Find out what the #PlayLearn folk have been up to and note some dates for your diary in 2025!
December update! – Playful Learning Association
playfullearningassoc.co.uk
December 13, 2024 at 11:35 AM
Find out what the #PlayLearn folk have been up to and note some dates for your diary in 2025!
#playlearn #ukge Promoting playful learning at the UK games expo. Lots of interest in @playfullearning
May 30, 2025 at 9:54 AM
#playlearn #ukge Promoting playful learning at the UK games expo. Lots of interest in @playfullearning
May 31, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Ah the dreaded imposter! #LTHEchat @colldash.bsky.social @rachelleeobrien.bsky.social and I are scheming up a SoTL #playlearn activity with an imposter monster in it - we are playtesting at the upcoming Playful Learning Conference so can share more after! playfullearningassoc.co.uk/programme-se...
Hi Im Chris as Among Us Imposter
ALT: Hi Im Chris as Among Us Imposter
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June 10, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Ah the dreaded imposter! #LTHEchat @colldash.bsky.social @rachelleeobrien.bsky.social and I are scheming up a SoTL #playlearn activity with an imposter monster in it - we are playtesting at the upcoming Playful Learning Conference so can share more after! playfullearningassoc.co.uk/programme-se...
The #PlayLearn June round-up will come out at the end of next week - reply or contact me if you have any links or news you'd like us to share with the #PlayLearn network. We'll be announcing our new co-Chair and letting you know what we get up to in York later this week.
May 21, 2024 at 7:07 PM
The #PlayLearn June round-up will come out at the end of next week - reply or contact me if you have any links or news you'd like us to share with the #PlayLearn network. We'll be announcing our new co-Chair and letting you know what we get up to in York later this week.
It was a real pleasure to chat to you on the podcast @rogerjsaunders.bsky.social and @jimt77.bsky.social about all things playful learning #playlearn. If anyone is thinking about sharing their practice, I can highly recommend the L&T Chatshow podcast experience!
Today's episode of the L&T Chat Show is with Emma Gillaspy and Jim Thompson on game development for learning
open.spotify.com/episode/1zHs...
If you have something to share contact roger.saunders@dmu.ac.uk
open.spotify.com/episode/1zHs...
If you have something to share contact roger.saunders@dmu.ac.uk
S5E39 - Emma Gillaspy and Jim Thompson on Game Development for Learning
L&T Chat Show · Episode
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May 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
It was a real pleasure to chat to you on the podcast @rogerjsaunders.bsky.social and @jimt77.bsky.social about all things playful learning #playlearn. If anyone is thinking about sharing their practice, I can highly recommend the L&T Chatshow podcast experience!
Tickets are selling like Grandma's hot cakes for this year's #PlayLearn conference in July... So grab your riding hood and I'll see you in Brighton!
playfullearningassoc.co.uk
#GBL #PlayfulLearning #research #HigherEd #AcademicSky
playfullearningassoc.co.uk
#GBL #PlayfulLearning #research #HigherEd #AcademicSky
March 17, 2026 at 9:35 AM
Tickets are selling like Grandma's hot cakes for this year's #PlayLearn conference in July... So grab your riding hood and I'll see you in Brighton!
playfullearningassoc.co.uk
#GBL #PlayfulLearning #research #HigherEd #AcademicSky
playfullearningassoc.co.uk
#GBL #PlayfulLearning #research #HigherEd #AcademicSky
New blog post about ongoing use of my game for teaching research skills: gamebasedlearninginhe.wordpress.com/2024/05/22/h...
#playlearn #gamestudies #GBL #research
#playlearn #gamestudies #GBL #research
How to Fail your Research Degree and its growing impact
Recent impact and developments of my game for student researchers.
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May 22, 2024 at 10:23 AM
New blog post about ongoing use of my game for teaching research skills: gamebasedlearninginhe.wordpress.com/2024/05/22/h...
#playlearn #gamestudies #GBL #research
#playlearn #gamestudies #GBL #research
Did you know that there's an Encyclopedia of Ludic Terms for game studies? (crowd murmurs)
Did you know there's an article there about History Games? (murmur changes to rumble)
Well, what are you waiting for: go, go go! Goooooo Team!
