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Wednesday, September 16, 2015 9:14:27 PM
Stacey Williams-Ng wrote a blog post titled Educational Development Corporation acquires Demibooks:
Stacey said, "We are pleased to announce Education Development Corporation (NASDAQ: EDUC) has acquired Demibooks Inc. Read the press release here. EDC is the parent company of Kane Miller Books. EDC’s direct-to-consumer sales division, Usborne Books..." more
Wednesday, September 16, 2015 4:30:06 PM
Stacey Williams-Ng wrote a blog post titled Updates on Demibooks products and services:
Stacey said, "Today we announced the acquisition of Demibooks Inc. by Education Development Corporation. Demibooks will discontinue publishing to the App Store and to focus on publishing to Demibooks Storytime. Let’s take a quick look at what the plans are..." more
Saturday, May 30, 2015 12:16:15 AM
Stacey Williams-Ng wrote a blog post titled Why we love Art and Design schools:
Stacey said, "As a startup, one of the hardest things to figure out is who is your customer? Demibooks launched two and a half years ago, and you would think we would know who are customers are by now. Well, we do.. for the most part. Publishers and independent..." more
Tuesday, April 21, 2015 10:41:24 AM
Stacey Williams-Ng wrote a blog post titled Spring arrivals in Demibooks Storytime:
Stacey said, "Spring is in the air at Demibooks Storytime with several new releases and the re-introduction of old favorites. My Felt World by Digital Toybox helps kids explore farm, ocean, safari and artic worlds with all things felt. Play the delightful..." more
Saturday, March 28, 2015 6:06:20 AM
Stacey Williams-Ng wrote a blog post titled New Advanced Composer Tutorials:
Stacey said, "Demibooks Composer is capable of many things and we wanted to shed a little more light on the functionality and interactivity that your project has the opportunity to have. We have created two new Composer tutorials that are for our more advanced..." more
Monday, March 2, 2015 6:17:04 AM
Stacey Williams-Ng wrote a blog post titled By: creating app and interactive ebooks for the iPad | MFA Journey:
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Saturday, January 17, 2015 7:31:06 AM
Stacey Williams-Ng wrote a blog post titled Starting off the New Year at Demibooks:
Stacey said, "We hope 2015 has begun well for everyone! Nothing like a fresh start. A nice way to kick off the New Year: Composer Pro has been included in the graphite.org review of “EdTech Hidden Gems of 2014″. “An app that’ll pay..." more
Monday, September 22, 2014 11:17:09 AM
Stacey Williams-Ng wrote a blog post titled On spiders, books and apps: a conversation with Rebecca Emberley:
Stacey said, "We just released Little Bahalia Publishing’s latest book app, The Itsy Bitsy Spider on Demibooks Storytime. The classic nursery rhyme is retold and illustrated by Rebecca Emberley and her father, Caldecott award winner Ed Emberley...." more
Friday, September 12, 2014 9:44:25 AM
Stacey Williams-Ng wrote a blog post titled Lynchburg College residential Governor’s School of Math, Science and Technology:
Stacey said, "OPPORTUNITY: To create game apps in a month-long, summer camp course TEACHER LEARNINGS: - Show a wide variety of sample works - Give students a specific assignment - Give students the freedom to decide how to execute a specific assignment EXAMPLE..." more
Thursday, August 7, 2014 6:18:18 PM
Stacey Williams-Ng wrote a blog post titled Startup Middle School Summer Institute, Washington, D.C:
Stacey said, "OPPORTUNITY: Introduce a diverse group of middle-schoolers to a new way of telling the stories of different cultures STUDENT LEARNINGS: - programming and app development skills - storytelling and writing about different cultures - confidence and..." more
Tuesday, August 5, 2014 1:54:52 PM
Stacey Williams-Ng wrote a blog post titled Just how far is “UP”?:
Stacey said, "Author, artist, and lover of life, Betty Sargeant, creates an adventure to help readers figure out just how far up you can go in her interactive book app, How Far is UP, now available in Demibooks Storytime. Betty loves to create new worlds with..." more
Saturday, July 19, 2014 2:45:57 PM
Stacey Williams-Ng wrote a blog post titled Fostering Your Child’s Creativity–an 11-day camp to become a digitally published writer:
Stacey said, "A cool, new camp is coming to Washington, DC, this summer! Demibooks is partnering with Global Sleepover storytellers to help your children publish their first digital storybook! Sign up for the 11-day Digital Storytelling Workshop at Startup..." more
Wednesday, July 16, 2014 1:19:50 PM
Stacey Williams-Ng wrote a blog post titled New Spanish Book Made in Memory:
