In this workshop participants will use Twine to create an interactive learning ‘quest’ in the form of an online Choose Your Own Adventure.

The main advantages of the ‘quest’ approach to learning activities can be summarised as:
• Active, exploratory learning, closely linked to a specific and situated learning outcome
• Personalisation of learning activities to support players as they progress
• Increasing motivation using discovery and an (optional) fictional narrative
• Use of gamification techniques (e.g. digital badges) to increase motivation

You will need:
• Use of a computer during the workshop
• Twine - download and pre-install it from https://twinery.org/
• A google account

The workshop will be in three parts:
• How to set up and edit Twine stories. Participants will be provided with a simple example, and introduced to hypertext navigation, using variables, and creating ‘padlocked’ pages.
• How to track usage by sending game analytics to a google sheet. Participants will be encouraged to make their own copy of a google sheet and edit their variable names to capture their own original data.
• A short discussion on the pedagogical factors of this style of learning, including how to integrate a range of other learning activities into your Twine story. This will use the Creative Thinking Quest as an example (https://daisyabbottitchio.itch.io/creative-thinking-quest).

You will leave the workshop with a template Twine story which you can customise to your own learning and teaching needs. No prior experience with Twine or javascript is needed.