From the Villages of India to the Suburbs of America - the Book that Can Help Millions to Read
If your idea of learning a new language means plowing through endless stacks of cassette tapes, think again. Thanks to BookBox, the innovative brainchild of a team of Stanford University students, a language- learning revolution is about to begin.In a nutshell, BookBox is a digital "jukebox" of animated books, each available in multiple languages ranging from Spanish and French to Hindi and Chinese. Based on the science of Same Language Subtitling (SLS), BookBox synchronizes the text, audio, and visual media so that your 4 year-old child can now read a story on his own -- simply by listening to the narration and following it word by word in the subtitles. Or if your child wants to learn Spanish, she can simply turn on English and Spanish subtitles, and listen to a Spanish audio narration. You get the idea: www.bookbox.com Non-English speakers in the US, especially young children, will find BookBox particularly useful as a language-learning tool.
With its beautiful illustrations, dynamic animation and colorful narration, BookBox essentially turns a regular storybook into an educational cartoon that kids can "watch."At the same time, Bookbox is very much a global product, where children from all over the world can learn to read, in any language they want.The BookBox innovation comes at a particularly propitious time, when globalization is the new buzzword and multilingualism can be worth more than a college degree.Yet the beauty of BookBox lies not just in its multi-lingual interface, but in its simple ability to make reading truly universal, in a way never before experienced. It gives rise to a reading revolution, where the illiterate who have traditionally been helpless with books, can now proudly carry one in hand and be able to read it - on their own."The educational problem of the world is not that we don't have enough top-notch scientists and engineers, it's that we have over a billion people who cannot read the headline of a newspaper," says Brij Kothari, BookBox co-founder.Armed with the brilliantly simple idea of subtitling animated books, Brij rounded up a team of Stanford University undergraduates in early 2004 to help develop BookBox.It has only been a year, but BookBox has come a long way. Currently BookBox is available online at www.bookbox.com , and all of its 6 original stories can be downloaded for free . In the future, BookBox stories will also be released in DVD, mp3 formats, and even TV!Within the 3-month launch of its young website, BookBox has already generated a buzz with users around the globe. As one BookBoxer describes: "Finally, a book without boundaries - from the language enthusiast in France to the illiterate peasant in China.
BookBox is truly universal."Contact:Lavina TienBookBox, Inc.1030 El Monte AveMountain View, CA 94040650 996 7880E-mail: e-mail protected from spam botswww.bookbox.com.
Techniques of Youth Motivational Speakers
It's a special breed of human being that can speak effectively to large groups of teenagers and young adults. Speaking at schools, sporting events, teen churches, or wherever else young people congregate, youth motivational speakers employ an arsenal of well rehearsed, practiced techniques that capture the attention of young people and hopefully change lives for the better. They inspire, motivate and teach students, taking them from laughter to tears in rapt attention as they speak about personal experiences, weaving into their stories life lessons and warnings about the common pitfalls of being young in the twenty first century. If effective, young people are glued to their seats, eager to listen and receptive to the wisdom and teachings contained in the lecture.
Anybody who has ever tried talking to young adults knows that it is difficult attention and be taken seriously.
Warnings, messages of impending doom and threats all fail to get across to "know-it-all...
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WGI Adds AJAX to Webcast Control Center
Cleveland, Ohio (ContentDesk) January 10, 2006 -- Webcast Group has enhanced the interactivity of their web based Webcast Control Center application.
The new features were programmed in AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML).
The new version of the Webcast Control Center application has several AJAX based capabilities including Whos Watching, Comline chat and audience Q&A notification.AJAX is quickly becoming a popular way to add enhanced interactivity to web based applications.
Leading web based providers such as Microsoft, Yahoo and Google heavily use AJAX to deliver unique interactivity in their web based applications.The Webcast Control Center is a web application that controls the production of live interactive webcasts.
Presenters, moderators and production staff use this web application to control slide shows, moderate audience Q&A, create registration pages and communicate with each other during a live event.
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Kidney Cancer Association Announces Grants
Kidney Cancer Association (KCA) Chief Executive Officer Bill Bro today announced special grants to attendees of the organization's Survivors and Patients Conference, July 23 and 24 in Chicago.
In making the awards, Bro said, "We are pleased that everyone who applied for financial aid this year received it.
No one will be denied access to this important educational meeting because they could not afford it.
The KCA was able to fund all requests received by the July 1, 2004, deadline."Needs-based applications were evaluated by a social worker not affiliated with the Kidney Cancer Association, and funds were available to cover all expenses related to conference attendance, including airfare, hotel, and registration fees, as requested by the applicant."The Association is grateful for financial assistance from corporate supporters Genentech and Antigenics, whose generosity made these individual grants possible," Bro added.
Ten applications for financial...
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