This document discusses using massively multiplayer online (MMO) games in the classroom for students without access to laptops or ability to install software. It suggests having students engage in collaborative storytelling on Twitter by creating characters, their races and powers, and contributing to a shared narrative using metaphors and similes. Students would then favorite tweets using those literary devices.
22. But what if…!
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I don’t have laptops!
I can’t install MMOs!
I can’t use 3DGameLab!
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Is there anything for me?
23. Metaphors and Similes!
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Metaphor: making connections between two unlike things!
Similes: comparing two unlike things with like or as!
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Example:!
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Pete is a tree, tall and strong. !
Pete is like a flower. He wilts when evening approaches.
24. Twitter!
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#mmopete!
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Introduce yourself: make up a character name, !
a race, and a special power!
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Follow the story and add to the narrative! Use metaphors
and similes. FAVORITE the tweets that use these forms of
imagery.
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