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E-Books for Language Learning: Production and Best Practices
Jonathan AdamsTaehyeong Lim
McKenzie Fitzpatrick
The Project BLOOM
• BLOOM: Bridging for Language Outcomes in the Classroom
• Grant: 3 year granted by CIES
• Goal: Bridging Spanish and English vocabulary by e-books
• Target: Elementary schools in Northern Florida
Purpose
To describe a process for managing several distributed multimedia
production teams and the techniques that were developed to
organize, track and manage the production of e-books
Project Background
• 4 Principal Investigators, 16 Research Assistants
• Each year produces 30 e-books for each grade level
(kindergarten, first, and second grade)
• Project duration is July 2013 to June 2016
• E-Books are accessed by the children through a laptop computer in a classroom twice per week
Intervention
<The Intervention Room in an Elementary School>
• Currently 6 local schools with an average of 20 students per class
• E-book tracking collects the reading time per book and correct answers
Managing the Production Cycle
Project Specification
● Media properties
● File naming conventions
● Typography details
● Image sizes <Work Package in Spec>
● Positions for buttons, titles, interactive elements, and descriptions of each
digital component in e-books
Managing the Production CycleProduction Management Documents - Storyboards● Illustrate the whole structure of each e-book Including digital components
● Guide the developers who assemble the e-book into a working Captivate file
<Components assembled in Captivate>
Adobe Captivate
Managing the Production CycleE-Books are uploaded in MOODLE, a Learning Management System
<Book Thumbnails on Homepage> <Clickable Book Covers to Launch e-Books>
Challenges• Communication
• e-mail, dropbox, face-to-face meetings
• High turnover rates
• graduate and undergraduate students
• once students graduate they are ineligible to work for the
grant
• Funding constraints
• software was not factored into the grant
• recording equipment through FSU library limited to graduate
students only
Conclusion
• A project management process is essential to managing time, cost, and scope.
• While every project has unique features and demands, project management documents can be adjusted to establish and maintain good communication among team members.
• Documentation helps to control communication, errors, and coordinate work.