GAME 5e - Roll for Engagement

Event is FULL - Currently not accepting registrations

FULL - Thurday night gaming

Program

* 6: 00 pm to 10: 00 pm
* Pizza and drinks provided
* Social evening of gaming

FULL - Keynote - The Power of Gamification in Education

Education is a system that has not evolved for years. Rows, desks, worksheets and the like have ruled education systems and expectations of the past and as well as the present. It is time to move education to the future. By examining education practices of the past and a brief general history of education, participants will learn how school could, and would, benefit from a pedagogical change. Learning what gamification is, how it can be applied and how it can translate to any grade or subject area provides a session anyone could walk away and take something from. Using a mix of real world experience, humour and authenticity, this talk promises to get you thinking about your own passions and your classroom

Presenter: Scott Hebert

Scott Hebert is an educator from Sherwood Park, Alberta in Elk Island Catholic Schools and has been a teacher for 13 years. He has made it his goal to eliminate the stereotype that school is, and has to be, boring. Gamification was the solution Scott and his students came up with and since its integration into his classroom pedagogy, it has reached classrooms all over the world.

Scott has been recognized both provincially (Alberta Excellence in Teaching Award recipient in 2013) and Internationally (Best Gamification in Education Project Globally in 2015) for his efforts towards promoting Gamification in the classroom. These efforts, and the continued growth of the program and idea, also led him to be named among the Top 50 Finalists for the Global Teacher Prize Award of 2020, making him the 1st Albertan ever selected and Human Kinetics Alumni of the Year in 2017 from his alma mater Laurentian University. He lives by the message, “Would you want to be in your classroom?” and strives to achieve this goal daily.

Scott is a single dad to 2 amazing children, author of 2 books on gamification and avid supporter of all things sports and athletics.
Kids have to go to school, why should it feel like a chore?


Location:Glenlawn Collegiate

Time:8:45 am - 10:15 am

Suitable for :K-12

FULL - AM 01: Assessing Learning Outcomes and Ungrading Through Game Design

An exploration of how to integrate curriculum learning outcomes and assessment in an ungraded style through a large game design project. This is an attempt to make feedback and revision a useful and assessable part of project based learning. This session will also address strategies in making learning more accessible to students who are not neurotypical.

Presenter: Ezra Reimer

Location:Glenlawn Collegiate

Time:10:30 - 11:30

Suitable for: Grade 5-12

FULL - AM 02 : Starting a School Board Game Club

Discussion/presentation/roundtable about what to include in starting board game collections including logistics, money, advertising, recruitment, pitfalls and challenges. If time allows we will also do a few quick plays of our "gateway games".

Presenter: Barrette Plett & Patrick Koslowsky-Wiebe

Location:Glenlawn Collegiate

Time:10:30 am - 11:30 am

Suitable for: Grade 3-12

FULL - AM 03 : Descriptive Writing using Tabletop Role-Playing Games

In this session, Fabrice Siaux will share his resources and experiences using role-playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons to demonstrate how students can write their own adventures to play in the classroom. Participants will learn the basics of tabletop role-playing games as well as how to set up and write an adventure heavily focused on descriptive writing. Handouts will include student examples, templates and a writing unit ready to go.

Presenter: Fabrice Siaux

Location:Glenlawn Collegiate

Time:10:30 am - 11:30 am

Suitable for:Grade 4-8

FULL - AM 04 : Educating the Dragons: Connecting Students through Roleplaying Games

Enter into the alluring world of gameplay and magic where students can increase their communication skills and grow their self-esteem. Learn the secrets of how to increase engagement and build empathy through the roleplaying experience. Step into the realm of roleplaying games as you are led through the specific steps on how to craft outstanding sessions. Through my journey and experience as the founder of The Manitoba Educators' Roleplaying Council (M.E.R.C.), I will share stories of how roleplaying games nurture critical thinking, collaboration, and creativity among students while fostering connections. Join me and catch a glimpse of the upcoming event: An Adventure of Questing Mastery on Friday, November 17th. Join us for a magical evening where students will build friendships, expand social networks, and acquire invaluable skills through exciting gameplay. Come discover the vision of M.E.R.C., reshaping education through immersive worlds and creating lasting connections.

Presenter: Jonah Simmonds

Location:Glenlawn Collegiate

Time:10:30 am - 11:30 am

Suitable for: Grade 7-12

FULL - AM 05 : Getting Creative in Fortite

Learn to implement Fortnite in the classroom in an interactive experience that will show you how to navigate and create in Fortnite, including the recently-released Unreal Editor for Fortnite.

