Students will use a platform developed by the studio coach, Micah, to build immersive, theatrical stories. The app is called Storyscape. 

With StoryScape you can:

• Create your own interactive stories!
• Browse and read the stories created by your friends, strangers, or us here at StoryScape!
• Modify any story in real time, capturing pictures and sounds with your mobile device!

The stories are created in the storyscape website and published to an Android App that allows StoryScape stories to truly come to life with interactivity. The Reader allows you to explore your own creativity and imagination by adding your own personal touch to each story in a completely unprecedented way.

Anyone can log in to the StoryScape website and create an interactive story, and publish it to the Reader. Then, any Reader user can load that story, interact with it, and even customize it! The Reader allows you to remix a story, replacing anything on the page with any picture you have on your device (or can take with the device's camera, of course!)

Phsyical probes are used to trigger events in the story using NFC communication protocol. Also objects in the story itself can trigger events in the physical environment such as switching the room lights on and off. Students will be experimenting with the IOIO boards and different sensors to extend the story further into the phsyicla space.