How to Get Started with Interactive Storytelling in Any Discipline

Teaching in Higher Ed

Laura Gibbs shares how to get started with interactive storytelling in any discipline on episode 570 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

I think what happens with a lot of people’s efforts to tell stories is that they’re staring at a blank page or a blank screen, and they just feel lost in it because they don’t have a form that they’re filling up.
-Laura Gibbss

Everybody was thriving with these hundred word stories.
-Laura Gibbss

Meaninglessness in education won’t work. Education has to be meaningful, personally meaningful.
-Laura Gibbss

Resources

• Laura Gibb’s Website and Blog
• Laura Gibb’s Aesop Survivor and Other Games
• Improvised Shakespeare Company
• TV Tropes
• George Station
• The Mouse Bride
• Mike Caulfield
• MYFest
• Nursery Rhyme Maze Game
• LinkedIn Post: Go Somewhere + Games, in General
• Laura’s Ungrading Padlet
• Who Cares to Chat? by Audrey Watters
• Audrey Watters’ 2nd Breakfast Newsletter
• Readers Theater, by Laura Gibbs & Heather Kretschmer
• Zine Construction video with Dawn Stahura
• Dawn Stahura’s Zine-Making Resources
• 100-Word Stories from Laura Gibbs (and her students)
• Tiny Writing Workshop Padlet, including 6-Word Stories
• Keeping ScOR from John Biewen
• Write Your Own Book List, by Laura Gibbs
• Ungrading Chapbook, by Martha Burtis
• Bonus Video After Pod Party with Laura Gibbs