Presenter: Kay Wojnarski and Alison Adachi

Location:Glenlawn Collegiate

Time:10:30 am - 11:30 am

Suitable for:Grade 5-12

FULL - AM 06 : Vendor Series –A Muse N Games

A Muse N Games was founded in 2014 and since we opened we have focused on building safe inclusive communities of gamers, their friends, families and peers.

Brian and Scotia, the owners of A Muse N Games, have always felt that games are an amazing way of not only bringing people of different backgrounds together but of teaching a broad array of topics in fun and approachable ways.

The educational benefits of some games are obvious right out of the box, some less so. Come talk about some of your favorites and hear about some of ours and how we can modify different games to suit a variety of purposes, situations and curricula.

If you aren’t able to attend one of our sessions with all the other amazing options being offered feel free to stop by our vendor table to discuss or shoot an email to scotia@amusengames.ca I’m always happy to chat with teachers and administrators about how we can get more games into classrooms and how we can support educators with our products and services.

Presenter: A Muse N Games

Location:Glenlawn Collegiate

Time:10:30 am - 11:30 am

Suitable for:Grade K-12

FULL - AM 07 : Vendor Series – Victory Pints

The GAME Vendor Series are workshops designed by Winnipeg game store owners/employees that highlight each individual’s passion in gaming. David will present on great games for starting a board game club at your school.

Presenter: Victory Pints

Location:Glenlawn Collegiate

Time:10:30 am - 11:30 am

Suitable for:Grade k-12

FULL - AM 08 : Vendor Series – GameKnight Games - Hobby Miniature Games in Schools

Hobby miniature games can be a daunting and confusing thing for interested players. Join me (Ben from GameKnight) in demystifying and decoding this amazing, wholesome and, dare I say it, educational pass time. I'll be here to help with those first steps into the hobby, in developing in-school programs, and to answer any questions you might have about building miniatures, painting them and getting them into a table for gaming.

Applicable Skill Development: Math, Reading Comprehension, Probability and Statistics, Spatial Awareness, Manual Dexterity, Fine Art, Strategic Thinking, Team Play, Turn Taking, Social Skills

Presenter: GameKnight Games

Location:Glenlawn Collegiate

Time:10:30 am - 11 :30 am

Suitable for: Grade K-12

FULL - AM 09 : Vendor Series – Across the Board - Dungeons & Development: How to Learn and Grow through D&D

The GAME Vendor Series are workshops designed by Winnipeg game store owners/employees that highlight each individual’s passion in gaming.

Discover how Dungeons & Dragons can be used to help students learn and exercise a wide variety of real-world skills such as creative thinking, mental math, improvisation, problem solving, group co-operation, leadership, social skills, and more. The session will be led by Bree Carlson, who has run D&D camps and events for youth of a wide variety of ages and familiarity with the game.

Presenter: Across the Board

Location:Glenlawn Collegiate

Time:10:30 am - 11:30 am

Suitable for:Grade 3-12

FULL - AM 10 : Welcome to the Quiet Year

Mark will teach and demonstrate “A Quiet Year” which is great in classes where there may be a story telling component like ELA and social studies.

The Quiet Year is a map game. You define the struggles of a community living after the collapse of civilization, and attempt to build something good within their quiet year. Every decision and every action is set against a backdrop of dwindling time and rising concern.

The game is played using a deck of cards – each of the 52 cards corresponds to a week during the quiet year. Each card triggers certain events – bringing bad news, good omens, project delays and sudden changes in luck. At the end of the quiet year, the Frost Shepherds will come, ending the game.

The Quiet Year occupies an interesting space – part roleplaying game, part cartographic poetry.

Presenter: Mark Lebar and Chris Burns

Location:Glenlawn Collegiate

Time:10:30 am - 11:30 am

Suitable for:Grades 5-12

FULL - AM 11 - Elementary School D&D Clubs (and Classrooms)

This presentation is designed to help elementary school teachers find ways to bring D&D into their school in ways which appeal to younger players. The presenters have experience both running after school clubs as well as using D&D in classroom settings. The presenters will go through some examples of what has worked well for them in the past and discuss ideas and questions with session participants. This presentation is geared towards teachers/classrooms of the grades 4-8 level.

