About
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The Locative Press Lab (LPL) is a collaborative that originated in the College of Education at NC State University advocating for community heritage education as promoted through digital tours of physical sites with mobile devices. Locative stories convey to an audience either historic/community non-fiction or creative fiction, with story segments tied to geo-located coordinates on maps. Readers can play back locative stories while walking/biking/driving a physical space to which a story is tied using mobile devices, taking advantage of geographic or other sensory cues as they consume compelling and memorable narratives. In schools, the rich process of locative storytelling is always supportive of literacy, geography, and technology standards. Further, it can support other content-area standards such as social studies (community heritage documentation), science (environmental storytelling), and math (seeding authentic problem-solving tasks in the field).
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Faculty Associates
Kevin Oliver:
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Angela Wiseman: Associate Professor, Literacy Education
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Meghan Manfra:
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Micha Jeffries, Teaching Assistant Professor, Social Studies and Diversity |
Graduate Students
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Robert Monahan is a doctoral student in Educational Psychology at NC State. He is co-designer of the ChocoWalk Tour in New York City previously available for download through the discontinued UrbanWalks app. View a short video on Rob's Chocolate Tour in NYC. Rob is also working with colleagues in New York on a series of "Escape the Classroom" challenges.
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Doreen Mushi is a doctoral student in Learning, Design, and Technology (LDT) at NC State. She received a Part-Time Graduate Student Award from the College of Education in summer 2022 to investigate archival material associated with the Charlotte Hawkins Brown historic site in North Carolina. Her research informs a proposed collaboration with the site to develop a Goosechase/Scavify-style digital walking tour with rich content and prompted interactions based on historical thinking concepts (significance, epistemology and evidence, continuity and change, progress and decline, empathy, and historical agency).
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