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Timeline. Jason ohler : Digital Storytelling - DAOW of storytelling. The DAOW of literacy in a storytelling environment Digital, Art, Oral and Written literacies- the DAOW of literacy - are crucial for personal, academic and workplace success in the Digital Age and blend very well in a digital storytelling environment.

jason ohler : Digital Storytelling - DAOW of storytelling

In my digital storytelling workshops we address how oral and written storytelling, as well as storytelling using digital and art skills, are involved in the creation of digital stories, and how all these literacies and forms of storytelling can reinforce each other. This improves literacy and expression in all areas. Why is oral storytelling important in digital storytelling? How to Create and Market a Children’s Book App – Presentation Highlights.

This past weekend I travelled to San Francisco to speak with a group of workshop participants attending Karen Robertson’s training on “How to Create & Market a Children’s Book App“.

How to Create and Market a Children’s Book App – Presentation Highlights

Karen is the author of several great resources on making and marketing book apps for kids, including an online course called “book app academy“. Karen created the Treasure Kai picture book apps and was very inspirational by sharing wisdom from her own sharp learning curve as well as a nice roadmap for new content creators in this very young industry. I highly recommend her two ebooks for anyone considering self-publishing a children’s book app: Author’s Guide to Book Apps and How to Market a Book App. Best Practices for Designing iPad Apps for kids - Eggplant Digital.

A recent project for one of our clients required us to design and develop an iPad App aimed at kids from the ages 5 to 12 years old.

Best Practices for Designing iPad Apps for kids - Eggplant Digital

This has been an interesting project, as we needed to consider the differences between how a child a uses an iPad compared to an adult or even a teenager. During the initial stages of the project we researched into the best practices of designing an iPad for kids, below are some of the more important things we discovered. From our research on the Web, we find that younger children, who have less experience with the Web, tend to read instructions more than children who are older.Although many usability guidelines are the same as 9 years ago, we did find one major change since the first study: children today are much more experienced in using computers and the Internet.

As a result, they’re not as subject to many of the prevalent, beginning-user problems we found in our first study. GUI’s not for kids -Â. Things That Matter home page. Measure the Readability of Text! - Improve your writing and your website marketing with Readability-Score.com. Go Premium for unlimited use of our text scoring tools! Score History Please Note: Revisions are stored temporarily - they will disappear when you leave the page. Jump–start Synonyms, Jump–start Antonyms. Shibboleth Authentication Request. Young Children’s Engagement With E-Books at School. Shibboleth Authentication Request. Shibboleth Authentication Request. Affordances Model: A Decision System for Innovation. By Debborah Smith, Jeffrey Brand & Shelley Kinash Great educators are natural innovators because they routinely look for inspirational ways to engage and reach their students.

Affordances Model: A Decision System for Innovation

Unfortunately, innovation is often understood mainly in terms of technology – especially hardware. Goldilocks and Little Bear. “What’s really innovative about this app — compared both to previous apps in the series and to other children’s apps I’ve seen — is the way it relates the two interconnected stories in tandem.

Goldilocks and Little Bear

Hold the device one way for a scene in Goldilocks’s tale, then flip it upside down for a complementary scene in Little Bear’s. The stories converge when Goldilocks and Little Bear, fleeing one another’s parents, run smack into each other and strike up a friendship… Another winner.” – The Horn Book. Digital Literacies. WILD ABOUT BOOKS by Judy Sierra , Marc Brown , Random House Digital. Multi Platform Storytelling : Transmedia Storytelling Resources. What is Transmedia Storytelling?

Multi Platform Storytelling : Transmedia Storytelling Resources

Here's what a few of the experts say: Transmedia immerses an audience in a story's universe through a number of dispersed entry points, providing a comprehensive and coordinated experience of a complex story. " - Henry Jenkins, author of Convergence Culture & Spreadable Media Transmedia storytelling is "the process of conveying messages, themes or story lines to a mass audience through the artful and well planned use of multiple media platforms.

