Tag: transmedia

Literacy and Inanimate Alice

. If you have any responsibility for teaching literacy, imagine a text so powerful that your students, including the most difficult to motivate, are demanding to write! Laura Fleming, a library media specialist from River Edge, New Jersey, who is responsible for Alice’s School Reports and the Inanimate Alice Facebook page, sums it up well:

“As students are interacting with the story, they are active participants in telling the story. They fully understand what it is like to walk in the character’s shoes. In using this digital novel I have never seen them more engaged in text.”

Kids’ Books Make The Leap Off The Page And Online : NPR

Lisa Holton is founder of Fourth Story Media, a company committed to creating what she calls “transmedia” projects. These are books that can be experienced across multiple platforms — from print to digital and back again. ”It is really exciting when you are creating reading experiences that work perfectly on each platform,” Holton says.

… Multi-platform books may not be the future of publishing, but David Levithan, editorial director at Scholastic, says they are part of the future. Both Scholastic and Fourth Story Media have more multi-platform projects in the works. A new 39 Clues series is set to launch in the spring with bestselling adult author David Baldacci signed on to write one of the books. Levithan believes 39 Clues has shown what can be done when old fashioned creativity combines with new technology.