ThingLink Spotlight! Lighting Up Immersive Learning with Lisa Gee

Louise Jones July 28, 2025

ThingLink Luminaries is a series of guest blog posts highlighting certified trainers who are creating interactive and immersive experiences to make learning more engaging, accessible, and meaningful. Our educators and learning designers bring a thoughtful approach to immersive learning, and their work reflects a deep commitment to creativity, pedagogy, and innovation.

In each profile post, we’ll explore their background, teaching philosophy, and favorite ThingLink projects offering insight into how they’re making a lasting impact in their classrooms, organizations and communities! Enjoy!

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Introducing Lisa!

Hello! I’m Lisa and I bounce enthusiastically across a range of different roles and projects that involve a combination of inclusive facilitation, teaching, learning and other support, researching, writing, making digital stuff, project management/leadership and, sometimes, videography.

I work with organisations ranging from multinational companies to small charitable sector organisations, have a PhD in Digital Writing by Practice, have written/edited books, run websites, worked as an arts journalist and have a background in comms, mostly in the arts, higher education, health and care.

Lisa’s ThingLink Project

As part of an assessment for my Applied Creative Practice module, I supervised a team of four fantastic 2nd year Undergraduate students on the Digital Media and Communications BA produced a bilingual (English/Chinese), interactive map of Coalbrookdale, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution.

What inspired you to create this project?

May 2022: A colleague & I presented our research at the Forum for Global Challenges I accidentally globally challenged the Chief Exec & Secretary General of UK UNESCO’s concept of story

➡️ discussions re student-focused partnership

➡️ introduction to Ironbridge WHS co-ordinator

➡️ I showed her ThingLink

➡️ she thought it was magic

➡️ idea for interactive map project.

How was this project facilitated with students?

The Ironbridge project was a creative practice assignment for students. It was subsequently picked by the University as an exemplary case study for using ThingLink with students, and I was asked to present on it to colleagues at a recent Digital Education Exchange Day. Which was fun!

Do you have any other project ideas on the go?

MAD, BAD & mostly harmless is an interactive e-zine I’ve started making with my cousin, the writer Joanne Limburg (we’re both neurodivergent), where we chat around a subject, share our creative work, comment on something topical that interests us… Also contains emus…

Checkout Lisa’s Landing Page Ezine ⬇️

In terms of future creations… for my PhD I worked with a developer to create an interactive biography designed so that readers could meet the subject in a way that mimicked encountering them IRL. I’m in the early stages of wondering whether – by using either actors or created avatars (I have ethical concerns) made from portraits – I could reinvent this project in a more immersive way, so readers (who wouldn’t be readers any more, but participants) could kinda step into a costume drama…

What do you love about ThingLink?

User-friendliness, versatility, the fact that when you show people what ThingLink can do they think it’s magic!

Lisa’s Fun Facts!

In my spare time I’m herded by cats, feed crows and love live music.

Aged 17 I got into trouble at school when a famous comedian came to film a programme about women’s humour, and I told an unrepeatable dirty joke during filming. Apparently the cameraman missed it, so I narrowly avoided bringing my (very academic) girls’ school into disrepute. Oops!