I have designed this lesson to teach graphic novel to undergraduate students.

http://twinery.org/2/#stories/2079a619-977d-0bd1-3d14-47fce8905bf3/play

For almost a decade teachers tend to move from the traditional methods of teaching inside the classroom toward using technology and some digital tools to present their lessons. The utility of using technology has a reflection on teachers and students’ learning interaction, and in a way of making learning and teaching as mutual action between teacher and students. It changes the traditional methods which making the teacher the center of the classroom. Trebor Scholz states in the introduction: Learning Through Digital Media of the book Learning Through Digital Media Experiments in Technology and Pedagogy that, “Teachers need to consider how to engage learners with content by connecting to their current interests as well as their technological habits and dependencies” (9-10). Technology or the digital tools presents the participants and the environment of the educational process as a communication place to share the ideas and thoughts. However, with the variations of the tools that can be used in the classroom, it still difficult to deicide, which one can be useful to one as a teacher or to students to understand it and use it easily. Therefor, I find it interesting to use Twine, which is a useful digital site to teach a graphic novel. This paper will illustrate a lesson plan to teach irregular type of novels through twine.

First let me indicate why I chose to present my lesson through twine! I find twine a valid digital tool to upload pictures, links, sounds, video or/and words in one place. It gives me the space to organize my self and my lesson in a way that make me sure that my students will not lose their enthusiasm in the class. In the same point, twine can help me to show the how to read the graphic novel by choosing the linear way of presenting pages. Additionally, it is a place where students can be creative enough to compose their own stories and digitize it as a fine literary art.  It is difficult to find some kind of tools which give you the space to do all of that without taking that much of effort. Moreover, from the beginning of this course students were using their blogs to comment, response or do their assignment. This gives me as a teacher a clear understanding of how my students work, and what are the things they are struggle to do. Alexander Halavais, in his article, “Blogging Course Texts: Enhancing Our Traditional Use of Textual Materials” states, “This original blog met my needs by encouraging discussion that focused on the texts we were reading and watching, which continued over from our face-to-face meetings to the online world. My intention was to break down the artificial temporal walls that kept thought constrained to the meeting times of the course, but the forum had also, unexpectedly, broken down a lot of other walls” (35).

it is almost morning,

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein