#EXSM3989 Students Reading their Character Descriptions

My #EXSM3989 students reading their awesome character descriptions! Check them out: https://t.co/9tof4dzptL pic.twitter.com/xlJkGYkXtT

— Jessica Laccetti (@JessL) December 1, 2015

My #EXSM3989 students reading their awesome character descriptions! Check them out: https://t.co/9tof4dzptL pic.twitter.com/kvaiLd3e7y

— Jessica Laccetti (@JessL) December 1, 2015

Character Development and Twitter Fiction

Image via The Guardian.

After yesterday's in depth exploration and analysis of several born digital fictions (like Inanimate Alice), today we are focusing on shorter narratives like those crafted on Twitter.

To aid in our Twitter writing we are going to form three groups (much like yesterday) and fill in a google doc, there is one doc per group.

Group 1's doc is here.

Group 2's doc is here.

Group 3's doc is here.


Please fill it in completely and be ready to share with the class.

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 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?