Win $100 of Games!

“Out of the Box is giv­ing $100 worth of games to who­ever posts the best story about using games in edu­ca­tion! The dead­line is 8/31/2008. What are you wait­ing for? Go Post!” ]

This offer includes libraries, and I know we have some great sto­ries about using games in edu­ca­tional ways!

Out of the Box pub­lishes a whole slew of boardgames (includ­ing Snorta, which I really want to try), but they also dis­trib­ute one of my all-time favorites, Apples to Apples. Did you know that you can make your own A2A cards using a spe­cial pack of blank cards you can buy for $5.99? For the trial run of National Gam­ing Day @ your library on April 18, we did some staff gam­ing at ALA, some­thing we’ll prob­a­bly do again lead­ing up to the offi­cial NGD on Novem­ber 15. I’m think­ing of cus­tomiz­ing A2A with a few…carefully-chosen cards about ALA. If you play this game at your library, this could be a fun way to tai­lor the game to your community.

If you’ve never played this great game (good for kids, adults, fam­i­lies, and any com­bi­na­tion thereof), you can watch a demo of how it’s played. Much laugh­ter is guaranteed.