Presenters: Drew Van Landeghem & William Knol

Location:Glenlawn Collegiate

Time:10:30 am - 11:30 am

Suitable for:Grades 4-8

FULL - AM 12 - Social Tabletop Gaming in Schools

Presentation on the advantages of using Pathfinder and Starfinder Society games to teach students interpersonal skills and provide access to a global community.

Presenter: Marc Daoust

Location:Glenlawn Collegiate

Time:10:30 am - 11:30 am

Suitable for:Grades K-12

FULL - AM 13 - Gaslands

Gaslands is a post apocalyptic table top game that uses fast cars and various strategies to achieve victory. Players create and control cars (Mad Max, Death Race 2000, Twisted Metal, etc.) and race them along a course fending off other players. This game can be played as a one off or as a larger campaign.

Skills practiced – Measurements, vehicle physics - momentum, velocity, and vehicle control and strategy.

Presenter: James Alexander

Location:Glenlawn Collegiate

Time:10:30 am - 11:30 am

Suitable for:Grades 5-12

FULL - AM 14: Board Games that Promote Oral French Speaking in the Classroom

In this session you will learn about and get a chance to play several board games which promote oral French use in the classroom. Nicole is a French Immersion classroom teacher so the session will largely focus on using the games in that setting, but these games could be useful in a Communication and Culture classroom as well.

Presenter: Nicole Bureau

Location:Glenlawn Collegiate

Time:10:30 am - 11:30 am

Suitable for: Any, but most applicable to late elementary and middle years

FULL - AM 15 : Open GAMEing

Take an hour in the gym to explore games with other participants.

Presenter: Self Directed

Location:Glenlawn Collegiate

Time:10:30 am - 11:30 am

Suitable for:Grade k-12

FULL - PM 1 - 01: Assessing Learning Outcomes and Ungrading Through Game Design

An exploration of how to integrate curriculum learning outcomes and assessment in an ungraded style through a large game design project. This is an attempt to make feedback and revision a useful and assessable part of project based learning. This session will also address strategies in making learning more accessible to students who are not neurotypical.

Presenter: Ezra Reimer

Location:Glenlawn Collegiate

Time:1pm - 2pm

Suitable for:Grade 5-12

FULL - PM 1 - 02: Descriptive Writing using Tabletop Role-Playing Games

Session Description: In this session, Fabrice Siaux will share his resources and experiences using role-playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons to demonstrate how students can write their own adventures to play in the classroom. Participants will learn the basics of tabletop role-playing games as well as how to set up and write an adventure heavily focused on descriptive writing. Handouts will include student examples, templates and a writing unit ready to go.

Presenter: Fabrice Siaux

Location:Glenlawn Collegiate

Time:1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Suitable for:Grade 4-8

FULL - PM 1 - 03: Getting Creative in Fortite

Learn to implement Fortnite in the classroom in an interactive experience that will show you how to navigate and create in Fortnite, including the recently-released Unreal Editor for Fortnite

Presenter: Kay Wojnarski and Alison Adachi

Location:Glenlawn Collegiate

Time:1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Suitable for:Grade K-12

FULL - PM 1 - 04: Vendor Series – A Muse N Games

A Muse N Games was founded in 2014 and since we opened we have focused on building safe inclusive communities of gamers, their friends, families and peers.

Brian and Scotia, the owners of A Muse N Games, have always felt that games are an amazing way of not only bringing people of different backgrounds together but of teaching a broad array of topics in fun and approachable ways.

The educational benefits of some games are obvious right out of the box, some less so. Come talk about some of your favorites and hear about some of ours and how we can modify different games to suit a variety of purposes, situations and curricula.

If you aren’t able to attend one of our sessions with all the other amazing options being offered feel free to stop by our vendor table to discuss or shoot an email to scotia@amusengames.ca I’m always happy to chat with teachers and administrators about how we can get more games into classrooms and how we can support educators with our products and services.

Presenter: A Muse N Game

Location:Glenlawn Collegiate

Time:1:00 pm- 2:00 pm

Suitable for:Grade K-12

FULL - PM 1 - 05: Vendor Series – Victory Pints

The GAME Vendor Series are workshops designed by Winnipeg game store owners/employees that highlight each individual’s passion in gaming. David will present on great games for starting a board game club at your school.

