Exploring Emergent Web 2.0 E-book Toolkit for K-12

Students

Ting YuanHui Soo Chae

The EdLab of Teachers College

Reader?Searcher? Consumer?

Content creator?Collaborator?Communities of Intelligence?

Research

K-12 e-book use has been limited to using hardware and software and other web 1.0 "content delivery" products with students (e.g., De Jong, & Bus, 2009; Hourcade, et al., 2010; Roskos, Brueck, & Widman, 2009).

Research

Students’ authoring of multimodal texts are encouraged via multimodal tools:•digital storytelling (e.g., video composing)•gaming, comic strips (e.g., Comic Life, Toondoo, Storybird)(Bitz, 2009; Gee, 2003; Hull, 2003; Hull & Katz, 2006; Kress, 2000; Lewis & Fabos, 2005; Luke, 2003; Ware & Warschauer, 2005)

Theoretical Perspectives

•New Literacy Studies•Socio-cultural theories•Multimodalities

Exploring Affordances of Web 2.0 E-book Tools:

Ongoing explorations:

•Tikatok•Storybird (beta)•ComicLife (v. 1.5)•Toondo•MakeBeliefsComix

Emergent Web 2.0 E-book Features•Email•Design choice•Content creation•Discussion “forum”•Co-authoring •Personalized illustrations

Ongoing explorations:

•Tikatok•Storybird (beta)•ComicLife (v. 1.5)•Toondo•MakeBeliefsComix

Implications

•Teacher development•Web 2.0 concept•Critical thinking•Communities of practice

•Classroom applications