A report by Julie Anderson, British Museum In January, I returned from Sudan where my co-author Salah Mohamed and I distributed the eBook we produced last autumn. Frederik Lesage has previously written about the development of our eBook, which deals with the archaeological excavations conducted in Dangeil, Sudan, as a case study for eBook usage, [...]
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Report from the field: eBooks in Sudan
February 2nd, 2011 1 Comment
Tags: eBooks · education · evaluation · feedback · inspiring uses · language · learning · ppod · print on demand · sharing
Shared making of the Oxford English Dictionary
July 23rd, 2010 1 Comment
Yesterday I wrote about Storybird and how it enables a form of shared making through an online interface using email to notify authors when it is their turn. This reminded me of a very definitely non-technological example of the shared making of books.. Making the Oxford English Dictionary From when the gargantuan project of compiling [...]
Tags: book · inspiration · language · making · shared
Carnet du Bibliexplorateur
February 9th, 2010 No Comments
We received an email yesterday from a user based in Epinay sur Seine, France describing how he’s used bookleteer with his students: My name is J.-Thomas Maillioux, and I’ve been working as the librarian for the collège Evariste Galois middle school since 2005. I’ve recently started to use the bookleteers to create “adventure books” for [...]
Tags: education · eNotebooks · evaluation · examples · feedback · language · learning · libraries
International languages & bookleteer
December 7th, 2009 No Comments
One of the most important decisions we took with planning bookleteer was to integrate support for languages other than English from the very start – not just ones which use the European Latin character set (ABC etc), but languages that use non-Latin characters and those which read from Right-to-Left. We’ve done initial tests with languages [...]
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