Ever wanted to build an instructional game for your class, but were not quite sure how to go about it? Or do you just love games and would jump at a chance to use one to teach with? Come join us in our intensive, hands-on, instructional game design workshop. We will be playing, deconstructing, building, and critiquing games as we explore some of the processes and tools used in game design. Our main focus will be on using gaming to engage students and foster genuine learning experiences. This workshop is intended only for those who are genuinely interested in building games to teach with, and are willing to be enthusiastically involved in the process. Recommended for both would-be designers and those with experience, providing you actually do play games.

This four hour workshop will be led by Ben Ward, instructional designer, who has taken his lifelong passion and love of games and gaming and applied it to 15 years of instructional game-design experience for wide variety of audiences. Marziah Karch, JCCC education technologist with previous role-playing game design experience, will assist.