This installment’s interviewee, Brenda Romero, has a list of accomplishments far too long for me to easily fit in our standard intro paragraph below –
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Philip Minchin is a consultant on and advocate for play, games, creativity, community, and learning, with a substantial side of strategic thinking about the future of libraries.
Updates on donations – they’re coming soon!
Hi everyone, We’re starting to get some questions about donations – we’ll have some more details in the not-too-distant future, but I just wanted to
Read moreInternational Minecraft Hunger Games update – how it will work!
ANN ARBOR DISTRICT LIBRARY PRESENTS: INTERNATIONAL MINECRAFT HUNGER GAMES (IMHG) POWERED BY GTSYSTEM.ORG WHAT IT IS: A week-long Minecraft Hunger Games tournament, open to libraries
Read moreTalking Points: Play, analysis and action
Welcome to the last of our series on the powers of play (which starts here for those just coming in). In some ways we’ve saved
Read moreIGD Anecdotes: Outside groups
Feeling overwhelmed by all the exciting possibilities for IGD? Fear not! There are many supporters and gamers that are more than excited to see and
Read moreOctober update
Hello everyone! I’m proud to announce that we seem to have hit a (completely arbitrary, but nonetheless exciting) milestone: we now have over 1000 registrations,
Read moreInternational events closing soon – register now! (And tell your colleagues!)
Hi everyone! We’re getting very close to the big day – I hope you’re all excited about what we’re creating together! I like to think
Read moreIGD Anecdotes: Intergenerational connections and meeting new people
As you forge ahead with your IGD plans, you may be focusing on certain age groups: kids, teens, twentysomethings, or beyond! Your target group may
Read moreGame profile: RoboRally – emergence from procedure
Today’s game profile is about a game whose greatest influence on the gaming world has been – or so it could be argued – the
Read moreWhat’s afoot, September edition: the last couple of months in games
Hey everyone! Apologies all round for missing this update last month – there was a lot on and I was a little too stretched to
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