Bring your spare change and help destroy Cardhalla! Bring extra money to bid for the first throw. All proceeds benefit Gen Con's Charity Partners.
Description:
All weekend long, attendees helped build a giant card edifice. Saturday night, it all comes crashing down! Bring all your spare change to pelt the structures into oblivion, and bring folding money to bid for the right to the first coin toss. All proceeds benefit Gen Con's 2021 charity partners - Take This and Trinity Haven.
A large-scale, living fantasy painting where you can express your inner artist. Join artist Kathleen Hardy as she creates a one of kind art piece with your help. Walk-ups welcome!
A large-scale, living fantasy painting where you can express your inner artist. Join artist Kathleen Hardy as she creates a one of kind art piece with your help. Walk-ups welcome!
A large-scale, living fantasy painting where you can express your inner artist. Join artist Kathleen Hardy as she creates a one of kind art piece with your help. Walk-ups welcome!
A large-scale, living fantasy painting where you can express your inner artist. Join artist Kathleen Hardy as she creates a one of kind art piece with your help. Walk-ups welcome!
Join us educators and librarians and learn how to play Decktective, Deckscape, and BANG! A resource list for Common Core State Standards will be provided.
Many games that aren't traditionally marketed as educational, but are great products for bilingual classrooms. We will discuss a few of those games, as well as why to use them in this capacity.
Participants learn the principles and best practices of esports in education. You will learn from university esports leaders on how to start & optimize an esports program.
Description:
In this hour session participants learn the principles and best practices of esports in education. Anyone who wants to develop esports at an institution will learn from university esports leaders on how to start and optimize an esports program.
Find the Path: The How, The Why, And The Way To Try
Summary:
Games motivate their players intrinsically and educators can leverage that motivation to help learners overcome challenges. Game-based learning (GBL) is a powerful tool.
Many games that aren't traditionally marketed as educational, but are great products for bilingual households. We will discuss those games, as well as why to use them in this capacity.
Description:
Social interaction is critical to developing a secondary (and beyond) language. A critical part of any tabletop game is the social interaction, but some games promote less inaction than others. (Chess, for example, can be played without muttering one word to your opponent.) This presentation will discuss what to look for and what to avoid when it comes to using games as language resources. There are current examples, and an open forum to brainstorm other ideas.