11. As a judge of the Bologna Ragazzi
Digital Prize and a researcher into
the use of iPad apps in schools, it’s
great to see literary quality and
imagination are still what really
matter
Bought this recently.
How things have changed –
THE ONLY WAY to reproduce our words
ALSO..
THE BREATHING SPACE between thinking and reading and writing
Because we don’t need publishers,
Don’t need authorities telling us what we can and cant do
What we can and can’t read
12. Because if we don’t have people on high to tell us if we’re REAL WRITERS, we need collaborators and peers to help us realise the digital possibilities for literature
define what we really want to achieve in our work
to help us in the creation, editing, design, promotion, deal making and marketing..
We need to be part of a community.
2007 Creative Writing & New Media MA
Met Bon Stein at institute…
Began the debate about the future of the book
Exactly the role of ‘us lot’ – literature development, libraries, booklovers…
WHAT BENJAMIN SAID
In this project
Set out the stall afresh – how do you define your own terms>?
Collaborative writing
Twitter poem
Online workshops
Creative Prevarication.. Not wasting time
Songwriting challenge
Classic poems
working with publishers Wingedchariot and funding from the Gulbenkian foundation we’re researching how six schools in London respond to picture books on the iPad, specially written stories translated into all of the 14 languages spoken in the school. Winged Chariot make beautiful books for the iPad, showing real concern about the quality of the reading experience, books to curl up with and get lost in rather than to play with.
FANTASTIC teacher Paul Greenwood whose classroom is rich with digital and other resources.
MOST INTERESTING lunchtime children not all wanting to use the digital.. A range of tools
1st YEAR – AMAZING OPPORTUNITY …
A start up, a megacorp, a classic story well told.
An active relationship – we read then we make something .. No more couch potatoes
NEW FORMS – NEED TO RECOGNISE LITERARY QUALITY IN NEW FORMS …
Collaborate in new ways
We’ve also been experimenting with COLLABORATIVE READING projects
BOOK GROUPS CHANGED READING FOR MANY INTO A PUBLIC ACTIVITY
NEW WAYS TO DO BOOKS - SOCIAL READING platforms…
But more than that:
Do we need a whole new model for how we CURATE an experience around particular ideas.
RICARDO BLAUG’S BOOK… this strange kind of academic publishing -
We wanted to open up the book’s themes.
We worked with an MA student from Goldsmiths College looking at the skills of CURATOR
. ifsobooks are reading experiences, designed for schools and bookgroups, involving real interactivity. We’re piloting Story Park by David Almond; POETMORE, a digital poetry anthology for schools, because we need to create the nearlywriters of tomorrow!
Publishers need to go back to their first principals, their love of story and free thinking.
Can you free yourselves to think clearly about what works now??
Look at the keys on our typewriter, colours in our pallette…
Time to make new kinds of writing about our NEARLY lives. .
Made in public
Involving others
FREE SERVICES THREATENED NOW
NEED A RESILIENT MODEL
THE IF;BOOK CAFÉ, A TILL, POP UPABLE
Anke Holst
The PROFILES
The PORTABLE Bookshop
AMPLIFIED AUTHOR event with Andrea et al.
REIMAGINING THE LIBRARY
Finally THE NEW MEDIA WRITING PRIZE is open to writers and makers. It’s about the quality of the storytelling first.
But of course once you’ve found something good it’s easy to spread the word and link to the point of sale.
This year I judged the BOLOGNA RAGAZZI DIGITAL AWARD.. won by a new start up..
WE WANT TO encourage literary mind to engage with telling new kinds of stories
DREAMSPACE
WE need COLLABORATORS
To help us find our way, improve our
Closures – people think of this as a lost cause
POP UP LIBRARIES – an exciting idea,
Librariness doesn’t belong to the state