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 […]
Tag: Digital Text
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 […]