Narrative & Digital Storytelling

Generate: Creative Writing as Application

This assignment, by Kevin Yee, Kirby Whittington, Erin Doggette, and Laurie Uttich, is from the book ChatGPT Assignments to Use in Your Classroom Today. The Summary from the site explains: Combine creative writing activities with AI tools to bring students’ ideas to life. Key Features of This Assignment Enhanced Engagement and Retention This assignment leverages the power …

Different Ways of Narrating with Curveship-js

This assignment, by Nick Montfort, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: Students are assigned to generate variations of an underlying story using a system designed for this purpose. The goals are (1) to use the core aspects of narrative, events and their representation; (2) to link narrative …

cmpttnl cnstrnt: An Exercise in Constraint and Prompt Engineering

This assignment, by Douglas Luman, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: As new context-aware generative models challenge the human relationship to language, students benefit from first-hand observation of these models’ successes and limitations. Using these models often requires using “prompts” (natural language-based directions) to guide their output. …

Cyborg Texts: A Procedural Creativity Assignment

This assignment, by Jason Boyd, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: This assignment engages undergraduate students in the hands-on practice of procedural creativity through playing with, ‘hacking,’ or building text generators that produce creative outputs. Students are asked to draw upon the material covered in lectures and …