Interactive Things

I've always been a fan of things that are interactive.

Interactive presentations: Get the audience engaged! They won't fall asleep. Back at Bentley I thought it was fun to present things in an interactive manner when possible. Those types of presentations are typically more creative and the audience will like them better too!

Interactive books: Choose your own destiny. Remember the RL Stine Goosebumps series? He also came out with some choose your own destiny Goosebumps books which I found to be very entertaining. It was fun to try to pick a path in the book that would lead to your survival! (Or I should say the book's protagonist's survival.)

Interactive television shows: There may be other examples of interactive television shows, but the show that comes to mind for me is Beyond Belief Fact or Fiction. This show aired from 1997-2000 on Fox. During each show there are five short stories, and each story is difficult to believe. The catch is some of the stories are based on factual events and some of the stories are completely fictitious. The writers of the show may also change some of the minor details in the factually based stories. At the end of the show they reveal which stories are factually based and which are totally made up. I really enjoyed Beyond Belief because it is fun to evaluate the stories and try to discern whether or not they are fictitious! It would be fun to watch with a friend as well and try to compete with them to see who can figure out more of the stories! Or it would even be fun to keep track of how good you are at predicting whether or not the stories are factually grounded - a Beyond Belief Fact or Fiction Win-Loss record.

I found the show online. You can watch it for free at the URL below if you are curious:

http://www.videowebtown.com/xxxscary4youxxx/21829/73945