After two and a half years work by a dedicated team, the Zane Education website has become a reality.

What was originally the contents of 240 K-12 CD-ROM’s published by one of the leading and most established educational software publishers (Zane Publishing Inc), has now been converted into a format which enables it to be delivered and used online.

For those of us involved in the work, it has been a long process that at times has tested our resolve, but the end result is that we are now able to provide students, schools and homeschoolers with arguably the largest catalogue of online educational videos specifically developed for the K-12 education market.

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With nearly a thousand online videos on Zane Education, it can get a little daunting to know just where to begin. Our collection not only cover 11 subjects including Art, Music, Literature, Science and History but contained in those are 240 topics!

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Many people believe that gifted learners can learn in any environment and that they have no special needs, but Zane Education does not believe that this is the case.

Students who have intellectual, creative, leadership, or physical gifts need to be in settings at least part of the time where they can be challenged by their peers and can have opportunities to develop their capacities even further. In fact even in the classroom, where all students will learn and absorb information at different speeds, there are those students that will grasp the information faster than others, and many argue that if those students are restrained in their learning processes by those students that are not able to understand or comprehend as quickly, they are actually being held back from reaching their full potential.

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Often traditional learning and teaching methods and materials do not accommodate the requirements of special needs students. Having the ability to learn at their own speed and independent of the learning speeds of other students is essential if a special needs student is to be helped to reach their full potential.

And this is where having access to our online K-12 curriculum videos can really help to provide those students with special needs, with a very real and tangible learning solution.

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Zane Education has chosen to provide a Tutors Database on this website for primarily two reasons.

Firstly as a service to those parents whose children require additional private tuition and homeschool families that consider that their homeschooling efforts might benefit from the services of a tutor. This is a free service that simply requires the user to register first so as to avoid abuse of the service.

Secondly we provide the Tutors Database as a facility for Tutors to advertise their services to prospective families, students and schools that might requires their professional services. Again this is a free service, but registration is required to enable access to the database.

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Irrespective of the method of homeschooling you feel best meets your needs, and regardless of your motivations for homeschooling, one of the most important considerations must surely be the format that is used to provide the relevant material to the student.

While books and written material surely have their place and their benefits, it is important to provide that material in a format that is firstly going to capture and maintain their attention – and hopefully make the learning process fun, and secondly providing that material in a manner that enables the individual student to learn and absorb the information at their own pace, thereby enabling that student to reach their greatest potential.

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Subscribers and students using our online K-12 educational video’s, each enjoy the additional academic benefit of being able to improve their reading literacy while learning the subject of their choice.

Each of our videos is deliberately subtitled so as to provide each student with the option of either listening to the video soundtrack, reading the subtitles, or listening to the soundtrack while at the same time reading the presentation using the subtitling.

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Research work being carried out by the Availll Institute represents a significant discovery and offers a long sought after solution in reading improvement for students.

Data results that have been generated by university based research indicate a direct link between significant improvements in students reading abilities and literacy skills and the use of subtitled videos and movies. In fact in a 2008 email, Warwick Elley, a world leader in reading education, observed that Avail is onto something significant.

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