I was inspired today by a blogpost I found online written by Jonathan Wylie about “Creating Interactive Choose Your Own (Google) Adventure Stories". I tried to create one on my own with a Google form but had major difficulties. So I wrote up some idiot-proof instructions.
First of all, take a look at my stories: One in English and below it, the same one in French:
Instructions
l. Google forms
2. Open a Google form (Google Drive > Create > Form). 
Choose a template and give it a title. Click “OK”.
3. When you look at your form, you will notice that you already have a Page 1 (top left hand corner). 
Look at your story outline (#1 above) and create as many pages in your form as you need by clicking on the grey area outside the form and typing “ip”. If you’re not sure how many you will need, start off by creating 15.
4. Scroll back up to the top. On each page, where it says “Untitled page”, rename the page it’s page number (except for Page 1 which is the title of your form). Click “Done.”
5. Scroll up to Page 1. Where it says “Form description” type out the description for page 1 taken from your outline.
6. Click on the little arrow to the right of “Add item”. Choose “Multiple choice”.
7. “Untitled question”, leave blank.
8. “Help text” leave blank.
9. Check off “Go to page based on answer”
10. Where it says “Option 1”, delete “Option 1”, then type out (or cut and paste) your Option 1 for Page 1 (refer to your outline). Click on “Continue to next page” and click on “Go to page 2”
11. Where it says “Option 2”, delete “Option 2”, then type out (or cut and paste) your Option 2 for Page 1(refer to your outline). Click on “Continue to next page” and click on “Go to page 3”
12. Check off “Required question”, then “Done”.
*To make your story even more interesting, add an image to each page. Edit page, click on the arrow next to the“Add item” button, then “Image”.
13. Go to Page 2. Click on page title (“Page 2”) and under “Description” type out the page description from your outline. Click “Done”.
14. Click on the arrow next to the "Add item" button. Go to “Multiple choice”.
15. Question title, leave blank.
16. Help question leave blank.
17. Question type: check off “Go to page based on answer”
18. For Option 1, go to your outline and copy your Option 1 for Page 2. Click on “Continue to next page” and click on “Go to page 4”. For Option 2, click on “Continue to next page” and click on “Go to page 5”.
19. Go to page 3 and continue in this manner (#11 to 16) to the end of your story, following the lines on the outline to see which page the options should link to.
20. You can cheat (ie speed up the process) by linking to pages that you have already used. Make sure that you changed the lines on your outline to keep you from getting confused.
21: NOTE: When you look in your drive later for your form, you may notice that you have two versions of the form:
If you open the (Responses) , you will notice that it is a spreadsheet of responses for your story. This is not necessary for a “Choose-your-own-adventure” story, so you can just delete it if you want by clicking on the box to the left, and then clicking on the garbage icon on the top.
ll. Google presentations
Here is an interactive story I created with Google presentations. Click here to read how.
lll. Google docs
Click here to read about how to make a Google Doc interactive with bookmarks. Click here as well.
lV. Videos on YouTube
Click here for an awesome interactive video called: “The Time Machine: A Chad, Matt and Rob Interactive Adventure”. Click here to learn about how to make an interactive video with YouTube Annotations.
Click here to see my GAFE Summit presentation.
Click here to see my GAFE Summit presentation.
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