Twine is a fun and interactive website that allows users to use storytelling as a means of teaching and learning. People are more intent and interested in learning if they are almost tricked into thinking of it like a story. Additionally, students become more personal, passionate and intrigued about material when they can relate to it.

By looking over all the principles from Mayer’s 12 Principles of Multimedia, the principles that directly relate to my interactive Twine story are:

  • The Coherence Principle: this principle conveys how irrelevant information can decrease learning and overwork your brain. In my Twine narration, I only included simple text and visuals that directly relate to the main topic being presented on each page.
  • The Spatial Contiguity Principle: people learn best when images and text are close together and not on separate pages. In my Twine story, I made sure to be mindful of the placement of my material and kept it close together.
  • The Segmenting Principle: people learn better when information is spaced out in learner-paced segments rather than as a continuous unit. Twine allows users to skip forward, go back, pause and play each page of my story at their own pace so information can be recalled and retained more effectively.

Click here to view my Twine story!

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