My Twine Story

I designed my twine according to my audience, my classmates and professor. This story is something that I have experienced too. Instead of explanations of each option, I created more options to pave the path of the decision making that the individual would undergo. I built up to a S.T.A.R moment with the goat photo to show that it is worth persevering through the turbulence of university. We are all in university to educate ourselves, not drop out because the material was difficult. The positive takeaway of my twine was that the student almost always chose to approach the next one with a fresh mind. 

 

The segmenting principle, which is the idea that people learn better when a multimedia message is presented in learner-paced segments rather than as a continuous unit. This is relevant to my twine because the entire story is split up into segments. This allows for the viewer to choose their own outcome and go back and pick a different solution if they desire too. Next, the self-explanation principle which is the idea that people learn better when they are encouraged to generate self-explanations during learning. This is applicable to my twine story because according to the option the viewers choose, they have to generate the next chapter of the story. 

 

Twine could be used to teach algebra and the concept of BEDMAS. The teacher could use twine to show what happens if you do not follow BEDMAS versus if you do. I think the visual explanation of the dos and don’t for learners would be very beneficial.

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