Workings of Magic: Using Games to Transform Corporate Learning
Summary:
Corporate trainers and L&D professionals can build role-playing game design principles into learning experiences to empower leaders, strengthen teams, and reinforce business strategies.
Description:
This event is for educators who currently work with or plan to work in professional learning & development or corporate training environments. We will demonstrate how to help working professionals with their learning goals by co-designing a project brief that identifies their purpose, audience, and the intended experience, then discuss ways to use games and game design principles to help them meet these goals. We will discuss, with examples, how games can help adult learners become better managers, build team culture, improve collaboration, enhance leadership skills, connect to company purpose and core values, and understand and apply strategy. Gabe Sopocy works at a global digital business transformation consultancy where they incorporate their background in transformative game design and copywriting to design employee learning experiences.
Fantasy World Building a growing trend in middle schools. Come start your own world building map and lots of tips and tricks to start your own world building class or club!
Description:
Fantasy World Building is an elective class that has gained quick traction at a middle school in TN. At this workshop, you will be learning the beginning tips and tricks for running a world building club or class and leave with your own map ready to be weathered and built upon!
Writing, Running, & Publishing Table Top RPGs For Classrooms
Summary:
Create, write, pitch to publish, and/or run role playing games for classrooms. Incorporate academic pedagogy and role playing in dynamic, student-focused, interactive and collaborative modules
Description:
With the proven effectiveness of classroom rpgs, challenge for game developers and educators in writing and creating for classrooms is to understand the most effective way to bring their understanding of games into pedagogy for different classrooms. Join two experienced university instructors with a combined 20 years experience teaching a variety of subjects at the university level from pre-medical coursework to bioethics to philosophy, as well as experience in academic publishing, as they introduce educators and game developers and publishers to creating and marketing academic pedagogical RPGs. Practical examples and frameworks for lessons structures will be provided. Practical ideas for pitching academic rpgs to academic decision makers, academic publishers, and students will be covered, as well as what rpg content and game design are effective in engaging students.
Your Turn To Roll (Playing TTRPG Adventure with Educators & Professionals)
Summary:
Organizing a school TTRPG clubs can seem daunting. It involves creativity with storylines, materials, and structure. Now is your chance to play D&D as a student would in a TTRPG club.
Description:
We know playing tabletop RPGS are beneficial to school age children. While playing TTRPGs students have a creative environment that can boost basic math skills, build communication and vocabulary, learn to take legible notes, develop discerning listening skills, improve on team building, boost critical thinking and problem solving, and so much more. But have you had the chance to PLAY like a student may play? Come join Joseph Powell in an educators exclusive run of Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition, utilizing story elements and printed materials just like he employs for the five separate clubs of 6+ students each, and embrace your inner elementary or middle schooler again! Beginners are not only welcome but encouraged, resources will be provided and encouraged to be taken home. This is the perfect time to learn!