You Are Odysseus - writing an Odyssey Choose-Your-Own-Path book for education and fun

BOOK COMING IN 2025! Preview here: YAOLJB.wordpress.com/
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Given as a paper on one of the Pedagogical Panels at the Classical Association Conference at Swansea in 2022.
I'm Laura Jenkinson-Brown, a Classical Civilisation teacher in the UK, and also illustrator on GreekMythComix.com. I make free Classics teaching resources, used by over 200 schools and even more homeschoolers, and do freelance illustration at LauraJenkinsonBrown.co.uk

I've been working on this project since late 2019 and it made a great panel presentation, and since then I've been working on it to finally complete it.
I recorded my presentation on my phone for my own records and in case of technical malfunction, but enough people have asked to hear it since then that I thought I'd put it with the powerpoint into this video.

Please see the chapters below for sections.

You can sign up for updates on the project at laurajenkinsonbrown.com/you-are-odysseus-signup/

NB if your voice is in this as an audience member that asks questions and you'd like it taken out, please let me know.

All images my own (as GreekMythComix) - available as a .png pack for your own presentations/teaching resources in my shop


NOTES:
I had written 410 sections - it should be 'over 400' not 'over 500'. But, it is now over 500 sections, so moot point.
I was headachey and nervous at the time and have an internalised stutter, so at the start I trip over my words a bit, sorry.
Also, I occasionally sniff - sorry if this bothers you.
I'll be doing captions as soon as I can!
Sorry for any typos in the Questions section - I didn't have a lot of time to focus and edit in knocking this up

Thank you to my lovely friends who playtested for me, and those who were such a great, receptive audience! :) And my husband for facilitating getting me to the conference in the first place (and for having the idea!)

CHAPTERS
00:00 - preamble and tech
00:43 - Introduction
04:31 - How it got started
08:53 - How it developed
11:35 - Responses
18:25 - Conclusions
19:16 - Questions