It is a philosophy of communications and brand extention that broadens the life cycle of creative content. " -Jeff Gomez, Starlight Runner Entertainment. Transmedia stories and games explained - Dr Christy Dena - ABC Splash - One of the areas I work in is ‘transmedia’ or ‘cross-media’ writing and design.

Transmedia stories and games explained - Dr Christy Dena - ABC Splash -

I work in the area as a practitioner, and also as an educator for industry professionals and undergraduate students. Transmedia or cross-media fundamentally refers to projects that span more than one medium; for example, a book and computer. I work in creating transmedia stories and games, and so also teach students about making their own. Over my two articles for ABC Splash, I share some of the approaches I use when giving students the opportunity to make their own transmedia stories and games. Taking Time… Printed books all share identical physical traits–pages, a cover, and heft (that is, tangible matter).

Taking Time…

Although content varied, the definition of a book was never queried. The days of simple definitions are gone. Now we discuss narrative non-linear platforms or multimedia interactive hypertexts, and e-books, eBooks, or are they E-Books? I know the easy answer is: it doesn’t matter. Ebooks%20and%20Elending%20Issues%20Paper%20FINAL. Taking Time… 6 types of digital affordance that impact your UX. Affordance is a term originally coined by a psychologist, J.J.

6 types of digital affordance that impact your UX

Gibson, in the 1970s. He defined it as the relationship between an environment and an actor. Today, affordance extends beyond behavioral or cognitive psychology and into the design of digital interfaces. Understanding affordance will allow you to better understand product and interfaces design, in turn, making you a much better designer.

What is affordance? English Foundation to Year 10 Curriculum by rows - The Australian Curriculum v8.1. E-Books vs. Print: What Parents Need to Know. When Maggie Moore, a suburban Denver mom, was literally weighing her packing options for a family trip, she was stumped by her 4-year-old son’s stack of favorite books.

E-Books vs. Print: What Parents Need to Know

He had dozens, and she knew they’d be too heavy to take along. But they would be away for a few weeks — how could she bring only a few? 5 Strategies for Increasing Children's eBook Sales - Vearsa. There has been one consistent message from market data over the past few months and that is the steady growth in children’s books, both print and digital (Nielsen’s BookInsights: UK Publishers Sold £2.2 Billion in 2014).

Here at Vearsa we have seen some publishers make great strides in the area of Children’s eBooks with sales in this segment carrying them into overall growth as a business. As a publisher, it would be good to ensure you are getting as much of this marketplace pie as possible. So here are some easy strategies for optimizing sales in this growing genre based on what we have seen from our view of the market. 1) Get on the Shelf Sometimes simplicity can be the key to success, and the simplest instruction for getting a sale is to make sure your product is where the potential customer can find it. 6 types of digital affordance that impact your UX.

Archiving play with a town. As I mentioned in my previous post, I have been commissioned by the Creative Recovery Network to create a locative game with a regional town in Queensland. It involves a location-based experience that is very low-fi, along with archiving stories of the town. To get the link between the past and the present and the need to ground players in the space, I decided to explore archiving play: how people have played in the home, school, streets, and paddocks over the generations.The design is heavily inspired by Hide & Seek’s ace Tiny Games.

I think when I mention I’m archiving play, people assume that I’ll be archiving how people play right now with video recordings. Developing digital literacies in the curriculum. This resource set is for: teachers and other professionals involved in curriculum design Students develop digital capabilities and confidence mainly in the context of their courses of study. They are more likely to adopt digital practices that are clearly relevant to the course they have chosen and the life chances that interest them. Digital literacies. The 12 institutional projects and 10 professional associations involved worked across a range of stakeholder groups: students, academic staff, teachers, researchers, librarians, administrators, technical staff, support staff and senior managers. The knowledge and resources from the programme have been shared progressively. The digital literacies programme built on a background of Jisc-funded work into learner literacies and strategic approaches to their development and support.

This work can be explored through the digital literacies page on the UK web archive. The projects which were part of the programme included those run by universities, colleges, and professional associations, and are listed on the archived page. Multi Platform Storytelling : Transmedia Storytelling Resources.