NCTE14 Stories in New Forms- Teaching Digital Literacies
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Storytelling is sacred to the English teacher. As print text migrates to more dynamic forms, technology offers myriad possibilities to tell and read stories. Consider how storytelling is becoming more connected, adaptable, flexible, and customized with electronic text and how that changes the teaching of literacy.
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NCTE14 Stories in New Forms- Teaching Digital Literacies
- 1. Charlene Chausis NCTE 2014 • Washington, DC http://www.flickr.com/photos/educationinindia/7703376790/ Stories in New Forms: Connected, Adaptable, Flexible, and Customized
- 2. http://goo.gl/hLsVRu Charlene Chausis Creativity & Innovation Specialist Aptakisic-Tripp CCSD 102 Buffalo Grove, IL cchausis@d102.org Let’s connect! @cchausis +CharleneChausis #futureofbooks
- 3. What do you want in a future book? Books of the future should be: -- connected -- adaptable -- flexible -- customized
- 4. Today: 1. Evolution of digital text: past, present & future trends? Formats and features. 2. Consuming/curating vs. creating digital text as eBooks 3. Collaborating with digital text 4. Challenges of digital vs. analog
- 5. Evolution
- 8. Summer 2010
- 9. 2011 Horizon Report Tuesday, February 8, 2011 Each year, the Horizon Report describes six areas of emerging technology that will have significant impact on higher education and creative expression over the next one to five years.
- 10. 2011 Horizon Report Predictions/Trends: Electronic books are a viable and easy alternative to printed ones. … writers are seeing it become something far richer…. http://www.educause.edu/Resources/2011HorizonReport/223122
- 11. Adaptable, Customized Analog vs. Digital Text ?
- 12. Trending 2011
- 13. Trending 2012 Source: Speak Up 2012 National Research Project Findings – the results of the authentic, unfiltered views of 364,240 K-12 students nationwide. Research findings from Project Tomorrow on digital learning at www.tomorrow.org.
- 14. Trending 2012 Source: Speak Up 2012 National Research Project Findings – the results of the authentic, unfiltered views of 364,240 K-12 students nationwide. Research findings from Project Tomorrow on digital learning at www.tomorrow.org.
- 15. Benefits of “e” devices? Personalized Learning!
- 16. Understanding “e” formats: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-book_formats
- 17. http://www.gutenberg.org 46K Public Domain Books!
- 18. We are on the verge of re-imagining the book and transforming it to something beyond mere words.… But mere text on a screen, the stuff that e-books are made of won’t be enough.
- 20. … moving from Consuming to Curating
- 21. Book Creator from Wikipedia: (How to Geek Guide)
- 22. Convert from webpages: http://dotepub.com
- 23. … moving from Consuming and Curating to Creating Yes, you (and your students) can create!
- 24. Digital texts as eBooks Yes, you (and your students) can create!
- 25. Why create? Authentic Audience ● Wider, varied, and authentic audiences increase student effort... ● Results Improve! Creativity ● Variety of writing formats encourages student creativity and self-expression
- 26. Why create? Collaboration ● Student collaboration increases as a final product ready for publishing evolves Motivation ● Increased motivation for reading and writing as students read one another’s writing ● Opportunity to augment writing with digital media such as images, video, audio, and more increases student engagement
- 27. It’s a Standard! “With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers.” Common Core State Standard: ELA-Literacy Writing K.6 -- 12.6
- 32. Create, read, share using a browser: http://edu.epubbud.com Connected!
- 33. Flexible! Storybird: Digital Storytelling Tool http://www.storybird.com/educators/
- 34. Creating eBooks on iPad Scribble press (Free) Book creation platform that allows kids to imagine, create and share their own stories with great drawing and writing tools http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/scribble-press/ id487300076?mt=8 Book Creator $4.99 Ideal for children’s picture books, photo books, art books, cook books, manuals, textbooks, http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/book-creator- for-ipad/id442378070?mt=8 My Story - Bookmaker for kids $1.99 Add images to your story by drawing, using the camera or from your camera roll. Add text and record your voice. Books can be shared by e-mail or sent to iBooks http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/my-story- book-maker-for-kids/ id449232368?mt=8 Creative Book Builder $3.99 Create ePub files that contain images, text, and recordings. Syncs with Google Docs -- great for collaborative storytelling http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/creative-book- builder/id451041428?mt=8 DemiBooks Composer Free iPad-based authoring software for creating interactive books http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/demiboo ks-composer/id462838680?mt=8 Tutorial: http://youtu.be/qYuCwOCK1Js
- 35. Creating eBooks on iPad Storyrobe $.99 Storyrobe is an innovative tool for creative self expression with the digital media that matters most - your own. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/storyro be/id337670615 BookWriter $3.99 Book Writer will help you produce various kinds of books, such as photo books, video books, art books, fairy tales, cook books, PR books, manuals or PDF documents. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/book-writer- ebook-pdf-creator/id481160195 Maxjournal Free A simple and elegant way to make a daily diary or journal, with extensive photo scrapbooking features. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/maxjou rnal/id364907090?mt=8
- 36. Convert from other documents: http://www.2epub.com
- 39. Customized Collaborating with digital text? … there’s an app for that!
- 40. * Connected!
- 41. * Connected!
- 47. Customized! www.subtext.com * Free App ● Highlighting ○ “Tagging/categorizing” ● Discussions & Quizzes ● Link to research ● Embedded videos ● Works with Edmodo Premium Features ● Track student progress ● Text to speech ● Teachers+ ● Assignment templates ○ CCSS Alignment
- 48. Storybird: Digital Storytelling Tool Connected! http://www.storybird.com/educators/
- 49. Connected Adaptable Flexible Customized
- 50. Books as Apps
- 51. Challenges ?
- 52. While their findings are suggestive, they are preliminary and based on small samples of students.
- 60. http://goo.gl/hLsVRu Charlene Chausis Creativity & Innovation Specialist Aptakisic-Tripp CCSD 102 Buffalo Grove, IL cchausis@d102.org Let’s connect! @cchausis +CharleneChausis #futureofbooks