{"id":119,"date":"2021-02-13T23:39:23","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T06:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/katrinawong\/?page_id=119"},"modified":"2021-03-20T14:40:25","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T21:40:25","slug":"5-4-task-5-twine-task","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/katrinawong\/tasks\/5-4-task-5-twine-task\/","title":{"rendered":"Task 5: Twine Task"},"content":{"rendered":"

5.4 Task 5: Twine Task<\/strong><\/p>\n

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My Super Power Twine:\u00a0\u00a0file:\/\/\/Users\/kewong\/Downloads\/My%20Super%20Power.html<\/a><\/p>\n

This was my first time using Twine and I thought it was fun and made stories adventurous. I really like the concept of giving the reader some autonomy in deciding how a story might play out.\u00a0 It certainly reminded me of those \u201cChoose Your Own Adventure\u201d books that I used to read as a child. The \u201ccheat sheet\u201d that was provided really helped.\u00a0 Once I became more familiar with how to input text and images, I tried to focus more on my story and the purpose of what I wanted to achieve.\u00a0 In consideration of the reader, I had to think about what choices and paths I could offer as possibilities.\u00a0 In chapter 3 of\u00a0Writing Space: Computers, Hypertext, and the Remediation of Print<\/em>, Bolter (2001), he says that the choices can be equally convincing and the hypertext suggests the changed relationship between the reader and the text.\u00a0 As I continued to create my Twine, I wasn\u2019t thinking about the relationship of the reader and the text itself. I was thinking about the relationship of the reader and the story.\u00a0 How can I make this meaningful with just a few words\u2026hypertext.<\/p>\n

As a creator using Twine, I found it much easier to write using hypertext, as series of text chunks (Wright, 2007) which give links to offer the reader different pathways as Ted Nelson defines this in the YouTube clip in this Week\u2019s module 5, The Web that Wasn’t by Alex Wright.\u00a0 It was easier than writing a whole story and giving details to the plot and characters.\u00a0 It gave me the opportunity to be concise and deliberate with the options I was giving the reader. There was unnecessary text.\u00a0 The hypertext gave a clear and direct communication to the reader to either [[do this]] or [[do that]] which I found efficient and organized.<\/p>\n

Jay Bolter (2001) describes literature as an ongoing system of interconnected documents.\u00a0 I felt that Twine was very much like Bolters (2001) description where all the web of connections and written options are connected to the story and readers decisions.\u00a0 Using Twine, gives the reader choices uses the hypertext links to make decisions that control the outcome of the story.\u00a0 Bolter (2001) says that there are connections with the hypertext that are meaningful for the author and the reader depending on what is their chosen path in the text.\u00a0 When humans meet a dilemma in their life, there is often a divide of choices.\u00a0 Twine gives the reader the opportunity to choose a particular route in order to fulfill a certain outcome and looks at the variety of possibilities.\u00a0 Bolter (2001) mentions that readers get to participate in several paths and the significance will depend on the readers choice to arrive at the next topic.\u00a0 As I continued to create my story, I kept thinking about how I could make my choices significant to the reader.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m beginning to think more about how text and language give meaning.\u00a0 In the podcast, The Allusionist, Gretchen McCulloch talks about how punctuation in text gives meaning.\u00a0 For example, a \u201cperiod\u201d can mean sincerity but could also be implied as rude.\u00a0 Will the students in my class lose the meaning of how words can be used to express certain things?\u00a0 A time where emojis and GIFS are vastly used to communicate.\u00a0 I often find that my students have so much difficulty expressing themselves or knowing what to write.\u00a0 It seems to be all of my students when it comes to writing assignments. I feel it is my duty as an educator to ensure that students are enjoying text and writing meanwhile using technology. I think my next assignment for my students will be to work collaboratively and use the idea of Twine and hypertext.\u00a0 They can brainstorm some opportunities for choices (paths) and work together to expand their ideas as to what consequences will occur if they choose a certain pathway.\u00a0 It could be much more detailed in description.\u00a0 I hope they can see this as something fun and use it to expand their written skills!<\/p>\n

References<\/p>\n

Bolter, J.D. (2001).\u00a0Writing Space: Computers, hypertext, and the remediation of print\u00a0(Links to an external site.)<\/a>. Mahway, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, pp. 77-98.<\/p>\n

Wright, A., [Google Tech Talks] .(2007, Oct 26). The Web that Wasn\u2019t <\/em>[Video].YouTube<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=72nfrhXroo8&feature=emb_title<\/a><\/p>\n

Zaltzman, H. (Host). (2019, July 13). New rules (No. 102) [Audio podcast episode]. In\u00a0The Allusionist<\/em>. https:\/\/howitbegan.com\/episodes\/the-printed-book\/<\/p>\n

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