Twine E-encyclopedia - Ben Vanry

Hello LLED 361 Classmates!

Here is the link to the Twine: http://textadventures.co.uk/games/view/7stooackce6rc2p0m2kdog/dune-primer

Click the GREEN "PLAY ONLINE" button

The "Fremen", "Spacing Guild", "Harkonnen", "Paul Atreides", "Gurney Halleck", and "Shai-Hulud" pages are all complete and can be explored at your leisure. **WARNING HEADPHONE USERS!!**

The innovative twist I put on part of my novel study is to use software called twine (v.2.0) as well as some basic HTML coding to collaboratively create a multi-modal resource. 

My plan for the twine is to use it as a hook to grab students' interest before reading the novel. Then, as an ongoing formative assessment, have individual students or groups create entries for the empty pages or add entirely new entries (with some justification given to the class before their addition). This sort of "e-encyclopedia" for the novel lets students demonstrate multiple digital literacies including HTML 5.2, web hosting, as well as objective topic-specific writing.

This is a really fun way to reimagine resources like glossaries and make them more easily accessible to students. This means, hopefully, that students will be more likely to use to aid with reading comprehension and boost engagement with the material.

There are some important things to be aware if you wanted to create your own e-encyclopedia:

1. Twines must be opened using Google Chrome browser to be viewed

2. Creating your own website to host the urls for artifacts you want to include in your twine, such as images, sounds, videos etc, is highly recommended (Yola is the website maker I use). If you use artifacts simply taken from image search, the host/owner may make them unavailable suddenly. You may also be unwittingly infringing on copyright law. No one wants a cease and desist letter!

3. Support for mobile on this new version of twine is still fairly hit or miss. The developers have promised to sort this out asap.