GSL 93: Mayday Games

In Games in Schools and Libraries 93 Donald Dennis and Daniel Peterson of Mayday Games talk about the appeal of family games and how they make a good core to a collection, giving it a good foundation to grow from.

Also, why shouldn't you just fill up your library game collection with your favorite games?

Daniel Peterson
Daniel on Facebook

Mayday Games
@maydaygames

Games in Schools and Libraries is produced in association with Inverse Genius and the Georgetown County Library System.
Games in Schools and Libraries Guild at Board Game Geek
Kathleen's resources https://www.kathleenmercury.com/
Email us: schoolsandlibraries@gmail.com

The ideas expressed by libraries included in the podcast are not expressly endorsed by the Georgetown County Library System.

Posted on March 2, 2018 by Donald Dennis and filed under Game Company and tagged Mayday Games Collection Development Family Games.

GSL 92: Hub Games

In Games in Schools and Libraries episode 92 Michael Fox of Hub Games joins Donald Dennis and Kathleen Mercury to talk about how Hub Games would fit into schools and libraries.

Michael Fox

@idlemichael
https://www.facebook.com/idlemichael

Hub Games

@wearehubgames
https://www.wearehubgames.com

Games in Schools and Libraries is produced in association with Inverse Genius and the Georgetown County Library System.
Games in Schools and Libraries Guild at Board Game Geek
Kathleen's resources https://www.kathleenmercury.com/
Email us: schoolsandlibraries@gmail.com

The ideas expressed by libraries included in the podcast are not expressly endorsed by the Georgetown County Library System.

Posted on February 16, 2018 by Donald Dennis and filed under Game Company and tagged hubgames Kathleen Mercury Donald Dennis Hub Games RPGs Game Design.

GSL 91: RTC John Aromando

In this episode of the Games in Schools and Libraries podcast we bring our our first Libraries / Ready to Code Cohort guest. John Aromando from the Hartford County Library joins Donald to talk about bringing coding activities into the library.

Hartford Public Library https://www.hplct.org/
johnaromando@hotmail.com

http://www.ala.org/tools/readytocode
http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2017/10/ala-announces-500000-first-time-grants-develop-coding-programs-libraries-

Games in Schools and Libraries is produced in association with Inverse Genius and the Georgetown County Library System.
Games in Schools and Libraries Guild at Board Game Geek
Kathleen's resources https://www.kathleenmercury.com/
Email us: schoolsandlibraries@gmail.com

The ideas expressed by libraries included in the podcast are not expressly endorsed by the Ready to Code project, the Hartford County Library System or the Georgetown County Library System.

Posted on February 9, 2018 by Donald Dennis and filed under Libraries Ready to Code and tagged RTC coding computational thinking Ctrl Alt Decode.

GSL 90: SCARAB 2018

In Games in Schools and Libraries episode 90 Donald Dennis and Stephanie Frey talk about their experiences taking gaming on the road. Over the course of SCARAB 2018, in Columbia SC, Stephanie ran more than 120 people through escape rooms and Donald ran a wide variety of RPGs. The pair also competed in the RPG Pharaoh's Challenge, taking first and second place for Game Mastering excellence.

As you can tell it was a long weekend, and they really hadn't recovered when they recorded this episode.

You should be able to hear reviews of the Georgetown County Library Escape Rooms on the Swarmcast over the next few weeks. SwarmCastPodcast.com

Games in Schools and Libraries is produced in association with Inverse Genius and the Georgetown County Library System.
Games in Schools and Libraries Guild at Board Game Geek
Kathleen's resources https://www.kathleenmercury.com/
Email us: schoolsandlibraries@gmail.com

Our Catan the Big Game session from ShushCon 2017

Posted on January 20, 2018 by Donald Dennis and filed under Conventions and tagged SCARAB Convention RPG Pharaoh's Challenge swarmcast escape room.

GSL 89: Ctrl, Alt, Decode

In Games in Schools and Libraries episode 89 Donald and Stephanie talk about what they've been doing in their library for the Libraries Ready to Code grant, and reflect on related programs they had offered their patrons before they'd even applied for the grant.

RTC Activities

Escape Room Design
Board Game Design
CS First
Video Game Design
Web Site Design
Game Instruction
Magic the Gathering

Game Reviews
Some games that focus on teaching principles of coding and computational thought, games that teach themselves to the players as you play, and a few games all about the art.

