Founder and CEO of BeeLine Reader

 
Interview starts at 12:44 and ends at 32:05

 
They tried it out with the first graders and found that in the control classroom the students’ reading fluency went up by about 8 points in the course of a month. In the BeeLine classroom, they went up by 14 points.

 
News

Leather covers by Oberon Design for Kindles and Fires
Limited Edition Premium Leather Case for Fire HD 8 - $79.99
Fire HD 8 Reader’s Edition - $249.99
“How to use Blue Shade on your Amazon Fire - but you really don’t want to” by Paul St John Mackintosh at TeleRead - December 7, 2015
“New Fire OS Bellini 5.1.1 Update Rollling Out to Some Fire Tablets” by Nate Hoffelder at The Digital Reader - December 8, 2015
“Amazon’s Jeff Bezos: Let’s Send Donald Trump to Space” by Ryan Parker at Billboard.com - December 8, 2015
“The sweet rides of tech’s millionaires and billionaires” by Dave Smith at Tech Insider - November 27, 2015

 

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Content
Amazon Best Sellers of 2015 (So Far)

 

Next Week’s Guest
Susan Mark, publications specialist at the Wyoming State Library.

 

Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Persepctive" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. 
 

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