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Exploring Contingency with Twine in the Digital History Classroom (Slides)

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Originally looking for a clever way to teach about the concept of contingency in a Digital History graduate course, I stumbled upon an assignment approach that also helped my students evaluate the way they approach scholarship production, as well as introducing them to the interactive storytelling tool Twine. In this presentation, I'll talk about a particularly well-received hands-on lab assignment I developed utilizing Jason Helms' multimodal work "Play Smarter Not Harder: Developing Your Scholarly Meta" and Gabi Kiriloff's Programming Historian guide to "Interactive Fiction in the Humanities Classroom: How to Create Interactive Text Games Using Twine."

Source: Knowledge Commons (Lakehead University)

DOI: 10.17613/89j2c-6e688

Author: Heider, Cynthia

Institution: University of Pennsylvania

Language: English

Topic: Digital Humanities and Scholarship

Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W7101433494

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