Ich habe es gestern experimentell überprüft: Studierende brauchen 30 Sekunden länger, um eine Fanfiction-Geschichte zu Super Mario zu schreiben (unter Verwendung von FanTALES.eu Prompts), als ich brauche, um über den Campus zu joggen, meinen Aufhebungsvertrag zu unterschreiben, und zurückzujoggen :)

Going forward, we will stop promoting the use of ChatGPT in our workshops and materials. ChatGPT is Trump's biggest donor, and ICE uses a screening tool powered by OpenAI's GPT-4. quitgpt.org

To start this Friday on a cheerful note, here's a random joke that a hobbit found in our workshop archives this morning. It's a mash-up of some of our favourite fandoms: playing with languages and Blackadder!

We have a new banner (long overdue 😷) for our website. 😁Let us know what you think !

Throwback to #TBLT2025: in lovely Groningen (where the seeds for FanTALES were planted in 2014), @meryenda.bsky.social and @fcornillie.bsky.social playfully shared three of our lesson ideas and materials for teaching English and Spanish with fanfiction. What a great audience! DM us for the slides

Typo! #TBLT2025 And a spoiler alert for the talk: come find out who got killed at the conference dinner, and why 😵🕵️🍷🔪😎

👋 #TLBT2025 participants on Bluesky: come find @fcornillie.bsky.social and @meryenda.bsky.social play around with our ideas and materials for teaching with fanfiction in English and Spanish language contexts! Tomorrow at 9:50 in room 1312.0025 with @matthewpattemore.bsky.social as session chair ❤️

Byebye Twitter, hello Bluesky! We have copied over some of our older tweets here, and will be posting new content only on Bluesky as we go forward.

Our first workshop in a church! Today, teachers at Learning Bytes Festival's Digiwijs track took a crash course in our tried-and-tested lesson ideas on flashfic (with ChatGPT), describing a scene (with cardboard VR), and interactive fiction. Get them here!

Today participants at our workshop for : 🤖 explored using ChatGPT to reimagine a scene from a literary text based on their fandoms, and perform it ✍️ wrote coffee shop alternate universe fanfiction in Twine 🥽 made a writing prompt in low-tech VR Kudos!

🤖 When the possibilities of generative AI collide with the wonderful world of fanfiction and creative writing, we take on the challenge of designing new ideas and materials for teaching and learning. 📢 Next week we will be workshopping this at @dj4am

#fanfiction can take so many forms. Here's a geeky one! #HarryPotter Source: @OwlPostAgain

Our hobbits have given our website a makeover. Let us know what you think!

Can students write multilingual fiction in 15 minutes? Yes they can! Here are some impressions from a recent #flashfiction workshop for friends at UOttawa, in which students transformed fairy tales. Curious how it works? Watch this video: @mjhamel20

We ♥️ sharing our materials at in-person workshops! Today teachers at the #digiwijs event created flashfiction unplugged using our prompt cards, and learned how to incorporate 360° photos as a clue in their interactive fiction. Find our materials here! ▶️

Happy Hallowe'en ! #writingprompt #HarryPotterHalloween

Proposal for tech showcase at #CALICO2023 submitted! Hope to be there, share our analog and digital tech, and forge collaborations for new projects. @CALICOnsortium

Mahalo for the plug to our materials for learning to create interactive fanfiction, @clthawaii ! 🙏

We have had our first face-to-face workshop at @CALICOnsortium 's annual conference and oh boy, are we impressed with the fannish engagement and sparks of creativity of our participants! 🐺🍎 Looking forward to engaging more with the CALICO crowd in the future. ✍️👩🏽‍💻 #CALICO2022

Your input needed! For the workshop @fcornillie and @shansauro are giving at #CALICO2022, we're looking for a few prompts to challenge participants. Reply to this tweet with a proverb or song lyric (in any language other than English) that participants can use in their fiction!

Your input needed! For the workshop @fcornillie and @shansauro are giving at #CALICO2022, we're looking for a few prompts to challenge participants. Reply to this tweet with an object participants should include in their fiction!

