ETEC 540

<img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Black_Man_Working_at_his_Desk_Cartoon_Vector.svg/800px-Black_Man_Working_at_his_Desk_Cartoon_Vector.svg.png"/> You sit down at your computer to begin your work session on your Masters project. You try to summon the motivation to get to work as you fire up your web browser. You look at your bookmarks, noticing the YouTube bookmark is remarkably close to the Canvas bookmark. [[You've got time to watch some YouTube videos|YouTube]] [[Let's get to work and open up Canvas|Canvas]]

"Ahhhh! I can justify this by looking up a Twine Tutorial - that'll be useful and productive!" This encouraging thought whips through your brain shortly before you notice your favourite channel has uploaded a new video. The clickbait title draws you in - whispering to your psyche that you must watch it... [[Search for a Twine tutorial|Twine Video]] [[CLICKBAIT!!!|clickbait]]

Canvas loads up and, upon visiting the Module for the week, you notice there are several required readings and a podcast to listen to. "Dear lord..." you think, "Do they not realize the damage our attention spans have suffered from our modern society of instant gratificaiton? How will I get through anything longer than a TikTok video?" Your consitution wavers as you consider having to actually focus on anything that isn't condensed into a sound bite... [[Rise to the occasion and engage with all the material|crush it]] [[Skim the readings and skip through the podcast (Ernesto will never know right?)|skip it]]

The Twine tutorial starts and is... incredibly slow paced. [[Increase the playback speed to x1.75 and gain some knowledge|tutorial]] [[Take a look at the recommended video list and click on something else|clickbait]]

You watch the recommended video... hehe... funny... It ends and looks like another one is up in related videos! [[Keep watching|keep watching]]

You take your time going through each required and additional reading/audio/video source for the week. Your mind is racing as it makes connections between the sources, the material, and your everyday teaching practices. With this newly acquired knowledge your assignment is profound, insightful, and a paragon of work. [[Well done! Assignment graded!|crap]]

You've skimmed the material and are now starting to insert your "connections" into your work. Uhhh Twine lets use increase "the capability of man to approach complex problem situation" (Englebart) [[Perfect|submit low]] [[Maybe revisit the sources|crush it]]

Hehehehe... ooh another video! [[Next up|next up]]

(text-style:"shudder")[Wait it's been 4 hours???] [[Just one more video|one more]] [[Panic and finally open up Canvas|Canvas]]

Well its 12:30 AM - maybe you can try working on your project tomorrow. Good try, better (text-style: "blur")[luck next time.] [[Wake up the next morning and try it all over again|Step 1]]

You've taken in the information at record speed and your creative juices are flowing. You open up Twine and are now ready to create the world's greatest choose your own adventure [[Create an richly-layered, in-depth, and nuanced story with multiple options and variables|nice story]] [[Phone it in and just create a story about making this assignment|low story]]

Somehow you've created a choose-your-own-adventure version of "Shia LaBeouf" by Rob Cantor. <img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Shia_LaBeouf_%28Cannes_Film_Festival_2012%29.jpg/406px-Shia_LaBeouf_%28Cannes_Film_Festival_2012%29.jpg"/> Wait... you need to add some connections to the material covered right? [[Naaaahhh... submit|submit low]] [[Dang, time to open up Canvas|Canvas]]

You slap together some slides that reflect a satirized version of your workflow. <img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/375-thumbs-up-1.svg/600px-375-thumbs-up-1.svg.png"/> Wait... you need to add some connections to the material covered right? [[Naaaahhh... submit|submit low]] [[Dang, time to open up Canvas|Canvas]]

You click submit and walk away - the work you've done wafting out of your mind like a morning mist disappearing into the ether. [[Canvas notification: Assignment Graded|crap]]

Well... (text-colour:red)[2.5 out of 5] isn't too bad right?