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This episode of Games and Education features an interview with Avery Alder.  Avery is the game designer of The Quiet Year one of my favorite games to play with students, and also many amazing games that deal with marginalized populations and identities like Dreamaskew and Monsterhearts.  Avery's games are easy to run, easy to play, and our conversation is all about how people can learn more about themselves through play and games.  This was a wonderful interview and I hope you all enjoy.   Links:   https://buriedwithoutceremony.com/   My own review of the Quiet Year:  https://gamesandlessons.wordpress.com/2018/02/22/the-quiet-or-not-so-quiet-year-in-the-classroom/

In this episode, I speak about how moves snowball.  A mechanic from the Apocalypse World system that can be used in any classroom.  What do you do next, the words that help students push themselves further? Links: Hyperdoc Handbook:https://www.amazon.com/HyperDoc-Handbook-Digital-Lesson-Design-ebook/dp/B01GSG92GM Lisa High Fill Hyperdocs:  https://hyperdocs.co/about_us Moves Snowball Essay:  http://www.magpiegames.com/2014/07/24/designing-moves-triggers-versus-effects/  

Jon Corripo is one of the masters of Gamifying education.  He does it without even trying.  He has an amazing book about games and students called Edu Protocols that I highly recommend everyone read.  He also is the Director of the Computer User Educators organization and one of the best people that I know. I hope you enjoy this wonderful interview about how you can easily place games into any educational setting.   Links:Eduprotocols-https://www.amazon.com/EduProtocol-Field-Guide-Student-Centered-Possibilities/dp/194644460X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1537129752&sr=8-1&keywords=eduprotocol Jon's Website: https://sites.google.com/site/mistercorippo/ CUE Organization: http://cue.org/  

Sorry for the lateness of this episode...like 2 weeks late.  I just started the school year back up so I needed time to focus on Work.  I'm back though and thrilled to share this episode of the podcast with all of you.  This is an interview with Ron Edwards game creator about creating safe spaces in the classroom to talk about difficult topics.  It's a more teen heavy podcast episode so I don't recommend it for little children.  However, if you work with teenagers and Role Playing this episode is fantastic and a must listen.  It wound up being an hour and a half episode so I cut out 30 minutes or so.  It also was recorded as a backup recording because the original recording didn't work so it will sound a little jolted.  Despite all these set back it seriously was one of my most interesting conversations and I hope you all enjoy.  Give a listen, and enjoy learning about how to make safe spaces for people to talk in games.   Ron Edwards Website http://adeptplay.com/   Essay on Lines and Veils https://adventurerules.blog/2018/01/15/the-value-of-lines-and-veils/

This is our first episode about LARP.  Learn about Live Action Role Play and how it can encourage student engagement, inspiration, creativity, and push them to want to learn more in the classroom.   http://thegameacademy.org/about/resources

Welcome to a brief introduction to the amazingness that is Minecraft.  A great game for engaging students, internal motivation, and engineering.     Links: 10 Awesome Redstone creations- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Roqp2jciCb0&t=212s Redstone Tutorial-  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrbnQVKP9oc Top 10 Minecraft Creations-  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUJ8UmtaUOc

In this episode, we speak with Caroline Hobbs.  She created the RPG Downfall and many more that can be found at http://lessthanthreegames.com/.   Her Short Games series contains One Missed Call which was also talked about on the podcast http://lessthanthreegames.com/short_games/index.html. The episode is great insight into how to play story games in the classroom.  Story Games are easy, simple to start games,  with mechanics that are easy to pick up and try with classes.  I hope everyone enjoys Caroline's games as much as I have.

This is a brief small episode about Extrinsic vs. Intrinsic motivation in games.  They both are very useful but have their place.  I hope you all enjoy.

In this episode learn about quick and easy games to implement in the classroom.  These are 10 games that Melissa presented on and they are amazing and super easy to add to any classroom.  Learn about everything from word games to storytelling, to mystery boxes.  So many great ideas to start the new school year with games ready to use.   If you'd like to see Melissa's Slideshow feel free to see all the games we are talking about here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1a7MpAFhwHX0K5Up0vTsa-dU7ZqFLCEjRzOa_ZivcNwU/edit?usp=sharing    

This episode is ways to transform your classroom into a game.  I hope you enjoy transforming your room.  Please let me know if you do.   Links Talked About:   Ryan O' Donnel:  http://creativeedtech.com/ Project Based Learning:  http://www.bie.org/ Gamification with Melissa Pilakowski:  https://technologypursuit.edublogs.org/author/mpilakowski/ Jon Corippo Writing:  https://sites.google.com/site/mistercorippo/ Extra Credits Fail Faster:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDjrOaoHz9s

This is an amazing interview with Meguey Baker.  Meguey is a game designer of many amazing games for students including 1001 Arabian Nights, Psi Run and many more.  In this interview, we do not discuss her games instead we discuss how to get any student into gaming.  How to make games out of almost anything.  How games and telling stories are the gateways to learning, and how easy it is to start.  It's a fantastic discussion and I hope you all enjoy.

In this episode, I talk about the philosophy of not always facing every challenge head-on.  It's about the importance of both challenges and teaching students when to flee when to find alternative answers to problems.  It also describes how students can find alternative solutions to problems, and how teachers can create situations where students need to find alternative solutions to challenges.

In this 4th Episode, we interview Joshua Archer, creator of the Game Academy. A Role Playing and Gaming community for students in the Bay Area of California.  It is a place where students can game and learn how to play and run their own Role Playing games.  It emphasizes education, creativity, and especially collaboration in a safe gaming atmosphere.  Joshua shares his experiences of using Role Playing Game with students.  He explains why RPG games are beneficial for student learning and how others can start their own gaming communities if they want.  It was an amazing interview and I hope all of you will enjoy his knowledge.  

This 3rd episode is a small one about what is an RPG?  A lot of what you will hear on this podcast is about an immersive education technique called Role Playing Games. This episode describes what a role-playing game is, how it works in different formats, and how easy it to place them in your classroom.  It's a quick intro before you begin to hear some interviews that talk a lot about Role Playing Games.

Welcome to the inaugural episode of Games and Education.  In this first episode, I speak with Ben Robbins the creator of Microscope.  Microscope is the Timeline and Role Playing Game that I have used many times in both History and Language Arts classes.  It's a fascinating dive into how the game works, how teachers can improve its implementations in the classroom.  I don't want to ruin it but it's amazing what we can learn by letting students listen to each other more while others are speaking.  If you'd like to know more please visit my website https://sites.google.com/view/iie/home for a list of games, and links to my blog and Google+ group.

This is the first episode of our podcast about games and education.  It's a quick episode that talks about the importance of Mindset and Drive, and how they relate to games in education.  If you'd like to know more please visit my website https://sites.google.com/view/iie/home for a list of games, and links to my blog and Google+ group.