It's quite simple. Mobile poetry. A poem a day (from the public domain), fed to your iPhone, animated (flowing) on your screen (using a technology from TextFlows).
I'm intrigued. I do find that it adds an element to experiencing the poetry, much as hearing poetry read aloud adds to the experience.
What do you think?
Is it multimedia? (I have my own opinions on the matter which I'll share later.) And do you see potential educational uses?
I think the app is good, but I don't see it as multimedia. It is really just written text presented in chunks on a phone screen instead of a book. I viewed Sonnet 18, "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?", and I found the presentation chunks jarring to the natural line break rhythms of the poem (I watched a few other poems that were much smoother presentations).
ReplyDeleteIf the app added an audio version, with graphics to help users better understand the poem (perhaps a picture of the sun in the background as the sonnet line "Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines" displays in the foreground), then the app might better fit the Mayer definition of multimedia.
The more I think about it, graphical explications might provide an interesting experiment in multimedia.