We will help retailers of all sizes, including LGS, Publishers, and Game Companies find ways to save on one of the more expensive processes in our industry!
Description:
Come join Tony Seay for the 3rd year in a row to discuss how Logistics can work for you!
What Teachers Want From the Games They Play In Class
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Two Middle School Teachers (with Elementary and High School Experience) will be talking about characteristics of effective classroom games, and what admin and teachers want from their games.
Description:
One teacher is from General Education, and the other is from Special Education, but both use different games as both learning and behavior tools.
They'll share how lessons are structured around the games, and what makes an effective game from a teacher and admin perspective.
We will use superheroes like Batman to examine topics in clinical and developmental psychology, examining pathologies that can affect students and families.
Description:
This discussion will examine the psychology of superhero stories and how these modern mythologies can help children (and adults) with cognitive and emotional development. The lecture will explore the developmental technologies of story and play and together we will discover the positive lessons that can be learned from the challenges these fictional characters overcome. Updated for 2025 with new research.
Learn a classroom-tested variation of Wingspan w/modified rules & some added environmental cards to teach ecosystems. Well explain how, play the variation, & discuss assessment & extension activities
Working With Community Partners To Bring Adventure To The Library
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Learn how our library works closely with community partners, including our Friendly Local Game Store, to bring fun adventures to our patrons.
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By working closely with our local shop, toy store, comic book store, volunteer GMs, a local brewery (the list could go on and on), we're able to provide an array of fun events related to gaming, filmmaking and more. These events bring new users to the library who sometimes have never set foot inside before. Find out how we make it work and strategies we suggest to work with partners in your community.
Writing, Running, & Publishing Table Top RPGs For Classrooms
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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.
Learn how to organize your own "con" and introduce cosplay, games, comics, vendors, and more to your library users!
Description:
Are you ready to bring all the fun and excitement of a comic or gaming convention to your libraries? Learn from public library professionals who have organized multiple conventions in their library to find out what has gone well, what could have gone better, and everything in between. Session attendees will leave with knowledge on how to foster creativity and inclusivity in their community as well as find a reason to get dressed up!
Join us for a lesson in miniature painting and how to host your own painting lesson and/or event for your class, store, or library.
Description:
Do you want to learn how you can host a miniature painting class, party, or event at your store or library? Two experienced teachers, who also paint, will guide you in painting your own mini elemental during the 2-hour session. You will leave with strategies to teach basic miniature painting to a group of new painters and will take home your very own miniature. Be ready to join us in painting during this event.
A discussion on why and how the most important thing you can bring to the craft is YOU. Take a seed of an idea and pull it in divergent directions. Come prepared to share and contribute!
Description:
Join Guest of Honor Eric Lang a game designer who has been in the business almost 30 years. Together youll will discuss why and how the most important thing you can bring to the craft is YOU. In interactive workshop format with a short lecture, we will explore one seed of an idea and pull it in at least three highly divergent directions based on the background and experiences of different potential authors.
Your Turn To Roll (Playing TTRPG Adventure with Educators & Professionals)
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Studies show that collaborative storytelling fosters community and understanding amongst diverse learners. Learn first hand through playing Dungeons & Dragons 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 2024 rules edition, utilizing original story elements and printed materials just like he employs for the five separate clubs of 4-10 students each, all with learning differences, 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!