[p4k] Second P4K Training For New York Public Library
Yesterday we held our second Playing 4 Keeps training for the New York City Public Libraries. After completing the first half of the curriculum, they are now prepared to facilitate the second.
The librarians are SO fun to work with. They came up with a great idea during the Game Company Roleplay - you have to guide President Obama past the ghosts of dead presidents out to get him - and spent the afternoon creating their own serious game design paper prototype - Project Princess, a brilliant, hilarious game about media consolidation and the lack of an African-American Disney princess.
We covered ways to teach youth to search for information online and we received really valuable feedback about how they are adapting the programs to meet the specific needs of their sites (e.g. ask all the processing questions at once) and details about how the programs can be improve.
I can't wait to see in June what their students create to present at the first New York City Digital Youth Summit.
The following video is from the Game Company Roleplay. In this activity, everyone pretended to be part of a game company, making a game. The video is the final part, in which the "game producer" makes a pitch about the game development to the "client".
And enjoy, in reverse chronological order, the tweets from the participants, after the jump...
Tweets from the Participants at P4K Training at NYPL
