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Developing collaborative storytelling tools with children in a nascent medium

New computer-media narratives for children are only a few decades old. Over this time, the personal computer has become commonplace and its technical capabilities have increased exponentially. However, even though we have seen glimpses of the medium's potential, the path to fundamentally meaningful interaction has yet to be fully explored. One path in this future exploration is to leave the computer behind as the center of focus while still exercising the potency of the medium. A complimentary path to discovering appropriate technology that augments and supports narrative practice is to involve children as partners in a participatory design. This paper presents some of the promise of the new media and the work of a project that is trying to realize this.