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From Knowledgable to Knowledge-able: Learning in New Media Environments Posted January 7th, 2009 by Michael Wesch , Kansas State University Tags: * Essays * Teaching and Technology * anthropology * Assessment * information revolution * multimedia * participatory learning * Web 2.0 0 Comments | 2209 Page Views Knowledge-able Most university classrooms have gone through a massive transformation in the past ten years. I'm not talking about the numerous initiatives for multiple plasma screens, moveable chairs, round tables, or digital whiteboards. The change is visually more subtle, yet potentially much more transformative.

To use this site you paste in text and it will show it to you one word at a time in a teleprompter style. The intent is to help people become speed readers I see this as a great Assistive Technology tool because you can increase or decrease the rate at which the words appear on your screen as well as change colors.