Searching
the web for a tool that would allow me to play ‘Exquisite Corpse’, I ended up finding
a very interesting site that could be useful for a classroom in which ICT is
present.
It is
called “FoldingStory”. Remember when you were a little kid and played with your
friends that game that consisted of the creation of a story in which each
participant had to add a sentence or a word? Well, this is a very good game for
exercising language with your students and they can do it online –once registered,
of course. Bureaucracy is everywhere-.
After
logging in, they have the following options: CREATE (that is to begin a story),
ADD (to continue an existing story) or just READ (to take a look at other
people’s stories).
There is a
twist, though. We all know about the increasing popularity of Twitter. FoldingStory
borrowed that particular feature of Twitter that makes it unique: you have a
140-character limit for each entry. That is: 140 characters if you begin
writing a story, and 140 characters if you add lines to another story. People
who collaborate with your work will also have that same limit. This
characteristic makes the creation of the whole story very dynamic.
Here you
have the link: https://foldingstory.com/
and I hope you and your students enjoy it!
