Creative writing is the main motivation of this digital storytelling project. Throughout the curriculum students are required to write a narratives, examining different literature to understand the creative writing features. Teaching and learning narratives requires examining and unpacking their features, exploring descriptive language, sizzling starts, character development, and so on. At times, students can be […]
Category: INF533 – Literature in the Digital Environment
Part B: Digital Story
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Part C: Critical Reflection
This process was both enjoyable and a great learning opportunity. Growing up I loved reading Choose Your Own Adventure (CYOA) books which is probably why I indulged in some nostalgia for this digital storytelling project. There have been many reimagined versions of this style of writing, across genres aimed at different ages, over the years […]
Assessment 3: Digital Storytelling Topic Proposal
Proposed Topic: The topic for the project will be a creative writing task to support an integrated Year 7 and/or 8 Humanities unit. Students will examine literature from a variety of different genres, for example Dreamtime, folklore, mystery to explore imaginative processes of writing to engage the reader. This unit will unpack the stylistic features […]
“Why can’t we read anymore?” a reflective response.
This article was published in 2015, and read like a conversation to oneself. Hugh Maguire made some very valid points about the affect the digital world has on our brain and how distracted from books people have (potentially) become. Maguire refers to the dopamine response we received with the refresh button on email, the scrolling […]
Part B: Critical Reflection of Digital Literature Experience
Teacher librarians (TL) have many jobs within their school. To support curriculum, promote reading, often tech savvy and are innovative, to name a few attributes. As a part of their role in a school, that assist in supporting the curriculum by sharing great resources to enhance teaching and learning, also finding the next great book […]
Review #1: The Boat – an interactive graphic novel
(Huynh, The Boat, 2015) Literature in a digital environment can be both enriching and supportive of teaching and learning. However, in the plethora of options can be difficult to find the right one fit for purpose. When selecting digital, or multimodal, literature consideration that will maximise reader engagement creating synergy between test and technology, rather […]
Review # 2: 3:15 Things That Go Bump In the Night
(SkeletonCreekNews, 2011) Transmedia storytelling a concept raised by Lamb & Johnson (2010, p 77), noting that teens of this Digital Age easily move between devices and communication platforms. This equates to reading books, exploring fan-fic websites, videogames to the follow up movie, TicTok and any variant thereof. Transmedia is described by its cross technology platforms […]
Review #3: Muscle System Pro III App
Transmedia text goes beyond fiction narratives. Application for tablets are becoming more relevant to education and support teaching and learning beyond fiction. Muscle System Pro III (MSP3) is an example of an interactive text that supports biomechanics teaching and learning as well as self-motivated study. Zammit (2016, p8) lead a study into students responding to […]
Digital Transition
I think I am in a digital transition. While I am open to providing innovative and creative ways to engage students with literature for my own reading pleasure my preferences are not that of an ebook. In all honesty I love an audio book just as much a physical book. I think that comes from […]