Stacey said, "Twenty-four year old Alfonso Cervantes was a student at Universidad de las Americas Puebla, in San Andrés Cholula, Puebla, Mexico and made an interactive book app dedicated to his baby nephew using Demibooks Composer in his Visual Information..." more
Friday, July 11, 2014 2:29:25 PM
Stacey Williams-Ng wrote a blog post titled New Storytime Book: Moon and Sun:
Stacey said, "The World Cup in Brazil has enthralled the world over the last month. It’s a great time to release our first multi-language Demibooks Storytime book in Brazilian Portuguese, French and English. We are excited to introduce this..." more
Thursday, June 5, 2014 6:29:17 PM
Stacey Williams-Ng wrote a blog post titled Brenna Finnegan answers the big questions:
Stacey said, "Life’s Big Questions. How do we answer them? Brenna Finnegan presents the subject in an innovative way in her book app “Answer This – A Big Book of Big Questions” based on the book Soulpancake by Rainn Wilson, et al. The..." more
Monday, June 2, 2014 8:31:07 PM
Stacey Williams-Ng wrote a blog post titled BEA Highlights from Widad and Lisa:
Stacey said, "A shot of the expo. Last week, we asked our New York based friends, Widad Franco and Lisa Goldman, to check out Book Expo America in New York City this weekend. Widad is an illustrator and co-founder of PixelPanthers and Lisa Goldman is a media..." more
Sunday, June 1, 2014 7:19:03 PM
Stacey Williams-Ng wrote a blog post titled BEA highlights and new Afrikaans titles in Storytime!:
Stacey said, "Hope everyone is having a fantastic weekend! We’ve got some Storytime updates to share today but first, the premier publishing event in the US, Book Expo America, just wrapped up in New York City. Widad Franco and Lisa Goldman attended the..." more
Tuesday, March 4, 2014 1:34:37 PM
Stacey Williams-Ng wrote a blog post titled Crawford Preparatory School Pretoria:
Stacey said, "Demibooks Composer Software Incorporating technology into the classroom is a definite and important focus for modern education. iPads are becoming a permanent fixture of our classrooms and as teachers, we must try to make use of all the tools..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 8:54:25 PM
Stacey Williams-Ng wrote a blog post titled Honouring Mandela: making things a little better:
Stacey said, "This has been a hard week for South Africans, our beloved Madiba – everybody’s favourite grandfather – has passed away. He was an extraordinary man with an extraordinary vision, he knew how to inspire instilling hope, love and..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 8:54:25 PM
Stacey Williams-Ng wrote a blog post titled A warm Demibooks welcome to the Moglue community:
Stacey said, "Digital Book World 2014 kicked off in New York City this week with a great win for the Demibooks community. Congrats to Little Bahalia Publishing for receiving the Digital Cover Design award for ‘A Shiver of Sharks‘ available both in..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 8:54:25 PM
Stacey Williams-Ng wrote a blog post titled Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island:
Stacey said, "“My project in particular took a great deal of time to build, photograph, and edit. I was thankful that the easiest part was putting it together on the iPad. I was able to compile everything in Composer over the course of a weekend.” Natalie..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 8:54:25 PM
Stacey Williams-Ng wrote a blog post titled Sacred Heart College, Johannesburg South Africa:
Stacey said, "“Children should be prepared for jobs that do not exist yet, fostering thinking out of the box and encouraging entrepreneurship” Colin Northmore, Head of School Beginning in 2012, Sacred Heart College has piloted a iPad-only approach to..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 8:54:25 PM
Stacey Williams-Ng wrote a blog post titled Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, Wisconsin:
Stacey said, "“We are thrilled to be offering this new design elective, which not only utilizes the iPad as a reader, but also as a content creation device. Thanks to the Composer software donated by Demibooks, this course will help to expose many additional..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 8:54:25 PM
Stacey Williams-Ng wrote a blog post titled Lynchburg College, Lynchburg, Virginia:
Stacey said, "“I was thrilled how quickly the students accepted my challenge to explore Composer’s physics and gaming potential. They had great results and learned a lot in the process.” Kristin Harris, Adjunct Professor, Dept of..." more
Saturday, October 3, 2015 5:49:48 PM
Stacey Williams-Ng wrote a blog post titled Dutch Books Join Share:
Stacey said, "We are excited to announce that we have new uploads to Demibooks Share. But we are even more thrilled that they came all the way from the other side of the world. These four books feature student work from ArtEZ Institute of the Arts in the..." more