-Beth Gallaway reviews Sims 3 (http://www.thesims3.com/)
-Brian Mayer covers 5 games that can teach scientific concepts in 5 minutes.
Bolide - http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/20865
Suitcase Detectives - http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/35481
Power Grid - http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2651
Polarity - http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/17699
In the Country - http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/29122
-Beth Gallaway talks about events at ALA and points you to the calendar at http://connect.ala.org/node/66247
-Brian Mayer joins Mrs. Twit to talk about Board Games.
-Brian Mayer reviews the board game Oregon and presents how it can teach mathematics in an unusual way
-Scott Nicholson talks about ALA Connect and gaming
Donald Dennis starts a new segment where he presents three podcasts with board game reviews
- Eli Neiberger talks about the Wii, Wiimotes, the new WiiMotion Plus, and Nintendo’s incremental upgrade strategy
- Brian Mayer talks about four criteria school librarians can use to select games
- Scott Nicholson presents information about the free upcoming Gaming in Libraries course on You Tube - http://www.gamesinlibraries.org/course/
- Scott Nicholson starts a series about Library Gaming Experiences.
- Eli Neiberger talks about GT System, a service for libraries to use to manage gaming events. In addition, he announces 2009 multi-library tournaments in DDR, Guitar Hero, Super Smash Brothers, Mario Kart, and Pokemon. More information at http://wiki.gtsystem.org .
We’ve got a great episode for you this month! There’s some big news - the ALA has presented a call for proposals for libraries to do gaming programs and released the gaming toolkit!
- Jennifer Nelson talks about Scratch, a game creation tool. You can download Scratch at http://scratch.mit.edu and learn about Scratch day at http://day.scratch.mit.edu/. Email Jennifer Nelson to be added to the email discussion group for Scratch Day resources at jrnelson@hclb.org
- Scott Nicholson reviews Duck! Duck! Go! from APE Games.
- Jason Puckett reviews Wii Fit and how libraries might use it.
- Kieran Hixon talks about how he supports gaming in several rural Colorado libraries.
- Eli Neiberger talks more about about Little Big Planet. He originally introduced it in December 2008, and continues the discussion here.
- Beth Gallaway provides a reminder about the March 20 deadline for the ALA Verizon Thinkfinity grants for gaming. The Libraries Literacy & Gaming Grant Application is at http://librarygamingtoolkit.org/rfp . Email Dale Lipschultz with grant application questions: dlipschultz@ala.org
This episode of the Games in Libraries podcast is an edited version of the Games and Gaming Members Initiative Group meeting from the Midwinter 2009 conference in Denver, Colorado. The sound quality isn’t as good as our regular episodes due to the setting.
or listen to it here (if the player from the Archive is working):
Scott Nicholson interviews UK game and education researcher and independent information professional John Kirriemuir, whose blogs is at http://www.silversprite.com
National Gaming Day at your Library is on November 15th! In this episode, Scott Nicholson reminds you of this event and talks with representatives from Nintendo, Wizards of the Coast, and Highsmith. In addition, there is a round table discussion recorded at the Gaming, Learning, and Libraries 2008 Symposium.
This episode of the Games in Libraries podcast is “Gaming Programs 101″. With the upcoming National Gaming Day @ Your Library, we wanted to help those of you wanting to run a gaming program.
The Games for Fundraising site (not quite up yet, but will be at http://gamesforfundraising.com)
- Eli Neiburger talks about Pixel Junk games, which are dowloadable content for the PlayStation 3
- Scott Nicholson talks with Mark Blecher from Hasbro about Pictureka and the upcoming National Gaming Day @ Your Library Note - Public Libraries will be getting copies of the game directly from Hasbro in October through the ALA partnership; they don’t need to register.
- Kelly Czarnecki, Jesse Vieau and Joseph Wilk talk about a Wii battle between libraries
