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When I first used Queneau's Exercices for teaching, I would hand out photocopied passages from nineteenth- or twentieth-century French authors, and students would work on these texts, changing the tense, point of view, sequence of events, and so on, as needed. More recently, I have used practice texts from a single work, Albert Camus's novel L'étranger , whose stylistic simplicity lends itself admirably to the purposes of the course. The students are given a two-paragraph excerpt from the novel for written assignments and a different passage for in-class practice. The advantage of having a single text is that in a short time the student has committed that text to memory, knows it in minute detail. The vocabulary and syntax are not an ever-renewed obstacle, and the student can proceed directly to stylistic modification of the text.

ARGs have failed to break into mass media, because the interaction is in the wrong place. Right now, the interaction is finding the story. When someone doesn't know what to do next, it's easy to stop, and every time we ask someone to change platforms, we lose audience. But the experience of transmedia is powerful, immersive and emotional. We have to find new ways to tell stories across multiple platforms using interactivity.

"Micro Confessionals If a picture is worth 1,000 words, how much does a secret go for? We're approaching the 3rd year of the still-going-strong"

"Daytum is a project that allows users to construct their own data driven narratives. By tracking and visualizing data from aspects of their lives, users paint a statistical portrait of themselves. The results are surprisingly engaging and reveal the kinds of details you never find on a Facebook profile. The Little Prince famously observed that adults only understand the world via numbers - perhaps we should replace our Facebook profiles with Datum pages?"