An educational professional, especially a teacher librarian, has a unique set of responsibilities in digital environments – first, to lead through informed evaluation, judicious selection, and provision of access to learning resources. To add to that, they must then findRead more…
Assignment 2 Part A – Context
I am beyond thrilled to share my first completed piece of digital literature – click here to access Library Time. For something as simple as it may appear, it has taken a surprisingly long time to conceptualise, create, analyse, and improveRead more…
Module 5.2 – Part 4: The Redefinition Stage
Using Puentedura’s (2011) SAMR (Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, Redefinition) framework as a guide, let me take you on a four-part journey through my adventures in digital storytelling over the last fifteen years. I am most definitely hitting the Redefinition stage nowRead more…
Module 5.2 – Part 3: The Modification Stage
Using Puentedura’s (2011) SAMR (Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, Redefinition) framework as a guide, let me take you on a four-part journey through my adventures in digital storytelling over the last fifteen years. In 2012, I commenced work with a group ofRead more…
Module 5.2 – Part 2: The Augmentation Stage
Using Puentedura’s (2011) SAMR (Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, Redefinition) framework as a guide, let me take you on a four-part journey through my adventures in digital storytelling over the last fifteen years. In 2015 and 2016, I set up an activityRead more…
Module 5.2 – Part One: The Substitution Stage
Using Puentedura’s (2011) SAMR (Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, Redefinition) framework as a guide, let me take you on a four-part journey through my adventures in digital storytelling over the last fifteen years. At the first school I taught in, every studentRead more…
DSP Tools – Reflections from Module 4.2
Why incorporate digital texts and storytelling into your programs? As Bjorgen (2010) mentions, the most important ‘why’ for incorporating digital texts and DSP into programs at a primary level is the potential for boundary crossing. The transference of cultural codesRead more…
Digital Storytelling – Reflections from Module 4.1
What questions (or answers) have formed in your mind in relation to digital storytelling? The concept of digital storytelling appearing to be promoted as an entity that is non-linear (Handler Miller, 2020) was problematic to me at first. I wonderedRead more…
Bridging The Gap: Digital Literature vs Print Media
A decade ago, the research was dominated by papers demonstrating that students (generally in higher education) did not retain as much information from reading digital non-fiction as they did print. Is the broadening of research in this field to examineRead more…
Review: Where In Space Is Carmen Sandiego?
Produced by Broderbund Software Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away, lived a villain named Carmen Sandiego. Her mission? To steal the rings of Saturn. Or will it be the moons of Jupiter? Or the Moon’s craters?Read more…
Digital Storytelling Proposal (Assessment 1 Part B)
Purposeful makerspace access is becoming increasingly important in the upper primary years (Resnick, 2017). However, there are many OHS issues and emerging sustainability concerns that must be addressed before students can have (supervised) access to more than just loose parts,Read more…
Review of ‘Arthur’s Teacher Trouble’
Written by Marc Brown, published by Little, Brown Books for Younger Readers, digitally produced by Living Books Back in 1992, Living Books (a subsidiary of Broderbund Software) released its first interactive text based on a paper-based book. Straight off theRead more…
Review of ‘The Wetlands’
Written by Anne Garton, Illustrated by Derek Garton, published by Children’s E-Books. Is an e-book really just a book? Or is it digital literature? If I choose to believe that ‘[their] authority derives from more than the technology that wentRead more…
Developments, Directions, and Predicaments
What is an issue that has emerged for you in terms of developments and new directions for digital literature? One of the elements specific to digital literature that has been cited as an advantage is the inclusion of auditory ANDRead more…
What are some of the key elements involved in evaluating digital narratives?
A summary of my thinking after Week One… I think the overarching question to guide this discussion in my mind has been, how well do readers ‘know’ the information they consume instead of just ‘remembering’ it? It is possible toRead more…
Digital Literature – It’s A Spectrum
Coming into this subject in 2024, I had a sort of semi-formed idea of digital literature being a category of publication that was kind of a moving target – evolving as technology made new storytelling platforms available. Now, however, onRead more…
ETL533 Assessment 1 Part B – Proposal
A Special Social Story: Student Librarians follows Ash, a Year 6 student who is training as a student librarian in their school library with the teacher librarian and library assistant. It is split into three sections (duty days, meeting morning,Read more…
Can You Strike It Rich During The Gold Rush? A Critical Review (Gameplay as Experiencing Digital Literature)
The Australian gold rush of the 1850s has been the subject of multiple digital experiences of very similar names for nearly three decades. Some were set in Bathurst, others in regional Victoria, some text-based and some with a more visuallyRead more…
Just Grandma and Me: A Critical Review (90s Digilit Endures!)
I can remember my first experience of digital literature. Age seven, I witnessed my teacher loading Just Grandma and Me (Broderbund, 1992) onto our classroom computer, and everyone took a timed turn. Reluctant readers went first, and I devoured books,Read more…
Snow Fall: A Critical Review
Evocative. Mind-blowing. Truly… beautiful. The 2013 Pulitzer Prize winner’s cover letter describing the winning entry sums it up in its collation of review taglines (The Pulitzer Prize, 2013). The publication of seminal multimedia news story Snow Fall, created by JohnRead more…