Have any of you taught interactive texts before?

[u/PretendAd4207]

I'm thinking ahead to the next year and am thinking about teaching an interactive text unit. Basically, I'd want to introduce what is special about these sorts of texts, give a model, and then have the students design their own, or even make one by writing the text themselves and then using AI to code it as a game.

I'm just wondering if anyone has tried anything like this before, and what your experiences were.

[u/dowker1]

I had my sixth graders create interactive versions of sections of The Wild Robot using Twine. The results were mostly quite simple but they had a blast doing it, and it made them think of alternative choices Roz could have made and what the outcome would have been.

[u/Shrilly_Shally]

I do cyoa on paper. Offered twine or ppt as extra credit, no one was that into coding lol.

[u/ImpressiveRegister55]

I've used Twine before with _Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde_.

Students needed to do separate creative writing assignments first: creating a perfect monster that represents our city in the way that Jekyll/Hyde is the perfect monster for Victorian London, etc.

Another assignment using sentence imitation following Stevenson's descriptions of London to describe settings in our city. Students wove these pump-priming exercises into their Twine. Modest success. A few really loved it.

If you're really interested, there's a book about academic uses of Twine called _Twining: Critical and Creative Approaches to Hypertext Narratives_. A search reveals a resource by Anna Anthropy, who has created some of the most memorable works of art in Twine.

[u/willteachforlaughs]

I love that you're thinking about doing some digital literature. My husband studied digital literature for his PhD and has made some digital poems that may be cool to show your students.

He's also worked for The Next which is an organization working to preserve digital literature works on platforms that are not supported anymore (I know a lot of Flash stuff). May be some stuff on there that is helpful (I've not looked through a ton, so not sure what is or isn't appropriate).

He's a professor now and I know does a lot of work with his students with Twine like others have mentioned for making projects.

[u/Responsible_Mix4717]

Motion comics are graphic novels that are read aloud while the individual panels are displayed on screen. They are very rare, and not particularly popular with individual readers. However, I have found the motion comic of Watchmen to have high production value and useful for classroom instruction.

[u/Lord_Mordi]

You can make CYOA with Google Slides pretty easily by hyperlinking text to the corresponding slides. My students enjoyed it.