On 07/05/2011,
in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, digital learning, digital textbooks, United States,
by Daniel Christian
On 07/05/2011,
in digital audio, digital learning, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, media/film, mobile learning, mobile technologies, multi-touch, multimedia, story, storytelling, transmedia,
by Daniel Christian
Storytelling gets an upgrade: Beyond tactile stories — from digitalbookworld.com by J.C. Hutchins, novelist and transmedia storyteller
Excerpt:
Over the course of my two previous pieces on storytelling upgrades, I showed how tactile and kinetic features native to the iPad can be linked to traditional narrative devices, such as foreshadowing. However, where it gets really exciting is how the device can unlock a deeply interactive and immersive environment in which the “reader” is an integral part of a nonlinear story—all narrative features that cannot be rendered in print.
Up to now, I had been focusing on the tactile and kinetic, but there are dozens of ways exist to leverage the iPad’s other built-in features, including…
Also see:
StoryWorld Conference + Expo is a timely event for:
- Transmedia content developers
- Book publishing professionals
- Television development and acquisition professionals
- Film professionals
- Advertising agencies and multi-media marketing firms
- Game developers (including web, video, roleplaying and alternate reality games)
- Mobile developers
- Production companies
- Literary and entertainment agencies
- Writers and content creators
- Media consultants
- Any firm or professional in the business of producing cross-platform content
On 06/01/2011,
in A/V -- audio/visual, convergence, design, digital audio, digital learning, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, e-books, e-readers, education technology, emerging technologies, Europe, future, interaction design, interactivity, interface design, learning ecosystem, mobile learning, mobile technologies, technologies for your home, technology (general), television, transmedia, trends, usability, user experience (UX), user interface design,
by Daniel Christian
Multiscreen Patterns — from Precious-Forever.com by Christophe Stolle
Patterns to help understand and define strategies for the multiscreen world.
On 05/24/2011,
in 21st century, change, changing business models, digital learning, digital textbooks, disruption, e-books, e-readers, new business models, publishing, textbooks,
by Daniel Christian
Would you like a $49 electronic college textbook with lifetime updates? — from crunchgear.com by Scott Merrill
From DSC:
I was just talking about this idea earlier today at lunch. Why can’t a textbook be like/look like/act like/and be distributed more along the lines of an app from an online app store than a static, physical textbook? Why can’t someone purchase a lifetime stream of updates? Or at least an annual agreement for such a stream of updates for the next 12 months? Alternatively, perhaps after purchasing the original book, a person could opt in for an upgrade at some point (much life software)?
Also see:
- A digital textbook that is better than the physical book — from Education Stormfront
On 05/24/2011,
in 21st century, A/V -- audio/visual, digital learning, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, interaction design, interactivity, UK,
by Daniel Christian
oki-ni presents THE GAME — from oko-ni.com
Excerpt:
At oki-ni we make the everyday extraordinary. That’s why, when it came to creating our latest video, we wanted to do something truly remarkable. What we came up with is this, an interactive and fully-shoppable video.
On 05/17/2011,
in 21st century, adjunct faculty, Augmented Reality (AR), Daniel S. Christian, digital learning, digital textbooks, education technology, emerging technologies, faculty, innovation, instructional design, learning ecosystem, learning theories, metacognition / metacognitive skills, new business models, publishing, social learning / networks, student-related, tablets, teachers, teaching & learning, textbooks, using teams, vision/possibilities,
by Daniel Christian
[Concept] The new “textbook”: A multi-layered approach — from Daniel S. Christian
I’ve been thinking recently about new approaches to relaying — and engaging with — content in a “textbook”.
