Hometown alice is fourteen and living in a small town in the middle of england that her parents call home. After a peripatetic, adventurous, and dramatic life abroad, alice is living in the uk, going to school for the first time having been previously homeschooled, and has some real rather. Episode 5 is more mediarich than the previous episodes and contains some 3d graphics that may slow down on older systems. Lesson 1 2011 78 december 4 november 32 october 39 september 3. Commissioned and funded by the bradfield company the teachers edition suite is the first 5 episodes of the inanimate alice series made available immediately from a click on an icon on the desktop. Using your goanimate for schools account, you will create a digital lost episode for inanimate alice.
Inanimate alice is an entertaining story for young people aged 8 upwards. Alice s friends dared her to climb to the top of a building. Episode 4 of inanimate alice finds alice going to school at last. It is a digital novel an interactive multimedia fictional tale told with pictures, music and sound effects.
Now, she finds that the socalled stable hometown life. Hometown by kate pullinger and chris joseph this episode in this poetic digital transmedia novel brings alice to an england that is just as perilous as the other places she has lived in, but in a different way. Alice is 16, an aspiring game designer who grew up constantly on the move. Feel free to leave posts here to discuss inanimate alice in particular. Tldl program written by leslie holwerda, teacherlibrarian. Inanimate alice episode 4 electronic literature collection.
If so click here to find out how to add the iteach inanimate alice button to your site or blog. Alice cleverly distracts an armed guard with her matroyshka game, allowing the family to pass a checkpoint and make it safely to the airport. Beginning in china when alice is eight years old, and told over ten increasingly complex episodes, the series follows the. Episode 4 hometown edit alice is 14 years old and living in a small town in the middle of england. Inanimate alice is an ongoing digital novel, an interactive multimodal fiction, relating the experiences of alice and her imaginary digital friend, brad, in. For the first time ever, alice has friends her own age, and they do all the things that 14 year olds everywhere do. Now that you have explore the adventures of inanimate alice, it it time for you to create a lost episode between episode 3. They claim that the view from the top is the best in town. Episode 3 russia episode 4 hometown add the iteach button to your site. For example, in the second episode after alice finds her parents. Hometown of the haunting multimediainteractive story, inanimate alice and can say that it is just as enjoyable and unique as the previous three. Homeschooled until she was 14 years old, alice proves to be a model pupil that students can relate to whether learning at home or in the classroom. Russia by kate pullinger and chris joseph this is a work of fiction told in verse, cinematically, and with video games about the coming of age of a girl named alice.
Alice is 14 years old and living in a small town in the middle of england. Alice accepts the dare but nevertheless is frightened. Remember to keep the 10 tools for digital storytelling in mind when creating your story. Environments and atmosphere inanimate alice development blog. Alice, transmedia and work researchgate, the professional network for scientists. Inanimate alice episodes 1 4 were designed by chris joseph and written by. Alice is fourteen years old and living in a small town in the middle of england.
She spends time hanging out with friends, roaming the city and going to night clubs. They claim that she will see the best view of the town from the top. The episode ends in flight, with alice unaware of their destination. I built my previous episodes mainly out of photographs, video clips, audio tracks and text. The art gallerys slow reveal collection of links to internet art sites was just launched yesterday.
This was inspired by the inamimate alice digital story. As alice grows in age and skills, the 10 episodes become. Great outdoors this is the soundtrack to inanimate alice, episode 6. Includes unlimited streaming via the free bandcamp app, plus highquality download in mp3, flac and more. Her friends have dared her to climb to the top of an abandoned building. One day some unsavoury types are waiting outside school and so she skates across the city to. Kirsten panton the pace of change and development in education has picked up substantially in recent years largely because of the key role ict is increasingly playing in both teaching and learning. To play inanimate alice teachers edition suite you need a pc or mac with an integrated or dedicated graphics card, 2gb or 4gb memory 4gb recommended, a keyboardmouse and speakers or headphones. This paper suggests an analysis of inanimate alice by kate pullinger as an example of a transmedia narrative that triggers a new reading experience whilst. Her friends have dared her to climb to the top of an abandoned. It is a readingfromthescreen experience for the videogame generation.
Hometown alice is now 14 and living in a central england city. It is, according to the electronic literature organization elo, work with an important literary aspect that takes advantage of the capabilities and contexts provided by the standalone or networked computer. Electronic literature is borndigital literary art that exploits, as its muse and medium, the transmedia possibilities of the digital. Alice is 16 years old and has been living in england for almost three years a lifetime record. Life after death experience nde with steve gardipee, vietnam war story one of the best ndes duration. A very interesting and incisive article by kelli mcgraw entitled defining multimodal was posted today on her blog. A 5th episode for animate alice created by year 67 students. One day some unsavoury types are waiting outside school and so she skates across the city to avoid them. They claim that the view from the top is the best view in town. On a dare, she climbs into an abandoned building and finds herself suddenly trapped and alone. This work is licensed under a creative commons attributionnoncommercial 4.
The bradfield company, inc electronic literature directory. She and her parents have ended up in a multicultural city in the middle of england. Gone are download times, browserreliance and slow connections. Exclusive with this album get the 4 stems for a good time guitars, percussion, trombone and orchestra that alice remixes on her player.
These environments are also very different in tone. Inanimate alice tells the story of a young girl growing up in the early years of the 21st century. The last gas station by inanimate alice, released 05 february 2016 1. Are you interested in sharing your ideas or participating in the inanimate alice educational project. Inanimate alice tells the story of a young girl who grows up to become a videogame designer at the biggest games company in the world. The teachers edition suite of inanimate alice episodes 15 provides engaging, fullscreen. Alice uses text, sound, music, images, videos and games in her adventures, which start at age 8 when she learns that her dad is missing in a very remote part of northern china. Inanimate alice is used as an example of internet art at the art gallery, university of maryland. China part 1 of an episodic interactive multimedia story. This blog was begun as an inquiry project for edes 540 university of alberta m. Kelli mcgraw sharing resources, inviting conversations it pertains very much to the discussion over the term transmedia and the different ways in which it used by educators, politicians, digital publishing experts and media experts, etc.
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