Hello language teachers and language lovers! We have now made a video for you on multilingual storytelling, and what it can mean for language learning and teaching. Check it out here! 👇

What happens when you fuse Assassin’s Creed with other fandoms in interactive and multilingual fanfiction? ⚔️🦸‍♂️📝 And how can this be done in the foreign language classroom? 🧑‍🏫🧑🏽‍💻 Our 2021 paper in @calicojournal is now available in open access! 👉

Season's greetings from FanTALES! #coffeeshopAU

What's exciting about running in-person workshops again: truly experiencing the vibes and fun when teachers release their fannish creativity in a "getting-to-know flashfiction" icebreaker activity. Do you recognize some of their fandoms that were fused with Romeo and Juliet?

We were already a graduate from the Erasmus+ programme, but we have now won an Epos quality label for good practice. Fiercely proud!

Language teachers! We have a new video for you that explains how you can do FanTALES in your context at the hand of two ready-to-use lesson ideas. Find it here and get cracking!

Three more days to register for @BELTABelgium Day, which will be packed with ideas for #EFL teaching! Here's a sneak peek of our session on interactive fanfiction.

Literary texts, fandoms, games and creative writing in the communicative #EFL classroom? Find out how we do it at the 2021 @BELTABelgium Day Online on March 20, 15.20-16.00 CET. We will share ready-made materials for teaching. Register before March 13:

Why reading and writing #fanfiction in school can be so wholesome for kids' development. #literacy #freedom #inclusiveness #community #collaborativelearning

Collaborative multilingual storytelling in the two online workshops as part of today's training workshop. A number of fantastic stories came out of these!

Keynote speaker and media/fan studies scholar Line @NybroPetersen asks how we can invoke a feeling of play and language play among our learners.

Our online event kicks off with an overview of our outputs, teaching and assessment materials in Dutch, English, German and Swedish available on our website:

Our closing event, kicking off during a pandemic with both online and in-person participants in Belgium.

The final transnational meeting for @FanTALES_EU is taking place remotely today. It's been a great three years of collaboration and we look forward to releasing our final outputs. Stay tuned!

A small army of hobbits are now helping with the launch of our storytelling goodies: assembling boxes, squashing bugs that crept into our code, and taking measures for our covid-proof event on October 28. We still have seats in Kortrijk and online!

Curious how you can engage your students in fanfiction-based storytelling in the modern language classroom? Come find out in our free teacher training event on Wednesday 28/10! Online or in Kortrijk (Belgium). Register via . Details:

Today we bumped into a Harry Potter fan that was willing to serve as a guinea pig for final tweaking of our FanTALES #storytelling goodies. #labtest in our #edulab @Itec_KULeuven

We had a blast at #eurocallgathering earlier today -- a big THANK YOU to all participants for making some impressive multilingual and collaborative storytelling happen! If you've missed it and would still like to get a taste, here is the recording: 📖🧙‍♀️😍

Curious about how you can have your students create interactive fanfiction in the language classroom, in multiple languages? Get a glimpse of it in the slides for our online workshop at #eurocallgathering .

Correction! Our hands-on online workshop at EuroCALL Gathering 2020 will be Friday August 21 from 11.45am - 12.45pm CEST (and not 12.45pm - 1.45pm as communicated earlier). More information and registration here: #eurocallgathering

For our workshop at EuroCALL Gathering 2020, help us challenge our participants with a prompt: reply to this tweet with an proverb or song lyric (in any language other than English) that participants should use in their fiction! #eurocallgathering

For our workshop at EuroCALL Gathering 2020, help us challenge our participants with a prompt: reply to this tweet with an object participants should include in their fiction! #eurocallgathering

Join us on August 21st at EuroCALL Gathering 2020 for our hands-on workshop!

Curious about bringing fanfiction-based multilingual interactive fiction to your language classroom - then take a look at the upcoming issue of Foreign Language Annals for teaching and assessment ideas/materials developed by the FanTALES team:

Interested in using #fanfiction, interactive fiction and multilingual storytelling in your classes but unsure how to assess them? Download our newly developed assessment tools and guidelines, available on the results page of our website:

After much designing and refining, we’re pleased to release our collection of teaching prompts for #fanfiction, multilingual storytelling, interactive fiction and #telecollaboration (in English) on the results page of our website:

No virus is going to stop the crazy FanTALES team from spreading the love for storytelling in language education. #zot

The @FanTALES_EU crew taking a quick break from planning the final dissemination event in May (stay tuned for an announcement) to geek out and share their fannish side. 🖖

Another project meeting day - a bit of work on the train and a chance to test-drive our tasks and dissemination kits with students at Georg-Forster-Gesamtschule in Wörrstadt.