"The best thing for me is that I feel like it's good-quality literature," Evans said "There are other programs on the market right now where it's like one person wrote 300 books just because they wanted a specific (reading) level, and it's not real authors writing real books. She said it's a great tool that allows her students to find books that interest them at their reading level.
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Jennifer Evans, who teaches fifth grade at Rod Kelley Elementary School in Gilroy, California, has been using Skybrary School since last fall, before its official release earlier this year.
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The paid service includes 26 weeks' worth of handouts, lesson plans and a teacher dashboard, and the Kickstarter contributions led to thousands of free subscriptions for needy schools. The service was initially geared toward families, but the Kickstarter campaign funded the development of a program designed for teachers to use in their classrooms. The Reading Rainbow Skybrary is a subscription service that includes an interactive library of 1,000 digital books and 250 video field trips. "And that was pretty humbling to see in action how much people loved 'Reading Rainbow' and wanted to see it continue, wanted to see it go on and have a similar impact for a whole new generation of kids."Īs an actor who starred on seven seasons of "Star Trek: The Next Generation," followed by four movies featuring the same character, Burton is a regular at science fiction conventions around the country, but he said many fans â both parents and children â want to talk about "Reading Rainbow" just as much as "Star Trek." Burton's next stop will be MegaCon Tampa Bay, which runs this Friday to Sunday. "It was really a people's movement," Burton said.
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Seth MacFarlane, the TV and movie writer-producer-actor whose credits include "Ted" and "Family Guy," added another $1 million. The 105,857 backers who pledged a total of $5.4 million through the crowd-funding site set a record at the time for the most individual contributors. "As a result of the Kickstarter, we were able to bring the entire library service over to the web and develop a product specifically for teachers to use in the classroom," Burton said.