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…
Vox Books: A Critical Review (Is It DigiLit?)
How far does the (academic, educational, sociological and psychological) hand of digital literature stretch? The more I read, the more questions arise… Recently, I came across a book in Chermside Library that I picked up initially because it had aRead more…
Preparation for Assessment 2 – Current Knowledge and Understanding
I come from a context of having explored many forms of digital literature without realising one would call it digital literature! Going into ETL533, I assumed that digital literature was based around e-books, Project Gutenberg texts, or similarly formatted worksRead more…