hoadworks inc. - Adrian Hoad-Reddick Bio

Adrian Hoad-Reddick is a teacher, poet, radio host, wordsmith, idea farmer and CEO of Hoadworks, inc., a new media company championing creativity and literacy by providing innovative educational content, resources and games. Adrian has over twenty years of English language and literature teaching experience; he never grows any less inspired by the closing lines of The Great Gatsby, or the opening lines of Watership Down. Adrian works tirelessly to inspire young writers. At the centre of these efforts is a belief in making it real and making it fun. Adrian has served on several writers festivals, bringing writers and readers (and future writers) together. His most rewarding teaching moments come in a radio studio, working with his students in producing live radio, or in classroom collaborations creating Digital Reader's Guides to works by visiting Writers in Residence. Adrian's iPod is filled with speeches, radio ads and stories by his current and former students.

Adrian is a word puzzle fan and computer enthusiast. His word puzzles have appeared in Games Magazine, Games' World of Puzzles, Reader's Digest, Health Quarterly and What If? magazine. His most popular crossword puzzles feature Kenneth Oppel's Airborn series, many of the Harry Potter titles, and The Great Gatsby.

Adrian's Vocabaret (formerly Wordly-Wise) listserver delivers wordplay to thousands of subscribers. Adrian will soon publish an anthology of his best word games for use in high school English language classes (stay tuned!). Adrian has developed computer games, including Cobble: Solitaire for Word Lovers (in beta mode on Facebook and in development for mobile devices) and the animated head-to-head trivia game The Brainslider.

His Bookhooks.com website allows active readers to publish illustrated book reviews online. Bookhooks exceeded a milestone of 25,000 published reports in December 2011.

Corel READ During a sabbatical year, Adrian served as Director of Instructional Design at Toronto-based Hoffmann + associates, inc where he led the development of the adult literacy CD-ROM, Corel R.E.A.D. Adrian also contributed writing and educational game design for H+a's kids' titles Nikolai's Pharoahs and Nikolai in the Time of the Egyptians and created the children's and educational websites while teaching adult classes in The Elements of Web Style.

Adrian lives in Elora, Ontario with his wife, Susan, and two children, Kate and Matthew.

And look, he did excellent work on April 26!

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