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.

 

 

 

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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