How to Get Started with Interactive Storytelling in Any Discipline
May 15, 2025•45 min•Ep. 570
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Episode description
Laura Gibbs shares how to get started with interactive storytelling in any discipline on episode 570 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
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
- 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
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