if all the sky was paper - cpd version

if:book chris meade CPD DayAylesbury 2010www.futureofthebook.org.uk

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CPD> How is reading changing in a digital world?

> How can digital technology boost the appeal of reading for reluctant readers?

> How can we make the most of the digital technology we have in school to work creatively in English?

> What free packages and software are out there for us to use?

> What is the future for reading and writing?

1 improved engagement with reading and responding for pupils in KS3 and 4

2 improved curriculum variety and relevance, linking ICT and English

3 improved reading standards for identified pupils as judged through APP

“if all the sky was paper and all the sea was ink”

• A think and do tank exploring the future of the book as our culture moves from printed page to networked screen

…and the potential of new media

for creative readers and writers

‘a life in books’ (but tv film music too)

bookshopslibraries poetry societybooktrust…

Community Arts > Write Back >Imagination Services >Reader Development > Poetry Society >Poetry Places > Booktrust > Bookstart > Everybody Writes… Creative Writing & New Media

solves problems:

access for all

means to publish and distribute new voices

text and performance together

Creative Reading for Real

booklovers in denialbooks have already beensent up to bed

we’re alltransliterate now…

BUT are schoolsteachingTransliterature?

Reading on Screen…

Literature isn’t made of paper

Books are an experience that happen in our heads,

The object a souvenir of our visit

A platform that suits a certain kind of content

why have we all spent so much time

promoting the page when it’s WORDS we love

?

the iPad moment

literature on the mainstage

in the places where people are looking

digital expectations

• to read and write• to click through for more• to collaborate with others• to mix media• to reply

• to replay

what is a book?

a constantly changing form - from papyrus to codex to paperback to kindle to macbookand beyond

a bounded entity a conversation…

a container of culturea symbol of freedom

Let’s make new kinds -

networked > curated > Illuminated…

what is a ‘whole book’?

imagination & digitisation “Blake was always using new technologies, often abusing technologies, not for the sake of an interest in the technology per se, but what he could use it for. He believed that, rather like learning a language… if you speak a different language maybe you ask different questions. And the language of the digital age is one that Blake would have pursued.”

- Tim Heath, Blake Society

HOTBOOK moment

Found

How to be Twelve

an anthology set in

an immersive fiction

inspiring response

40 litch bits

classic texts illuminated

contemporary writing animated

future writing imagined

6 weeks

years 8/9

www.hotbook.ning.com

HOTBOOK

words in

new formats

to be

seen afresh

difficulty enjoyed

the research

96% of ‘lower ability’ students found it more interesting than standard approaches

86% of all students recommended it to other schools

Strong impact on Personal, Learning and Thinking Skills

“The normal way we read can be boring.However this was interactive and made my learning enjoyable.”

but… not just a cunning trick

to con non-readers

into looking at books

Helping teachers to‘get it’

training

technical skills

finding the tools

developing the

digital imagination

www.insearchoflosttim.net

In Search of Lost Tim

A magical, musical, graphical, digital fiction

what is a book?

A collection of words

An intellectual and emotional experience

A curated conversation

A souvenir of that experience

Something we value at about… £12?

fictionalstimulus

book groups turned books into experiences that take a month and end in a meal

www.fictional-stimulus.ning.com a digital reading experience

www.fictional-stimulus.ning.com

creative reading and writingcollaborations

fan fictionOne Million Penguins24 hour book gameswww.sixtostart.comwww.thewinterhouse.co.ukmultimedia multiplatforminanimatealice.net wetellstories.co.uk

www.theliteraryplatform.com

the amplified author

Writing for… blog, twitter, app, performance..

print (on demand?)

Needs access to:

Editing

Criticism

Marketing

Design

New media

Distribution

Curation

…And needs income

from somewhere

join the unlibrary

imagination service for the writer/readers of transliterature

new skills needed in unlibrarianship

unlibrarianship

‘hand selling’

‘boutique’ libraries and bookshops

recommending across media

up to speed on tech and culture

curatorial skills…

‘human google’

Imagination Services more searching searches

www.futureofthebook.org.uk

www.hotbook.ning.comwww.futureofthebook.org.uk

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