Well this turned out to be a challenge! I had never used Twine before and wanted to try it out. I learned by trial and error and came to discover I had technical difficulties adding photos or music to my story. I carried on without and tried to make use of the other features available such as special text styles, colour, and movement options to keep the story interesting. In a couple of places I added (INSERT IMAGE OF X, Y, ETC HERE) so the reader could get the idea of where I would have enhanced the story with photos.<\/p>\n
I loved ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ books as a child so thought that Twine would lend itself well to that style. I wanted to use the hypertext links in such a way that there was only one correct ‘path’ to get to the end of the story. I learned how I could lead the reader to a ‘fork in the road’ and choose between two options, and if they chose the ‘wrong’ one, the story linked them back earlier in the ‘path’ so that they could continue.<\/p>\n
Playing ‘The Temple of No’ gave me a good idea of what’s possible in Twine, and despite my roadblocks I had fun doing this project. I plan to recommend Twine to our Teacher-Librarian who also teaches technology to our students. In trying to explain how ‘hypertext’ works to those unfamiliar, I think Bolter’s definition would give them a good idea – ‘a hypertext is like a printed book that the author has attacked with a pair of scissors and cut into convenient verbal sizes. The difference is that the electronic hypertext does not simply dissolve into a disordered heap, because the author also defines a scheme of electronic conditions to indicate relationships among the slips’ (p. 35).<\/p>\n
Please find the link to my ‘Choose your Own Adventure’ below. Enjoy!<\/p>\n
Task 5.html<\/a><\/p>\n Reference<\/p>\n Bolter, J.D. (2001).\u00a0Writing Space: Computers, hypertext, and the remediation of print.<\/em> Mahway, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. doi:10.4324\/9781410600110<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well this turned out to be a challenge! I had never used Twine before and wanted to try it out. I learned by trial and error and came to discover I had technical difficulties adding photos or music to my story. I carried on without and tried to make use of the other features available such as special text styles, colour, and movement options to keep the story interesting. In a couple of places I added (INSERT IMAGE OF X, Y, ETC HERE) so the reader could get the idea…read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70522,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tasks","et-no-image","et-bg-layout-dark","et-white-bg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/allisonjohnsonetec540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/allisonjohnsonetec540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/allisonjohnsonetec540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/allisonjohnsonetec540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70522"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/allisonjohnsonetec540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/allisonjohnsonetec540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/allisonjohnsonetec540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/allisonjohnsonetec540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/allisonjohnsonetec540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/allisonjohnsonetec540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}