Vision Magazine September 2011 Unsung Heroes. … | Be the Change You Wish to See. Y Combinator. With Pictures, Puzzles and Games, Students Create Transmedia Stories. Digital Tools Teaching Strategies Inanimate Alice A scene from the transmedia storytelling site Inanimate Alice By Laura Fleming and John Connell Until just a few years ago, stories we were told mostly through a single medium – it might be a book, a movie, a radio program, a cartoon. Today, we can tell stories across a wide variety of media, all at the same time. Transmedia is a new way of thinking about how stories are told: creating and consuming stories simultaneously through text, images, the spoken word, music, video, animation. Through embedded puzzles and games, Inanimate Alice makes the reader a direct participant in telling the story.
Take Inanimate Alice, for example. With Inanimate Alice, the complexity and interactivity increases with each episode, directly correlating with Alice’s personal growth as the games designer she is set to become. Though the website is pretty self-explanatory, educators can download the iTeach education resource pack, which is supported with lessons.
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