{"id":319,"date":"2011-04-29T07:53:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T07:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/2011\/04\/29\/using-games-to-enhance-il-lilac-2011\/"},"modified":"2012-04-20T11:34:47","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T11:34:47","slug":"using-games-to-enhance-il-lilac-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/2011\/04\/29\/using-games-to-enhance-il-lilac-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Using games to enhance IL (LILAC 2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"float: right;margin-left: 1em;text-align: right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/67\/files\/blogger\/-skUxFoZZ0Kg\/Tbkg32r_MfI\/AAAAAAAAADg\/PbDmxrYs2iM\/s1600\/P1014784.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/67\/files\/blogger\/-skUxFoZZ0Kg\/Tbkg32r_MfI\/AAAAAAAAADg\/PbDmxrYs2iM\/s320\/P1014784.JPG\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center\">orchids again<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>I really enjoyed Susan Boyle&#8217;s workshop at LILAC on using games creatively. Susan made the point that pedagogy should be focused on arousing students&#8217; imagination and engagement. Games are a great motivator and give participants a sense of accomplishment and confidence and I was surprised at how some very simple games can be used to bring a group together. It&#8217;s all about &#8220;EDUtainment&#8221;, surprising folks and making workshops memorable. Susan used this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-VDxKLSyksI\">&#8220;do the big rocks first&#8221;<\/a> video to illustrate her point &#8211; a very simple demonstration of time management which certainly sticks in your mind!<br \/>Even IL lends itself to games &#8211; we discussed games which help students with off campus access, evaluation, citation, database choice, search techniques and more. I&#8217;m certainly inspired to try using some.<br \/>Susan&#8217;s tips: games should be fun, quick, simple, easy to play, designed around a specific objective, followed up with correct play.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/5051173628076948634-6500714571601656516?l=moirabent.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>orchids again I really enjoyed Susan Boyle&#8217;s workshop at LILAC on using games creatively. Susan made the point that pedagogy should be focused on arousing students&#8217; imagination and engagement. Games are a great motivator and give participants a sense of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/2011\/04\/29\/using-games-to-enhance-il-lilac-2011\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4784,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-information"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4784"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}