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Educational/Real-World Impact Games Festival (NYC Columbia)

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Educational/Real-World Impact Games Festival: Featuring Scholar’s Quest and over a dozen educational game projects
Theme: Can YOU make a difference with games?

Date: Wednesday, April 25
Location: 525 W 120 St., 1st Floor, Everett Lounge
Time: 4-8 pm
Stop by to play educational and real-world impact games designed by Columbia students and faculty
Opportunities to interact and get involved with game-based research projects
Enjoy free food and win prizes like a Kindle!
Please join us for the Teachers College Games Festival! Explore a variety of game designs and research projects about language learning, physical chemistry, nutrition, math, climate change, ethics and more.  Games include digital, non-digital, mobile and real-world action games.   Special guests include Bernard Yee, Bungie Game Developer and Adjunct Professor of Game Production and Design.

Sponsored by the Games Research Lab / Communication, Computing and Technology in Education Program and Department of Mathematics, Science and Technology.

Please contact Joey J. Lee (jl3471@tc.columbia.edu) if you have any questions.

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A Game for Evaluating Internet Sources

Games Network member Maura Smale (that’s me!) just published Get in the Game: Developing an Information Literacy Classroom Game in the latest issue of the Journal of Library Innovation. In the article I describe the process of creating a game to help undergraduates learn how to evaluate websites so they can find credible and reliable information for use in their coursework.

The inspiration for this game came from a CUNY Games Network meeting a couple of years ago, and I’m very grateful to my colleagues in the Games Network for continuing to inspire me to keep planning and making games for information literacy and library instruction. Thanks, everyone!

Image by Joe Schlabotnik

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Giving Away a Free Learning Game

From a friend of the CUNY Games Network: As a wrap-up blog post in my series on traditional games, I’m giving away a free copy of my game on my blog.  It’s fun for the classroom or for a game club.  It’s a good example of a homebrew game that might encourage students to make their own games.  I’m also hoping to draw more attention to The Game Crafter site as a possible option for producing classroom projects.
Please see the Boardgame Geek website linked from my blog as well.  There you’ll find hundreds of excellent, largely undiscovered traditional games that are great for the classroom.  If you’re looking for game recommendations for specific needs in the classroom, don’t hesitate to contact me.