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Introducing Empires & Interconnections, the newest edition in the award-winning History Adventures digital book series, whose accolades include a 2019 Horizon Interactive Award for Best Education App. This fully interactive, animated digital learning product represents a fresh approach to history education, designed for today’s digital generation. History Adventures: Empires & Interconnections (1450-1750) combines the latest in mobile entertainment with the power of narrative design—bringing the pages of history to life. An Age of Exploration, Gunpowder, and International Trade During this period of colossal change, from 1450-1750, the world got smaller. The age of exploration, gunpowder, and international trade took hold, like never before. Epic empires expanded, and followed trade routes–as European nations battled to control as much of the world’s wealth as possible. The dark side of this explosion of wealth and consolidated power and influence, meant enslavement and ruin for some, as Europeans unknowingly brought diseases that killed millions and meanwhile initiated the gruesome, inhumane Atlantic Slave Trade. Some nations remained autonomous and isolated, such as the Tokugawa of Japan–but this took huge effort to throw off this tide of increasing global interconnectedness. For Empires & Interconnections, we have developed 6 new characters–each of whom confronts the core question: how to deal with this tidal sweep of rising empires, will they fold into this interconnectedness, or will they somehow resist? Created by Spencer Striker, PhD Digital Media Design Professor at Northwestern University in Qatar Empires & Interconnections showcases all new interactive, multimodal content that combines mobile entertainment with the power of story—optimized for cross-platform performance. #history #mobile #education #innovation #apworldhistory #worldhistory #peopleshistory #technology #userexperience #animation #exploration #digitallearning #othersideofhistory #narrativedesign #deeptime #interactiondesign #chooseyourownadventure tokugawa #eastindiacompany #samurai #conquistador #jamestown #republicofpirates #constantinople #silence #aguirre #bayofbengal #shogun (at Northwestern University in Qatar) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGBV7BuAsT9/?igshid=1d7dijibi95uv

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Presenting the official product trailer for History Adventures, World of Characters, Revolutions & Industrialization. The innovative product features highlighted in this trailer include: Immersive 3D Environments Animated, Interactive Infographics Enhanced Original Historical Documents Choose Your Own Adventure Experience Animated Illustrations & Dynamic Text AP World History Curriculum Media-Rich Interactive Assessments All running flawlessly on a mobile device! "Screenwriters have been adapting historical stories for years, but Spencer Striker, PhD is using a new medium to bring history to life—a fully animated, interactive, narrative-driven digital book series." - Scriptmag.com / Script Magazine, May 7, 2020 https://scriptmag.com/interviews-features/interview-spencer-striker-phd-on-turning-history-into-entertainment "Spencer Striker's History Adventures couldn’t have come at a better time. As parents all over the US are scrambling to home school their children, the digital media professor and producer has delivered us the history of the world, in an enticing and entertaining format." - Film Daily, March 24, 2020 https://filmdaily.co/news/history-adventures/ For more History Adventures Press: http://www.historyadventures.co/press/ History Adventures showcases a fresh approach to learning and literacy, designed for today’s digital generation: interactive, multimodal content that combines mobile entertainment with the power of story—bringing the pages of history to life! Available now, for free, on all Apple devices,(iPhone, iPad, and Mac Desktop), in 51 countries around the world! Download History Adventures today!! https://books.apple.com/us/book/history-adventures-world-of-characters/id1505237819 #history #mobile #education #innovation #apworldhistory #worldhistory #peopleshistory #technology #userexperiencedesign #animation #exploration #digitallearning #revolution #culperspyring #othersideofhistory #narrativedesign #opiumwar #gunboatdiplomacy #muckraking #thejungle #uptonsinclair #chicagomeatpackers #behindeverygreatfortunethereisacrime #botanybay #deeptime #kingleopoldsghost #interactiondesign #chooseyourownadventure (at Northwestern University in Qatar) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAZL_JUAEWD/?igshid=1pasdnmw800vc

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History Adventures, World of Characters, Book 3: 1750-1900 is now available for download in 51 countries around the world... for free for a limited time only! 

https://books.apple.com/us/book/history-adventures/id1497236772

History Adventures presents a fresh approach to history education, designed for today’s digital generation.

This interactive, multimodal learning experience combines the latest in mobile entertainment with the power of narrative design—bringing the pages of history to life.

History Adventures foregrounds the power of story, narrativizing the experiences of people who lived in past centuries—in different epochs and locations around the globe.

Students will witness the very real moments these very real people lived through, as if they were there. And via the empathy inspired by storytelling: students will feel the life or death stakes of decisions made in the moment.

The January 31, 2020 release covers the Period from 1750-1900 through the lens of 5 amazing people living through complex flash-points in time.

Book 3 Features:

- Agent 355, (a slave... and an American Revolutionary War spy)

- Jiemba, (an indigenous Australian at Botany Bay when the British convict ships arrived)

- Fei Hong, (a Chinese family man, surviving the Opium Wars)

- Khari, (a native rebel resisting Belgian oppression during the Congo Free State)

- Thomas Brown, (a muckraking reporter, working to expose the gross malpractice of the Chicago Meatpacking Industry).

