Mary Dooms, a middle school teacher in Illinois who has used interactive fiction in her teaching, recently asked me if I knew about any uses of IF in teaching in higher education. That’s a good question.<\/p>\n
She had found Utah State’s Voices of Spoon River<\/i><\/a> and Myth Mechanic.<\/i><\/a> I know right off that Jeff Howard has taught The Crying of Lot 49<\/i><\/a> using IF, and that students read IF and create it as a digital literary practice in two of my classes, Interactive Narrative<\/a> and The Word Made Digital.<\/a><\/p>\n I’ve certainly heard of many other uses of IF in education, and when I can, I’ll begin to collect and list those. Rather than wait, I thought I’d call for links from Post Position\/Grand Text Auto<\/i> readers, since I know there are many classroom deployments of IF that I’m not aware of. If they have well-packaged downloads like the Utah State projects, that’s particularly nice, but I imagine that other information about the classroom use of IF would also be helpful. Any ideas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mary Dooms, a middle school teacher in Illinois who has used interactive fiction in her teaching, recently asked me if I knew about any uses of IF in teaching in higher education. That’s a good question. She had found Utah State’s Voices of Spoon River and Myth Mechanic. I know right off that Jeff Howard … <\/p>\n