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Book Notes
CLIENT: BBC Learning Development
YEAR: 2008-2009
ROLE: Research and Development, Interaction, Design
FEATURES: Flash, Flex
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/booknotes
Book Notes is an eBook project that uses the latest visualisation technologies for searching, navigating and annotating texts. Our research for the project focused on displaying large texts at different levels of detail, so that annotations and searches can be viewed for a complete book. This way of presenting a book enables users to see structure of themes and ideas throughout a text.
The first phase of development was a prototype for BBC Learning Development that used the 3D features of Flash to zoom between a view of a full book, and a single chapter at legible scale. Annotations could be added to selected passages of text and a colour coded theme applied to them. This colour coding when seen for the book as a whole indicates the distribution of different themes or characters through the narrative.
This prototype was taken into a production version for BBC Bitesize. Books, plays and poems commonly studied at GCSE level were annotated with revision notes. As a source of conveniently formatted eBooks we used eBooks@Adelaide.
We worked on a further prototype based around the King James Bible, suggesting tools for searching, interpreting and analysing the text, and also for incorporating community features.
Book Notes won the Tools for Learning and Teaching award at BETT 2010.
Images and video copyright © 2009 BBC
TEAM: Gavin Baily, Jasia Ward, Sarah Bagshaw
BBC CONTACT: Andrew Lees / Andrew Littledale
Subtext book selection
Book view with search
Chapter view with annotation
Annotated poem
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