2. Three myON® reader Innovations
Personalization and Reading Growth
Dynamic, Interactiv
Social Networking and Reporting
e Digital Books
Platform System
• Inventory of • Over 2,000 digital • Measures
Student Interest books with audio quantity of
and growing student reading
• Student Ratings of
Online Books • Unlimited open • Benchmarks
licensing – no student reading
• Safe Social check-in or growth; Lexiles
Networking check-out
• Easy to review
• All books have student reporting
comprehension
quizzes • School and
district reporting
3. Success Stories
Implementations in over 800
schools; by 750,000 students:
– Charleston County, SC
• Used by 72 schools
• Collection turnover increased by 30x
– 1 year circulation of a print book = 10
– 1 year digital book circulation = 337
– Hillsborough County, FL
• Used by 85 schools
• 70,000 books read the first two
months of implementation (before
official teacher training program was
complete)
• 165,000 books read in summer
school
6. Adding Other Publisher Titles
• Expand the myON
collection with even
more titles from
additional publishers:
– Saddleback
Educational
Publishing
– Sylvan Dell
Publishing
• Meet student needs for
classics, higher leveled
books, additional
Spanish, etc…
7. Book Engagement and
Comprehension
Students rate and review
books, and can share their
thoughts within the school
Book quizzes test for reading
comprehension
9. Awards and Reviews
• Winner of the 16th Annual EDDIE Award for Upper
Elementary Reading Website
• SIIA Innovation Incubator Award
• Winner: “Most Likely to Succeed in the
Education Market “
• Runner-up for the “Most Innovative Education
Product or Service”
• BESSIE Award for Best Reading Website, 2011
ComputED
• District Administration –Readers’ Choice Top 100
Products of 2011
• Tech and Learning - 2011 Tech and Learning Awards
of Excellence
Editor's Notes
Capstone Digital isn’t a brand new presence in the market. We already have over 4,000 buildings implemented successfully on some of our products. Of note:Charleston County in South Carolina has a district-wide implementation where they’ve increased their collection circulation. For librarians, turnover means how often a book circulates in a year. In an average elementary school, an average turnover rate is 1 to 10 circulations a year. Charleston had an average turnover rate of 337 circulations for each digital book in the past year – an increase of over thirty times.Hillsborough County implemented in all of their title 1 schools. The students found and started using the product before the teachers were fully trained!
The interest inventory is a way to match students with books that they want to read. Students indicate how interested they are in a variety of topics, and they’ll build their interests by adding more topics. Interests are refined through the student profile screen, and by rating books read. But, the interest inventory is only half of the book recommendation equation.Key Points:The student can retake the interest inventory by using their “Account” button.
Each student will have the same structure of a home page, but the featured titles will be different on the recommended view.Key Point:Don’t forget to talk about the Book Wall – these are fun covers of books that have been read in the school, or are new.
