Melee.gg staff have run successful events for Magic, Yu-Gi-Oh! & other games around the world. Learn from them how to plan, advertise, and execute tournaments with more than 100 players at a time.
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The presentation will focus on showing you the method of planning your own event or event series supported by using the Melee.gg platform. After the presentation, we will conduct live Q&A.
This talk will discuss my experiences as a law professor who has used historical gaming in my courses on international law and history for more than 30 years.
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This talk will discuss the different games that I have used, the ways that I use them, the reactions of the students, the changes that I have made through the years, the differences between using board games and computer games, and the differences between using games in higher education and elsewhere.
Integrating STEM and Culture into Educational Roleplaying
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Integrating STEM, SEL, and Culture into educational roleplaying games for all ages.
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How-to instructions and simple steps provided as well as a free sample adventure to run at your school, camp, library, museum, etc. Culturally relevant stories in games and education can deliver an experience or lesson that captures the player or student’s imagination and inspires emotional engagement while also providing context for learning. We will cover how to use cultural stories in a sensitive and appropriate manner in your games or classroom to improve engagement, comprehension, and retention. We also explore different ways to integrate STEM and SEL into the game or lesson.
101 for shipping and fulfilment into Asia, open Q&A with attendees.
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Come discuss the important topics with fulfilling orders in Asia with VFI CEO, Jeremy Foust. Topics such as packaging size, VAT shipping, cost estimates, delivery time expectations and marketing are often pitfalls for new publishers, and it is often more pronounced into the Asian region, these will all be discussed to help prepare you for your current or future campaigns. VFI has over 6 years of experience doing fulfilment specifically for board games in Asia, and we are happy to help you learn what lessons we can share.
Learning to Lose: Using Board Games to Promote Sensory and Social Skills
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Hear a pediatric occupational therapist’s take on how board games can be excellent tools in the home and classroom for promoting social and sensory skills in children, with and without disabilities.
Let’s Play: Exploring The Use Of Gaming In Management Education
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We’ll explore gaming to increase student engagement through interactive discussion. Hands on, active play using different games to highlight how such use can creatively enforce terms & concepts.
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Management researchers will generate an interactive discussion of the implications of using games, highlighting how we have used a variety of games in several different management courses. Through active participation, and guided by the facilitators, attendees will use commercially available games, such as Dungeons and Dragons, and well-known cultural references such as Harry Potter, to illustrate management course material, including diversity and individual differences. This symposium session will involve hands on experience for attendees to use different games highlighting how such use can creatively enforce terms and concepts in management education.
Research shows the value of RPGs & other gaming formats for the educational process. After ten years in the classroom, I finally brought RPGs to the classroom lets talk about the why & the results.
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The use of RPGs can carry with it many benefits for education and for youth in general, but we still find, especially in rural areas, it brings with it a stigma that keeps it from being used to its full potential. How can we change that? Current research and work is being done on the development of material specifically tailored for the classroom; come and maybe be a part of that process.
Learn how to create a diverse library TRPG collection and start your own TRPG club.
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Have you been interested in learning about role playing games? Not sure where to start for your library? Come learn all about the world of tabletop role playing games. We will cover everything from RPG basics to collection development to how to start your own TRPG events.