Posts filed under Libraries Ready to Code

GSL 107: Glowforge and Ravenloft

In Games in Schools and Libraries 107 Donald and Stephanie talk about the new Glowforge that has arrived at the Waccamaw Neck Branch Library, and about running long campaigns for your patrons.

Glowforge

https://glowforge.com/

https://glowforge.us/PPBKNFNY

https://www.thingiverse.com/

Curse of Strahd

Strahd product overview

Games in Schools and Libraries is produced in association with Inverse Genius and the Georgetown County Library System.
Games in Schools and Libraries Guild at Board Game Geek
Email us: schoolsandlibraries@gmail.com

The ideas expressed by libraries included in the podcast are not expressly endorsed by the Georgetown County Library System.

Posted on August 3, 2018 by Donald Dennis and filed under Libraries Ready to Code and tagged Ravenloft Glowforge Laser Cutter 5e D&D.

GSL 99: ShushCon 2018 Debrief

In Games in Schools and Libraries episode 99 Donald Dennis and Stephanie Frey discuss the long weekend of ShushCon 2018, including the associated Librarian Training Day they hosted.

Librarian Computational Thinking Activity Training

What is computational thinking?

Games & Activities Discussed

Think & Learn Code-A-Pillar
Let's Go Code! Activity Set
Future Coders: Robot Races
Future Coders: Bunny Trails
Code & Go Robot Mouse
Robot Turtles
Roller Coaster Challenge
// Code On the Brink
// Code Rover Control
// Code Robot Repair
Robo Rally
Gravewell
Mechs vs Minions

Lock Paper Scissors - Mummy
Webby's Challenge: a Coding Escape Room by Stephanie Frey.

Google CS First

ShushCon 2018 Highlights

Many thanks to ShushCon sponsors and especially to Daniel Peterson of Mayday Games.

Magic the Gathering Unstable Booster Draft
Catan Big Game
Pharaoh's Challenge ShushCon Edition
D&D Adventurers League
Pathfinder Society
Savage Worlds
Fate/Fate Acellerated
Dread
Fiasco

Tokens & Badges

Food

Southern Recipe Pork Rinds
Jimmie Johns
Dominos

ShushCon 2019 Registration

https://tinyurl.com/shushcon19

The ideas expressed by libraries included in the podcast are not expressly endorsed by the Georgetown County Library System.

Posted on April 27, 2018 by Donald Dennis and filed under Conventions, Libraries Ready to Code and tagged Libraries Ready to Code shushcon.

GSL 97: ALA Midwinter 2018

In Games in Schools and Libraries 97 Stephanie Frey joins Donald Dennis to talk about her ALA Midwinter 2018 experiences.

RTC Cohort

http://www.ala.org/tools/readytocode

Midwinter Highlights

NC WIT - National Center for Women & Informational Technology
https://www.ncwit.org

HOMAGO - Guidebook

CS/CT +x

Google Applied Digital Skills
https://applieddigitalskills.withgoogle.com

Getting good stats
Talk Back Boards
https://www.pinterest.com/EHeumannGurian/audience-responses-talk-back-board-comment-book

ALAR MAZE - XR Libraries
XR Libraries - http://www.varlibraries.com/
Vuforia - https://www.vuforia.com/

Cohort Programs

Libraries Ready to Code from Research to Practice (Symposium on the Future of Libraries)

Tweeting photo bird feeders.
Kid Clients & Design Studio
Augmented Reality tags

GSL Midwinter Reflections blog article -http://www.inversegenius.com/gsl-blog/2018/3/28/ala-midwinter-reflections

The ideas expressed by libraries included in the podcast are not expressly endorsed by the Georgetown County Library System or the Libraries RTC Cohort.

Posted on April 13, 2018 by Donald Dennis and filed under ALA, Libraries Ready to Code and tagged conventions RTC.

GSL 91: RTC John Aromando

In this episode of the Games in Schools and Libraries podcast we bring our our first Libraries / Ready to Code Cohort guest. John Aromando from the Hartford County Library joins Donald to talk about bringing coding activities into the library.

Hartford Public Library https://www.hplct.org/
johnaromando@hotmail.com

http://www.ala.org/tools/readytocode
http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2017/10/ala-announces-500000-first-time-grants-develop-coding-programs-libraries-

Games in Schools and Libraries is produced in association with Inverse Genius and the Georgetown County Library System.
Games in Schools and Libraries Guild at Board Game Geek
Kathleen's resources https://www.kathleenmercury.com/
Email us: schoolsandlibraries@gmail.com

The ideas expressed by libraries included in the podcast are not expressly endorsed by the Ready to Code project, the Hartford County Library System or the Georgetown County Library System.

Posted on February 9, 2018 by Donald Dennis and filed under Libraries Ready to Code and tagged RTC coding computational thinking Ctrl Alt Decode.

GSL 89: Ctrl, Alt, Decode

In Games in Schools and Libraries episode 89 Donald and Stephanie talk about what they've been doing in their library for the Libraries Ready to Code grant, and reflect on related programs they had offered their patrons before they'd even applied for the grant.

RTC Activities

Escape Room Design
Board Game Design
CS First
Video Game Design
Web Site Design
Game Instruction
Magic the Gathering

Game Reviews
Some games that focus on teaching principles of coding and computational thought, games that teach themselves to the players as you play, and a few games all about the art.

//Code On the Brink
//Code Rover Control
//Code Robot Repair
Mechs & Minions
Fear
Fortress
Flee
Fog of Love
Code Names Marvel
Code Names Disney
Muse

2018 ShushCon Facebook Banner Orange.png

Posted on January 12, 2018 by Donald Dennis and filed under Libraries Ready to Code and tagged RTC Libraries Ready to Code Ctrl Alt Decode //code code names Fast Forward computational thinking.

GSL 88: Computational Thinking

In Games in Schools and Libraries episode 88 Geoff Englestein joins Donald Dennis & Kathleen Mercury to talk about Computational Thinking and tabletop games. (This Episode was also posted to the On Board Games feed as OBG 278.)