D&D & LARP In Schools - Hot Tips & Tricks For Fostering In Class Collaborative Storytelling
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Running a successful D&D/LARP club or camp can be intimating. Luckily, you don't have to reinvent the wheel. Let a 12-year club organizer help you out!
Description:
D&D and LARPing are all the rage; fostering creativity and collaboration both in and out of the classroom, but getting started can be scary. How do you align it to curriculum or the school culture? is it best in or out of school? Then once you have the attendance, how do you keep the momentum? How do you transfer these skills out of the classroom? Add in players of different ages and abilities, kids with learning differences, shorter attention spans, and expanding technology and it can be downright exhausting.
Luckily, Danielle Powell is not only a 12+ year club running veteran, she currently runs a successful D&D club, LARPing class and combination summer camp in TN. Along with several articles and conference session written in collaboration with Wizards of the Coast, and you have a one-stop expert to get you through the difficult details!
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!
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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!
Organizing a school TTRPG club is tricky and involves some creativity with storylines, materials, and structure. Now is your chance to play as a student in a TTRPG club would play; start to finish!
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We know playing tabletop RPGS are beneficial to school age children. It can do amazing things for social skills, executive functioning, creative writing, historical understanding, and many other things. But have you had the chance to PLAY like a student may play? Come join Danielle Powell in an educators exclusive run of a TTRPG, just like she does for her club of 15+ students, and embrace your inner middle schooler again! Beginners welcome, resources provided and encouraged to be taken home. This is the perfect time to learn! If you played last year, this year will include a whole new adventure and resources.
When students have games and work collaboratively, they grow and have a safe space to be themselves. Tabletop RPGs have a place for every student in every situation, do you want to learn how?
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"The reason why I stayed (in D&D club) was because it was one of the only social groups I enjoyed. I'm the definition of an introvert . . .but in this group I didn't hate anyone. It was fun and my hands weren't shaking for once by my social anxiety.” - 8th grader Tabletop roleplaying games are all the rage. With streaming services such as Twitch and Youtube Live, they have become more accessible and accepted than ever, so how do we implement this with middle school students? Come and hear how one school has used the tabletop gaming genre to teach team building, historical events, social skills, and storytelling to middle and high school students. As a bonus, we'll also discuss keeping the RPG games alive in a time of distance learning! Danielle Powell has spoken on this topic at several conferences including FETC, Star Wars Celebration, GenCon, and TAIS.
Want to be a kid again? Come play some D&D (or other system) with an experienced middle school TTRPG club leader and fellow educator!
Description:
We know playing tabletop RPGS are beneficial to school age children. It can do amazing things for social skills, executive functioning, creative writing, historical understanding, and many other things. But have you had the chance to PLAY like a student may play? Come join Danielle Powell in an educators exclusive run of Dungeons & Dragons; just like she does for her club of 15+ students, and embrace your inner middle schooler again! Beginners welcome! This is the perfect time to learn!
A seminar discussing how to encourage girl gamers, specifically middle schoolers, in the tabletop RPG world.
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Come learn how a private school in TN encouraged and built up middle school girls to not only play tabletop RPGs, but also to GM, design, and participate in group chats with several female gaming professionals throughout the country!
Come see how incorporating various RPG systems (Fantasy Age, Edge of the Empire, 10 Candles, D&D, TitansGrave, & Tales From the Loop) has created a successfully run RPG club in a middle school.
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A private school in TN has managed to make a successful tabletop RPG club for the past three years including the chance to talk about the club at various conventions including Star Wars Celebration! This seminar will discuss and demonstrate how the club was started, including character creation for middle schoolers, and a peek at two of the group chats the club participated in with 8 different professional gamers and game designers around the US!