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There are many different ways to foster student engagement and learning in the post modern academic classroom. With the advancements in technology and social media, instructors should not be without pedagogical options. Archaic methods of pedagogy alone are not enough to stimulate the minds of today’s millennial student. In an effort to better teach elements of the narrative this lesson plan utilizes various forms of the narrative including the novel, short stories, spirituals, speeches, and poems with electronic literature and social media (Twitter) to foster understanding and to boon student enhancement.
 * “Fostering Understanding: The components of the Narrative” ENG 132 Introduction to Literature (ground class) **
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This lesson will familiarize students with the social network twitter and with elements of the narrative digital and traditional. The combined trajectory of the lesson will assist in introducing students to electronic literature. Though students use various applications of technology daily; they may not be knowledgeable of the intricacies of electronic literature. This plan will afford students the opportunity to connect traditional elements of the narrative with electronic literature. These elements include:


 * Setting
 * Characterization
 * Atmosphere
 * Point of View
 * Conflict

This assignment is semester long and is worth 25% of the semester’s grade. Students must select a work used in the ENG 132: Introduction to Literature course. Once a text is selected, student must choose a character from the selected text to be the subject of their project. The student will then create a Twitter account in the name of the selected character. Once the character selection has been approved and the account verified by the instructor, students will tweet from the perspective of the character for the entire semester. Students may choose to continue the story arc or take the selected texts in a new direction once the previous option has been exhausted. Characters from the traditional narratives may only be selected once. The digital selections may be selected more than once as there are only four choices. If students procure the same character from a digital selection, the twitter accounts will be numbered. EX: ENG132InanimateAlice 1, ENG132InanimateAlice 2 Additionally, students will complete and submit daily writing responses to the previous meeting’s reading assignment. The responses will be two pages in length and will be completed at the outset of the meeting.

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Donna Leishman


 * Author description: ** //Deviant: The Possession of Christian Shaw// is an animated interactive graphic based on the historical story of Christian Shaw and her demonic possession. Set in 1696 amongst the witch trials, this project explores new ways of experiencing a story — harnessing the allure of mystery and uneasy tensions and plucking the participant's sense of social responsibility.

// Kate Pullinger //


 * Author description: ** //Inanimate Alice// depicts the life of a young girl growing up in the early years of the 21st century through her blog and episodic multimedia adventures that span her life from childhood through to her twenties. It has been created to help draw attention to the issue of electro-sensitivity and the potentially harmful pollution resulting from wireless communications.

// Michael Mateas & Andrew Stern //** Author description: ** //Façade// is an artificial intelligence-based art/research experiment in electronic narrative—an attempt to move beyond traditional branching or hyper-linked narrative to create a fully-realized, one-act interactive drama. Integrating an interdisciplinary set of artistic practices and artificial intelligence technologies, the authors undertook a five year collaboration to engineer a novel architecture for supporting emotional, interactive character behavior and drama-managed plot. You, the player, using your own name and gender, play the character of a longtime friend of Grace and Trip, an attractive and materially successful couple in their early thirties. During an evening get-together at their apartment that quickly turns ugly, you become entangled in the high-conflict dissolution of Grace and Trip's marriage. No one is safe as the accusations fly, sides are taken and irreversible decisions are forced to be made. By the end of this intense one-act play you will have changed the

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students will complete and submit daily writing responses to the previous meeting’s reading assignment. The responses will be two pages in length and will be completed at the outset of the meeting. (Jenzabar quiz grade)

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 * ** Text: ** GilyardKeith and Anissa Wardi. //African American Literature//. New York:Longman,2004.Print.
 * Walker,Alice. //By the Light of My Father’sSmile.// New York: Random House, 1998. Print.
 * Milstein, Sarah. //The Twitter Book.// Vallejo:O’Reily Media, 2011. print.
 * Cashmore,Pete. //Twitter Tips, Tricks,and Tweets.// Hoboken: Wiley, 2009. Print.