GoSpoken.com has partnered with actress and author Michelle Gayle, The Reading Agency and BlackBerry-maker RIM to help develop literacy levels in schools, through a national workshop study.
The workshops gave select secondary school pupils aged 12-15 across three schools in Halton, Southampton & Crawley in the UK, the opportunity to read, write and share stories on BlackBerry handsets. Led by Michelle Gayle, author of ‘Pride & Premiership’ - a mobile novel, students engaged with the creative writing workshop, discussing and contributing their own ideas using the Smartphones.
The aim of the workshops was to research the adoption of reading digital books on mobile phones, and the interaction of users with digitally created content, as authors or contributors, in an innovative and modern way.
“The pupils seemed to take to reading on the BlackBerry's immediately and when they began to write their own stories on them a teacher remarked that they seemed to focus more than they do in the classroom,” says Gayle.
The project is part of GoSpoken parent company Mobcast’s research and development strategy to investigate the impact of mobile technology and distance learning. The goal is to encourage user engagement with authors and content, and to create a mobile platform for users to contribute to a story, or to contribute as an author. GoSpoken notes that similar concepts such as Keitai books in Asia have proved very successful in Japan where books written on mobile-for-mobile became physical bestsellers.
The workshops gave select secondary school pupils aged 12-15 across three schools in Halton, Southampton & Crawley in the UK, the opportunity to read, write and share stories on BlackBerry handsets. Led by Michelle Gayle, author of ‘Pride & Premiership’ - a mobile novel, students engaged with the creative writing workshop, discussing and contributing their own ideas using the Smartphones.
The aim of the workshops was to research the adoption of reading digital books on mobile phones, and the interaction of users with digitally created content, as authors or contributors, in an innovative and modern way.
“The pupils seemed to take to reading on the BlackBerry's immediately and when they began to write their own stories on them a teacher remarked that they seemed to focus more than they do in the classroom,” says Gayle.
The project is part of GoSpoken parent company Mobcast’s research and development strategy to investigate the impact of mobile technology and distance learning. The goal is to encourage user engagement with authors and content, and to create a mobile platform for users to contribute to a story, or to contribute as an author. GoSpoken notes that similar concepts such as Keitai books in Asia have proved very successful in Japan where books written on mobile-for-mobile became physical bestsellers.
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