Mike's Technology Challenge - BR 12 - Twine - 11/11
Wow. I chose to use Twine, and I'm not sure if it's the lack of sleep, the two days of giving conference presentations, or the utter and complete failure of this program in producing anything that is of use (assuming that this program was designed to be used for some purpose). Forgive me, but I found Brain Rules 12 to be one of the best chapters of the book: I connected with it, and I found Medina's stories about his children to be authentic, as opposed to the various anecdotes throughout which struck me as being included at the request of a publisher who knows how to sell books to a popular audience. And then I went to put my notes into Twine (after struggling all week with PowerPoint, Google Presentations, and Prezi in advanced ways) to find a program, upon a cursory glance (although I don't see much here to be seen), that is difficult to manipulate and nearly impossible to share. In short: these notes seem neither accessible or useful, and I would never consider using this program in a course. Please forgive my bluntness, but I can't even imagine a use for it. I really can't.
Feel free to download it here, but you'll need to download Twine first.
This week, I looked at Kim's Venngage and Amy's Quizlet.
Kim's experience with Venngage was very interesting, and I'm glad to know that Piktochart has more templates available. I meant to try working with one of these two info graphic programs. It looks like students could use this software to create visual aids for presentations as well as other kinds of assignments. That's crazy that you need the paid version just to save it as a PDF. This sounds to be a bit more of a commercial enterprise than Picktochart, which makes me a little nervous: will they sell their company to the first buyer that comes along, and what will happen to the software then?
I had a colleague tell me about Quizlet recently, and what Amy did with it was excellent. I plan to use this program to create some study flashcards for my British Literature II class in the Spring. The fact that Quizlet offers games, too, was something that I didn't even know about. I've been looking to do some gamification in my classes, having only begun to integrate some achievements/badges into my classes. Thanks for sharing, Amy. I, too, share your concerns about obsolescence after reading the Madden article.
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Comment on Mike's BR 12: Twine (Heather)
Mike, I was unable to access your twine from the link posted. That said, if you hated it that much, I'm not sure it matters since I would never want to bite-off working with an impossible program. I had BR 11 this week, but since you love BR 12 so much, I will have to go back and read that chapter! Thank you for your bluntness.Posted on 12 November 2014, 3:20 pm by Heather Laslie | Permalink
Kevin's Comments on Mike's Twine
Unlike most everyone else, I liked Twine. I found it easy to use. I was thinking about using it to have my students create stories with multiple endings.Posted on 16 November 2014, 10:01 am by Kevin Norris | Permalink
think on it
Mike, sometimes it takes a while to figure out what/how/why you might use an application. I'm not necessarily saying you will; but, also allow something to bounce around in the back of your head.Posted on 6 December 2014, 10:44 am by Shelley Rodrigo | Permalink
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