Participate and share: Poster 
Participants will identify ways to integrate game-based learning into their curricula or educational programs.
Participants will identify two methods of using slide deck presentation platforms in ways that do not involve simple presentations.
Participants will learn how to design simple race-to-the-end and quiz games that can be adapted to a variety of content and learning objectives.
Using a template and guided instruction, participants will create two types of games they can use in their in-person, virtual, or hybrid learning environments.
Part 1. Brief overview of educational games (theory and practice) (10 minutes)
Through discussion questions and a brief slide presentation, participants will examine different ways they can integrate games into their learning environments.
Part 2. How can games enhance your classroom experience? (10 minutes)
Through discussion questions and a brief slide presentation, participants will learn ways instructors are utilizing games.
Part 3. Let’s develop our own Jeopardy style quiz games in PowerPoint (15 minutes)
Using their own devices, participants will adapt their own game using a provided template and instructor guidance.
Part 4. Let’s design our own race-to-the end games in PowerPoint (15 minutes)
Using their own devices, participants will adapt their own game using a provided template and instructor guidance.
Part 5. Q&A (10 minutes)
Theory on games and learning: Jane McGonigal, Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World (Penguin Press, 2011)
Lee Sheldon, The Multiplayer Classroom: Designing Coursework as a Game (Cengage Learning PTR, 2011)
Some useful virtual games: Kevin Impellizeri, "Connecting with Students Through Play: 5 Games We’ve Used in Our Virtual Youth Programming," MütterEDU, November 11, 2020, https://mutteredu.wordpress.com/2020/11/11/connecting-with-students-through-play-5-games-weve-used-in-our-virtual-youth-programming/
Examples of Museums using games for learning/engagement: The Animal Crossing Diaries, National Videogame Museum, https://thenvm.org/blog/the-animal-crossing-diaries/
ROM Minecraft, Royal Ontario Museum, https://www.rom.on.ca/en/learning/rom-minecraft
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