Stories illustrate the text of our lives. They go beyond facts into feelings. They engage the whole of us--our minds and our hearts. By storying my life, that is, by telling about the incidents that give my life meaning I make sense out of it. I begin to connect the dots of my experience and as I do, gracefully,artistically, memorably, I invite you to go inside and begin to connect your own dots to make sense out of your own experience. Michale Gabriel Learning and Growing through Stories.
Personal stories of immersive experiences are an important feature of this wiki and you are invited to add your own story and meaning making. If you find it helpful, please structure your story using the following prompts to make it easier to see patterns across the stories.
Q1 What was the context/situation/challenge?
Q2 What were the particular characteristics of the situation that engaged you in an immersive way.
Q3 What forms of learning / personal development / change emerged from the situation?
Q4 What words/concepts/feelings would you use to describe the immersive experience?
Q5 What principles or lessons can be drawn from this story? how could this story inform designs for learning through immersive experience in higher education?
Video interviews of immersive experiences
Richard Seel
Osama Khan
Lewis Elton
Nigel Biggs
David Boud
Immersive experience stories
IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE COMPILATION.pdf
WORKING PAPERS BASED ON PARTICIPANTS' STORIES
IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE WORKING PAPER PART 1 CONTEXTS.doc
IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE WORKING PAPER PART 2 MOTIVATIONS.doc
IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE WORKING PAPER PART 3.doc CONCEPTUAL/EMOTIONAL VOCABULARY
IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE WORKING PAPER PART 4.doc PRINCIPLES FOR THE DESIGN OF IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCES
IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE WORKING PAPER PART 5.docLEARNING
Examples of immersive experiences
Virtual World Immersion - it's not new!
Nick Noakes
A Transformative Immersive Informal Learning Experience
Nick Noakes
Reading a book
Rosamund Aubrey
Through a glass more clearly
Christopher Blackburn
Don't do as I do, do as I say
Jenny Eland
One's best teachers are one's students
Lewis Elton
'Out e wants'
Russ Law
Experiments in knowledge creation
Arthur Male
Learning a foreign language
Norman Poh
Beginning to dance
Jan Sellers
Mountain biking at night
Simon Usherwood
Ubuntu
Cath Walker
Being a CETL researcher
Elena Zaitseva & Beth Mitchell
The wet kipper experience
Nicholas Watson
Leading from the inside
Emma Girsch
An immersive story you can't refuse
Glynis Cousin
Being and becoming a CETL Director
Sibyl Coldham
Cabbage for six kopecks and a queue for tomatoes
Helen Sterne
Immersive undergraduate programme
Jo Tait
One man band
Lorraine Harper
Powerful, memorable and magical experience
Paul Stanton
Tabligh Jamat - Rebirth as a Muslim
Osama Khan
My immersive experience
Anne Irving
Sting in the tail or tale of an award
Arti Kumar
Godly Play
Richard Seel
Hooray for Danish pastries
Teresa Comba
Muzungo
Andrea Rannard
Becoming a different me
Norman Jackson
My Second Life
Sheila Webber
Living bubbling and moving on
Margaret Volante
Can theatre be more real than real life
Louise Larkinson
Quantums, spinning plates and emotional intelligence
Les McMinn
Story of an immersive experience
Paula Nottingham
Difficult for my wife, but changed me for the better
Nigel Biggs
T Group
Roy Williams
Sorting out the mess
Celia Popovic
Forgotten the teabags
Jane Osmond and Tim Ball
Doing a PhD
Anne Lee
Spinning plates while doing a jigsaw
Pauline Johnson
Late night tales
Tony Sumner
Riding to hounds for the first time
Jane Mathison
Work creativity and reflection
Norman Jackson, Ben Mercer and Will Patterson
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