Comments on: “Choose Your Own Adventure” Comes to Youtube

By: Day 30: Choose Your Own Adventure - Teach42

Day 30: Choose Your Own Adventure - Teach42 — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 02:11:55 +0000

[...] So today’s challenge, final one in the series, is for you to choose your own adventure. I saw Alec Couros mention the old adventure series in a recent blog post, and so many things clicked in my head. To me the idea, and challenge, really [...]

By: onlineteacher

onlineteacher — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:13:40 +0000

Thanks Alec *:-) I disliked those because I started with “Rick Brant Electronic Adventures” which used more of a classic story progression and unlocked some passion in me. However, my kids loved the “choose your path” style. We are using a little bit of that (it costs money) in some of the courses we are working on for math.

By: Alec

Alec — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 02:15:42 +0000

Thanks all for commenting. I can’t wait to have some examples to share with my students. I will also check to see if any of my students in the Winter semester will want to take something like this on for a class project. Hmmmmm.

@bernie: Good point re: Youtube being blocked. I don’t know of any other service that has those annotations built in like this. I think Youtube bought Omnisio earlier this year to get this type of functionality. Viddler does it (sort of) in the timeline, but this method wouldn’t be nearly as nice as on the screen.

However, I think there is a possibility in using BubblePly. It is not a video hosting service, but it allows you to use video from many different services (there’s a long list) and it helps you create an overlay with linkable bubbles and multimedia. Of course, you would have to choose a video service that is not blocked, and ensure that BubblePly is not blocked either. I hope that helps.

http://www.bubbleply.com/

By: Bernie Dodge

Bernie Dodge — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 01:26:14 +0000

Brilliant! Here in the US, though, the end product could only be viewed at home. Most public schools block YouTube.

Do any of the other video sharing services allow embedded links like this?

By: Patrick Woessner

Patrick Woessner — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 21:29:47 +0000

What a great spin on the “adventure” concept. I can see my middle school kids doing this for creative writing and drama; they’d have a blast!

Thanks for sharing this real gem.

By: Chris Harbeck

Chris Harbeck — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 21:19:14 +0000

That was fun. I could see students doing this in math class. Choosing what kids could do wrong on a question and then having to choose what to do next

That was fun. Thanks for finding it.

By: mcfarljo

mcfarljo — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 21:16:29 +0000

As mentioned this could be a great project for a Communications and Production Technology class or classes. Fun to follow through this adventure and very well done videos.

By: Andy Byerley

Andy Byerley — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 21:10:17 +0000

Brilliant — now the gears are turning. Thanks @acouros.

By: tomwhyte1

tomwhyte1 — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:36:42 +0000

Love this idea, can see great project’s from visual communication classes. Also provide students the opportunity to collaborate with other classes to expand on the story.