It Begins!!!!

Um.... hello.....

So, I was encouraged by a post on www.boardgamegeek.com to start a blog based on weekly reports I was making about a club I started at my school, that we simply refer to as the Table Top Game Club (frighteningly original, I know...). I created a thread on one of the forums that documents the inception of the club, and our weekly sessions over the course of an entire school year.  Other teachers across North America have also contributed to the thread, documenting their own game clubs in their respective schools. For those interested, you can read the thread here.

For my colleagues in education, the thread on Games in the Classroom on that site offers some excellent examples of ways to incorporate games into teaching and learning.

This blog will serve as a way for me to report upon the weekly trials and successes of running a game club at school.  I also want to highlight some particular games that we have found enjoyable, discuss issues and themes in gaming, and maybe have a weekly segment about game components, and some other not so random thoughts of  a geeky educator.

The title "Board at School" is inspired by a meme I saw recently declaring proudly "Bored Online? Board Offline!" as a response to the rise of the popularity of table top games in a digital world.  It's a great sentiment, so I stole the play on words around "board".  That said, if you are an administrator, superintendent, or any other SPSD employee, I want you to know I enjoy my job, and I am not "bored", so just relax.  We're here to have fun and learn.

In closing I want to send a shout out (yeah I just typed that) to fellow teacher Evan Cole and to fellow board game geek Wil Wheaton (only one of whom I actually know), for helping me set up this blog and inspiring me to start a game club respectively.

Thanks for reading!

Dan Buday