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Cliff
United States
Western Great Lakes - Owashtinong Aajigaaning
Michigan
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Whew! A couple of very busy months down and winter starts to close! And I love winter...I've missed snowshoeing and egg nog this season, finally got to the big sledding hill, and, very importantly, managed to restart some gaming by managing some of the busy-ness.
I've been able to blur some lines and get some gaming going on at school. There have been free-times for potpourri and I've worked - lightly - to revamp a game.
There was room to work Apples to Apples in to the mix - just come up with some new vocabulary card, and use everything else. I wanted to make it a little more teacher interactive - especially if an excuse for too much hilarity ensued - so I brought in some flat beads. We didn't end up using it - there was a substitute teacher that day - but the idea was that the judge, instead of awarding the apple card as a point - could award a bead - 3 points - for the answer that best fit. 1 point for the most interesting, funny, whatever. Both beads could be laid on separate cards or combined on the same card. And, if needed, the teacher could award the 'Cursed'-bead (a la Dominion) of -2 points if awards were given willy-nilly or based on 'You're my buddy.' But just using the 1 and 3 point markers seemed to work out in our one pilot run.
Conquian was introduced to me. It may be the earliest form of rummy there is. And it's no simple rummy. It's a worthy game and great to sit down with students and enjoy it. I can't wait to finish learning the rules. In the mean time I've shared Take 5! & Tien Len.
Free gaming has included:
Ticket to Ride (some students enjoy coming back to this)
Carcassonne
Topple
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Sorry! Sliders
We used Once Upon a Time for a writing exercise. Although we haven't place the game per se, we have taken cards with pictures, handed out a hand of five and asked the students to use 2 or 3 of them or more and included them in a five+ sentence creative writing. Maybe the game, too, soon.
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Taking more classes of my own towards a degree this semester and I'm starting to think I can incorporate some game mechanics in some presentations, too.
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