This might be just a personal opinion, but I loved reading Choose Your Own Adventure stories when I was a kid. If you're not familiar with them, they were first person narratives that prompted you to make decisions throughout the story, and direct you to a page number based on your choice. So basically, you jumped all around the book until the conclusion of the path that you took. Unfortunately, some paths ended very quickly, and you would end up constantly flipping back to the prior decision and choose another option (I always kept my finger on the previous page...haha). Well, there is a following of people that have continued to keep the Choose Your Own Adventure spirit alive in the form of
this wiki page. This wiki features many stories that have been written and edited in the spirit of the original books in an online format. Note: this site is not limited to only include stories for younger readers, in fact, some of the stories are intended for mature readers. The reason I am referring to this wiki, though, is that it is a great concept to use as a creative writing project. To create a wiki page that allows students to write a Choose Your Own Adventure style story is a fairly easy thing to do if you are interested. I think that it would be a great way to engage students with writing, as well as building new technology skills.
The interesting thing about using a class wiki is that you can allow anyone to edit it. You could start a story and allow students to continue it one page at a time. There are a lot of possibilities with using a medium like this, and you can organize this process in a number of ways. If this is something that interests you, let me know, as I would love to help facilitate a project like this. Giving your students the opportunity to start small and understand how to properly publish to a wiki can evolve into a project that allows them to truly map out a creative story line that they can each collaborate and contribute to.
