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Board Games for Teaching and Learning
Unfortunately I had to miss THATCamp Games II this year, held last month at Case Western Reserve University. Luckily (and in the traditional THATCamp spirit) attendees have shared their collaborative notes (and games!) from the unconference so those of us who weren’t there can catch up. And Anastasia Salter, who teaches information arts and technologies [...]
Continue reading...CUNY Games Network @ the CUNY IT Conference
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
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Headed to the CUNY IT Conference this week? Come see CUNY Games Network members discuss games-based learning! Thursday, November 29, 2:15-3:15pm: College Quest: A Game-based LMS and Social Network This session will showcase College Quest (CQ), a new web-based application developed for CUNY. CQ combines the features of a learning management system (LMS) with a [...]
Continue reading...Extending Play: CFP for Rutgers Media Studies Conference
Monday, October 22, 2012
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Follow the link below for the CFP to the “Extending Play” media studies conference that will be held at Rutgers University (New Brunswick) on April 19 & 20, 2013. Extending Play: Media Studies Conference – @Rutgers SC&I.
Continue reading...Annual Games in Education symposium: Free for educators
Saturday, July 7, 2012
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TROY, NY - Esteves School of Education at the Sage Colleges in Troy, NY in hosting it’s fifth annual symposium on games in education this August 1st and 2nd. The college has partnered with 1st Playable Productions, a local game development company, and local Public Broadcasting station WMHT. Registration in still open and attendees can look [...]
Continue reading...Back from Camp
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Last weekend several members of the CUNY Games Network traveled to the University of Maryland to THATCamp Games, a game-flavored version of the humanities and technology unconference. We had a great time facilitating a session of our “What’s Your Game Plan?” educational game brainstorming game at a BootCamp on Friday and attending the unconference sessions [...]
Continue reading...Games Network Presentation at the CUNY IT Conference
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
CUNY Games Network members are presenting at the annual CUNY IT Conference this Friday, December 2nd, at John Jay College in Manhattan. Our session takes place at 1pm — here’s a teaser: Gaming Your Classroom Games-based learning is an interactive, interdisciplinary pedagogy that uses best practices in collaborative learning and simulations. Join the CUNY Games [...]
Continue reading...Hacking and Camping
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
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The good folks over at Prof Hacker recently posted a two-part series on using games for teaching and learning. Part 1 is a great introduction to the benefits of bringing games to the classroom, and part 2 offers tips and advice for finding ways to incorporate games into your teaching. You may have seen our [...]
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We connect educators from every campus and discipline at CUNY who are interested in games, simulations, and other forms of interactive teaching. We seek to facilitate the pedagogical uses of both digital and non-digital games, improve student success, and encourage research and scholarship in the developing field of games-based learning.
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