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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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Charlene Chausis
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Stories in
New Forms:
Connected,
Adaptable,
Flexible, and
Customized
Charlene ChausisCreativity & Innovation Specialist
Aptakisic-Tripp CCSD 102
Buffalo Grove, IL
Let’s connect! @cchausis+CharleneChausis
#futureofbooks
http://goo.gl/hLsVRu
Books of the future should be:
-- connected -- adaptable -- flexible -- customized
What do you want in a future book?
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
Evolution
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkhpmEZWuRQ
2009
Summer 2010
2011 Horizon Report
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.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
http://www.educause.edu/Resources/2011HorizonReport/223122
2011 Horizon Report
Predictions/Trends:
Electronic books are a viable and easy
alternative to printed ones. … writers are
seeing it become something far richer….
Analog vs. Digital Text ?
Adaptable, Customized
Trending 2011
Trending
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.
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.
Trending 2012
Benefits of “e” devices?
Personalized Learning!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-book_formats
Understanding
“e” formats:
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.
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/student-discovery-sets/
… moving from
Consuming
to
Curating
Book Creator from Wikipedia:
(How to Geek Guide)
… moving from
Consuming and
Curating to Creating
Yes, you
(and your students)
can create!
Digital texts as eBooks
Yes, you (and your students)
can create!
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
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
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
http://mrsmithtrt.weebly.com/class-ebooks.html
Connected!
21,000
http://nanowrimo.org/Connected!
http://www.storybird.com/educators/
Flexible! Storybird: Digital Storytelling Tool
Creating eBooks
on iPadScribble 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
Creating eBooks
on iPadStoryrobe
$.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
Collaborating with
digital text?
… there’s an app for that!
Customized
*
Connected!
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Connected!
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Connected! https://www.renaissance.com/products/subtext
*
https://www.renaissance.com/products/subtextConnected!
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https://www.renaissance.com/products/subtextConnected!
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Connected! https://www.renaissance.com/products/subtext
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www.subtext.comCustomized!
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
Storybird: Digital Storytelling Tool
http://www.storybird.com/educators/
Connected!
Adaptable
Connected
Flexible
Customized
Books as Apps
Challenges ?
While their findings are
suggestive, they are
preliminary and based
on small samples of
students.
Charlene ChausisCreativity & Innovation Specialist
Aptakisic-Tripp CCSD 102
Buffalo Grove, IL
Let’s connect! @cchausis+CharleneChausis
#futureofbooks
http://goo.gl/hLsVRu
