The African Storybook: Digital Stories for Early Childhood Reading
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Presentation at eLearning Africa on 30 May, Kampala, Uganda. Discussing the design and development of the African Storybook Initiative aimed at creating access to digital stories for early reading in local African languages.
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The African Storybook: Digital Stories for Early Childhood Reading
- 1. The African Storybook Initiative: Access Digital Stories for Early Reading Greig Krull eLearning Africa, Kampala 30 May 2014
- 2. Some of the challenges few or no books no reading no demand for books not cost effective to produce books
- 3. Strategic Objectives A Digital Solution Openly Licensed Stories Storytelling in the hands of communities Supporting use in Pilot Sites
- 4. Systems Development Approach 1. Strategic Drivers and Objectives 2. Business Challenges 3. Solution Objectives 4. Solution Design 5. Implementation Roadmap 6. Ongoing Governance he current cerns to achieving gic objectives? tion(s) can ese objectives? agement structures effective and elivery? Wheredo we foc to overcometh Whatse willpractica
- 5. A library with a difference Digital Stories Openly Licensed Tools to translate Can be printed Open Source System
- 7. Openly licensed stories Thus far: 120 unique stories, 650 versions
- 8. Create
- 9. Translate
- 10. Adapt
- 11. Pilot Sites
- 12. Some of our Partners
- 13. Delivery models =+ OR “Big Books” on Classroom Walls Cellphones Basic Printing
- 14. Challenges Poor internet access… • But there are improvements • Mobile access • Local storage • Printing options
- 15. Challenges Lack of electricity… • Battery operated devices • Solar charging options
- 16. Challenges • ICT Literacy Skills are scarce… • Requires ongoing training and support
- 18. Thank You Greig Krull greigk@saide.org.za africanstorybook.org This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
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- Our vision is for all African children to have enough stories in a language familiar to them - not only to practise their reading skills, but also to learn to love reading. Children need to have books from very early in life, well before they go to school. They need to have lots of books. And they need to have them in a familiar language, with stories that reflect their context and experience as well as their hopes for the future, so that they can connect with them emotionally. And children need adults who are invested in these stories, motivated to use them, and talk about them and through them to their children.
- Pics: Dollars – Creative Commons Wiki Once you have the books, distribution is the challenge. It’s difficult to write well for children Translation is not as easy as it seems And once you’ve distributed the books, getting them used is the challenge
- The first four years of the project (2013 to 2016) have been funded by the UK based funder, Comic Relief Digital – place to share and create/adapt stories, aimed at people who work with children (teachers, parents, literacy development organisations, community libraries) Openly licensed - for free use, to facilitate translation and adaptation without payment or permission needed Communities - network who contribute to and use the website and stories, to source and preserve and re-use excellent existing material developed in numerous creative initiatives Pilot Sites - Encouraging and testing/evaluating use; Represent the target audiences/contexts we wish to reach; where children can learn to read and think and feel from the earliest age – before they start school
- Analysis, Design, Development, Testing Responsive design – Design – easy to use and simple to navigate
- Digital stories Openly licensed for use and reuse Digital tools for translation and adapting Access initially mediated by literacy and teacher development organisations Downloadable in multiple formats, or printed Developed in Drupal (open source) Digital – don’t have to have expense of printing, easy to edit, preserve out of print Users are able to upload versions of the stories in their local languages – thus providing numbers of stories in a range of languages way beyond the scope of conventional publishing
- People who work with children: teachers, parents, literacy development organisations, community libraries
- Lack of electricity Poor Internet Access
- Lack of electricity Poor Internet Access
- To encourage and learn from use, we are working with teachers and librarians and community workers in fourteen pilot sites. The sites are community libraries, ECD centres, primary schools, located in both rural and urban contexts; some with few local languages, and others with many; some with grid electricity, some with solar power, and some without power. If partners wish to use the stories and the website in other African countries, we welcome that, but in the first four years we will concentrate on making the website work for our pilot countries.
- To encourage and learn from use, we are working with teachers and librarians and community workers in fourteen pilot sites. The sites are community libraries, ECD centres, primary schools, located in both rural and urban contexts; some with few local languages, and others with many; some with grid electricity, some with solar power, and some without power. If partners wish to use the stories and the website in other African countries, we welcome that, but in the first four years we will concentrate on making the website work for our pilot countries. Canadian Organisation for Development through Education (CODE). - See more at: http://africanstorybook.org/content/our-partners#sthash.LAr5UF9t.dpuf
- Hub at each of 12 pilot sites: Netbook and Projector and External hard drive, possibly use solar power The stories are designed for projection through handheld (battery operated) projectors, linked to laptops or tablets, so that stories become ‘big books’ on the classroom wall. Teachers at Munganga Primary School (in Kakamega Country, Kenya) Stories will also be easily accessible through cell phones (both mass market and smart phones), and caregivers or community workers will be able to share the stories with individual children in home and community settings. Can the stories be printed? The stories can be downloaded and printed on regular photocopiers. The African Storybook Project will also be preparing DTP’d versions of a selection of stories for formal printing and these PDF versions of the stories will also be made available on the website and can be used as print on demand for small numbers, or large scale. We will only consider this option once the translations are sufficiently agreed upon.
- Poor Internet Access - The technology exists even in most remote areas of the continent to access the internet mainly through mobile phones, and the technology is improving all the time. Also, you do not have to be online to read the stories. You can download stories onto your own device to read or print. Secondly, we are intending to create a separate site for users of mobile devices,
- Lack of electricity - Solar charging options overcome the absence of grid electricity. Oloosirkon Primary School, Ongata Rongai, Kenya
- Mobile Testing Continue to get more stories