[Edu] Reaching the Educational Market

[Magi D. Shepley]

My school library currently has a good selection of games.  You know, I 
should give them a Looney Labs flyer.   I cannot honestly believe that 
it never occurred to me (and it didn't until just now!).  My other 
school also had games available for checkout, though they weren't the 
"fun want to play" style, they were primarily for teachers to use with 
teaching functional academic skills.

Magi

Kate Jones wrote:
> A quick visit to the ALA's event website shows they're primarily interested
> in electronic and online gaming. It's a nuisance for libraries to have
> hands-on game equipment with small parts, or cards, where parts can get lost
> or damaged through use. On the computer, no problem, no maintenance, no
> pilferage. Also, no inventory to buy! It's basically free.
>
> The same objection to having hands-on equipment in public areas comes from
> hotels, airports, even schools. They don't want to have to do the
> labor-intensive part of counting up all the parts and putting things away
> each day and then finding things lost, with no easy way to replace, or
> having to clean things. It will be interesting to see how Chicago's new
> "Games for Guests" program in selected hotels/motels will work out. 
>
> Electronics are the present and the future, especially for institutional
> use. We hands-on dodos have a hard road to trudge. 
>
> -- Kate Jones
> www.gamepuzzles.com
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: edu-bounces at lists.looneylabs.com
> [mailto:edu-bounces at lists.looneylabs.com] On Behalf Of Christopher Harris
> Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 6:57 AM
> To: maureen at highcontentgames.com; Looney Labs Education Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [Edu] Reaching the Educational Market
>
> Maureen,
>
> Not exactly schools (though a few will be there), but the American Library
> Association is having a gaming in libraries symposium in late July in
> Chicago. I am not sure if they are having any vendors in, but you could at
> least talk with Jenny Levine who is organizing it for ALA.
> http://gaming.techsource.ala.org for more info.
> I will be there, keeping it old school with a session on text-based
> adventure games!
>
> Chris
>
> Chris Harris - infomancy at gmail.com - http://schoolof.info/infomancy
> <http://schoolof.info/infomancy> 
>
>
>
> On 6/30/07, Maureen Reed <maureen at highcontentgames.com> wrote:
>
> 	Thanks everyone for the replies. They have been very helpful. If any
> of you are going to be at Origins and would be willing to discuss this
> further, please look me up. I'm sure I'll be checking in at LL often and the
> Teacher areas.
>
> 	And btw, yes, I very much want to reach the homeschool market. In
> fact, that is where I have the most presence right now because we have
> homeschooled in the past. I am aware of their many conference schedules with
> workshop opportunities and I was looking for similar situations and other
> opportunities for the public school market.
>
> 	Again, thanks for taking the time to share.
>
> 	Maureen Reed
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