Presenter:Victory Pints

Location:Glenlawn Collegiate

Time:1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Suitable for: Grade K-12

FULL - PM 1 - 06: Vendor Series – GameKnight Games - Hobby Miniature Games in Schools

Hobby miniature games can be a daunting and confusing thing for interested players. Join me (Ben from GameKnight) in demystifying and decoding this amazing, wholesome and, dare I say it, educational pass time. I'll be here to help with those first steps into the hobby, in developing in-school programs, and to answer any questions you might have about building miniatures, painting them and getting them into a table for gaming.

Applicable Skill Development: Math, Reading Comprehension, Probability and Statistics, Spatial Awareness, Manual Dexterity, Fine Art, Strategic Thinking, Team Play, Turn Taking, Social Skills

Presenter: GameKnight Games

Location:Glenlawn Collegiate

Time:1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Suitable for: Grade K-12

FULL - PM 1 - 07: Vendor Series – Across the Board - Dungeons & Development: How to Learn and Grow through D&D

The GAME Vendor Series are workshops designed by Winnipeg game store owners/employees that highlight each individual’s passion in gaming.

Discover how Dungeons & Dragons can be used to help students learn and exercise a wide variety of real-world skills such as creative thinking, mental math, improvisation, problem solving, group co-operation, leadership, social skills, and more. The session will be led by Bree Carlson, who has run D&D camps and events for youth of a wide variety of ages and familiarity with the game.

Presenter: Across the Board

Location:Glenlawn Collegiate

Time:10:30 am - 11:30 am

Suitable for:Grade 3-12

FULL - PM 1 - 08: Elementary School D&D Clubs (and Classrooms)

This presentation is designed to help elementary school teachers find ways to bring D&D into their school in ways which appeal to younger players. The presenters have experience both running after school clubs as well as using D&D in classroom settings. The presenters will go through some examples of what has worked well for them in the past and discuss ideas and questions with session participants. This presentation is geared towards teachers/classrooms of the grades 4-8 level.

Presenters: Drew Van Landeghem & William Knol

Location:Glenlawn Collegiate

Time:1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Suitable for:Grades 4-8

FULL - PM 1 - 09: Gaslands

Gaslands is a post apocalyptic table top game that uses fast cars and various strategies to achieve victory. Players create and control cars (Mad Max, Death Race 2000, Twisted Metal, etc.) and race them along a course fending off other players. This game can be played as a one off or as a larger campaign.

Skills practiced – Measurements, vehicle physics - momentum, velocity, and vehicle control and strategy.

Presenter: James Alexander

Location:Glenlawn Collegiate

Time:1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Suitable for:Grades 5-12

FULL - PM 1 - 10: Teaching Specific Curricular Points with Board Games

Bring your curriculum and ideas! I will walk through specific examples of using board games to teach or reinforce the curriculum in a middle math setting. Then we will have an open discussion based on what curriculum and ideas have been brought along.

Presenter’s Name: Dean Olfert

Grade Level(s): K-6, middle school

FULL - PM 1 - 11: Game Master Your Lessons with the Classroom Story

Guided by principles of gamification, constructivism, and deeper learning, a Classroom Story is a shared narrative experience that combines imagination, cooperation, game elements, curricular outcomes, and instruction into one engaging package. Think campfire stories mashed up with a roleplaying game and a notebook. In this hands-on session, attendees will all be thrown into a “Classroom Story” where they will have to think quickly, work together, and write things down. A Classroom Story is not a silver bullet or the solution to education. It is also not an acronym or list of "how-to's". It is an empowering approach that encourages and challenges teachers to build on their strengths, get creative, and engage students in ways only limited by your classes’ collective imagination.

The teacher acts as storyteller and moderator; preparing the setting, inciting event, general plot, curricular outcomes, and any game elements. Students engage with the story by becoming characters, authors, collaborators, and actors. By responding to shared events in the story, students are stimulated, challenged, and encouraged to interact and cooperate. There are opportunities to create, mess-up, move around, talk, draw, write, act, code, or whatever! A Classroom Story becomes something unique that teachers and students experience and create together. The end result will be a shared experience that you could never totally plan out and will produce work you could never have expected.

Presenter: Brent Schmidt

Location:Glenlawn Collegiate

Time:1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Suitable for:Grades 4-12

FULL - PM 1 - 12: Using Tech and Pop Culture to Gamify Your Class

Using free tech programs like Genially and Glide, and tapping into the power of pop culture, I can show you how I’ve matched up my content to stories that have already been told, and how to build some tech tools to make the experience immersive.

