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Purpose: Provide a starting point rooted in BEK leadership. Document Blackfoot threshold beings (e.g., Napi, Underwater Beings, Thunderbirds), guided by Tyson & Lona Running Wolf. Starter Content: Acknowledgment that not all stories can or should...

Purpose: Invite Indigenous contributors from other regions (Māori, Sámi, Aboriginal, Latin American, African Indigenous) to document their own threshold beings. Starter Content: Template: “Name of Being / Nation / Region / Context / Lessons / Relatio...

Purpose: Explore how Indigenous designers and communities decide to represent (or not represent) these beings in XR — including VR, AR, games, and other immersive media. Starter Content: Ethical cautions about visualizing sacred beings. Examples...

Purpose: Gather community reflections on the risks, responsibilities, and opportunities of weaving threshold beings into immersive learning. Starter Content: Risks of appropriation or misrepresentation. Ways to ensure reciprocity and benefit to ...

(e.g., trickster mechanics in Indigenous games; labyrinth navigation in Greek-inspired designs).

Invite contributors to reflect on what monsters teach us when we look at them — about culture, about ourselves, and about the ethics of immersive design. Starter prompts: How do we avoid appropriation when adapting culturally rooted beings in...

Mandate & Scope - Clear statement l Roles and Responsibilities (who does what, iLRN support team, project leads, volunteers, publication team)

Scanning Protocol: Methodology for identifying projects Submission Form (Tally.so) - for people to self-nominate projects

How to decide what qualifies and how it will be documented

Project Entries - each project logged with consistent metadata Partnership Notes - Running log of outreach and developing relationships

Design Brief - Plan for how the showcase will look and feel Program and Run-of-Show: a draft timeline for the showcase Hosting & Cultural Protocols: Guidance 

Reflections - Insights from the scan and showcase Contributions to the State of XR 2026 Report

Greenlighting system Lightweight approval: Adding projects to the Repository Log Heavyweight approval: Announcing partnerships or publishing showcase content - must go through iLRN leadership (Immersive Futures, Pubs Team, iLRN Board of Directors) Collabora...

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🔐 Permissions Note Shelf visibility: Private (restricted to BEK team with @immersivelrn.org accounts). Role-based access: Elders: Read-only on Books 2 & 5 (with option for PDF export). Academic Leads: Full edit rights across all books. ...

🌿 Start Here: Blackfeet EcoKnowledge (BEK) Protocol Welcome.This shelf is the private working space for the Blackfeet EcoKnowledge (BEK) Project. It documents how Elders’ stories and ways of knowing are respectfully translated into XR experiences in collabora...

The iLRN Conference Series The Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN) Conference Series is the premier global gathering for scholars, educators, designers, and innovators at the forefront of immersive technologies for learning. Since its inception in ...

Hosting the iLRN Annual Conference Overview & Vision Hosting the iLRN Annual Conference is a distinguished opportunity to anchor your institution and geographic region as a global leader in immersive learning. Through partnership with iLRN, host sites be...