//Code On the Brink
//Code Rover Control
//Code Robot Repair
Mechs & Minions
Fear
Fortress
Flee
Fog of Love
Code Names Marvel
Code Names Disney
Muse

Games in Schools and Libraries is produced in association with Inverse Genius and the Georgetown County Library System.
Games in Schools and Libraries Guild at Board Game Geek
Kathleen's resources https://www.kathleenmercury.com/
Email us: schoolsandlibraries@gmail.com

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Posted on January 12, 2018 by Donald Dennis and filed under Libraries Ready to Code and tagged RTC Libraries Ready to Code Ctrl Alt Decode //code code names Fast Forward computational thinking.

GSL 88: Computational Thinking

In Games in Schools and Libraries episode 88 Geoff Englestein joins Donald Dennis & Kathleen Mercury to talk about Computational Thinking and tabletop games. (This Episode was also posted to the On Board Games feed as OBG 278.)

@gengelstein on Twitter

engelstein on BGG

http://www.ludology.libsyn.com/

Some of the Games/puzzles mentioned

Robo Rally
//CODE, On the Brink, Rover Control, Robot Repair,
Major General Duel of Time
River Dragons
Codemaster
Robot Turtles
Code Monkey Island

Article Referenced Collaborative strategic board games as a site for
distributed computational thinking

Games in Schools and Libraries is produced in association with Inverse Genius and the Georgetown County Library System.
Games in Schools and Libraries Guild at Board Game Geek
Kathleen's resources https://www.kathleenmercury.com/
Email us: schoolsandlibraries@gmail.com

Posted on December 27, 2017 by Donald Dennis and filed under Libraries Ready to Code and tagged tabletop Libraries Ready to Code RTC computational thinking coding Geoff Engelstein //code Think Fun.

GSL 87: Philosophy Through Game Design

In Games in Schools and Libraries episode 87 Jessey Wright joins Kathleen Mercury to talk about his experiences teaching philosophy through game design.

jesseywright.com
throughthevoid.com
@TTVoid ‏

Games in Schools and Libraries is produced in association with Inverse Genius and the Georgetown County Library System.
Games in Schools and Libraries Guild at Board Game Geek
Email us: schoolsandlibraries@gmail.com

Posted on December 15, 2017 by Donald Dennis and tagged game design philosophy teaching.

GSL 85: Games and Speech Therapy

In Games in Schools and Libraries 85 John duBois joins Kathleen Mercury to talk about using games as part of Speech Therapy.

John duBoise
Twitter @JohnduBois
Blog: Obfuscated Objective

Speech Sounds Games
Apples to Apples

Receptive Language Games
Backseat Drawing
Brick Party

Expressive Language Games
Snake Oil
Once apon a time
Rory's Story Cubes
Storytelling cards
Animal Upon Animal with Expanding Expressions Kit

Social Language Games
Dixit
In a Pickle

Other games mentioned
Fiasco
The Quiet Year

The Games in Schools and Libraries podcasts and blogs are produced by Inverse Genius in association with the Georgetown County Library System
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Posted on December 2, 2017 by Donald Dennis and tagged speech therapy language therapy Kathleen Mercury.

GSL 84: Grandmother Fish

In Games in Schools and Libraries 84 Jonathan Tweet joins Donald Dennis to discuss evolution science activities for schools and libraries.

http://www.grandmotherfish.com/
https://www.facebook.com/grandmotherfish/
@GrandmotherFish ‏

Grandmother Fish: a child’s first book of Evolution is a story time activity book which engages a young child’s imagination with sounds and motions that imitate animals, in particular our direct ancestors.

Clades is an animal-matching game based on evolutionary relationships.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1849623603/clades-the-evolutionary-card-game

The Games in Schools and Libraries podcasts and blogs are produced by Inverse Genius in association with the Georgetown County Library System
Email us: schoolsandlibraries@gmail.com
Music by Ian Sovine

Posted on November 24, 2017 by Donald Dennis and tagged evolution clades Grandmother Fish science games.

GSL 83: Social Media and Soliciting Free Games

In Games in Schools and Libraries Donald Dennis and Jenn Bartlett, of the Manchester Public Library, talk about utilizing social media and soliciting free games.