Monday, July 29, 2013

Speaker Feature: Warren Buckleitner, Ph.D.


Presentation Title
Thinking Outside the Page With Children's eBooks

Description

What is "the best children's ebook in the world?" The answer involves a fascinating exploration of digital media. Sometimes it's magic; other times dust. Let's look at examples of both.

Speaker Feature: Kathleen Roskos, Ph.D.


Presentation Title
The Digital Primer: Implications for Early Literacy Instruction 

Description

The shift from print to digital reading devices is changing the early literacy instructional landscape, but we are not quite sure what it all means just yet.

Sunday, July 28, 2013

Speaker Feature: Azin Mehrnoosh


Presentation Title
The Data Within Ebooks and Apps

Description
An exploration of bringing data out of ebooks and apps used in classrooms, and making it accessible to educators to improve outcomes.

Speaker Feature: Jessica Wollman


Presentation Title
Storia Enriched eBooks:  Pedagogy and Goals

Description
For more than 90 years, Scholastic has been helping children learn and love to read. The commitment to this mission guided the development of Storia, which unites books and technology to inspire and inform a new generation of readers. Storia’s enriched eBooks service the primary goal of supporting a child’s literacy development by offering a young reader a deeper level of engagement with eBooks. All enrichment activities were designed and tested with input from teachers and kids, as well as internal and external educational advisors.

Speaker Feature: Cynthia Chiong, Ph.D.


Presentation Title
Print books vs. e-books: Comparing parent-child co-reading on print, basic, and enhanced e-book platforms

Description
Our research explores parent-child interactions as they read print and digital books together. We will present findings and discuss implications for e-book design and usage.

Speaker Feature: Linda D. Labbo, Ph.D.


Presentation Title
Young Children Reading and Writing e-books: How Design Matters for Emerging Literacy

Description
Research on reading and writing ebooks suggests that the screen environment can serve as a 3rd literacy teacher for young children - under certain conditions.

Speaker Feature: Ofra Korat, Ph.D.



Presentation Title
Designing and researching e-books as a support for young children’s language and literacy
Description
We researched the efficacy of e-books we designed for supporting young children’s language and literacy. Children from different levels and in diverse contexts improved their abilities. 

Speaker Feature: Jackie Marsh, Ph.D.


Presentation Title
Tablets for toddlers: E-books and their very young readers

Description

This talk will consider the design features of tablet-based e-books/story apps aimed at the youngest readers, aged from birth to three.

Sunday, July 14, 2013

Speaker Feature: Adriana Bus, Ph.D.



Presentation Title
Evaluating Picture Story-eBooks: is it Time to Dispense with Paper Books?


Description
App designers came to me complaining of providers who only accept apps when they offer maximal interactivity. Downsides of this common standard may easily overrule the positive sides.