As part of a course I’m teaching on “Digital Storytelling,” I’m going to make a video in which I show my students how to code a branching story in Scratch. My daughter will provide the visuals. Here she is photographing her model of Bag End.
We bought just a few actual Lord of the Rings sets, but between the handful of Harry Potter and Star Wars, and the much larger number of generic medieval and adventure sets, she’s got plenty to remix.
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