This seminar is designed to introduce you to an email contact management tool for targeted marketing that will bring sales to you. Presented by Pat Fuge, CEO Gnome Games
Authors Erin M. Evans and Susan J. Morris discuss the educational benefits and practical applications of bringing D&D for kids into the classroom, and how to use it to create both team and individual storytelling experiences.
Learn the best practices on how to use traditional board and card games as learning tools and step-by-step activities that will guide students through the game creation process. Presented by David Niecikowski, U of A LRC Doctoral student, Interactive Media Literacy
Today’s modern board games are an often underutilized resource in the school environment that provide an immersive and engaging application for many of the skills being addressed in the classroom and school library. Learn where to start and how to help build a successful program that gets the support from administrators and staff in this interactive and hands-on two hour workshop.
Need some concrete lesson ideas for your classroom or youth group? This session uses existing games like Great Dalmuti, Backseat Drawing, Tsuro, etc. Essentially using several games and talking about how they can be used to start discussions on real life issues (using the examples before, Class Struggles, Communication, Life as a Competition etc.) Lesson plans for games used during workshop provided.
We will present ways to begin and/or expand your gaming programs, how to build a collection to support it, how to partner with local organizations, how to both include games as part of your collection and how to acclimatize other staff members to using games as part of the collection. There will be a chance to play some of the library friendly games in this session.