EDU221ChooseYourOwnAdventureStories

Do you remember [|Choose Your Own Adventure] book series? They came out in the 1980's and were very popular through the 1990's and are still around today. Turns out, the concept is making a comeback... the concept is now commonly called interactive story and in the world of multimedia, it's easy to publish/create digital versions of your story. [|Interactive Storytelling] is an entire digital entertainment genre.

Here are some [|great ideas on how to use Choose Your Own Adventure Stories in the classroom] using [|Inklewriter].

Simone T. and Rachel J. did their entire Classroom Management Textbook Chapter Presentation in a Choose Your Own Adventure Story format in fall 2011. Everyone drew a playing card that told you which color team you were on and what character you were. Choices were Dr. Grace, Beth, or Theresa. You can only imagine the fun students had learning about Planning, Preparedness and Time Management in that adventure.

Kaitlin T. and Grace K. in spring 2011 wrote their [|Classroom Management Textbook Chapter about Managing Student Work and Getting Off to a Good Start] in a Choose Your Own Adventure Format.

We are still looking for a good list of the elements of a Choose Your Own Adventure Story, but what we used was [|Len Morse's Writing Tips: How to Write a Choose Your Own Adventure Story].

There are great tips in here and a lot of rationale that will help you in writing your story AND in justifying how your story helped teach your content (when you have to fill out the digital story analysis sheet).

You will need to take the elements of the story type you want (short story, epic,...) AND add these two elements: point of view and forks in the road.