About Brett Baker

Hello! My name is Brett Baker and I'm writing Digital Storybooks for kids to help children who are bored of reading or don't find it very fun to experience a whole new adventure they can have buy just choosing different choice. I'm also writing this blog to share my ideas for kids to become more interacted in what they are learning. I am a student at Illinois State University and am also engaged to a beautiful women who is also attending the same school. We both volunteer at our church each Sunday in the children ministry, ages 3-4 pre-school, and we love working with the kids and teaching them. Every Sunday after the early church service, we would go back and meet up with our kids ranging from 10 to 25 kids each week, and we would greet the parents and kids at the same time and would play with the kids, teach them about Jesus, and read to them until their parents came back from their church service. I enjoy being with the kids and seeing them at this age solving problems and making decisions. 

What made me think of this Digital Storybook was the thought of how this technological world is now turning kids minds and attention to televisions and other screens and tech stuff. So why not create something that will be up to date with the other technology but will also teach the kids to learn and become adventurous and creative with what they are trying to accomplish. 

Digital Storybook for kids

I am creating this blog to talk about an idea to relate storytelling and interactive learning to children. This Digital book or app comes with a storyline which will provide multiple options throughout the story which will allow the child/user to be directed to an alternative storyline depending on the decision he/she makes. So to describe this more elaborately, as the child is reading through a story, a set of questions or choices will pop up at the end of a scene or the start of a climax. These choices will describe a choice for the child or character they are reading about. The child will choose among the couple choices and depending on what choice they will pick, determines an alternative story and ending to the particular subject they are reading about. This is just one advantage of this Storybook. 

The other advantage with this digital book is that it comes with interactive readings for the kids. So as the kids are reading through the book, an option is to highlight the words as the kids read it. This will help kids who are not good at reading know where they are and get a sense of what reading is like. Another cool thing is that kids will be able to enlarge pictures in the book, to view them more closely, and shrink them when they are done looking at it. Overall this is a fun interactive book/story for kids to read and learn while they read and will address their adventurous side, depending how far they want to explore.