In my last post about The Book App the main message I tried to articulate was immersion. The book app cannot be 1 D, you need to entice the app-er into a new world. Just have a look at the YouTube vid in the post above.
The same is required from blogging. Good design + layout + content + engagement + Me Media + visibility + share buttons + images + audio + video + X = a great blog. The variable X is the blogging x factor, a quality difficult to describe.
Me? I don't want to be too recognisable from my blog but I want to video blog to plug up my equation...my solution was to use an app!
Have a gander below, I used it in this post Enjoy!
The Book App - NY and Bologna Fairs
The book is dead!
No it's not, but it could be, and very soon. Libraries could become places where we can sit with our coffees and smart devices and surf on their wifi. But maybe by the time this happens advertisers and business will have coped on and Internet will be free. (Business will have probably changed their strategies to embrace our smart devices and our free surfing will come at the cost of ads or gathering market info).
I digress, what I mean to say is that you have written a book, but what is a book? Is it, like, something something I can bring to history class as an artifact? (cause I bring in CD's and my first mobile to history class....and yeah...that kids flip out!)
We (publishers, writers, agents, readers, buyers, sellers) need to face facts and get on board with expanding the physical book with the ebook and the now book app.
The book will be physically published less and will therefore become more expensive to publish, increasing the price point. If publishers are smart they will make it more of a luxury item. It could be for the mega fans, used as expensive presents, for the people who pay homage to history by still buying 'books'. Soon we will get to a point where a child will grab a book and laugh at how you have to physically turn over pages and how nothing happens when youclick touch the pictures!
The ebook will be available on all devices and some writers may even have their books formatted for epublishing before they send the eMS to an agent. Well the early adaptors might!
And lastly we have the book app.
No, it is not just the epub version with a few more bells and whistles thrown in...but a 3 D world with story, audio, engagement and... well if you want to know more watch this clip. It is from the Bologna Ragazzi Digital Award 2012.
Me? I am playing catch up on the world of epub3 HTML5 and these two conferences are a great way to start.dropbox, prezi, update, sync, de-fragment, AVG, surf, instapaper to Kindel...I mean if I wasn't such a eMacGyver I'd be exhausted.
TOC* Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2012
Bologna Book Fair
The Walking Tour
Bologna children's book fair digital award pits startups against Disney
Notes from the Bologna Book Fair
Changing the World of Children's Books
Children's Books Rides with Princess Ponies
Magic Town is in Bologna for the Bologna Childrens Book Fair
2012 Bologna: focused and upbeat
Bits of Wisdom: SCBWI Bologna 2010 (an oldie but a goodie!)
*(Tools of Change for Publishing)
New York Digital Book World conference & Expo (January 23-25, 2012).
Checking-In from Digital Book World
Just Kids: Children’s Publishing Goes Digital at DBW
What’s Going On Inside Digital Book World 2012 in NYC (Day 2)
How Amazon Publishing Will Get Its Books Into Barnes & Noble
Kids Find E-Books ‘Fun and Cool,’ But Teens Are Still Reluctant
Consumers, Data and Analytics in the Digital Book Era
'Explosion of Choice’ Gives Power to Readers
International Expansion ‘May Be Best’ Opportunity for Publishers
Just Kids: Children’s Publishing Goes Digital at DBW
Takeaways from the Digital Book World Conference
I digress, what I mean to say is that you have written a book, but what is a book? Is it, like, something something I can bring to history class as an artifact? (cause I bring in CD's and my first mobile to history class....and yeah...that kids flip out!)
We (publishers, writers, agents, readers, buyers, sellers) need to face facts and get on board with expanding the physical book with the ebook and the now book app.
The book will be physically published less and will therefore become more expensive to publish, increasing the price point. If publishers are smart they will make it more of a luxury item. It could be for the mega fans, used as expensive presents, for the people who pay homage to history by still buying 'books'. Soon we will get to a point where a child will grab a book and laugh at how you have to physically turn over pages and how nothing happens when you
The ebook will be available on all devices and some writers may even have their books formatted for epublishing before they send the eMS to an agent. Well the early adaptors might!
And lastly we have the book app.
No, it is not just the epub version with a few more bells and whistles thrown in...but a 3 D world with story, audio, engagement and... well if you want to know more watch this clip. It is from the Bologna Ragazzi Digital Award 2012.
Me? I am playing catch up on the world of epub3 HTML5 and these two conferences are a great way to start.dropbox, prezi, update, sync, de-fragment, AVG, surf, instapaper to Kindel...I mean if I wasn't such a eMacGyver I'd be exhausted.
TOC* Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2012
Bologna Book Fair
The Walking Tour
Bologna children's book fair digital award pits startups against Disney
Notes from the Bologna Book Fair
Changing the World of Children's Books
Children's Books Rides with Princess Ponies
Magic Town is in Bologna for the Bologna Childrens Book Fair
2012 Bologna: focused and upbeat
Bits of Wisdom: SCBWI Bologna 2010 (an oldie but a goodie!)
*(Tools of Change for Publishing)
New York Digital Book World conference & Expo (January 23-25, 2012).
Checking-In from Digital Book World
Just Kids: Children’s Publishing Goes Digital at DBW
What’s Going On Inside Digital Book World 2012 in NYC (Day 2)
How Amazon Publishing Will Get Its Books Into Barnes & Noble
Kids Find E-Books ‘Fun and Cool,’ But Teens Are Still Reluctant
Consumers, Data and Analytics in the Digital Book Era
'Explosion of Choice’ Gives Power to Readers
International Expansion ‘May Be Best’ Opportunity for Publishers
Just Kids: Children’s Publishing Goes Digital at DBW
Takeaways from the Digital Book World Conference
Jack of All Trades
Used to be a time when being a jack of all trades was a bad thing, but now? Now, we need to be a jack of all trades and use the tools of technology to master them all.
What am I? Like, what am I a master of?
Let's look at my my working week last week;
The main thread is technology baby.
You guys ever hear of Good Reads? Well it makes me feel like a looser. OK so yeah, my goodreads is pretty awesome (yeah I know, I talk like Jedward!). But my GoodReads makes me feel bad for not reading more books. I spent a lot of time reading blogs (publishing, writers, art, psychology, teaching, #edchatie, social media, blogging, technology). But after my week of diversity I can honestly say that those blogs made me a better teacher.
I don't even remember the posts I read, I made no notes, but the info went in, and it must have been by osmosis.
When you are a primary school teacher you also need to be well versed in
I am a better teacher and person as a result of the blogs I have been reading for the past year. My Jack of all trades has benefited me.
I now need more trade skills on writing that novel. Or in my case redrafting those novels, I just seem to hid them away and hope they will redraft by themselves. I applaud all the writers out there. Man, this is one tough task. You need to know so much about psychology and motives, the thrills and spills of conflicts and resolution, redrafting to fit it all in. This Jack needs to gather more resources to master it!
So can you guys recommend some more blogs to me...anything on any of the above subjects and especially anything on creative writing, short stories, commitment to writing...
- lecturing third level students on the joys of digital marketing,
- resource for a day (maths and English with special needs or pupils who need extra help),
- junior infants,
- Scratch programming to teachers.
The main thread is technology baby.
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- the subject matter,
- sales, marketing (you need to market and sell the subjects and learning joys to pupils),
- psychology,
- philosophy,
- reki,
- emotional intelligence,
- body language,
- financial trends,
- books,
- e-safety,
- pop-culture.
I am a better teacher and person as a result of the blogs I have been reading for the past year. My Jack of all trades has benefited me.