Thursday, February 21st, 2019
I presented Story Design to a great audience of instructional designers, technologists, librarians, faculty and other higher education professionals. I appreciated their active participation in this hands-on workshop, and look forward to incorporating their feedback into future talks. Materials used and created at this session can be found below.
Session Description:
If we consider that every course, workshop or learning experience we design conveys some kind of story to the learner, whether intended or not, then why not adopt time-tested storytelling principles to design them? This session will draw on contemporary design strategies to introduce a story-based framework that was developed as an alternative to the world of functional-but-unexciting instructional design approaches. Session participants will be invited to begin developing their own story-driven educational activity and to consider how this may result in both students and instructors being more invested in the stories they tell.