Let’s Get Things SWOTTED in Here! The SWOT Analysis Card Game
Summary:
Assess Strengths/Weaknesses/Opportunities/Threats (S.W.O.T.) of a mock company based on the question cards & unique role you receive in a serious yet fun simulation.
Description:
A SWOT analysis is a management technique that enables organizations to gather its members to brainstorm problems and solutions for judging a desired proposition. For our simulation game, you will receive question cards and a unique role for a mock company. Learn how to balance perspectives, consider company workflows, and understand the power of a serious meta-game that you could modify for your own students’, clients’, or employees’ self-growth. Led by a professor from the City University of New York (CUNY).
Redesigning Board Games for Educational or Instructional Purposes
Summary:
We will play a well-designed game (e.g., Pandemic), study its core mechanics, then design a variant to teach an instructional objective. For educators, trainers, content designers, or game designers.
Description:
Are you a teacher, training manager, content designer or game designer? We’re going to play together a well-designed commercially-available board or card game (e.g. Pandemic, Carcassonne, Red7) for 45 minutes. Next, we will study reference cards I created that break down the core mechanics and explain how the game might be modified to teach any school or workplace instructional goal. Finally, you will pick such a goal, and spend 30 minutes designing in teams a new learning game inspired by the original game. By the time our session finishes, you will have found a thought-provoking and creative way to enhance your instruction. Designed by a professor of game-based learning pedagogy.
What’s Your Game Plan?: Turn Your Idea into a Game or Simulation in Under 30 Minutes (Full Class)
Summary:
Enhance instructional plans with the mechanics of popular board games. This full-featured class has more games, theory, & is kept at optimum size. For educators, trainers, content & game designers.
Description:
What does the lesson “Finding Citations,” the game “Trivial Pursuit,” and the mechanic “Bluffing” all have in common? In this bootcamp brainstorm, your team is given a mission: to improve an instructional plan with the mechanics of popular board games in only 20 minutes. Whether you need to teach the rules of citation or the rules of interviewing, there is usually a game plan that can help. If you’re an educator, workforce trainer, presenter, instructional designer, or even an actual game designer, you will learn how to integrate non-digital educational games or simulations into your classroom or workspace. This full-featured workshop has more games and theory than the free workshop and is kept at optimum size, which allows us to explore your instructional problems in much greater depth. Led by a professor from the City University of New York (CUNY).
What’s Your Game Plan?: Turn Your Idea into a Game or Simulation in under 30 Minutes (Basic Class)
Summary:
Hear game design theories, then quickly improve an instructional lesson with the mechanics of popular board games. For innovative educators, presenters, workforce trainers, or game designers.
Description:
What does the lesson “Finding Citations,” the game “Trivial Pursuit,” and the mechanic “Bluffing” all have in common? In this bootcamp brainstorm, your team is given a mission: to improve an instructional plan with the mechanics of popular board games in only 20 minutes. Whether you need to teach the rules of citation or the rules of interviewing, there is usually a game plan that can help. If you’re an educator, workforce trainer, presenter, or instructional designer, you will learn how to integrate non-digital educational games or simulations into your classroom or workspace. If you’re a game designer—even a casual one!—you can generate ideas for a powerful new game (whether educational or not). This session provides a fun introduction to the principles of game-based learning. Led by a professor from the City University of New York (CUNY).