Twine for Educators

This asynchronous course allows educators to explore the Twine platform for interactive storytelling and consider how to apply it in their classroom.​​

Description

This course is offered asynchronously and is delivered via Canvas.

This course introduces educators to the Twine programming platform. Participants learn how to create Twine stories and programs using variables, and conditionals, and explore how to use Twine with students.

The Twine for Educators course has a dual focus--developing teachers' personal coding skills in Twine while also developing teachers' expectations for what teaching students to code might look like in their classrooms.

Through this asynchronous course, educators will explore the basics of creating and linking passages, creating branching pathways with multiple endings, using numeric and string variables and adding conditionals to reveal information to the user.

By the end of the course, participants can expect to have a beginner-level understanding of coding with Twine, considerations for student programming in Twine, and then apply their learning to their own classrooms and contexts.

Course Objectives

  • Use Twine to create interactive stories.
  • Utilize multimedia elements, such as images, to enhance the storytelling experience.
  • Use conditional logic and variables in stories made with Twine.
  • Explore how Twine might be integrated into different educational subjects and grade levels.
  • Familiarize themselves with the PRIMMLinks to an external site. (Predict, Run, Investigate, Modify and Make) pedagogical framework.

Audience

Educators from grades 4-12 and all content areas, as well as any staff supporting student learning.

Knowledge Level

Beginner - Participating educators need no knowledge or experience with the CS SOLs, CS content, or Twine.

Registration Notes

CodeVA professional learning is free for Virginia and DC public school educators, preservice students and educators, and Dept. of Defense Education Activity teachers.

Tuition applies to all out of state and private school educators. You can find out tuition costs HERE. 

Please note that you must have an approved VA Public School or DC Public School email domain to register. If you are not seeing a register button, it is due to one of the following reasons:

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If you are having trouble registering, please use this document to make sure you have completed all the necessary steps.

Pre-service teachers and educators should email educators@codevirginia.com for a waiver to register.

Those wishing to pay the tuition costs should email educators@codevirginia.org to be invoiced. CodeVA only accepts credit card payments at this time.