History Adventures: the Stories of People in Time, Connected by Eternity... 

Created by Spencer Striker, PhD

#history #mobile #education #innovation #apworldhistory #worldhistory #peopleshistory #technology #userexperiencedesign #animation #exploration #digitallearning #revolution #culperspyring #othersideofhistory #narrativedesign #opiumwar #gunboatdiplomacy #muckraking #thejungle #uptonsinclair #chicagomeatpackers #rainbowserpent #behindeverygreatfortunethereisacrime #botanybay #deeptime #kingleopoldsghost #interactiondesign #characterdesign #chooseyourownadventure

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The Official Trailer is Here!

History Adventures, World of Characters, Book 3, (1750-1900). Bringing History to Life... on iTunes, January 2020.

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Introducing our official launch trailer! History Adventures, World of Characters, Book 3, (1750-1900), presents a fresh approach to history education, designed for today’s digital generation. This interactive, multimodal learning experience combines the latest in mobile entertainment with the power of narrative design—bringing the pages of history to life. History Adventures foregrounds the power of story, narrativizing the experiences of people who lived in past centuries—in different epochs and locations around the globe. Students will witness the very real moments these very real people lived through, as if they were there. And via the empathy inspired by quality storytelling, students will feel the life or death stakes of decisions made in the moment. The January 2020 release of History Adventures covers the Period from 1750-1900 through the lens of 5 amazing people living through complex flash-points in time. Book 3 Features: Agent 355, (a slave... and an American Revolutionary War spy); Jiemba, (an indigenous Australian at Botany Bay when the British convict ships arrived); Fei Hong, (a Chinese family man, surviving the Opium Wars), Khari, (a native rebel resisting Belgian oppression during the (so-called) Congo Free State), and Thomas Brown, (a muckraking reporter, working to expose the malpractice of the Chicago Meatpacking Industry). History Adventures, World of Characters, Book 3 (1750-1900), will go live on iTunes, January of 2020, available for download around the world! Created by Spencer Striker, PhD History Adventures: the Stories of People in Time, Connected by Eternity.. #history #digitallearning #historyeducation #digitaldesign #learningdesign #illustration #americanrevolution #congofreestate #peopleshistory #bighistory #mobilelearning #multimodality #interactivelearning #powerofstory #narrativedesign #historicalfiction #characterdesign #washingtonsspies #opiumwars #revolution #rebellion #Imperialism #exploration #clashofcivilizations #muckrakers #botanybay #gunboatdiplomacy #indigenous #chicagomeatpackers #historyadventures (at Northwestern University in Qatar) https://www.instagram.com/p/B58ANmNJAws/?igshid=93c80c4cu2gh

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Introducing: Agent 355, American Revolutionary War Spy, United States of America, 1778 CE

“I am not a soldier. I will never wield a musket nor face cannon fire. My place is not upon the battlements nor cutting across a battlefield. I am a spy. Intent upon serving my young nation. As it tears itself away from its infuriated progenitor, Great Britain, I take pride in helping save it from itself. And who better to sneak throughout the halls, eavesdropping conversations as I fill bathtubs and stoke hearths for the chilly evenings? We have a traitor in our midst. An officer by the name of Arnold…” 

- Excerpted from History Adventures, World of Characters, Book 3, 1750-1900, created by Spencer Striker, PhD ..coming to iTunes, January 2020..

The future of the book is now. History Adventures - a next gen digital book experience being developed by an international team of animators, artists, designers, and historians - represents an enhanced, multimodal learning design for 21st Century students. This media-rich learning experience combines the latest in mobile entertainment - and the power of narrative design - with a cross-disciplinary approach to teaching history: awakening student fascination for the past...bringing the pages of history to life. The narrative structure will be like zooming in through portals in time, to observe - and feel the drama and excitement - of little slices of lived human experience. And from these stories, we will extract curricular concepts relevant to a bigger picture understanding of history and its fascinatingly interwoven, cross-disciplinary themes. History Adventures: the Stories of People in Time, Connected by Eternity..

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Introducing: Luis Felipe Gutierrez, Spanish Conquistador, the New World (Modern Day, Peru), 1537 CE 

"He was strolling through the jungle; he had to reach the other side of the mountains. Luis knew that he faced a long journey to reach the last outpost of the Spanish Empire - at the edge of civilization, where the map fell off into legend. It was the Anno Domini 1537, and Luis Felipe Guiterrez had arrived in the New World the year before, sent by his majesty Charles V to help his fellow countrymen complete the conquest of the land we now call Peru. The world he encountered now was nothing like he expected.." 

- Excerpted from History Adventures, World of Characters - coming to iTunes, January 2020 The future of the book is now.. 

This media-rich learning experience combines the latest in mobile entertainment - and the power of narrative design - with a cross-disciplinary approach to teaching history: awakening student fascination for the past.. bringing the pages of history to life.

#history #digitallearning #historyeducation #digitaldesign #learningdesign #illustration #conquistador #peru #atahualpa #pizarro #incas #bighistory #mobilelearning #multimodality #multimedia #newworld #ageofdiscovery #narrativedesign #historicalfiction #characterdesign #colonization #incaempire