http://www.metafilter.com/tags/liveink Posts tagged with 'liveink' at MetaFilter. Sun, 13 May 2007 23:03:33 -0800 Sun, 13 May 2007 23:03:33 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/61134/A%2DBetter%2DWay%2Dto%2DRead%2DText%2DOnline <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2007/05/10/live-ink-offers-better-way-to-read-text-online/">A Better Way to Read Text Online?</a> By reorganizing text into <a href="http://venturebeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/beforeafter1.jpg">cascading patterns</a>, more circular (even vaguely <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=176654">poetic</a>) than the usual dull horizontal layout, <a href="http://www.readingonline.org/articles/art_index.asp?HREF=/articles/r_walker/">visual-syntactic text formatting</a> (VSTF) increases online reading comprehension and efficiency while reducing eyestrain. <em>Among high school students, who read with the format over an entire academic year, the VSTF method increased both academic achievement and long-term reading proficiency by more than a full standard deviation over randomized controls. </em><a href="http://liveink.winternet.com/cgi-bin/HtmlClipRead80.exe">Try it out.</a> <small><small>(Any login works)</small></small> tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.61134 Sun, 13 May 2007 23:03:33 -0800 layout liveink online readingcomprehension text visual gottabefunky