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Ritual Play at Work (part 1)
I don't normally put posts on here, but needed somewhere to dump some travel thoughts about play quickly! (I'm on my way to the Counterplay festival.) Over the last few months I keep being bothered by the thought of ritual play and that we don't seem to think about this aspect of play as much as other facets of play in work or education.
http://playbrarian.uk/2026/05/06/ritual-play-at-work-part-1/
LILAC Keynote – Playful and compassionate approaches for inclusive Information Literacy instruction
Notes for LILAC KeynoteDownload lilac-24-keynote-slidesDownload File above are the slides and some extensive notes (including material generated by attendees during the talk) from my Keynote at LILAC conference in Leeds, March 2024. It was called "Playful and compassionate approaches for inclusive Information Literacy instruction". This covered material on play,…
Notes for LILAC KeynoteDownload lilac-24-keynote-slidesDownload File above are the slides and some extensive notes (including material generated by attendees during the talk) from my Keynote at LIL…
Keynote speaker for our in-person day on 5 July is Ciaran Talbot, Associate Director: AI and Ideas Adoption at the University of Manchester Library.
https://www.academiclibrariesnorth.ac.uk/aln-conference-2024
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Registration is now open for the ALN Conference 2024. For more details and to book a place go to our Eventbrite page https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/academic-libraries-north-conference-2024-tickets-818328652027?aff=oddtdtcreator
This year ALN are offering 5 sponsored places to the conference, find out more and apply - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FZ0jt03ogTvFVtOJfe90wsOJmD7cBt9K/edit
Early birds get a discount too, booking genius!
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Here is something that came up in conversation and everyone drew a blank:
Can anyone suggest books or resources for #neurodivergent parents parenting neurotypical children?
Is this even a field of study that exists? Or just ND people as parents in general?
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 20px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">The current state of the world can negatively impact mental and physical health. Play has been show to be</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 20px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"> a powerful tool to help adults recover a sense of well-being; h</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 10pt; line-height: 20px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">owever, play is commonly excluded from adult life due to beliefs that play is childish, trivial, and a waste of time. This article reports the findings of an iterative, three-round Delphi study which created a communication process among a panel of 15 play experts to better understand a) play’s definition/essence, b) play’s place in society, c) the existence of the decline in play with age, d) current play advocacy efforts, and e) the overall lack of research on play in adulthood. Panelists</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 20px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"> indicated an influential component of changing adults’ relationship to play is by accessing them on an emotional level. Therefore, instead of reporting the results traditionally, the data are presented as a poem which emotionally communicates the experts’ dream for a better future of play.</span>
Making games for adult learning workshops
A partly formed game board made from paper and post-it notes. Several game pieces are spread across the table and you can see two peoples hands in shot, creating a game. I've run these workshops for quite a few years, varying from full day workshops to just a couple of hours. They are always primarily hands on and we work through a set process allowing small groups to create a rough prototype learning game by the end of the…
http://playbrarian.uk/2023/11/28/making-games-for-adult-learning-workshops/
Academic Libraries North
Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD