Project Goal
You will create an original narrative in the form of a Choose Your Own Adventure interactive story. Your story will be evaluated through the Choose your own adventure story rubric.
Task
During the 1980s a series of books called “Choose Your Own Adventure” entered libraries with a new concept of giving the reader the power of choice about how the story would turn out. These were popular with many students, and at most school libraries there was a waiting list to check these books out.
As we move further into the 21st century, publishing companies are looking for ways to engage the digital generation in reading. Using what you know about the topic you are studying, design a digital choose-your-own-adventure story to engage readers at your school.
Engage
Take some time to explore a few “Choose Your Own Adventure” books and online hypermedia stories to get a better understanding of how these stories are structured. You must be familiar with the basic elements of a story: setting, character development, plot structure, conflict, and point of view.
Working with the topic of your choice, brainstorm ideas for writing your interactive story. You can use a thought web to express a variety of ideas for your story, starting with a central theme to drive the adventure and developing several alternate endings. The interactive story you are writing could have two tiers of choices with four possible endings, or three tiers of choices with eight possible endings.
You will want to begin by visualizing your story and all of the possible directions it may take the reader. Think of the following:
- Which ideas will be the easiest to come up with eight endings?
- What choices will readers need to make in order to transition from one part of the story to another?
- Will there be drastic differences with the direction of the adventure and the choices made by the reader, or will it be consistent throughout?
- Once you have thought about the direction of your story, use a storyboard or flowchart to create a summary of where the story choices will go. - Write a draft of your story and share with another student to edit and provide feedback. Revise as necessary.
Create
When the storyboard and script are complete. begin looking for potential images, music, and sound effects that will support your story setting and plot. Since this style of story is different than traditional text, the use of visuals and sounds will be important.
You may want to gather copyright-friendly images from a website like Pics4Learning.com. You could also use a digital camera and image editing software to capture and edit your own images.
During this process it is helpful for you to store all of the media resources in a folder on the computer or server.
The following links include useful information. Review them before you get started.
1) Choose your own adventure story: Intro and examples http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2009/05/02/the-best-places-to-read-write-choose-your-own-adventure-stories/
2) Tips to write fiction or narrative stories: https://ethemes.missouri.edu/themes/1127
3) How to write a choose your own adventure story: http://www.karenwoodward.org/blog/how-to-write-a-choose-your-own-adventure-story/
4) Microsoft Word hyperlink directions: http://rebeccareed0.tripod.com/Portfolio%20docs/Hyperlink%20Directions.htm
5) Sample story map: https://ar.pinterest.com/pin/221520875397100504/
Who said it? Read the statements below and decide which of the following perspectives they reflect: technologist’s, social pragmatist’s and/or critical analyst’s. Explain why. 1) The Internet could be looked at as one giant “garbage dump”. 2) Working with technology is difficult and frustrating. 3) The notion of “communicative competence” should be expanded to include the interactions that take place through oral and written communication with a computer. 4) “Data” is viewed as a degraded form of knowledge. We tend to accept or view Internet sources uncritically. 5) We take into account the context in order to examine the reality of day-to-day technology use. 6) Our ultimate goal was to create a person. We look at communication between humans and computers.
Hi, everyone! I’ve found an interesting blog which has many links to different hypertexts. It may come in handy for those like me who do not entirely get how hypertexts work and need to see many examples of them. Here’s the link: http://fieldguidetodigitalfiction.blogspot.com.ar/2010/01/examples-of-hypertext-fiction.html
ReplyDeleteThanks Ailén! Were you in class last week? We talked about other examples. You may also want to check out the course schedule, where I have listed several other links.
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