Gaming in Libraries Course

This group is designed as the primary discussion boards for those working through the Games in Libraries YouTube course which ran during June 2009.

You can watch all 30 videos in order over at http://www.gamesinlibraries.org/course/?page_id=117 [1]

Or, here is the embedded YouTube playlist that will play them all for you:

Join the group [2] to view the discussions and participate. Conversation about the individual Sessions of the course can be found in the Discussions [3]area, which you will find in the sidebar to the right. -->

PostPlease Fill Out the Survey! [4]

by Scott Nicholson [5] on Sat, 08/08/2009 - 8:38am

I've had over 250 people watch the final video, and only 26 have filled out the 10-question evaluation survey.

This is important!! I have to justify to my funders that this course was worthwhile.

If you went through the course (or just went through enough of it so that it was meaningful), please visit

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=XmwNGir6vV4Qv9E9OU_2bgrQ_3d_3d [6]

and fill out the survey.

Thank you.

1 comment [7]

DiscussionThanks for the course [8]

by David Miller. Purple Pawn [9] (non-member) on Sun, 07/19/2009 - 8:02pm

I just cought up with the rest of the course.

I'm not a librarian or involved with a library, but nontheless enjoyed the course very much, and even learned a few new things.

Thank you very much.

DiscussionContacting Local Businesses [12]

by Noah Lewin [13] on Fri, 06/26/2009 - 9:00am

Scott, you mentioned that we should contact local businesses to be partners. Here in NYC there are plenty of Game Stop shops. Isn't that a chain? They seem like a good place to go to ask for partnerships, but I'm thinking that it really can't be considered a local store. What 's your opinion?

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DiscussionBoard Game Geeks & Funagain Games [15]

by Christopher DeFrisco [16] (non-member) on Thu, 06/25/2009 - 10:59am

Hello.

The Ashland Oregon library hosts a Teen Day and Board Game night once a month. The Teen Day is hosted entirely by the library, and the game night is mine. I am not a librarian, just a board game zealot (the kind Scott warned you about in an earlier video).

We have been extremely lucky, in that one of our librarians is a video game "guy" and provides all of the equipment for Guitar Hero, Dance Dance Revolution as well as being a Dungeon Master for an ongoing Dungeons & Dragons adventure.

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1 comment [17]

DiscussionLive Video - Tuesday, June 23, 3pm Eastern [18]

by Scott Nicholson [5] on Sun, 06/21/2009 - 4:39am

I'm going to try an experiment.

On Tuesday, June 23rd, I'm going to set up on UStream, which allows me to stream live video, and allows you to come and ask questions about gaming in libraries

So, we'll do a Q&A/Chat at

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/gaming-in-libraries [19]

Join us! Tuesday, June 23rd from 3-4 pm Eastern.

Discussion"Testing" vs. "teaching" knowledge games [22]

by Nancy Foasberg [23] on Tue, 06/16/2009 - 10:00am

I just watched this episode, and I was thinking about how knowledge games are described as games in which players bring to the table real-world knowledge they already have.

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1 comment [24]

DiscussionBeyond libraries [25]

by David Miller. Purple Pawn [9] (non-member) on Sun, 06/14/2009 - 6:38pm

As a hobbyist and semi-professional, I found this lesson particularly interesting. I've been reading and thinking more about game design recently. This approach, with its focus on the game playing experience, however, was new to me. I will be recommending it to game designers. And I look forward to the book.

DiscussionKonnichiwa from Japan [28]

by James Bruce [29] (non-member) on Sun, 06/07/2009 - 5:15am

Well, it seems from other posts that we have quite an eclectic mix of countries participating here, so I thought I'd throw in my nametag too. My name is James and I currently live and work in a university here in Kyoto, Japan. I and a close friend and colleague here also run a game club twice a week, mainly focussing on eurogames like Catan and Carcassonne but also short easy games like Blokus and Set. I've also recently started my Wii once a week, though my colleague isnt so keen on it and the students tend to get a little noisy ;)

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