD-Rom (shipped free, first class) or 2) key code purchase for download (key code sent to buyer via email within 12 hours of purchase)
--Make an entire Shakespeare play interactive, --Create units and lessons surrounding particular concepts, --Make all your quizzes and tests interactive and paperless for immediate grading and score printout --Make lessons to supplement (or supplant!) your textbook, --Create learning centers and rotate students through your computer-based lessons as one of the stations (like elementary teachers do!) with full score tracking
As the content-matter expert, you know what goes into a good lesson. With the NextCentury Interactive Reading Lab, you can quickly and cleanly design a learning environment for your students.
The NextCentury Interactive Reading Lab was designed for teachers with a little or a lot of computer experience and just one or dozens of computers at their disposal.
Craft lessons into units and create a computer-based learning experience with full data tracking of each student's progress! Print out reports or just get the grades from your students' screens.
The NextCentury Interactive Reading Lab. . . Has almost no learning curve! You'll be adding your content within minutes of downloading this program! Lets you provide a multi-sensory approach to your teaching by allowing you to include text, rich text files, audio (mp3) and images (jpg) to your computer-based lessons and to your lesson questions.
Gives you full score reporting for each lesson and unit that can be displayed and printed by the instructor or lab manager within seconds of logging in.
Allows for self-pacing, audio readings of texts, immediate feedback and multiple attempts per question to enhance learning. This covers nearly every modifications required for special education, 504, migrants, and ESL.
Provides intuitive, easy screen navigation for both instructor and students.
Installs directly to your computer or server and runs without a CD-Rom disk.
Is not just a mere "resource"--this program allows you to actually deliver instruction to your students through three of the five senses, resulting in grades you can actually use!
Watch the videos to . . .
Learn how easy it is to use the NextCentury
Interactive Reading Lab.
Create your own audio files and make questions for your units.
Create units by adding audio, images and rich text. Grab text from Internet sites for your reading lab.
Work with the units and lessons folders. Make the multimedia units and move them to your students' computer stations.
Easily grab audio books from the Internet, grab texts from the Internet and keep student scores and more.
The NextCentury Interactive Reading Lab aids you, the instructor, in the crafting of your own course. It is a teaching assistant, an excellent frequent or occasional substitution for a textbook, lecture, worksheet, exam, etc. Thus, you can quickly and easily make your own units with full data tracking and printing, presenting whatever material you want systematically, all in one place. In fact, most all the resources you need to fill a lesson are to be found on the Internet already, including e-texts, audio books, and images for downloading. Just add the media and your own questions and you're done!
Need some free audio books in mp3 format to make your own interactive reading labs for your Interactive Reading Lab?
PENN Sound--Readings of contemporary works by contemporary authors, some classics
Maria Lectrix--for those with catholic tastes, some medieval classics
UBU Web--Avant-garde, contemporary readings, many not suitable for children
Need texts of classic works to copy and paste to your own .txt and .rtf files for your Course Builder reading labs? Just do a Google search for the name of the work and add the word "etext" to your search entry. Most non-copyright texts of works can be found at Project Gutenberg.
Our interactive reading lab comes with sample unit Beowulf FREE!
(complete with text, images, audio and questions that you are free to modify completely )
