presentation nov 2010
TRANSCRIPT
if:bookChris Meade
The Future of ReadingThe Amplified Author In The Unlibrarywww.futureofthebook.org.uk
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> 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?
“if all the sky was paper and all the sea was ink”
the word set free
If:book london, www.futureofthebook.org.ukA think and do tank exploring the future of the book as our culturemoves from printed page to networked screenand the potential of new media for creative readers and writers
linked to The Institute for the Future of the Book New York,Founded by Bob Steinwww.futureofthebook.org
A Life In Books bookshops
libraries poetry societybooktrust…
- but tv, film,
web & music too
Community Arts > Write Back >Opening the Book CREATIVE READING & WRITING > IMAGINATION SERVICES Reader Development > Poetry Society > Poetry Places > Booktrust > Bookstart > Everybody Writes…
digital solves the problems…
> access for all
> a means to publish and distribute new voices freely
> text and performance together
> creative reading for real
booklovers have been in denial
books have already beensent up to bed
we’re alltransliterate now…even my mum
the book:an experiencenot an object
literature isn’t made of paper
books happen in our heads and hearts
the object is a souvenir of our visit
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
How do we define
a bookif it’s not made of paper?
what is a book?
a constantly changing form - from papyrus to codex to paperback to kindle to macbookand beyond
a symbol of freedoma container of culturea conversationa bounded entity…
And now we can make new kinds
what is a book?
illuminations
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
digital expectations
• to read and write• to click through for more• to collaborate with others
• to mix media• to reply
• to replay
talking moving picture books
for children and adultswingedchariot.com enhancededitions.com
stories for grey times
• etherbooks.co.uk
PHICTIVE.COM stories on the move
the lowdown? the future of the app.
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Story games
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perplexcity..the winter house.. alice re-animated…
www.insearchoflosttim.net
In Search of Lost Tim
A magical, musical, graphical, digital fiction
Enhanced &Illuminated
Collaborativefan fiction24 hr book
MultiplatformARG games
creative reading and writing
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book things
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booktwo.org
www.bookfutures.com
Found
How to be Twelve
www.hotbook.ning.com
http://futureofthebook.org.uk/jacob/readernew.html
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
CPDHelping teachers to‘get it’
training
technical skills
finding the tools
developing the
digital imagination
communities book groups turned books into experiences that take a month and end in a meal
www.fictional-stimulus.ning.com
a digital reading experience
curation
How Power Corrupts
by Ricardo Blaug, Westminster UniversityAcademic publisher, price £50, sales 390
Curated conversation online and at the Free Word Centre
Between formal educationand ‘just reading’
wingedchariot.com
Developing multi-lingual books for iPads
Research their use in London schools
young poets’ networkif:book and the Poetry Society
producing:Toolkit of digital resources, articles, videos, commissioned poems
Helping young poets (13 - 18yrs) to set targets for their personal ‘poetic licence’
Finding the readership, criticism,
writing, performance
and all kinds of publishing skills
they need to develop their poetry
local writers
• can publish to the world from home
• can use networks to find each other, near and far
• can ‘click’ and
find out more
amplified author in a room with a view
broadcasting words
in conversation
publishing, self publishing,
twitter, blogs, social media
local and global
needing recognition, criticism, readership, income
in control of their writing life
join the unlibrary
new kinds of spaces
for bookinessimagination service for the writer/readers of transliterature
focal point for writers and readers
safe place to ‘click’ on people
shared dream space
in networked recession
in the unlibrary
> Personal profiles on the shelves
> Wall of messages, notes, images, thoughts…
Meet up online and for real
www.ifsoflo.ning.comwww.futureofthebook.org.uk
Cartoon by Toni Le Busque