Tracery
Short description from the website "Tracery is a super-simple tool and language to generate text, by GalaxyKate. It's been used by middle school students, humanities professors, indie game developers, professional bot makers, and lots of regular people, too."
- PROS:
- wide variability and a lot of creative use cases.
- Open Source Javascript library
- CONS:
- basic coding skills required
Use cases
Students can experiment with procedural generation of text and build:
- a story generator,
- twitterbots,
- news headline generators of a particular journal (parody - media education)
- critically imitate rethorical Twitter statements of a public figure of their own choice
How to use it
See the tutorial
Replacement for
more complex twitterbot software