This presentation explores how experiential learning sharpens students’ understanding of academic storytelling. Our case study is a final assignment in a writing seminar where students create a 5-minute science-news podcast about on a fictional contagion. Partnering with this course to stage a hands-on workshop, McGraw Digital Learning Lab technologists employed an experiential learning pedagogy to align the multimedia assignment to the core goals of the class, demonstrate playfulness and creative prototyping as a device for storytelling, and give students creative confidence through a guided, yet flexible, exercise.
