Part 5: Making it Useful

Podcast 5 focuses on making these games and exercises useful. Once you have developed a creative space, divergent skills, and used these to play creative textual games, the question often arises of how to integrate this into other projects and activities. Podcast 5 answers that question, focusing on the drafting stage of projects. Some of the practical techniques include brainstorming, remediating ideas, freewriting, and juxtaposition.

Article on using the games in a Norwegian high school: https://papers.academic-conferences.org/index.php/ecgbl/article/view/1385

Dylan Thomas Dominoes, an advanced game using some of these concepts: http://www8.uis.no/fag/DigitalGamesForReadingLiterature/www/docs/

Metaphor Mapping, an interface for exploring texts using these ideas: https://www.allencjones.com/metaphor-mapping.html

You can find a transcription here (pdf, opens in new tab)