Giorgos Fessakis mail:
gfessakis@rhodes.aegean.gr
SECTION 1
Interactive stories and augmented realities combined is going to be the goal of the day.
STEP 1: INKLEWRITER
Excellent free user tool for direct story writer. They are BRANCHING STORIES.
www.inklestudios.com
It's like a YOUTUBE source of stories where pepole cooperate in building a community.
Compared to a traditional story writing , this app allows the future reader to make choices within the storyline.
Videos, animations, sounds, and other media can be added to the stories.
The writer has big role in designing all the story branches before writing.
Gamebook is the genre where this all comes from. Edward Packard is the first example of Ergodic* literature.
*In this type of lit, you need to make the right choices before moving on.
See SECONDLIFE for collaborative emerging plots
STEP 2: TWINE (an open source tool for telling interactive non-linear stories)
https://twinery.org/
In the edit mode, you make the story board, the story line, so you see the global story plan. In the read mode, you follow the story and make decisions.
To make links you seem to use double brackets. There are tutorials & videos on the web.
STEP 3: TEXTADVENTURES
http://textadventures.co.uk/
Notice the section (346) EDUCATIONAL purposes (see right menu)
The purpose behind branching stories is that the reader, by making decisions, is transformed. The reader faces the consequences of their decisions. It has a social value.
We look into the concepts of allegory (story) and analogy (usually applied to science).
See http://www.eduweb.com/pintura/index.htm for a branch story on PAINTING. Powerpoint is a technologically enough valid tool to create a branched story.
SESSION 2
Combining INTERACTIVE STORY with fancier apps on AUGMENTED REALITY
Overlaying of the real world and virtual info/worlds.
There is a continuum from the real world to the virtual. It's a hybrid world.
It allows real-time interaction
It aligns real objects or places and digital information.
Location-based technology (GPS)
Image-based technology
The mobile sensors , when using the right app, trigger sources of info to show the owner (e.g. you visit a monument and, with the right app, you get info on this monument)
Tools:
- WIKITUDE STUDIO The world's easiest augmented reality creator. Use it, for instance, to maek an interactive poster.
- BLIPPAR
Steps:
1. Take a picture
2. Send it to your mail
3. Save it on your PC
BLIPPAR: create a new project, new BLIPP (e.g. KIOS project folder)
Upload the photo
Include websites, poics, videos, etc
In order to see it (before publication) you need a code. If you publish it, there is no need for code.
By having BLIPPAR on your mobiles, you can surf the actual folder and get to see the virtual elements beyond.
- AURASMA
ollad@live.com
Card game to learn new vocab. Each card can be made to have a song, a video, some sound... beyond it. The stds might want to design the background augmented reality that can help them remember the lexical item.
Cloud-based application. Once all the auras (virtual elements) have been stored in the app library, you can erase them from your device. They are stored in the cloud.
How to apply this possibility to Story-Telling?
The initial picture (full cardboard map) can be scanned and on each stage / box, one part of the story can be told.
Videos, once downloaded, need to be resized, made lighter.
- QUIVERVISION
- ARIS
Augmented reality game: taleblazer
Narrative or scenario
Example: Rhodes 1521 (see slides on the story elements).
Characteristics:
It is a game to do outside.
It needs an introduction
We need to provide questions (and answers)
Introduce a character, an element of suspense in the story
Set a goal, a task, sth will have to be done. Score the best, middle, low performances (with some humour)
SESSION 2: Cultural component of the course
RICHES is an NGO aiming at enhancing the multi-cultural layers of Rhodes. The past is there to be explained and understood.
2009 RICHES started
Some of the cultural venues that they have held are:
- Studium Generale 2013 (lectures of prominent professors)
- Villa Rees
- European Open Gates 2016 (41.000 visits to the formerly locked historical buildings of Rhodes town).
Rhodes in the cold war (1952-1964)
The talented doctor Hedenborg
Rhodes, 1826, the first tourist
Preservation & reaching the audience for cultural and enjoyment reasons is a balance that they are bridging. Riches was born as a kind of protest on how the cultural heritage had always been managed.
What is cultural heritage? What it means to me and 5 examples.
The present-day elements of history (and geography?) that we have inherited from our ancestors and that we should enjoy and know about.
The interest for me comes in terms of "the personal stories" that those products offer us.
Examples of cultural heritage
Gothic Cathedrals like Santa Maria del Mar
Delta Rivers like Delta de l'Ebre
19th century modernist tiles, which flat owners throw away with the consent of the Council
Country domes and walls made from stone by anonymous farmers
The dishes that our grandparents used to cook and which we do not take the time to do now
1988 Rhodes was made World Heritage by the UNESCO
History of Rhodes as a paradigm (an example)
14, 15 century, when the walls were built, the size has never changed.
Many religions and cultures have melted here.
Rhodes is in the middle of the relations between 2 cultures, east and west.
Meaning of Rhodes:
Prehellenic origin. There are theories Phoenitian: meaning "snakes". There used to be many. The snake island.
The meaning of Rose is very unlikely.
AlJazira Alrut (the snake of the island)
It is world cultural heritage since 1988 for its fortifications. Has become symbol of an important period in History. Represents the intercultural exchange in urban landscape- Latin , Ottoman, Christian & Islamic; a unique ensemble of the Gothic period.
250 members nowadays worldwide
Entrance and exit of the Aegean, crossroads
Statue of the sun (Ilios) , with a stone basis and a huge structure made from wood and wired copper around, all filled in with pebbles. There is no doubt about its existence but there has remained no evidence of how it looked like.
Rhodes was splendorously cultural from 323 to 42 bc. In the latter date, Cassius, the Roman Emperor, destroyed it
Allies of the Romans, but not always, in 168 bc, it stopped being trade centre and Delos became one.
THE BYZANTINE PERIOD (395-1204 CE)
During this period, people left the coast (it was not safe) and for 1000 years they lived inland. Few byzantine buildings have remained here.
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