This week’s lessons taught me about the importance of storytelling and how multimedia tools can be used to create interactive and impactful stories. Below I have linked the interactive story that I have created using Twine. My “story” is more or less a guided series of decisions that is a sample of decisions that lead to a promising hockey player’s journey towards the NHL.

The first multimedia principle that directly relates to my interactive Twine story is the “Coherence principle”. My story is an easy-to-follow set of questions that asks the reader / participant to choose their own “path” towards the NHL while excluding extraneous material that would distract them from thinking about what they want to choose. A second multimedia principle that relates to my interactive Twine story is the “Signaling principle”. I made sure to briefly recap the selection that has been made at each point in the story while adding cues that highlight the key information of the story that will contribute to how the story ends. This makes my interactive story easier to follow along with, and if I were to expand the story in the future to add even more decisions it would allow for the reader / participant to keep track of how they are progressing throughout.

Finally, one way that I could use my Twine story for an educational or instructional purpose would be to take this story and use it as part of a lesson for young hockey players who aspire to one day play in the NHL. Obviously, my story is not realistic, but it would be an interactive tool that would make these young players think about their own decisions as they work their way through their hockey lives.

 

Link to my interactive story on Twine: https://web.uvic.ca/~rmccue/twine/connor-nhl.html

 

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