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BMCC Students to Display Games about Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde on Dec. 17
On Monday, December 17, 11:00am-12:00pm in the Richard Harris Terrace at BMCC, Prof. Tali Noimann’s English 201 students will present their group projects. They have been working on original board games based on the R.L. Stevenson novella Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Please come to support their hard work and play six incredibly creative games. (Two of them are [...]
Continue reading...TableTop: an Ad Hoc Introduction To Boardgaming Goodness
Saturday, July 7, 2012
At BMCC, our president has recently sponsored a games library, allowing us to buy an excellent variety of board games to test and possibly use in our classrooms, as well as to provide inspiration for our own designs and as an education on mechanics. The first rule of designing good games is to play a [...]
Continue reading...Next Game-Based Learning FIG: Nov.1 @ BMCC
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
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Hey gang–our next Game-Based Learning Faculty Interest Group will take place on Nov. 1 @ Studio 2 @ BMCC from 10-12noon. Here’s a happy poster to entice you to come! Here is a link for a PDF for nice printing. Help spread the word! FIGNov1 Poster
Continue reading...“Comma”-nd and Conquer — Battleship Grammar Mod
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
I will upload the resources/assets I used for this lesson in the near future, but I just wanted to report the INCREDIBLE response I receive from my students for this exercise. Here is what I did: first, I gave students a short grammar lesson on commas, maybe a half-hour. Then I distributed a 7×7 grid [...]
Continue reading...Monopoly Mod
Friday, July 15, 2011
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Created by Francesco Crocco Objective To simulate how class inequality increases over time due to inherited wealth, land, and privilege Procedure 1. Define the word “monopoly” and talk about the ideas that the game embodies (competition, monopolization, survival of the fittest, level playing field, social mobility, the American Dream) 2. Make teams and assign each [...]
Continue reading...AudaCity the Game
Sunday, March 20, 2011
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I just spent the last few days at the Urban Affairs Association 2011 conference in New Orleans. It was an amazing collection of researchers and practitioners working on urban issues, with many papers focused on the post-Katrina recovery. I also had the pleasure of meeting Matt Cazessus and Colby King, urban sociologists from the University [...]
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012
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