I chose to visit the Idea Store in East London’s Chrisp Street Market and was quite surprised by how modern it looked inside – it was brightly lit with large open spaces, laptop benches, lots of seating areas, and visitors of all ages. Working areas, books, computers, ‘chill out areas’, and learning labs (rooms hired [...]
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Bookleteer and the Museum of Childhood
December 14th, 2010 1 Comment
Hi! My name is Christina Wanambwa and I joined the Proboscis team last month as an Education Assistant. I’ll be involved in a range of projects linked to bookleteer, but I will be working mostly on Education Projects, namely our new partnership with Soho Parish Primary School. Part of my role also includes going on regular [...]
Tags: collaboration · education · learning · museums · outreach
eBook Observer – some early thoughts
September 15th, 2010 3 Comments
A recurring concern that has come up in the three interviews to date is the question of feedback. In all three cases I’ve presented to date, respondents told me that it was difficult to collect feedback on how the eBooks were used once they were out of their hands and into the hands of the [...]
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Case Study – Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination
September 1st, 2010 3 Comments
My first encounter as part of this research was with Ruth Sapsed in early July in Cambridge to chat about her work with the eBooks. Ruth is the director of Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination (CCI). She was trained as a psychologist and researcher. According to the CCI website, their approach is to “place the people [...]
Tags: education · inspiration · inspiring uses · learning
Introducing the eBook Observer
August 26th, 2010 No Comments
Proboscis have commissioned me to do some research into the eBooks and how they have been used in the past by all sorts of different people and organisations. As part of the research, I created an eBook of my own – the eBook Observer – to help me conduct the interviews. I’ve already had the [...]
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Oh! The Places You’ll Go!
July 19th, 2010 No Comments
My original time for working on bookleteer was up last week so I thought I’d write a little round-up of my highlights of that time. I set out to think about books-as-objects and explore the tangible qualities of bookleteer eBooks and StoryCubes. This gave me the perfect excuse to research and write about all kinds [...]
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Why make?
June 7th, 2010 No Comments
Over the last few weeks as I’ve been researching and writing about the pop-up books, flip books, cut-out books, electronic books and so on I’ve been wondering what it is that drives so many people to want to make stuff. And what is it about tangible materials that draws some people to them even when [...]
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