Presenter: Ryan Blight

Location:Glenlawn Collegiate

Time:1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Suitable for:Grades K-12, but likely most beneficial to K-8

FULL - PM 1 - 13: Esports 101

Do you have to ask your students what they did OTHER THAN play video games over the weekend? It's no secret that our students are gamers, and there are a growing number of educators across the province who are unlocking the learning potential of games by bringing esports into school. Esports 101 is designed to provide educators, administrators, and enthusiasts with a comprehensive guide to starting an esports program in your school. Esports is so much more than just a game; explore how you can use esports as way to foster global competencies and increase student engagement.

Presenter: Melissa Burns

Location:Glenlawn Collegiate

Time:1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Suitable for:Grade K-12

FULL - PM 1 - 14: Inclusive Gaming for Students with Cognitive and Physical Disabilities

Partnered with Hanover school division,Tyler helped to created, plan, and run an amazing opportunity for students with cognitive and physical disabilities. What happened? AMAZING growth in social skills, self-reflection, self-regulation, and even making a friend.

This is my story on how esports and video gaming helped to grow and benefit students, who have a hard time connecting with the larger population of the school. It will include tips, tricks, stories, info of what games, and even how to use adaptive controllers! I look forward to seeing you, and maybe helping mentor some future programs.

Presenter: Tyler Muntain

Location:Glenlawn Collegiate

Time:1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Suitable for:Grades 5 – 12+, Student Services

FULL - PM 1 - 15: Open GAMEing

Take an hour in the gym to explore games with other participants.

Presenter: Self Directed

Location:Glenlawn Collegiate

Time:1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Suitable for: Grade K-12

FULL - PM 1/2 - Minecraft in the Classroom

This session will cover a variety of ideas of how to effectively use Minecraft EDU in the classroom. It will focus on how to make Minecraft EDU a part of your teaching through research, collaboration, and innovation, and how it can be used to demonstrate learning through planning, cooperation, and creativity in a video game format. The topics will be classroom uses, Manito Ahbee Aki and Girls Who Game. First hour will be information about the uses of Minecraft EDU and the second hour will be hands-on exploring Manito Ahbee Aki and Minecraft worlds in general.

A personal device with Minecraft Education installed is necessary for this session.

Presenter: Mark Lesiuk

Location:Glenlawn Collegiate

Time:1:00 Pm - 3:15 am

Suitable for: Grade 4-8

FULL - PM 1/2- The Power of Gamification in Education

Children, and adults for that matter, have never been more engaged by games than they are now. Why is that though? What draws people so deeply into games? What brings them back and what drives them to keep trying to improve in the face of great adversity? Can you harness the power of the psychology behind game creation and turn your class into something all students will beg to be in?

In an education system designed where students start with 100% and lose as they go, gamification flips this concept onto its head. Focusing on the individual’s progression while increasing both intrinsic and extrinsic motivation exponentially, this pedagogy has the power to bring education into the modern era.

Can anyone do this? I am here to tell you that you can and it is easier than you think! I have successfully turned my Grade 8 science and social courses into a live action role playing game. Students compete against the teacher, each other, other teams and other classes in an effort to level up and progress while using their classroom knowledge to solve problems in real and practical ways!

Sounds intimidating but it is not! You will walk out of this session inspired and driven to make changes to your teaching, as quickly the next day you enter your classroom. Will you press start?

Presenter: Scott Hebert

Location:Glenlawn Collegiate

Time:1:00 Pm - 3:15 am

Suitable for: Grade k-12

FULL - PM 2 - 01: Starting a School Board Game Club

Discussion/presentation/roundtable about what to include in starting board game collections including logistics, money, advertising, recruitment, pitfalls and challenges. If time allows we will also do a few quick plays of our "gateway games".

Presenter:Barrette Plett & Patrick Koslowsky-Wiebe

Location:Glenlawn Collegiate

Time:2:15 pm - 3:15 pm

Suitable for:Grade 3-12

FULL - PM 2 - 02: Educating the Dragons: Connecting Students through Roleplaying Games

Enter into the alluring world of gameplay and magic where students can increase their communication skills and grow their self-esteem. Learn the secrets of how to increase engagement and build empathy through the roleplaying experience. Step into the realm of roleplaying games as you are led through the specific steps on how to craft outstanding sessions. Through my journey and experience as the founder of The Manitoba Educators' Roleplaying Council (M.E.R.C.), I will share stories of how roleplaying games nurture critical thinking, collaboration, and creativity among students while fostering connections. Join me and catch a glimpse of the upcoming event: An Adventure of Questing Mastery on Friday, November 17th. Join us for a magical evening where students will build friendships, expand social networks, and acquire invaluable skills through exciting gameplay. Come discover the vision of M.E.R.C., reshaping education through immersive worlds and creating lasting connections.

