live the questions now

Last week, hours after returning home from a trip to San Francisco, I launched into three full and fulfilling days attending the annual Games for Change Festival. It really is among my favorite professional events. Having previously attended in ‘06 and ‘07, I can now say x3, G4C is a place where I learn a lot, meet smart/interesting people, and confirm that play is essential to transformative learning. It feels like the community of educators there is growing, and that makes me happy, because their attendance means educators interacting with artists, nonprofit staff, researchers, designers, and activists.

This year, the bonus for me was helping out as G4C’s Festival blogger and tweeter, which became an opportunity to participate differently than I’m used to (for one thing, having to focus my undivided attention; it was also the first time I wasn’t demo’ing a game at the Expo Night so I finally got a chance to walk around and see a whole lot of amazing projects). A number of ideas (especially this one and this one) are still marinating in my head for a reflection post here, and I have a whole lot of wonderful people to follow up with, but for now, here are my daily roundup summaries on the G4C blog:

G4C 101 Workshop

Festival Day 1

Festival Day 2