Given the class’s ongoing discussions of the affordances of hypertext and the goal of creating a web of interconnection between the students of ETEC 540, a few of us virtually got together to play a game of Telestrations. For those unfamiliar with the game, it’s a mashup of pictionary and broken telephone where players take turns drawing and guessing phrases, objects, or actions. Telestrations was a great opportunity to play with text, image, and hyperlinks.
You can follow the hyperlinks from our respective blogs to see how the game unfolded. It works best if you follow the hyperlinks linearly, but nothing is stopping you from jumping around.
There were six of us who played. I started the game off with the drawing pictured below. Can you decode what phrase/object/action the image is trying to illustrate? Before continuing, feel free to put your guess in the comments, otherwise click on the image to see Sandra’s interpretation of my drawing. Click here if you want to see the original phrase that prompted the drawing.
If you’d rather just jump around from blog to blog follow the links to see:
- Sandra’s guess
- Kirsten’s drawing based on Sandra’s guess
- Nathan’s guess based on Kirsten’s drawing
- Ying’s drawing based on Nathan’s guess
- Selina’s final guess based on Ying’s drawing
It’s interesting to think about the ways in which computer-mediated communication and hypertext support a game like this and what is lost when we remove the immediacy of playing this game in person.