Presenter: Jonah Simmonds

Location:Glenlawn Collegiate

Time:2:15 pm - 3:15 pm

Suitable for:Grade 7-12

FULL - PM 2 - 03: Vendor Series – A Muse N Games

A Muse N Games was founded in 2014 and since we opened we have focused on building safe inclusive communities of gamers, their friends, families and peers.

Brian and Scotia, the owners of A Muse N Games, have always felt that games are an amazing way of not only bringing people of different backgrounds together but of teaching a broad array of topics in fun and approachable ways.

The educational benefits of some games are obvious right out of the box, some less so. Come talk about some of your favorites and hear about some of ours and how we can modify different games to suit a variety of purposes, situations and curricula.

If you aren’t able to attend one of our sessions with all the other amazing options being offered feel free to stop by our vendor table to discuss or shoot an email to scotia@amusengames.ca I’m always happy to chat with teachers and administrators about how we can get more games into classrooms and how we can support educators with our products and services.

Presenter: A Muse N Games

Location:Glenlawn Collegiate

Time:02:15 pm - 03:15 pm

Suitable for:Grade K-12

FULL - PM 2 - 04: Vendor Series – Victory Pints

The GAME Vendor Series are workshops designed by Winnipeg game store owners/employees that highlight each individual’s passion in gaming. David will present on great games for starting a board game club at your school.

Presenter: Victory Pints

Location:Glenlawn Collegiate

Time:02:15 pm -03:15 pm

Suitable for:Grade K-12

FULL - PM 2 - 05: Vendor Series – GameKnight Games - Hobby Miniature Games in Schools

Hobby miniature games can be a daunting and confusing thing for interested players. Join me (Ben from GameKnight) in demystifying and decoding this amazing, wholesome and, dare I say it, educational pass time. I'll be here to help with those first steps into the hobby, in developing in-school programs, and to answer any questions you might have about building miniatures, painting them and getting them into a table for gaming.

Applicable Skill Development: Math, Reading Comprehension, Probability and Statistics, Spatial Awareness, Manual Dexterity, Fine Art, Strategic Thinking, Team Play, Turn Taking, Social Skills

Presenter: GameKnight Games

Location:Glenlawn Collegiate

Time:2:15 pm - 3:15 pm

Suitable for: Grade K-12

FULL - PM 2 - 06: Vendor Series – Across the Board - Dungeons & Development: How to Learn and Grow through D&D

The GAME Vendor Series are workshops designed by Winnipeg game store owners/employees that highlight each individual’s passion in gaming.

Discover how Dungeons & Dragons can be used to help students learn and exercise a wide variety of real-world skills such as creative thinking, mental math, improvisation, problem solving, group co-operation, leadership, social skills, and more. The session will be led by Bree Carlson, who has run D&D camps and events for youth of a wide variety of ages and familiarity with the game.

Presenter: Across the Board

Location:Glenlawn Collegiate

Time:02:15 pm - 03:15 pm

Suitable for:Grade 3-12

FULL - PM 2 - 07 - Welcome to the Quiet Year

Mark will teach and demonstrate “A Quiet Year” which is great in classes where there may be a story telling component like ELA and social studies.

The Quiet Year is a map game. You define the struggles of a community living after the collapse of civilization, and attempt to build something good within their quiet year. Every decision and every action is set against a backdrop of dwindling time and rising concern.

The game is played using a deck of cards – each of the 52 cards corresponds to a week during the quiet year. Each card triggers certain events – bringing bad news, good omens, project delays and sudden changes in luck. At the end of the quiet year, the Frost Shepherds will come, ending the game.

The Quiet Year occupies an interesting space – part roleplaying game, part cartographic poetry.

Presenter: Mark Lebar and Chris Burns

Location:Glenlawn Collegiate

Time:2:15 pm - 3:15 pm

Suitable for:Grades 5-12

FULL - PM 2 - 08 - Social Tabletop Gaming in Schools

Presentation on the advantages of using Pathfinder and Starfinder Society games to teach students interpersonal skills and provide access to a global community.

