The Metagame Book Club: Online Professional Development and Game Play

Session Description
The session will present how we are conducting synchronous and asynchronous online professional development on game based learning through the Metagame Book Club http://bit.ly/metagamebookclubsite.The Metagame Book Club is an open book club for all educators and students. The model for the book club is based on online social network knowledge construction. Educators are able to be active in the book club in several ways from lurking (reading the discussions), to participating by playing games to actively creating content and sharing through synchronous sessions.

This book club is focused on “metagaming,” or the act of finding and using information beyond the game itself that can influence one’s in-game decisions. In the context of education, we read books, articles, websites, and blogs about gaming, or the “metagames” that can influence the way we employ games in education. Topics related to the gamification of education, game-based learning, game studies, and Machinima (screen capture of game play) are explored in different offerings of this book club.

Presenter(s)
  • Kae Novak, Front Range Community College, Westminster, Colorado, USA, kae.novak@frontrange.edu
  • Chris Luchs, Colorado Community College System, Denver, Colorado, USA, christopher.luchs@cccs.edu
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4 Responses to The Metagame Book Club: Online Professional Development and Game Play

  1. calongne@pcisys.net April 19, 2016 at 1:23 am #

    Aloha, Kae and Chris! *cheers* Looking forward to your session!

    Just returned from attending the Pikes Peak Writers Conference and am full of new stories about the creating great stories and publishing books.

    See you tonight! *waves*
    Cyn / Lyr Lobo

    • kae.novak@frontrange.edu April 19, 2016 at 3:26 pm #

      Looking forward to seeing you there.

  2. suwak@hawaii.edu April 19, 2016 at 4:53 pm #

    Fantastic presentation! I highly recommend viewing the recording for this session if you were not able to attend live!

  3. erikaj@hawaii.edu May 16, 2016 at 8:12 am #

    This was such a fun presentation! Having multiple presenters from various locations, getting to see video & images of them, and their style of presentation made this feel more like a live radio broadcast with informal, jovial conversation back and forth. I felt like a kid at a candy store with all the resources that were introduced – Now just to find time to use them!

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