(Crowd breaks to read said article w/ enthusiasm)
🗃️#playlearn
Did you know there's an article there about History Games? (murmur changes to rumble)
Well, what are you waiting for: go, go go! Goooooo Team!
(Crowd breaks to read said article w/ enthusiasm)
🗃️#playlearn
eolt.org
April 3, 2024 at 12:28 PM
Did you know that there's an Encyclopedia of Ludic Terms for game studies? (crowd murmurs)
Did you know there's an article there about History Games? (murmur changes to rumble)
Well, what are you waiting for: go, go go! Goooooo Team!
(Crowd breaks to read said article w/ enthusiasm)
🗃️#playlearn
Did you know there's an article there about History Games? (murmur changes to rumble)
Well, what are you waiting for: go, go go! Goooooo Team!
(Crowd breaks to read said article w/ enthusiasm)
🗃️#playlearn
Includes information about the upcoming PlayLearn Meet Up @unistrathclyde.bsky.social
Latest update from the Playful Learning Association is out - if you want to keep up to date with lovely playful stuff (for grown-ups, not children), sign up to the Jiscmail list! (playfullearningassoc.co.uk/sign-up/) playfullearningassoc.co.uk/march-update/
March update – Playful Learning Association
playfullearningassoc.co.uk
March 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Includes information about the upcoming PlayLearn Meet Up @unistrathclyde.bsky.social
History educator friends. I'm closing in on a 1st draft of chapter on creating & having students create interactive text histories w/ Twine, Inkle + & my students are immersed in researching their projects in class. Great time to ask questions if you'd like to try it (& helps me too).
#playlearn 🗃️
#playlearn 🗃️
April 13, 2024 at 1:48 PM
History educator friends. I'm closing in on a 1st draft of chapter on creating & having students create interactive text histories w/ Twine, Inkle + & my students are immersed in researching their projects in class. Great time to ask questions if you'd like to try it (& helps me too).
#playlearn 🗃️
#playlearn 🗃️
May 25, 2024 at 11:32 AM
So we wrapped up our Game Design Class for our CCDX week at Cincinnati Country Day School. Really gratifyin! I got to work with two colleagues who had never taught game design yet brought such experience and skill with games and iterative design -- they were a joy to work with. 🧵 #Playlearn 1/
March 16, 2024 at 12:57 PM
So we wrapped up our Game Design Class for our CCDX week at Cincinnati Country Day School. Really gratifyin! I got to work with two colleagues who had never taught game design yet brought such experience and skill with games and iterative design -- they were a joy to work with. 🧵 #Playlearn 1/
#playlearn historical game studies AncientBlueksy 🗃️
April 6, 2024 at 12:55 PM
#playlearn historical game studies AncientBlueksy 🗃️
Fantastic couple of days at MMU for the Playful Learning Association meetup! Conversations about killer robots, imposter queens, being weird and hairy deer legs were just what I needed. Such a joyful, creative and inclusive atmosphere! 🎲🧩 #playlearn Join in here playfullearningassoc.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Fantastic couple of days at MMU for the Playful Learning Association meetup! Conversations about killer robots, imposter queens, being weird and hairy deer legs were just what I needed. Such a joyful, creative and inclusive atmosphere! 🎲🧩 #playlearn Join in here playfullearningassoc.co.uk
If you ever want to go in the deep end, friends, I have made some stairs (? maybe another metaphor would have worked better) for EUIV in history class: @ebrandom.bsky.social @tlecaque.bsky.social #playlearn folks
March 28, 2024 at 12:07 PM
If you ever want to go in the deep end, friends, I have made some stairs (? maybe another metaphor would have worked better) for EUIV in history class: @ebrandom.bsky.social @tlecaque.bsky.social #playlearn folks
Elsewhere in Historical Game Studies #playlearn space. In addition to launching the interactive history design project with my tens I've been using and in the process playtesting and improving my Rivalries that Destroyed the Roman Republic game that I keep hoping I may be able to publish someday 1/
February 23, 2024 at 1:19 PM
Elsewhere in Historical Game Studies #playlearn space. In addition to launching the interactive history design project with my tens I've been using and in the process playtesting and improving my Rivalries that Destroyed the Roman Republic game that I keep hoping I may be able to publish someday 1/
#PlayLearn Conference 👀
Playful Learning 2026 will be held in Brighton, 1st-3rd July at the University of Sussex. The conference theme is "Into the Woods".
