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Making It Relevant: Helping Students Connect Their Studies to the World Today

Submissions are due by 11:59 p.m. Eastern on Jan. 16, 2018, and students are welcome to work in groups of up to five. Here are all the rules, along with the submission form, and here is the rubric. And if you’d like to think more about weaving these kinds of connections into your own curriculum, you might watch our on-demand webinar, “Ripped From the Headlines and Applied to the Classics: Pairing Often-Taught Literary and History Texts With Times Articles and Multimedia.” Questions? Warm up with a game. Photo To help students get the idea, you might play one of two games we’ve developed — either Literature Quote Bingo or World History Standards Bingo.

In the first, students match quotations from famous literary works to the world today. For extra credit, students might try to find something in a recent issue of The New York Times that relates to the quote or standard in each box. 1. 2. The Learning Network.

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A Total Beginner’s Guide to Twine 2.1

I love that it makes it easy for regular people to make interactive stories and videogames. I love that it publishes to standard web formats like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. I love that it’s been embraced by outsiders and badasses of all stripes. Maybe most of all, I love that it gives English undergrads a really good reason to learn some coding and programming. Here are some guides I’ve put together for my students in ENGL 563, “Introduction to Digital Humanities,” to get them started with Twine. For now, I have four guides: Note: If you’re looking for my older guides to Twine 2.0, they now live here. This guide explains what a passage is in Twine and how to create links between them.

Download PDF Version: Getting Started with Twine The concept of a passage Twine games are made up of “passages” — discrete chunks of texts. Making links To make a Twine game, all you need to know is how to make links between passages. Remembering the basics Hiding the sidebar. A guide to Twine. Insomniac's Liz England demystifies the the tool designed for telling interactive stories [The following article was written by Insomniac game designer Liz England and was originally published on her personal website www.lizengland.com.

A guide to Twine

For more about the tool itself, visit the Twine website.] A lot of developers (and some gamers) are kind of aware there’s this tool called “Twine” out there that makes web games, but don’t really know much about it. They don’t know why it’s popular and what it’s used for – most people by now have heard of Depression Quest, at least, but that’s the extent of their knowledge. A Quick Twine Tutorial: Hypertext and Interactive Fiction. By Allison Parrish Download Twine here.

A Quick Twine Tutorial: Hypertext and Interactive Fiction

This tutorial is about Twine 1.4. Engelsk. Teachingenglish.org. Engelskspråklig litteratur og kultur. Writing a Literary Essay An important competence aim for this course is to write essays or articles on literary or cultural issues, and the evaluation of this competence will be a dominating element of your final assessment.

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