This document discusses the development of the CantApp, which will be the first mobile app produced in collaboration with academics to feature the manuscripts and tales of Chaucer. The CantApp will include manuscript images and transcriptions, a reader's text, translations, audio/video, and notes. It is described as a text designed for digital natives that helps readers understand and more easily comprehend the literary Chaucer. A prototype of the CantApp is available online. The document also provides links to related digital projects on textual communities and teaching history with The Canterbury Tales, as well as examples of other editions that include actors reading the works.

1. Taking the Manuscripts of
the Tales outside the
Academy
Barbara Bordalejo
@TextualScholar
@bordalejo
University of Saskatchewan

6. iPoe

7. Touch Press

8. CantApp
Richard North (University College London)
Peter Robinson (University of Saskatchewan)
Terry Jones (Independent Scholar)
Claire Campbell (St Andrew’s University)
Mari Volkosh (University College London)
James Robinson (OpenSignal.com)
Barbara Bordalejo (University of Saskatchewan)

9. CantApp
The first app for tablets and other mobile
devices produced in collaboration with
academics.
Will include:
•Manuscript images and transcriptions.
•Reader’s text.
•Modern English translation (and translations
into other languages).
•Audio and video.
•Glossary and explanatory notes.

10. CantApp
A text for digital natives.

11. CantApp
A text for digital natives, a reader’s text:
•Helps the reader understand the literary
Chaucer.
•Facilitates comprehension.
•Makes sense.
•Is easier to read.

16. CantApp Prototype
http://www.sd-editions.com/CantApp/

17. Textual Communities
• http://www.textualcommunities.usask.ca/web/
canterbury-tales/viewer

18. Taking the Manuscripts of
the Tales outside the
Academy
Barbara Bordalejo
@TextualScholar
@bordalejo
b.bordalejo@bham.ac.uk
bb268@nyu.edu

21. History Teachers
• The Canterbury Tales
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=vBa5nN_JyPk

24. The Waste Land

25. Adding Something More
Other editions have included actors like Fiona
Shaw, Stephen Fry or Patrick Stewart.
http://www.touchpress.com/titles/shakespeares-
sonnets/#hero-video