Taking the Manuscripts of the Tales outside the

AcademyBarbara Bordalejo@TextualScholar

@bordalejo

University of Saskatchewan

iPoe

Touch Press

CantAppRichard North (University College London)Peter Robinson (University of Saskatchewan)Terry Jones (Independent Scholar)Claire Campbell (St Andrew’s University)Mari Volkosh (University College London) James Robinson (OpenSignal.com)Barbara Bordalejo (University of Saskatchewan)

CantAppThe first app for tablets and other mobile devices produced in collaboration with academics.Will include:•Manuscript images and transcriptions.•Reader’s text.•Modern English translation (and translations into other languages).•Audio and video.•Glossary and explanatory notes.

CantApp

A text for digital natives.

CantApp

A text for digital natives, a reader’s text:•Helps the reader understand the literary Chaucer.•Facilitates comprehension.•Makes sense.•Is easier to read.

CantApp Prototype

http://www.sd-editions.com/CantApp/

Textual Communities

• http://www.textualcommunities.usask.ca/web/canterbury-tales/viewer

Taking the Manuscripts of the Tales outside the

AcademyBarbara Bordalejo@TextualScholar

@bordalejo

b.bordalejo@bham.ac.ukbb268@nyu.edu

History Teachers

• The Canterbury Tales

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBa5nN_JyPk

The Waste Land

Adding Something MoreOther editions have included actors like Fiona Shaw, Stephen Fry or Patrick Stewart.

http://www.touchpress.com/titles/shakespeares-sonnets/#hero-video