Reading Inanimate Alice Episode 4

So you've read Inanimate Alice Episode 3 and now Episode 4. We talked about the role of different modes (that multimodality); the images, sounds, text, interaction etc and how that all works together to create a story or develop a sense of Alice.


Now that you’ve read Inanimate Alice Episode 4, think about the elements of a narrative and fill in the three column chart:


https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wp15x-ufWTncHC6PRo-Lu2X8MhWC1MqiujJkBP-CtSE/edit?usp=sharing

Digital Fiction

Here is an early example of a digital fiction, a take on The Snow Witch made by Machinima using the Sims:

Module 6: Cross-Platform Stories

Activities/Assignments ●      Add a comment to Module 6’s blog post with your reaction to the transmedia story examples. Have you ever read anything like these works before? How can you be sure you have read the whole narrative? Jill Walker suggests that the disunity that arises from reading such works highlights a different kind of unity – that the work unfolds at the same time as our reading. What do you think? ●      Assignment C – Animoto Video Review due at end of day Dec.18th

Read more about this transmedia fiction and others at Conducttr.

Module 5: Twitter Fiction

Image from the Twitter Fiction Festival, 2015.

Activities/Assignments ●      Add a comment to Module 5’s blog post in which you respond to Carla Raguseo’s statement: “Twitter fiction can provide learners with a rich language experience in easily digestible fragments. It challenges them both as readers and as writers to attempt and explore multiple meanings and to develop academic skills such as synthesizing and paraphrasing while fostering structural and semantic awareness in playful experimentation.” ●      Live tweet @JessL THREE initial reactions and responses as you make your way through ONE of the three Twitterature readings

Module 4: Writing for Social Media

Activities/Assignments ●      Add a comment to Module 4’s blog post with your reaction to infographics. Are you a staunch supporter of their engaging presentation of information or do you abhor their excessive inclusion of unnecessary design elements? ●      Tweet @JessL with two Twitter can sharpen your writing.

Image via EduTechChick.

Module 3: Born Digital Fictions

Image via Inanimate Alice.

Activities/Assignments ●      Add a comment to Module 4’s blog post with your response to TWO of the digital fictions we read this week ●      Send a tweet to @JessL with a comment about the Module 4 PowerPoint lecture. What did you learn about transliteracy and from reading born digital fictions like Inanimate Alice? Will you read more born digital fictions?