Getting started with interactive stories
Interactive stories can be made in home-made book form using just paper and pencils. You can also assemble stories in PowerPoint using links between slides, or stories can be developed as clickable web-based adventures using free software such as Twine that was used before. https://twinery.org/
You may want to begin by asking students about their story experience of any video games or apps they play. It can be surprising how involved children can be with the characters and their situations and how much reading games require them to engage with. Do the stories have choices and do those choices have consequences?
Great for teamwork and collaboration.
The nature of interactive stories also makes them an ideal project for group or whole class creative writing activities as groups or pairs can work on branches of the larger story independently. A teacher can also differentiate the writing easily.
Insights into the WWW.
Through working with stories made up of parts that link together, students will also gain broader insights into the nature of ‘hypertext’ and the hyperlinks that make the great network of information that is the World Wide Web, work. Take the opportunity to discuss students’ understanding of how links work on computers to take them to different places or to enable them to follow their path through some research.
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