The view from digital storytime

Back in 2010, when she began developing the plan for Digital Storytime, she had lofty goals. She was looking for a site as a resource for selecting enhanced picture books to share with her own child. She searched but found nothing comprehensive that focused on illustrated digital books for the iPad....

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Published in:eContent Quarterly 2013-09, Vol.1 (1), p.47
Main Author: Kluver, Carisa
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Children & youth
Childrens literature
Childrens picture books
Digital curation
Digitization
E-books
Forecasts and trends
Librarians
Picture-books
Picture-books for children
Reading comprehension
Safety standards
Screen time
Software utilities
Technology application
Websites
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Summary:Back in 2010, when she began developing the plan for Digital Storytime, she had lofty goals. She was looking for a site as a resource for selecting enhanced picture books to share with her own child. She searched but found nothing comprehensive that focused on illustrated digital books for the iPad. So, she decided to start a site herself. This was a big leap, but her husband was an app developer and taking a database class at the time. Of course, in the years that followed, the response she got from pretty much everyone in the ecosystem was positive and encouraging. Librarians, in fact, have become among the biggest champions of her site, constantly suggesting ways to make it more useful. The children's app publishing industry itself is crying out for quality curation even more in 2013 than it did in 2010. She hopes other librarians join her in the coming years.
ISSN:2329-6380
2329-6380