Anyway, I was excited to recently receive an email from the folks at hitcents.com (I must have put myself on their mailing list) announcing the 2nd Episode of Draw a Stickman. I had written about this website previously as a fun little exercise in cause and effect and narrative development. Growing Kids Therapy also did a very good post on the activity recently with a number of language development suggestions.
Episode 2 takes your Stickman (and that's the fun, you get to draw the character and much of the relevant props) up a tree, and I don't want to give much more away! Again, there are great story mapping, cause-effect and conditional discussions to be had while using this site. I would recommend playing the episodes with kids in order, especially since Episode 2 actually interacts with Episode 1! This kind of meta-awareness makes the site a possible pairing (for older kids who can get it) with books like The Three Pigs, The Character in the Book, or We are in a Book, all fun volumes in which characters become self-aware and interact with other stories. Another way to place this website in a bigger context with extension activities is to use Domo Animate's Stickman theme and make some of your own Stickman Narratives, or do the same with DoInk! on your iPad.
From a technical perspective, the arrival of Episode 2 represents the continuation of the practice of developing great interactives on the web using HTML5 instead of Flash. This is wonderful for iPad users as both Episode 1 and 2 can be accessed and played out right in your Safari browser. There is an app available, but I am not sure why you would want to take up memory and icon space to access what you can use perfectly well in Safari. Enjoy, and draw away!
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