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BuzzFeed Quiz: Don’t Starve and Leadership
I decided to create a BuzzFeed quiz based off of characters from the game Don’t Starve. I decided to choose this because each character from Don’t Starve has a unique personality with quirks, perks and drawbacks. I started with the original 9 characters and gave an overview of each character in the results as…
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Creating a Rule Book for Miami’s Swing Syndicate
For Tabletop Games and Leadership, one of the assignments is to create a rule book based on the rules of a Miami University organization you are a member of. Being the president of Swing Syndicate, I decided to create our rule book.
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Games in Schools and Libraries Podcast
This is going to be the most casual, conversational blog I write most likely. Just because…well…I am blown away. I won’t lie…in 2012 when I had the idea for this class after attending the NASAGA conference (which you should absolutely attend this October) it was little more than a dream I thought was a cool idea.…
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Who’s the teacher?
“Wait, so the first 70 minutes of class they just play games? Do you even teach?” Yep- students have the first 70 minutes of our weekly meeting to play through the various games of that particular week. Why do JS and I show up? Besides to join in the fun? Well, “you” asked, so let’s…
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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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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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It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Needs $3000…
JS and I had the ideas, the skills, and the excitement to help this idea of a course come to life. What we didn’t have was the $3000.00 to purchase the games and materials. JS and I put off this step of our course development as late as we possibly could while still being able…
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What is NASAGA?
We will be talking a bit about NASAGA over the course of this blog. NASAGA has had a tremendous impact on us (and our ideas and methods for creating the class as well as other aspects of our work.) So, I feel we should introduce what NASAGA is. NASAGA is the North American Simulation and…
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Wait, there’s a name for this?
As much as I would like to claim that JS and I are super famous researchers (NOT!), it is important to situate our philosophical foundation for the course and giving credit where credit is due. We used 4 main philosophical views to build our course. (Although, JS would say we just made it and named…
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Curriculum Wizarding
“Here is a map for your journey. This map will guide you to scenarios where you will gain experience points by conquering a newer field of gamifying leadership concepts. At the end of your journey, you will find a treasure beyond any physical reward– an inspired group of undergraduate students that go forth into the world to…
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