A team from the University of Coimbra is partnering with the producers of Inanimate Alice to present a distinctive vision of interactive storytelling in education. In this article, we will discuss the origins of the series, the vision of the creators and how technological developments have added to the user experience. Uniquely, this transmedia narrative demonstrates the progressive complexity of life in the digital age with Perpetual Nomads, the latest adventure, providing a narrative experience in Virtual Reality. The goal of the Portuguese translation is to introduce the reading of Inanimate Alice in elementary and secondary schools. It will be the first digital-born text to be read in Portuguese schools so, concurrently, we have been translating the pedagogical guidelines. Consequently, we intend presenting both the results of our work and the main challenges faced during preparation of the translations, especially focusing on intercultural analysis.
Este artigo tem como objetivo apresentar e descrever um projeto de literatura eletrónica para crianças em curso na Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal. Para tal, começa-se por propor um contexto de enquadramento, caracterizando a multimédia digital, baseada na integração interdisciplinar e na interação; o cibertexto e a ergodicidade textual, que assentam na abertura e na estrutura narrativa labiríntica; e o hipertexto, com suas estruturas rizomáticas, entendido como rede textual não-linear apoiada em estruturas modulares. Estes conceitos, assim considerados definidores da literatura eletrónica, são posteriormente aplicados a uma literatura digital infantil, dessa forma sustentando a abordagem subjacente à conceptualização deste projeto. Na descrição do projeto, abordam-se as estratégias de exploração didático-pedagógica do mesmo, propondo desse modo um modelo que possa vir a ser adotado em contextos escolares diferenciados.
This article seeks to describe the development of the project “Inanimate Alice: translating digital literature in an educational context”, of the Centre for Portuguese Literature at the University of Coimbra. We will address the different stages of the project and the processes involved, namely, the translation of the first five episodes of the series, the translation and the creation of pedagogical materials adapted to the Portuguese curriculum, the applied research with episodes 1 and 2 of Alice Inanimada in two Portuguese schools, the data collection and analysis relating to the experience and reception of the work by students and teachers, and the teacher training course created to respond to the challenges of teaching a digital literary work, in partnership with the Portuguese National Reading Plan – PNL2027, thereby filling a gap in this area, in Portugal. In addition to a reflection on all the research stages, we will present the plans for the future of the project.
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