This year is looking to be exciting as our second MTS PD Day gets going. We have almost twice as many sessions to choose from with a much wider variety of topics. All focused on using Games to engage our learners.

This is just a sample, more to come!

Some titles may be missing and/or will be added as we get closer. Some of the sessions listed below will be offered twice.

See you there!

  1. FULL DAY Design Sprint
  2. Game Crafting for Learning
  3. Gamification in the Middle Years Classroom
  4. Classroom Game Jams
  5. Exploring Educational Research and Literature on Tabletop Games
  6. Forum to Share Games Used in Your Classroom
  7. Captain Sonar in the Classroom 
  8. League of Legends 101
  9. Press Start to Gamify Your Class
  10. Tabletop Gaming in Class or Elsewhere
  11. Starting From Scratch: Pen-&-Paper Design to Game Development in Scratch
  12. Partnering with your FLGS (Favourite Local Game Store)
  13. The Role of Role-playing in the Classroom
  14. Middle Years eSports
  15. The Classroom Story 
  16. The Dragon Experience – Planning an Early Years Unit using GBL, Gamification and Game Like Learning
  17. Utilizing Games in the Early / Middle Years Classroom
  18. Minecraft in the Classroom
  19. Interactive Story-Telling with Twine 2
  20. What is up with “Magic the Gathering”?
  21. Game Knight Painting Miniatures
  22. Valor & Villainy: A Successful Kickstarter Journey
  23. Escape the Library
  24. Gamified Professional Development with #EPICAcademy
  25. Board Games in Math Class
  26. Gamification: The Good. The Bad. The Respawn
  27. Dungeons and Dragons in Education
  28. Blended Learning With Classcraft
  29. Starting, Stocking and Sustaining a School Board Game Club 
  30. Manitoba High School eSports – Find out about how to become part of it 
  31. Mathopoly Games – More Than A Dice Role