5 digital texts to use in your classroom

Early Years ABC Education has produced a series of digital books for children on a range of topics. The text being analysed is ‘Growing Up in the Early 1900s’ and is a series of chapters including videos and text and highlights key aspects of life for a child in the 1900s. The text is recommended …

Assignment 2 Critical Reflection

Lamb, Parrot and Usher all provide varying view points on what makes a good digital text (Lamb, 2011; Parrott, 2011; Usher, 2016). While comparing different types of text Lamb provided an overview of the varying types of text a reader may come across when exploring digital texts. Interactive journalism, eBooks and transmedia story telling are …

Assignment 2 Digital Text 3

The Life Without Power is an interactive journalism article which reports on life in Puerto Rico without power since Hurricane Maria (Hernández, Leaming, & Murphy, 2017). It includes sound, visuals, text and interactive features throughout and provides an immersive experience for the reader. Lamb labels Life Without Power as transmedia story telling which includes a …

Assignment 2 Digital Text 2

ABC Education has produced a series of digital books for children on a range of topics. The text being analysed is ‘Growing Up in the Early 1900s’ and is a series of chapters including videos and text (ABC, 2012) and highlights key aspects of life for a child in the 1900s. The text is recommended …

Assessment 2 Digital Text 1

Bourchardon and Heckman discuss digital literature and the difference between digitised works and digital works (2012). Dandelion written by Galvin Scott Smith (2012) is a traditional text that has since been created into a digital work in the form of an app. The app allows the user to move through the book and follow the …

Hyperdocs to promote student agency

I've recently been using hyperdocs as a form of choice with my stage 1 students for menuboard tasks. Students log into a chromebook or iPad and choose an activity to complete. Not only does this give students a sense of agency in their learning, it hopefully allows them to choose skills they need to work …