Chong, Lim, and Ching's (2009) research on design preferences found that readers liked to have multimedia interspersed throughout the pages. I also think it is important for students to be able to see images of the three different communities that they are studying to be able to visualize them correctly and begin to understand and make connections with the content on the pages. For these reasons, we decided to include photographs and videos in our eBook, where possible. From previously teaching this unit, I had a collection of images that I had included in my teaching before, but many of the images were copyright protected. Finding images that we were able to use under Creative Commons proved to be more difficult than I first realized when trying to find images of Iqaluit and Meteghan that were labeled for reuse. Through a variety of searches, we were able to find appropriate material that related directly to the content on each of the pages.
It was also found that readers like to have borders around figures and images. For this reason, Karla and I chose to put a clean picture frame border around each of the images or include the multimedia in a widget that would distinguish it from the rest of the content of the eBook. We believe this helps provide a clean, consistent layout to our eBook.
References
Chong, P. F., Lim, Y. P., & Ling, S. W. (2009). On the design preferences for Ebooks.
IETE Technical Review, 26(3), 213–222. doi:10.4103/0256-4602.50706
It was also found that readers like to have borders around figures and images. For this reason, Karla and I chose to put a clean picture frame border around each of the images or include the multimedia in a widget that would distinguish it from the rest of the content of the eBook. We believe this helps provide a clean, consistent layout to our eBook.
References
Chong, P. F., Lim, Y. P., & Ling, S. W. (2009). On the design preferences for Ebooks.
IETE Technical Review, 26(3), 213–222. doi:10.4103/0256-4602.50706