Epic Citadel Challenge

Another classy idea to make use of technology and encourage some imaginative writing...
This has been developed by a number of teachers who saw the potential of an iPhone / iPod touch app called Epic Citadel.

Epic Citadel is an app that I have blogged about before... It's a great immersive experience which allows you to explore an old fashioned castle and some of the rooms and surroundings. There are no game play elements, you just wander around, and it looks GREAT on the iPad.

The idea here is that you use it as the basis for some creative writing... using augmented screen shots from the game to tell a story...

There are some useful resources that have been created for the challenge, which was not my idea.
Some further thoughts on the Steps in Teaching & Learning blog
Tim Rylands used this at the recent #storytyne event.
I have some posters which I can't remember the source of, will try and update this post when I find the details....

If you don't have a device capable of playing the game, there are various FLICKR sets of images, such as James Burland's one here for example.

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