Presenter: Marc Daoust

Location:Glenlawn Collegiate

Time: 2:15 pm - 3:15 pm

Suitable for:Grades K-12

FULL - PM 2 - 09: Board Games that Promote Oral French Speaking in the Classroom

In this session you will learn about and get a chance to play several board games which promote oral French use in the classroom. Nicole is a French Immersion classroom teacher so the session will largely focus on using the games in that setting, but these games could be useful in a Communication and Culture classroom as well.

Presenter: Nicole Bureau

Location:Glenlawn Collegiate

Time:2:15 pm - 03:15 pm

Suitable for: Any, but most applicable to late elementary and middle years

FULL - PM 2 - 10: Teaching Specific Curricular Points with Board Games

Bring your curriculum and ideas! I will walk through specific examples of using board games to teach or reinforce the curriculum in a middle math setting. Then we will have an open discussion based on what curriculum and ideas have been brought along.

Presenter: Dean Olfert

Location:Glenlawn Collegiate

Time:2:15 pm - 3:15 pm

Suitable for:Grades K-6, middle school

FULL - PM 2 - 11: Game Master Your Lessons with the Classroom Story

Guided by principles of gamification, constructivism, and deeper learning, a Classroom Story is a shared narrative experience that combines imagination, cooperation, game elements, curricular outcomes, and instruction into one engaging package. Think campfire stories mashed up with a roleplaying game and a notebook. In this hands-on session, attendees will all be thrown into a “Classroom Story” where they will have to think quickly, work together, and write things down. A Classroom Story is not a silver bullet or the solution to education. It is also not an acronym or list of "how-to's". It is an empowering approach that encourages and challenges teachers to build on their strengths, get creative, and engage students in ways only limited by your classes’ collective imagination.

The teacher acts as storyteller and moderator; preparing the setting, inciting event, general plot, curricular outcomes, and any game elements. Students engage with the story by becoming characters, authors, collaborators, and actors. By responding to shared events in the story, students are stimulated, challenged, and encouraged to interact and cooperate. There are opportunities to create, mess-up, move around, talk, draw, write, act, code, or whatever! A Classroom Story becomes something unique that teachers and students experience and create together. The end result will be a shared experience that you could never totally plan out and will produce work you could never have expected.

Presenter: Brent Schmidt

Location:Glenlawn Collegiate

Time:2:15 pm - 3:15 pm

Suitable for:Grades 4-12

FULL - PM 2 - 12: Using Tech and Pop Culture to Gamify Your Class

Using free tech programs like Genially and Glide, and tapping into the power of pop culture, I can show you how I’ve matched up my content to stories that have already been told, and how to build some tech tools to make the experience immersive.

Presenter: Ryan Blight

Location:Glenlawn Collegiate

Time:1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Suitable for:Grades K-12, but likely most beneficial to K-8

FULL - PM 2 - 13: Achievement Unlocked: Level Up your Esports Program with Streaming and Shoutcasting

Level up your esports program with this introductory workshop on streaming and shoutcasting. This session is designed to not only elevate your esports program's visibility but also empower students with transferable skills and global competencies. From broadcasting matches to developing graphic assets and colour commentary, unleash the potential for students to develop communication, teamwork, problem-solving, and public speaking abilities while fostering a sense of community within your esports initiative.

Presenter: Melissa Burns

Location:Glenlawn Collegiate

Time:2:15 pm - 3:15 pm

Suitable for:Grade K-12

FULL - PM 2 - 14: Inclusive Gaming for Students with Cognitive and Physical Disabilities

Partnered with Hanover school division,Tyler helped to created, plan, and run an amazing opportunity for students with cognitive and physical disabilities. What happened? AMAZING growth in social skills, self-reflection, self-regulation, and even making a friend.

This is my story on how esports and video gaming helped to grow and benefit students, who have a hard time connecting with the larger population of the school. It will include tips, tricks, stories, info of what games, and even how to use adaptive controllers! I look forward to seeing you, and maybe helping mentor some future programs.

Presenter: Tyler Muntain

Location:Glenlawn Collegiate

Time:2:15 pm - 3:15 pm

Suitable for:Grades 5 – 12+, Student Services

FULL - PM 2 - 15: Open GAMEing

Take an hour in the gym to explore games with other participants.

Presenter:Self Directed

Location:Glenlawn Collegiate

Time:02:15 pm - 03:15 pm

Suitable for:Grade K-12