GiggleIT Project

The GiggleIT Project is a partner with the International Children's Digital Library
The GiggleIT Project is a registered project with the International Year of Reconciliation 2009.

Competition results - New word for eBook

Delegates at IASL 2009 vote with enthusiasm!

The GiggleIT Competition Results.

It was with great excitement and enthusiasm that Dr Ann Carlson Weeks announced the winners of the “Create a New Word for e-Book Competition” Dr. Weeks is a Director of the International Digital Children’s Library (ICDL) and is Professor of Practice in the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland.

As part of the GiggleIT Project’s introductory competition, children of registered schools were asked to participate by creating a new word for e-Book. This competition was a motivational introductory competition to engage the students in Thesaurus and Dictionary usage as they created new vocabulary for the digital age.

Delegates at the IASL Conference 2009 in Abano Terme, Italy were asked to vote anonymously on the list of terms presented. Delegates were not given the name of the schools only the list of 14 new terms as shown below.
The following results were recorded for the results of the New Word for e-Book competition in order of greatest number of votes to least number of votes as voted by the Delegates of the IASL 2009 conference:
1. Digidoc
2. CyText
3. Cybertext
4. Digitome
5. e-FUN
6. TrippleEEE
7. TechTome
8. Gigglytome
9. GiggleJiggle Book
10. E-pages
11. S-Books
12. I-Doc
13. V-Doc
14. e-Volution

Carole
Carole our fabric artist from Tessamy Studios is very sad to wave goodbye to the big GiggleIT

Helga
Helga is very sad to see her Giggle Babies leave home.

They have all been posted to their new homes. The following contributing schools will receive prizes as shown on the Giggle IT website and the secret instructions will become evident as the GiggleIT Project continues this year.

The Winning school:
Concordia Lutheran College with “Digidoc”

Runners-up in order of voting preferences:
Newtown State School with “Digitome”
St Andrew’s Anglican College with “e-FUN”
Carine Senior High School with “TrippleEEE”
Roleystone Primary School with “E-pages”

We hope that such a term will become accepted into contemporary vocabulary worldwide. Stay tuned for the next exciting stage of the GiggleIT Project. Know a good joke?

The GiggleIT Team.

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Last updated 4 November 2009 (KSB)