In December the two e-reader studies on the Amigo Reader for Spanish and EFL were successfully finalised in Barcelona. The UoB team are delighted to see the system in action after three years of hard work from everyone involved in the iRead project! From the start of the e-reader studies, students and teachers have expressed … Continue reading E-reader studies on Amigo Reader finalised for Spanish and EFL students
UGOT Researchers Participate in Dialogue Seminars at ‘Framtidens lärande väst’ – Future Learning Event
By Leona Bunting, University of Gothenburg Leona from the University of Gothenburg team presented information about the iRead Project at two separate dialogue seminars held at the Framtidens lärande event. Framtidens lärande (Future Learning), is a national meeting ground for practitioners, researchers and trade, established ten years ago. This year, the organizers tried a more regional … Continue reading UGOT Researchers Participate in Dialogue Seminars at ‘Framtidens lärande väst’ – Future Learning Event
iRead project featured in Pickatale children’s newspaper
Pickatale, who are one of the iRead project partners, recently featured the iRead project in their weekly newspaper for children. It is available in English and Norwegian and features a six page news article on dyslexia and the iRead project. Access the Pickatale newsletter feature in English Access the Pickatale newsletter feature in Norwegian
iRead researchers from NTUA participate in Researcher’s Night Event
By Dionysis Panagiotopoulos & Kostas Karpouzis - National & Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece The Greek team participated in this year’s “Researchers’ Night” event hosted in six major Greek cities on the last Friday of September. The event was an opportunity to showcase to the public key research happening within universities and institutions. The NTUA … Continue reading iRead researchers from NTUA participate in Researcher’s Night Event
iRead workshop at the Göteborg Book Fair
By Leona Bunting, University of Gothenburg The Göteborg Book Fair is probably Scandinavia’s most important literary event where the trade meets the public. During four days, 26-29 September, about 90,000 publishers, authors, librarians, teachers and book lovers mix on the 11,000 square meters provided. iRead was invited to hold a workshop in a part of … Continue reading iRead workshop at the Göteborg Book Fair
Romanian team present iRead to students at the Sibiu Researcher’s Night
By Ioan Mihu - Lucian Blaga, University of Sibiu (ULBS), Romania The Sibiu Researcher's Night, held on 27th September 2019, is an institution wide public event that is designed to show case research that is being carried out at the University of Sibiu. At the event, Ioan Mihu from ULBS was supported by high school … Continue reading Romanian team present iRead to students at the Sibiu Researcher’s Night
iRead @ PopUpDig19
By Leona Bunting (University of Gothenburg) On June 18 the University of Gothenburg (UGOT) team participated in PopUpDig19. PopUpDig is a one-day conference about learning and digitalization for teachers, IT pedagogues and library staff organized by the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. This was the third year it was held, and it was fully booked well … Continue reading iRead @ PopUpDig19
iRead @ CHI 2019
By Laura Benton (UCL Knowledge Lab) This month the UCL iRead team returned to the CHI conference (2019 Conference of Human Factors in Computing Systems) to present some follow-up research focused on the instructional design within existing reading games for children and also to demonstrate the latest version of the Navigo game. These submissions were … Continue reading iRead @ CHI 2019
iRead Exhibits at EU Parliament “Tech for Good” Expo
By Eleni Mentheniti (DFKI) and Manolis Mavrikis (UCL) Last month iRead researchers Manolis Mavrikis (UCL) and Eleni Mentheniti (DFKI) attended the “Tech for Good” expo held in the European Parliament from Monday the 19th to Thursday the 22nd of November 2018. The expo brings together researchers from universities and institutions around the European Union and offers them … Continue reading iRead Exhibits at EU Parliament “Tech for Good” Expo
iRead @ European Literacy Network Meeting
By Nelly Joye and Elisabeth Herbert (UCL) From 1-3 November 2018, a joint iRead-CIE-LLNR&P attended the first European Literacy Network Summit in Porto. The summit marked the end of the European COST action 1401 “Strengthening Europeans’ Capabilities by Establishing the European Literacy Network (ELN)” and gathered a network of European researchers, practitioners and software developers … Continue reading iRead @ European Literacy Network Meeting
