Games Events Next Week? & Meeting to Organize
lsv...@columbia.edu
I've written it up to be sent out to all of TC this coming Monday.
Please advise on suggestions, corrections, or additional events to advertise!
Julie, great idea for tomorrow, I'll come!
Lance
Also copied below are ideas from Andrew Cohen, who's interested in
connecting CCTE with other departs through games as a social bond
Announcement Draft:
LearnPlay (www.learnplay.org), the student group exploring how to
better understand and design games for education, invites you!
* Flash Workshops - Each Wednesday 7:30 ? 9pm in the i-Design lab in
322 Thompson?s Jin Kuwata will be mentoring game design with Flash
ActionScript 3.0, please contact him at jmk...@columbia.edu
* Discussion Groups ? Each Friday from 3-4 in the Eggplant games lab
(50A Thorndike) students will be meeting to discuss related research
and theory, contact Julia Itami ( jyi...@columbia.edu ) for details.
Stay tuned for future events, including a talk by Jesper Juul in March!
End of Announcement
----- Forwarded message from A_S_...@hotmail.com -----
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 13:31:16 -0500
From: Andrew Cohen <A_S_...@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: Andrew Cohen <A_S_...@hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: Games Night
To: lsv...@columbia.edu
Well, actually, my intentions for the game night WERE to have more
socially-oriented games. That's why I felt that the Senate's plan had
"replaced" my idea.
I'd still be up for organizing an event if we want to throw the educational
twist into it. What about expanding the Eggplant parties to outside of
MSTU? That would help show other departments the kind of stuff that we're
working on (and would probably make them jealous). We could put some
initial thought into the types of games we'd want to represent ourselves
with.
Whatever types of games we use, I think that we should add an element that
neither previous Eggplant parties nor the Senate parties have yet had:
structure. This would include the following preparations:
--Pre-arranged game "stations" set up with a little poster explaining what
skills/knowledge that each game helps improve.
--Leader boards, score sheets, or tournament brackets to bring out the
competitor in all of us and keep us motivated to play.
--A person/people designated as the leader who can periodically stand on a
chair and give everyone updates (or otherwise keep order)
Anyway those are just some ideas. I think that if we simply leave a game
night open to playing whatever is in the warehouse, it becomes a clusterfuck
where nobody can agree on what to play.
Your thoughts?
-----Original Message-----
From: lsv...@columbia.edu [mailto:lsv...@columbia.edu]
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 11:27 AM
To: Andrew Cohen
Subject: Games Night
Andrew,
From what I heard the Senate is trying to get other schools in to
mingle with TC. That's a whole different ball game (in that social
icebreakers and games would be best). But didn't seem to be what you
had in mind originally. Is that wrong? I'd like to help you organize
something, if you're still up for leading something like this.
Lance
Quoting Andrew Cohen <asc...@columbia.edu>:
> Hey Lance, good call on getting educational games into the board game
night.
> But I actually didn't end up having to do one last semester because the TC
> Student Senate did one for me.
>
> The Senate is now even hoping to do several more of them this semester in
> the cafeteria. Maybe it would be a good idea to talk to them and see if
you
> could tack on the educational theme? That way you could even get
publicity
> on the weekly announcements.
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lsv...@columbia.edu [mailto:lsv...@columbia.edu]
> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 3:49 PM
> To: Andrew Cohen
> Cc: dlh...@columbia.edu
> Subject:
>
> Andrew,
>
> How did the board game night you set up last semester go? Could I
> help you put one together this Spring? I'm trying to organize and
> line up educational game related events for this semester and can do a
> demo with a board game that teaches programmatic thinking (RoboRally),
> and can bring in some Scrabble experts to demonstrate ways it can be
> used for literacy.
>
> But don't get me wrong, this could all be a sideshow to raw game playing.
>
> Poker nights are probably best kept separate ;)
>
> Cheers,
> Lance
>
>
----- End forwarded message -----
Jin Kuwata
introducing myself and attaching some info about the Eggplant Farm
agenda.
Jin
On Feb 7, 3:03 pm, lsv2...@columbia.edu wrote:
> Educational Game Leaders - how does this email announcement sound,
> I've written it up to be sent out to all of TC this coming Monday.
> Please advise on suggestions, corrections, or additional events to advertise!
>
> Julie, great idea for tomorrow, I'll come!
> Lance
>
> Also copied below are ideas from Andrew Cohen, who's interested in
> connecting CCTE with other departs through games as a social bond
>
> Announcement Draft:
>
> LearnPlay (www.learnplay.org), the student group exploring how to
> better understand and design games for education, invites you!
>
> * Flash Workshops - Each Wednesday 7:30 ? 9pm in the i-Design lab in
> 322 Thompson?s Jin Kuwata will be mentoring game design with Flash
> * Discussion Groups ? Each Friday from 3-4 in the Eggplant games lab
> (50A Thorndike) students will be meeting to discuss related research
> Stay tuned for future events, including a talk by Jesper Juul in March!
>
> End of Announcement
>
> Reply-To: Andrew Cohen <A_S_Co...@hotmail.com>
> Subject: RE: Games Night
> To: lsv2...@columbia.edu
jyi...@columbia.edu
I think the announcement idea is great!
Just one question: should we present the discussion group as an event
for beginners or just let people ask if they are interested?