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Teaching in Higher Ed · 2025-05-15 · 45 min · 7,935 words

How to Get Started with Interactive Storytelling in Any Discipline, with Laura Gibbs

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Today on episode number 570 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, How to Get Started with Interactive Storytelling in Any Discipline with Laura Gibbs. Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential. Welcome to this episode of Teaching in Higher Ed. I'm Bonnie Stahoviak and this is the space where we explore the art and science of being more effective at facilitating learning. We also share ways to improve our productivity approaches so we can have more peace in our lives and be even.

more present for our students. It is with joy that I welcome back to the show Laura Gibbs. She completed both her bachelor's and PhD at UC Berkeley and then joined the University of Oklahoma faculty in 1999, where she went on to teach fully online courses in world mythology and folklore. From 2002 until she retired in 2021, she's now teaching Latin and Greek online, as well as working on folk tales, proverbs, and riddles. In today's conversation, we'll be exploring how to get started with interactive storytelling, otherwise known as Choose Your Own Adventure, which I used to love reading as a kid.

Laura Gibbs, welcome back to Teaching in Higher Ed. Hi, Bonnie. I'm glad to be here. I'm so grateful that we get to have this conversation. I was thinking back about I had created this card game and it was a funny situation because I had to get the cards printed because of their deadlines before it was even a game.

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