The call for sessions has closed but...
👉Registration will open on Weds 11th March.👈
#GBL #academicSky #HigherEd
Playful Learning 2026 will be held in Brighton, 1st-3rd July at the University of Sussex. The conference theme is "Into the Woods".
The call for sessions has closed but...
👉Registration will open on Weds 11th March.👈
#GBL #academicSky #HigherEd
March 2, 2026 at 10:51 AM
#PlayLearn Conference 👀
Playful Learning 2026 will be held in Brighton, 1st-3rd July at the University of Sussex. The conference theme is "Into the Woods".
The call for sessions has closed but...
👉Registration will open on Weds 11th March.👈
#GBL #academicSky #HigherEd
Playful Learning 2026 will be held in Brighton, 1st-3rd July at the University of Sussex. The conference theme is "Into the Woods".
The call for sessions has closed but...
👉Registration will open on Weds 11th March.👈
#GBL #academicSky #HigherEd
I keep forgetting
#playlearn particularly talk#2 focused on the history side of games and learning
gs folk: see what your historical game studies cousins are doing both #1 and #2
AncientBlueSky -- Talk #1 is focused on how two games present game histories of Peloponnesian war very differently 2/
#playlearn particularly talk#2 focused on the history side of games and learning
gs folk: see what your historical game studies cousins are doing both #1 and #2
AncientBlueSky -- Talk #1 is focused on how two games present game histories of Peloponnesian war very differently 2/
March 9, 2024 at 1:53 PM
I keep forgetting
#playlearn particularly talk#2 focused on the history side of games and learning
gs folk: see what your historical game studies cousins are doing both #1 and #2
AncientBlueSky -- Talk #1 is focused on how two games present game histories of Peloponnesian war very differently 2/
#playlearn particularly talk#2 focused on the history side of games and learning
gs folk: see what your historical game studies cousins are doing both #1 and #2
AncientBlueSky -- Talk #1 is focused on how two games present game histories of Peloponnesian war very differently 2/
The fabulous @neilwithnell.bsky.social is retiring. He's had such a +ve influence on digital learning, staff & students. He's not one for bigging himself up, so let’s do it for him! Add your messages here 👉 lancashire.padlet.org/EGillaspy/neil #LTHEchat #BYOD4L #SocMedHE25 #creativeHE #PlayLearn
Happy Retirement Neil
We all know Neil is a star. Please share your thoughts, messages and pictures below to celebrate the positive influence he has had on us all!
lancashire.padlet.org
December 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
The fabulous @neilwithnell.bsky.social is retiring. He's had such a +ve influence on digital learning, staff & students. He's not one for bigging himself up, so let’s do it for him! Add your messages here 👉 lancashire.padlet.org/EGillaspy/neil #LTHEchat #BYOD4L #SocMedHE25 #creativeHE #PlayLearn
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February 2, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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You know historical game studies and #PlayLearn and #AncientBluesky and 🗃️: if this is truly the weekend where you have the abundance of free time you always hoped for, you could always dive into thersites-journal.de/index.php/th...
... no takers? Well, an article writer has to try!
... no takers? Well, an article writer has to try!
Agents, Goals, and Action-Choices : Analyzing the Game Histories of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey and Hegemony Gold: Wars of Ancient Greece with the Historical Problem Space Framework
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thersites-journal.de
May 18, 2024 at 12:22 PM
You know historical game studies and #PlayLearn and #AncientBluesky and 🗃️: if this is truly the weekend where you have the abundance of free time you always hoped for, you could always dive into thersites-journal.de/index.php/th...
... no takers? Well, an article writer has to try!
... no takers? Well, an article writer has to try!