Of all the tasks for this course, I found “Task 5: Twine Task” the most difficult. Now that I am reflecting back on it, I think that if I had gone the non-fiction route with this task, it would have been a lot easier. It would have more closely resembled the type of hypertext that I am used to reading on the internet, as well as integrated the type of writing that I am more accustomed to doing: non-fiction. When I embarked on this task, I had not written a fictional story in many years. Starting with non-fiction probably would have been a better approach to scaffold the activity for myself, especially since trying to integrate different paths in a fictional story just threw me for a loop.
While I found that many of my classmates’ shared the same struggles, I was very interested when I came across Lori J.’s Twine Task, as this was not the first time that they had utilized Twine. Lori J.’s approach was very different from mine and more sophisticated. However, the approach that they used was more akin to what I wish I had done, as her Twine was informational. Lori J. incorporated a fictional character, Freya, but the Twine story told a story to educate the viewer on real, theoretical principles related to Constructionism.
Having the opportunity to view the tasks that my classmates have created has been a very valuable learning opportunity. Creating these blogs and sharing our tasks with an authentic audience is a very valuable principle of Constructionism. It has really helped to reinforce the authentic learning that can take place when multiliteracies are valued and students are introduced to new ways of creating text.
Link to Lori J’s blog post: https://blogs.ubc.ca/etec540jonesy/2021/02/14/task-5-twine-task/