Source: WrittenRealms WrittenRealms is an online app that lets you create interactive fiction and play other IF games. It is free to use, without any ads. This could be a great option for any project based learning happening in your classroom. The have several tutorials and movies to help your students get started building their…
Source: Write an If-Then Adventure Story – Applied Digital Skills If you haven’t realized, I like interactive fiction (IF) and have written several posts on creating IF. Someone at Google likes is to because Google has created an entire lesson plan on creating IF in Google Slides. Although it is broken up into 4 lessons,…
Source: Squiffy – A simple way to write interactive fiction Do you want to write interactive stories, but Twine seems a little too complicated? Then try out Squiffy. Squiffy is available to use in your browser, or you can download the application version for Windows. macOS, or Linux. For the web based version, you can…
Source: borogove.app/ Interactive fiction (IF) was in its heyday in the 80s. It is a video game written as an interactive story where the player takes parts as the story unfolds. There is still an active community behind current IF, and tools such as borogove.app is an easy way to get started. Writing a program…
Source: Adventuron – itch.io I’m a big fan of interactive fiction, and Adventuron is another tool that can be used to create interactive fiction. But, the fun doesn’t stop there. There is also Adventuron Classroom that walks you through coding an interactive fiction game. I used the word coding because that it what you or…
Source: ActiveLit Via: “ActiveLit” Lets Students Play & Create Choose Your Own Adventure Games In Virtual Classrooms | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… To create the stories, you use Quest to write interactive fiction. Quest is available online and as a Windows download. The stories play out very much like the Choose Your Own…
It was a typical Tuesday in my seventh-grade social studies class. Only, it wasn’t. I couldn’t coax students to stop writing. I made several announcements to save and export work to Google Drive and to put away computers. Students continued to pore through the books and online sources to learn more details about major battles…
New Tools for Interactive Fiction and Engaged Writing | Edutopia Students were using interactive fiction tools to reimagine American Revolution battles as text-based adventures, written from the second-person perspective. Interactive fiction is essentially a computer-based version of Choose Your Own Adventure books, in which the reader has agency regarding a story’s multiple, threaded outcome. I…
Inklewriter is an online service that allows the user to write interactive fiction. What is interactive fiction? In its simplest form you can think of interactive fiction as the old choose your own adventure books. Inklewriter lets you or your students create their own interactive fiction online. This could be used with students as they author…
Student’s today are no long limited to writing in a word processor, there are many other ways a student can express herself in the classroom. These ideas are closely related to digital publishing, so you can take the following ideas and integrate them with your own digital publishing plans in the classroom. Six word stories…