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Twine is my pick for flexibility, fun to use and easy to learn.

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You don't need to write any code to create a simple story with Twine, but you can extend your stories with variables, conditional logic, images, CSS, and JavaScript when you're ready.

Twine publishes directly to HTML, so you can post your work nearly anywhere. Anything you create with it is completely free to use any way you like, including for commercial purposes.

The latest version of Twine is 2.8.0, released 27 November 2023.

Looking for the 1.x version of Twine? It's on the IF Archive.

The Twine Reference is a guide to the Twine user interface. If you're new to Twine, start here.

Once you're familiar with Twine, you should learn more about the story format you're using. Story formats are like game engines, and determine the features you'll have access to and the way you'll write code.

The Twine Cookbook has advice on how to choose a story format and easy-to-follow examples of how to accomplish common tasks with each of Twine's built-in formats.

Each of Twine's built-in story formats has an online guide:

Chris Klimas, who created Twine and leads its development, has a Patreon.

You can also make donations in support of Twine to The Interactive Technology Foundation, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides support for the infrastructure of the interactive fiction community.

Some story format developers also accept donations. Visit the web site of the story format you use to find out how you can support continued development.

Non-financial support is important, too. You can help someone out with a question, contribute to the Cookbook, create tutorials of your own, help fix bugs in Twine or its story formats, or translate Twine's user interface to another language.

There are repos for Twine's story formats, too:

Twine is a registered trademark of the Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation. Hosting for this web site is also provided by the IFTF.

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Twine / An open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories

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There are a few different tools out there, but the one I see the most is TAGS developed by Martin Hawksey. Here's a brief intro.

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The use of Twitter to collecting tweets around an event hashtag allowing participants to share and contribute continues to grow and has even become part of mass media events, various TV shows now having and publicising their own tag. This resource is often lost in time, only tiny snippets being captured in blog posts or summaries using tools like Storify, which often loose the richness of individual conversations between participants.

It doesn't have to be this way. Using a combination of Google Spreadsheets as a data source and a simple web interface to add interactivity it's possible to let users explorer your entire event hashtag and replay any of conversations.

View example conversation replay Try out a LIVE version
Update: If you are still struggling to understand the concept Radical Punch have done a overview of this tool

Here's how to archive event hashtags and create an interactive visualization of the conversation (written instructions below):

Twitter: How to archive event hashtags and create an interactive visualization of the conversation

Capturing the tweets

Get and setup TAGS

Creating a public interactive visualisation of the archived tweets

1. Copy the url of the spreadsheet you just created

2. Visit http://hawksey.info/tagsexplorer and paste your spreadsheet url in the box, then click 'get sheet names'

3. When it loads the sheet names leave it on the default 'Archive' and click 'go'

4. You now have a visualisation of your spreadsheet archive (click on nodes to delve deeper)

5. To share the visualisation at the top right-click 'link for this' which is a permanent link (as your archive grows and the spreadsheet is republished this visualisation will automatically grow)

Related

Posted in Tagged Google, Google Apps, #TAGSExplorer Google Sheets, TAGSExplorer, Twitter, Visualisation

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The use of Twitter to collecting tweets around an event hashtag allowing participants to share and contribute continues to grow and has even become part of mass media events, various TV shows now having and publicising their own tag.

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Digital storytelling projects often require pulling together pieces from all over the web, into one webpage, blog or website.

Easy, free solutions for full sites and complex menus include Google Sites, Wordpress.com, and Wix.

For more stream/single page sites try Tumblr, Padlet, Learnist, Medium.

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Hypothesis is my favorite web annotation tool. Can be totally open, shared with a particular group, or totally private.

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Comment on and highlight what interests you.

Annotate articles, websites, videos, documents, apps, and more - without clicking away or posting elsewhere. Hypothesis is easy to use and based on open web standards, so it works across the entire internet.

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Collaborate with anyone, anywhere. Use Hypothesis to annotate anything online with classmates, colleagues, or friends. Create a free personal account, or talk to our sales team about Education solutions. Get [...]

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Storify is the current king in this realm.

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My current go to tool for making awesome looking designs, without fuss, is Canva. I really like the icon and shape libraries. Plus every design can be group edited, making it ideal for collaboration.

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Canva is a free-to-use online graphic design tool. Use it to create social media posts, presentations, posters, videos, logos and more.

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Beyond the standard slide tools, students should consider Slides, which has some very interesting interactive web features.

For great looking static presentations, with built-in Flickr Creative Commons image search (and citations) check out Haiku Deck.

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Meet your new favorite editor

Slides is a suite of modern presentation tools, available right from your browser. Unlike traditional presentation software, there's no need to download anything. Working with collaborators to make an awe-inspiring presentation has never been easier.

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Google Maps is probably the easiest tool to use for this. Though there are many others too.

Once signed into a Google account, they can go to Google Maps
1. in top left, click Menu (3 horizontal bars)
2. click Your places, then click Maps
3. at bottom click Create Map

I can supply some more detailed directions once in the editing interface, but there are many guides out there for this.

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Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps.

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Timeline JS3 – Make interactive multimedia timelines. This is great for showing anything that has happened over time, but it also allows for creative approaches for showing things that are sequential, but not necessarily strictly time-based.

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ThingLink lets you add interactive hotspots to images. The hotspots can have text, images, videos, web, etc.

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ThingLink: Create unique experiences with interactive images, videos & 360° media

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Easily create interactive and immersive visual experiences for online communication and learning. Start a free trial!