For a physical textbook
When opening up a physical textbook to a particular page, QR-like codes would be printed on the physical pages of the textbook. With the advent of augmented reality, such a mechanism would open up some new possibilities to interact with content for that page. For example, some overall characteristics about this new, layered approach:
- Augmented reality could reveal multiple layers of information:
- From the author/subject matter expert as well as the publisher’s instructional design team
- Main points highlighted
- Pointers that may help with metacognition, such as potential mnemonics that might be helpful in moving something into long-term memory
- Studying strategies
- A layer that the professor or teacher could edit
- Main points highlighted
- Pointers that may help with metacognition, such as potential mnemonics that might be helpful in moving something into long-term memory
- Studying strategies
- A layer for the students to comment on/annotate that page
- A layer for other students’ comments
- From the author/subject matter expert as well as the publisher’s instructional design team
For an electronic-based textbook
- The interface would allow for such layers to be visible or not — much like Google’s Body Browser application
- For example, in this graphic, comments from the SME and/or ID are highlighted on top of the normal text:
Advantages of this concept/model:
- Ties physical into virtual world
- We could economically update information (i.e. opens up streams of content)
- Integrates social learning
- Allows SMEs, IDs, faculty members to further comment/add to content as new information becomes available
- Instructors could highlight the key points they want to stress
- Many of the layers could offer items that might help with students’ meta-cognitive processes (i.e. to help them learn the content and move the content into long-term memory)
- One could envision the textbook being converted into something more akin to an app in an online-based store — with notifications of updates that could be constantly pushed out
Addendum (5/26):
- Mobile Augmented Reality: Creating 21st Century Classroom Resources — from k12mobilelearning.com by Johnny Kisso
On 05/11/2011,
in digital learning, digital textbooks, e-books, e-readers, publishing, tablets, textbooks,
by Daniel Christian
6 companies aiming to digitize the textbook industry — from Mashable.com by Sarah Kessler
On 05/10/2011,
in change, colleges, community colleges, digital textbooks, disruption, e-books, e-readers, future, higher education, new business models, organizational change, publishing, reinvent, tablets, universities,
by Daniel Christian
Stepping up to the Genius Bar — from CampusTechnology.com by John Waters
As they reconsider their role on campus, college bookstores take inspiration from the Apple Store.
Excerpt:
“The advent of this technology isn’t going to eliminate the need for college bookstores,” insists Isabella Hinds, director of digital strategies and products for Follett Higher Education Group. “It’s disruptive–or it will be, eventually–but the role of the bookstore is already evolving. The college bookstore of the future is likely to be a very different environment. The digital textbook is going to be one of a range of course-material offerings…delivered on a variety of devices. As these options proliferate, the expertise of the bookstore personnel will be much more important. They will become trusted advisers who can talk knowledgeably about the strengths and weaknesses of increasingly sophisticated and complex products.”
In other words, the college bookstore of the future is going to look a lot like an Apple Store.
On 05/06/2011,
in 21st century, digital audio, digital learning, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, interactivity, mobile learning, publishing, transmedia, trends,
by Daniel Christian
Bertelsmann acquires digital media agency Smashing Ideas for Random House, Inc. — from Smashing Ideas (emphasis DSC)
(New York, May 4, 2011)—Bertelsmann AG has acquired cutting-edge digital media agency Smashing Ideas, Inc. for its Random House, Inc. division, the world’s largest English-language trade book publisher. The purchase was announced today by Markus Dohle, Chairman and CEO of Random House and Member of the Executive Board of Bertelsmann AG, and Stephen Jackson, President and CEO of Smashing Ideas, Inc.
The acquisition adds significantly to the set of Random House capabilities and further signals the intention of Random House and its parent company to be leaders in digital content creation, and demonstrates their commitment to expanding revenues from mobile and interactive online products and services.
On 05/04/2011,
in 21st century, 3D, A/V -- audio/visual, digital learning, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, e-books, e-readers, future, human-computer interaction (HCI), innovation, interaction design, interactivity, journalism, multi-touch, multimedia, user experience (UX), user interface design, visualizing information,
by Daniel Christian
Mike Matas: A next-generation digital book (filmed March 2011)
About this talk
Software developer Mike Matas demos the first full-length interactive book for the iPad — with clever, swipeable video and graphics and some very cool data visualizations to play with. The book is “Our Choice,” Al Gore’s sequel to “An Inconvenient Truth.”
About Mike Matas
While at Apple, Mike Matas helped write the user interface for the iPhone and iPad. Now with Push Pop Press, he’s helping to rewrite the electronic book.
On 04/21/2011,
in design, digital learning, digital photography, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, graphics, online media, photography,
by Daniel Christian
40 free premium stock images to spice up your education blog — from EduDemic
From DSC:
I also like istockphoto.com — very reasonable for pricing. I’ve heard Blue Vertigo is a good place to start as well.
Some other ones I used to keep track of — several of which are NOT free — as well as some potentially interesting/helpful sites to you — are:
- PicLits.com
- http://visualsymbols.com/Dispatch.pl?do=display_page&page=about_how.tmpl
- http://www.gograph.com/
- http://www.shutterstock.com
- http://www.graphics-free.com/index.html
- http://www.fotosearch.com
- http://creative.gettyimages.com/source/home/home.aspx
- http://www.digitalvisiononline.com/
- http://www.indexstock.com/ <– http://www.photolibrary.com/
- http://picturequest.com/
- http://www.photonica.com/
- http://www.eyewire.com/
- http://images.com/
- http://corbis.com/
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