Collen -Part 5

The Time Factor

For the digital storytimes, Hunterman took three seconds longer to tell than the traditional version, and Axle took 34 seconds longer than the traditional version. In addition, the prestory discussions for the digital storytimes were longer than their traditional counterparts (by approximately one minute in each instance) because the introduction to the digital storytime included a short discussion of the technology used to tell the story, including showing the children the wireless digital mouse that would be used to advance the pages.

As can be seen in Table 2, the actual reading time of the digital stories was consistently slightly longer than for the traditional stories; this slight difference did not appear to have any effect on the attentiveness or distractedness of the children during the storytimes.

Table 2: length of storytime sessions.

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