Impactful Learning Experience

I remember when I was a child, I read a book about ballerinas. I believe it started with a picture of beautiful people on the stage, starting with the grow-up story of one of the most popular ballerinas in the world. When I turned the page over, it showed me the feet of the people in the ballet industry. Then I remember the book saying something like “you may see a swan floating on the water with grace, but when you look at them closely, they are paddling madly underwater”. Starting off with showing a pretty side of a real person who was well-known in the industry then moving to the things they had to work very hard on, and lastly leaving a related message felt highly impactful when I read it. When I was going through the materials for this week, this memory that I had forgotten until now just popped up on top of my head, I thought learning by storytelling is quite effective and impactful.

Using Twine

A sample story made using Twine.

It seems that Twine features a technique where it allows the learners to be actively involved by allowing the creator to make a story and a few selections based on the learner’s input. This would help them pay more attention as it requires a follow-up action to learn. However, the process of creating a story from the creator’s perspective was not the best. Also, if the creator is not familiar with HTML or CSS, it seemed like there would be a limited design of the result from what I’ve experienced.

It doesn’t open up with some useful shortcuts, and it doesn’t show the creator how to connect from story to story easily unless the user actively searches up for it. I also did not like how the text boxes kept opening on top of each other, the transition design seemed smooth but putting them on top of each other felt really overwhelming and unnecessary. I also wish it had arrows in different colours so the creator can easily tell which process will go to what follow up process story.

Overall, learning with Twine would be helpful for the learners as it allows the learners to be actively participating in order for it to run. However, the learners could also feel bored easily if most of its content is going to be text without any special animated effects, video, images, and such. And most of these features would be able to be used if the creator is somewhat familiar with CSS and HTML. From the creator’s perspective of who might use this website, there were many areas of improvement that could be worked on. At this rate, it might be better to have a Google slide where if you press an area, it navigates you to someplace.