I’ve been given the task of teaching programming to high-schoolers coming to our college for a two-hour STEM session. In the past I’ve used Scratch and Python and code.org, but I want to try something new, so I’m thinking of using Twine.
This article Teaching Programming with Twine gives me some hope and some ideas, but I’d like to hear from anyone who has actually used Twine to create interactive web stories. What kinds of stories did you create? What was your learning curve? What resources did you find useful? How much “programming” did you use? Is there a decent repository to publish Twine stories?
I showed my nine-year old granddaughter Twine this weekend, and she was enthralled. She spent hours and hours working on a story, adding new passages and options. I showed her how to find and use online images that she could use in her story, but that got to be a bit too involved for her. I helped her with some counters and (if: statements, but that’s as far as the programming went. At the end, she was very proud of her (ever-growing) story and couldn’t wait to show it to her mother.
SO - suggestions and ideas appreciated.