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The program for Gen Con<\/a> was made available online on Sunday. That means that you can search for keywords such as \u201cgamification,\u201d \u201ceducation,\u201d or \u201cMcGrath and find the session that my Butler University colleagues and I are hosting.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I was somewhat dismayed to see that they have scheduled a session about using games to teach information literacy<\/a> at the same time as ours, not to mention several others focused on education. It is just like the AAR\/SBL annual meeting, finding that the sessions that are most likely to be of interest to the same people are scheduled simultaneously!\u00a0<\/p>\n

Have you started looking at the Gen Con program yet? Other than our session (which will include a chance in the second hour to play\u00a0 Canon: The Card Game<\/a>),\u00a0what else has grabbed your interest?
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