Al Gore: Our Choice a digital book

Mike Matas & Kimon Tsinteris (Push-Press engeneers)

http://www.wired.com

"I am so thrilled that Our Choice has come to life on iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch" (...) "Readers can now learn about the solutions to the climate crisis using some of the most visually compelling and interactive technology available."

Al Gore 

Al Gore, the former vice president’s production company Melcher Media approached Mike Matas in September 2009 to create an app version of Our Choice. 

Gore wanted his book app to contain videos, diagrams and other forms of multimedia that would flex on iPad, iPhone and iPod.

Gore’s book, which lives in the App Store since April 28, is in part a demonstration of the capabilities of Push Pop Press, (San Francisco, USA) Mike Matas & Kimon Tsinteris new company. They were Apple formal engeneers. 

"It’s a bit like walking through a digital museum. When you first launch the app, you see a cover of a 3-D animation of a spinning globe with the title superimposed over it. Tapping into the intro plays a video of Gore introducing the book’s topic."

Wired

Watch Gore’s tour of his book produced with Push Pop Press in the video below

Al Gore's Our Choice Guided Tour from Push Pop Press on Vimeo.

"I'm excited to announce my new app, Our Choice is going on sale today. It is a fully interactive full-length book App that describes all of the solutions to the climate crisis with animations, interactive info-graphics, pictures, audio, text, an hour of documentary video and more. I am donating 100% of the proceeds I would otherwise receive to the Alliance for Climate Protection."

Al Gore, April 28 2011

Education:

A rich app to motivate the students for Climate in Sciences, Geography, Civics classrooms!

It's impossible not to share such a wonderful interactive book! I would like to have this type of e-textbook in my classroom. And of course my students too. 

"It is now abundantly clear that we have at our fingertips all of the tools we need to solve the climate crisis. The only missing ingredient is collective will."

Al Gore

G-Souto

02.05.2011

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References:

Al Gore

http://blog.algore.com

Our Choice

http://ourchoicethebook.com/

Wired/ Gadget Lab

http://www.wired.com

A captivating publicity

A relaxing escape for the week-end! 

G-Souto

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The future of books?

The Future of the Book. from IDEO on Vimeo.

What impact will digital books have on the experience of the written word – apart from the form factor, and the ability to store hundreds of works on a single ebook reader? Will the rise of gadgets like Kindle and tablet computers like iPad actually contribute to the medium in a creative way? Read more

Interesting, isn't it? You can also participate in the discussion online.

G-Souto
13.10.10

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References:

Is interactive fiction the future of books?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology

Ipad features & Education ?

Ipad is not for sale in Portugal... not yet.

But when we see this video we are looking forward to experiment this amazing media device! Don't you think? It's like love at first site!

But people who know it well say that tablet Apple is heavier than Kindle. It's necessary to hold iPad with both hands. And it slides easily on our knees.

When we write on Ipad is a bit boring because finger touches stay on screen and the reflexs too.  

http://images.apple.com

The keyboard is strait, the accents and punctuation are very hard to do, even with auto-correction! But browsing is so fast! Image and sound so marvelous!


Tired, they say, but fascinated!

Steve Jobs said that more than a million of Ipad tablet was sold in 28 days! Wow! And more than 5 millions of e-books to the tablet were download in the first 65 days from iBookstore that is dedicated to e-books from Apple.

iBooks App

http://gigapple.files.wordpress.com

Reading children's literature, that's amazing. Yet even with all the extras, reading is so natural on iPad, the technology seems to disappear.

Alice for iPad

http://www.apple.com

Do you remember "Alice in Wonderland" here? It was so fun and so beautiful! I was fascinated! I'm not a digital native, but I'm a digital pioneer... and love to be and to follow this amazing evolution of multimedia 

On Youtube you can see some videos with 2 years old children interacting easily ing wit iPad! That's not amazing! Children are born on digital era.

Marvel Comic (demonstration)

For example, reading comics with Marvel application is like to enter in another dimension. True, right?

The application iBooks, as well as being available on iPad, is available on iPhone since April as a free download through the App Store.

The application includes iBookstore (interesting!) wich allows to browse, buy and read on a mobile device, wich has over 60,000 titles available.

When users are reading a book, they may to do marks, highlights and notes. The users of iBooks can also read and right PDF directly in the application. 

And they will be able to read the same book on their iPad, on iPhone or iPod touch!

A new and wonderful media world to use on Education! I 'm sure that young people would like this kind of reading! Exciting!


Education: 


You can use iPad for reading in classroom. Students will be delighted!


G-Souto
10.07.2010
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