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Assignment: Game Written and Video Review
What a semester it has been! Teaching this class has been amazing. For me the worst part of a class is typically grading. This semester, however, it has been a treat, as the new assignments that students have submitted have wowed me. Some of the best have been watching students who came into the class…
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Through the Looking Glass
At first, I was really disappointed that I would not be able to teach this course the first semester it was offered on our campus. JS and I worked so hard on making sure this class would be available to students within a semester, it was almost like a jab in my side when I…
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TIME Stories, a New Game Every Time!
Last week in class we played TIME Stories, an adventure game where teams work together to solve a certain mission. There are several different missions that can be purchased for TIME Stories, and each one is set in a different location with a different theme (we played the asylum mission in class). Each mission is…
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Ladies & Gentlemen
Ladies & Gentlemen. No, I’m not about to welcome you to a circus or a wrestling show or anything. The board game Ladies & Gentlemen (as I believe I’ve mentioned) is one of the games that spurred my desire to create this class. I knew we could have excellent conversations around the topic of leadership…
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How “Two Rooms and a Boom” Creates Obvious Leaders and Followers
This week in class, we played an awesome hidden role game called Two Rooms and a Boom, where there are two teams (red and blue) with two different objectives. There are also “gray” players who have individual objectives to win the game, regardless of the outcome of the red/blue battle. People are split into different…
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Day One Leadership, Drew Dudley, and the Framework of the Class
As I’ve mentioned in many contexts-I coordinate the EDL 290 family of classes and teach some of the sections. My direct responsibility is for 290E (Emerging Leaders), 290S (Student Organization Leaders), 290O (Open section about individual leadership for anyone interested), and of course 290T (Tabletop Games and Leadership.) The concepts of the Emerging Leaders class…
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Secrets Hitler: “But we have a thing!”
We recently played the board game Secret Hitler which was both entertaining and extremely reliant on communication and logic. In the game, there are two factions who are either trying to elect “Hitler” as chancellor or to get him assassinated. The only players that know who anyone else is are the ones on the fascist…
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First day of class!
This week was the first day of class! The day Bethany and I worked so hard to accomplish was finally here! So of course, I decided to just cancel class! Of course…that is far from what I did! What Dane and I did was talk about the first class a few times over the course of…
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There’s More to Assessment Than Grades?
So, you know the course is working if students are playing the games, right? Well, that’s a good start, but there is such a large opportunity to learn more about what students are receiving from this course! The students playing the game shows us that they might be doing their homework of preparing for day-to-day…
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Collaboration and Creation
JS: I have worked with a lot of people through the year. The day we are writing this and posting it is the final day of my twelfth year at Miami University. I’ve served on a number of committees, worked on tons of projects, and done a ton of different things. I’ve never had a…
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