Come and take a journey with Go-Joe, the animated internet
elephant that likes to travel. Using daily reading minutes
for his food, Go-Joe relies on students to feed his journey.
Students help Go-Joe circle the globe by using an internet
technology that allows them to enter their daily reading
minutes without the aid of a teacher. Whether entered from
home, or from school, the minutes entered by students instantly changes Go-Joe’s
location and dynamically alters the pictures, pages, and scores
in the website. With a click of a button, children can compare
how their efforts and the efforts of others have helped Joe
circumnavigate the world while working towards a district
reading goal.
The Go-Joe Reader Program is an interactive web-based technology that promotes
elementary school reading. Using a powerful internet server, the program
instantly tabulates the daily reading minutes of every student in a district (up to 40,000
students) and uses the data to fuel an imaginary journey that's been undertaken
by an animated elephant
named Joe. By entering daily reading minutes, students cooperate in the unified
goal of helping the
little pachyderm circumnavigate the world.
The Go-Joe Reader Program provides schools with an opportunity to set a district reading goal that
is measurable. Whether the reading minutes are entered
from
home or at school, students can instantly see how their efforts dynamically change the
pictures, maps, and scores within the pages of the website. Children become part of
Joe's journey as they watch their reading minutes propel him around the world.
The Go-Joe Reader Program is designed to fit the exact needs of any school
building or district. Whether there is one elementary building,
or up to eight, the program automatically adjusts itself to the exact number of
grades, classrooms, teachers, and students within each building. All necessary
mathematical computations are completed automatically based on each district's
unique information. Using this data, the program calculates the number of
minutes students need to read in order to advance Joe one mile. |
