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CREATING GREAT GAMING EXPERIENCESIn the Library!

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Audience Question:

What is a game?

–Scott Nicholson, Associate Professor at the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University and the director of the Because Play Matters game lab

“All games are educational in some way.”

What do games have to do with books?

What does Gaming have to do with the library?

“Look at Mark Zuckerberg. I was sitting next to him at dinner a couple of years ago, and he said he taught himself programming primarily because he was interested in games.” – President Barack Obama, 2012

What are your goals?

Creating the Gaming Experience

Creating the Gaming Experience: Knowledge Games

Creating the Gaming Experience: Strategy Games

Creating the Gaming Experience: Action Games

Creating the Gaming Experience: Narrative Games

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Putting Your Tournament Together

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“You can look at video games as being very simple and dismiss them. Or you can look at them as simulated learning environments. These simulations will become what most of our students are learning from” –Steve Jobs, 2011

Best Practices: Libraries Creating Gaming Experiences

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Best Practices: Libraries Creating Gaming Experiences

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Best Practices: Libraries Creating Gaming Experiences

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Best Practices: Libraries Creating Gaming Experiences

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Best Practices: Libraries Creating Gaming Experiences

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6th Annual Event: Nov. 16, 2013

“Newer work, however, argues thatpeople primarily think and learn throughexperiences they have had, not through abstract calculations and generalizations.”-James Paul Gee, Arizona State University, Literary Studies

5 things you can do today!

Games Mentioned • Trivia Pursuit Aye!, Dark Overlord• Giant Scrabble Little Big Planet (LBP)• QR Code Scavenger Hunt Game of Thrones• 1960: the Making of a President Marvel Ultimate Alliance• Runescape Pirates!• Chess• Checkers• UNO• Go• Rock Band• Mini Golf• Wii Sports• Dance Dance Revolution (DDR)

Resources • ALA Library Gaming Toolkit: http://www.librarygamingtoolkit.org/

• LibGaming Google Group: groups.google.com/group/libgaming

• Library Gamer: http://librarygamer.wordpress.com/

• Playing to Learn: Video Games in the Classroom: http://www.playingtolearn.org/

• Beck, John C. and Mitchell Wade. The Kids Are Alright: How the Gamer Generation is Changing The Workplace. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2004.

• Gee, James Paul. What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy. Palgrave McMillan, 2003.

• Harris, Amy. Gaming and Academic Libraries: Collections, Marketing, and Information Literacy. American Library Association, 2008.

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Kelly Czarnecki Teen Services Librarian

Email: kellyczarnecki1@gmail.com Library Twitter: twitter/com/cmlibrary

Library Facebook: facebook.com/cmlibraryteens

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