Would you use a virtual world to teach creative writing?
Imaginary worlds are another kind of virtual worlds.
Suggestions about how to use virtual world resources to teach creative writing: Writing in the scene, working together apart, scenes as prompts. role-play, cold reads.
- Indeed, all virtual worlds were initially imagined.
- One reason we like virtual worlds is that we can create the worlds we imagine.
- And we can share that imagined world with others.
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How would a DTA use virtual worlds to teach creative writing?
- DTA=Digital Teaching Assistant
- Manage brainstorming sessions:
- DTA can guide ideation sessions. Group ideation: "Brainstorming"
- Maintain an organized collection of prompts and scenes.
- Present scenes and writing prompts as directed by the teacher
- Provide entry fields with writing prompts for "write on site" exercises.
- Collect exercise products and deliver them to the teacher with grammar checked.
- File exercise products in word processor form.
- Manage cold reads by the writing group.
- Manage group role-play
- Provide promotion prompts at the teacher's direction.
- DTA can guide ideation sessions. Group ideation: "Brainstorming"
Writing in virtual worlds
Products
Exercise scene and prompts
- The Whitechapel atrocities, investigation continues. Timeline violation or fiction?
- Mystery Manor (1), a game of games. Solo solving, group roleplay, scene stories.
- Exercises for a 3D writers workshop: place and characters
- An interactive, social 3D writer's workshop in a browser. And how to mix workshop with interactive fiction.
- Writer's workshop in your browser: Virtual field trip
- Writing Workshop 2: For every place there is a story: Ideation
- Web-worlds as a place for storytelling
- How writers could use a web-world. Meet in a minute
- Mystery Manor (1), a game of games. Solo solving, group roleplay, scene stories
Worked Exercises
- Seanchai WestWorld: a place for storytellers. Can I find a story here?
- The story at Fantasy Place: quest for the wolfbane flower Part 3, Oberon, Puck, and Wolfbane
- Death for dessert: Another workshop model: Detective, compact
- The pecan pie murder. A 3D story in first draft for the writer's workshop
- Jane, Plain Jane: In eight scenes. A short story as a writing exercise
- Sudden stories: A set of pictures. A hook line. What happened here? Would it make a story?
- The myth of Asgard. Role play: Norse mythology characters. Could people learn about mythology here?
- A conversation with Aeschylus. Space travel, time travel in the MUVEs
Promotion
Education
Web-worlds
- Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary
- Developing an interactive storytelling capability in CybaLOUNGE, a roadmap for education
- The writing communities of the virtual worlds. What do they offer to writers?
- Writing on the grid. The writing community of the Hypergrid.
- Writers on the web: Wednesday Workgroup On 3DWebWorldz.Com
- Writer's workshops in the virtual worlds (MUVEs). Some as near as your browser. Summary
- Web Writers Workshop, the writers group that meets in your browser.
- Jamie and Selby introduce a 3D writer's workshop on the web
- Writers of the Hypergrid. Creative Collaboration.
Scene creation
Literary enrichment
- TEA TIME on the Orient Express: Seanchai Library
- The (Virtual) World of John Steinbeck
- Virtual Library and Tacoma Little Theatre Continue Partnership
- The power of myths: How Stories Shape What We Believe
Role-play
- Ever heard of writer's block in role-play? Role-play in virtual worlds as practice writing
- Hogwarts Forever: Roleplay in virtual worlds is writing in draft. Does writing create magic?
Educational games
- Most games need a story.
- Literacy game in virtual worlds. The Mythical World of Hīnātore
Other writing guidance
- Collaborative fiction blogging in virtual world. Writing does not have to be lonely
- Optional thinking: Draft; Un-; Zen; Final
- Interactive writing: Guide your readers
Illustrative uses of the virtual world
- Invictus: Installation art, poetic art of the virtual worlds
- Believe: a poem for voice and video
- Immersive Edge - An immersive story told in a virtual world. Remember Myst?
- Immersive Edge, not since the dawn of time travel.... Immersive Edge, a collaborative video production
Theater
Video production
- SUMMARY: Resources for video production in virtual worlds
- Grow a team of comedy writers in SL. And make the videos to prove it.
- Flying Saucers from Outer Space (or Wherever)
- A set grows in Kitely. Flying Saucers Return
- Flying Saucers Return: A pilot (Episode 1): a product of virtual worlds
- Virtual storyboarding for the graphically challenged. Picture it in 3d
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- Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary
- And we can visit the Writer's Workshop on the Web
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