Creating Digital MediumsThe third domain of digital media literacy is in producing and sharing digital
compilations into a medium for knowledge consumption. These mediums for knowledge consumption can take the form of an iBook, iTunes U, or can be produced in a web based format. We need to teach students how to compose media in forms of sound documents, visual documents and text documents composed out of information on the web. They need to learn how it is now possible to collect together a real life experience and weave digital content into a coherent document. When students are taught to work in this new digital environment they will work with a new kind of material; material that changes before their eyes. This is the information that is hyperlinked, aggregated and curated. Seeing that their workspaces change, they will experience higher levels of creativity emerging on the fore front of the production of digital media. |
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These will be the productions created by students using tools that assist them in media curation; media that is reproduced in visual form supported by text and sound. These will be the student curators who will learn how to shareknowledge through networks of other individuals who believe that learning is meant to be shared. These will be the student publishers who will be taught to understand that knowledge belongs to us as a culture. This is the fundamental change that educators must embrace; that ideas are interactive and are shared freely.
Many forms of knowledge sharing is available through productions and online artifacts. In the creation of digital compilations is a study of digital literacy within itself. Every time a story is produced the curator of digital media can recreate alternative stories using the theme and storyline of the one created before it. The limits and restrictions are of remixed media and are largely the ones we place on ourselves. If we are to make an argument for the humanities schools, we will need to make compositions that are attractive, and compelling; ones where individuals pay attention to the auditory details of the experience.
Many forms of knowledge sharing is available through productions and online artifacts. In the creation of digital compilations is a study of digital literacy within itself. Every time a story is produced the curator of digital media can recreate alternative stories using the theme and storyline of the one created before it. The limits and restrictions are of remixed media and are largely the ones we place on ourselves. If we are to make an argument for the humanities schools, we will need to make compositions that are attractive, and compelling; ones where individuals pay attention to the auditory details of the experience.
e-Pub Resources
Monster List of iBook Tutorials: There are numerous sites that are now offering Tutorials and how-to guides for creating ebooks in iBook Author.
Free online file converter lets you convert media easy and fast from one format to another Online-Converter.com
Calibre by Kovid Goval: http://calibre-ebook.com/
Create ePub from any webpage: http://dotepub.com
Adobe InDesign: Create ePub eBooks
Apple's iWork: Pages (supports multi-media when viewed in iBooks app) --see "Creating ePub files with Pages" from Apple and this step-by-step tutorial
Create ePubs (supports multi-media) and/or publish your own eBooks with ePubBud, $5 per ISBN
Create ePub files from PDFs and other doc types "while you wait"2ePub.com (freeonline converter)
Creative Book Builder ($3.99) app allows you to create ePubs on the iPad
From Helen Lazzaro: http://2epub.wikispaces.com/
From Lexcyle.com, Stanza Desktop
Open source software for Mac or Windows: Bookbin
From Google, a WYSIWYG ePub editor: Sigil
Free online file converter lets you convert media easy and fast from one format to another Online-Converter.com
Calibre by Kovid Goval: http://calibre-ebook.com/
Create ePub from any webpage: http://dotepub.com
Adobe InDesign: Create ePub eBooks
Apple's iWork: Pages (supports multi-media when viewed in iBooks app) --see "Creating ePub files with Pages" from Apple and this step-by-step tutorial
Create ePubs (supports multi-media) and/or publish your own eBooks with ePubBud, $5 per ISBN
Create ePub files from PDFs and other doc types "while you wait"2ePub.com (freeonline converter)
Creative Book Builder ($3.99) app allows you to create ePubs on the iPad
From Helen Lazzaro: http://2epub.wikispaces.com/
From Lexcyle.com, Stanza Desktop
Open source software for Mac or Windows: Bookbin
From Google, a WYSIWYG ePub editor: Sigil