Ostenson, Jonathan, and Lisa Fink. \u201cExploring the Boundaries of Narrative: Video Games in the English Classroom.\u201d English Journal<\/em>, vol. 102, no. 6, 2013, pp. 71\u201378.<\/p>\n

Jonathan Ostenson wrote an article called \u201cExploring the Boundaries of Narrative: Video Games in the English Classroom.\u201d\u00a0 In this article Ostenson writes about video games as interactives narratives. He describes how video games can leave the same feeling and thought often brought on by books and novels. Ostenson states, \u201cThe games of today have come to rely more and more on the elements of fiction in their design, and they represent unexplored territory in studying the nature and impact of narrative.\u201d Ostenson reviews various reasons that people have suggested video games be implemented into the English classroom before introducing his own reason. Ostenson believes that video games represent some of the most inventive and important storytelling in the 21^{st<\/sup> century. More and more English teachers have been teaching diverse media and Ostenson believes video games is a new forma storytelling media.\u00a0 He identifies different games and explains their narrative purpose. He even believes that the simplest games have a narrative, for example, Angry Birds. He spend the rest of his paper explaining different purposes and methods that teachers can use to teach video games to their students. He lists different techniques teachers can use and different types of video games that they can teach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"}

Ostenson, Jonathan, and Lisa Fink. \u201cExploring the Boundaries of Narrative: Video Games in the English Classroom.\u201d English Journal, vol. 102, no. 6, 2013, pp. 71\u201378. Jonathan Ostenson wrote an article called \u201cExploring the Boundaries of Narrative: Video Games in the English Classroom.\u201d\u00a0 In this article Ostenson writes about video games as interactives narratives. He describes … Continue reading “Annotated Bib”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-weekly-research-academic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhetoricofgaming.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhetoricofgaming.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhetoricofgaming.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhetoricofgaming.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhetoricofgaming.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rhetoricofgaming.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"https:\/\/rhetoricofgaming.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhetoricofgaming.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhetoricofgaming.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhetoricofgaming.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}