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if:book chris meade CPD DayAylesbury 2010www.futureofthebook.org.uk
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CPD> How is reading changing in a digital world?
> How can digital technology boost the appeal of reading for reluctant readers?
> How can we make the most of the digital technology we have in school to work creatively in English?
> What free packages and software are out there for us to use?
> What is the future for reading and writing?
1 improved engagement with reading and responding for pupils in KS3 and 4
2 improved curriculum variety and relevance, linking ICT and English
3 improved reading standards for identified pupils as judged through APP
“if all the sky was paper and all the sea was ink”
• A think and do tank exploring the future of the book as our culture moves from printed page to networked screen
…and the potential of new media
for creative readers and writers
‘a life in books’ (but tv film music too)
bookshopslibraries poetry societybooktrust…
Community Arts > Write Back >Imagination Services >Reader Development > Poetry Society >Poetry Places > Booktrust > Bookstart > Everybody Writes… Creative Writing & New Media
solves problems:
access for all
means to publish and distribute new voices
text and performance together
Creative Reading for Real
booklovers in denialbooks have already beensent up to bed
we’re alltransliterate now…
BUT are schoolsteachingTransliterature?
Reading on Screen…
Literature isn’t made of paper
Books are an experience that happen in our heads,
The object a souvenir of our visit
A platform that suits a certain kind of content
why have we all spent so much time
promoting the page when it’s WORDS we love
?
the iPad moment
literature on the mainstage
in the places where people are looking
digital expectations
• to read and write• to click through for more• to collaborate with others• to mix media• to reply
• to replay
what is a book?
a constantly changing form - from papyrus to codex to paperback to kindle to macbookand beyond
a bounded entity a conversation…
a container of culturea symbol of freedom
Let’s make new kinds -
networked > curated > Illuminated…
what is a ‘whole book’?
imagination & digitisation “Blake was always using new technologies, often abusing technologies, not for the sake of an interest in the technology per se, but what he could use it for. He believed that, rather like learning a language… if you speak a different language maybe you ask different questions. And the language of the digital age is one that Blake would have pursued.”
- Tim Heath, Blake Society
HOTBOOK moment
Found
How to be Twelve
an anthology set in
an immersive fiction
inspiring response
40 litch bits
classic texts illuminated
contemporary writing animated
future writing imagined
6 weeks
years 8/9
www.hotbook.ning.com
HOTBOOK
words in
new formats
to be
seen afresh
difficulty enjoyed
the research
96% of ‘lower ability’ students found it more interesting than standard approaches
86% of all students recommended it to other schools
Strong impact on Personal, Learning and Thinking Skills
“The normal way we read can be boring.However this was interactive and made my learning enjoyable.”
but… not just a cunning trick
to con non-readers
into looking at books
Helping teachers to‘get it’
training
technical skills
finding the tools
developing the
digital imagination
www.insearchoflosttim.net
In Search of Lost Tim
A magical, musical, graphical, digital fiction
what is a book?
A collection of words
An intellectual and emotional experience
A curated conversation
A souvenir of that experience
Something we value at about… £12?
fictionalstimulus
book groups turned books into experiences that take a month and end in a meal
www.fictional-stimulus.ning.com a digital reading experience
www.fictional-stimulus.ning.com
creative reading and writingcollaborations
fan fictionOne Million Penguins24 hour book gameswww.sixtostart.comwww.thewinterhouse.co.ukmultimedia multiplatforminanimatealice.net wetellstories.co.uk
www.theliteraryplatform.com
the amplified author
Writing for… blog, twitter, app, performance..
print (on demand?)
Needs access to:
Editing
Criticism
Marketing
Design
New media
Distribution
Curation
…And needs income
from somewhere
join the unlibrary
imagination service for the writer/readers of transliterature
new skills needed in unlibrarianship
unlibrarianship
‘hand selling’
‘boutique’ libraries and bookshops
recommending across media
up to speed on tech and culture
curatorial skills…
‘human google’
Imagination Services more searching searches
www.futureofthebook.org.uk
www.hotbook.ning.comwww.futureofthebook.org.uk
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