Joe Lasley, founder of Gamenamic Leadership Consulting, earned his PhD in Leadership Studies at the University of San Diego where he researched group dynamics and leadership development in role-playing games. He teaches leadership and organizational studies at the University of Southern Maine. He is a dynamic presenter, facilitator, coach, researcher and writer. His experience includes over a decade facilitating organizational leadership development while working in Student Affairs/Higher Education including residential life, student leadership programs, personnel selection, training, and military & veteran programs. Joe has a B.S. in Organizational Communication and Psychology, a M.S. in Higher Education Administration, a graduate certificate in Organizational Psychology and a Ph.D. in Leadership Studies. His interests and research involve group dynamics, experiential learning, creativity, and leadership development. Specifically, how adults play and can leverage the power of gaming for leadership, learning, and development. He enjoys consulting in diverse sectors to help organizations succeed in changing the world with specific interest in how organizations can inspire leadership development that enhances social well-being. His dissertation, An Examination of Gaming Environments in Dungeons & Dragons Groups, can be found here: https://digital.sandiego.edu/dissertations/170.

Joe can be reached on Twitter at: @thejoeshow13 or @gamenamic

gamenamic.org is his consulting website.

His most recent chapter in the geek therapy book: Integrating Geek Culture into Therapeutic Practice: The Clinician's Guide to Geek Therapy on amazon: tinyurl.com/ycxveu54.

Jon can be reached at joncassie@gmail.com. Tracy can be reached at tlwazenegger@gmail.com

You can subscribe to our Discord at: https://discordapp.com/invite/R3dAXpe.

Robbie's Blog: ludoverse.blogspot.com

Robbie's e-mail: robowist@gmail.com

Robbie's twitter: robowist@BoerthJ

The Ludoverse Lab: Come experience role-playing games with other educators and discuss how they might be used in the classroom. Games currently run on Saturdays from 11 a.m -2 p.m. EDT. The schedule of upcoming games is at the Ludoverse blog, or you can e-mail Robbie. I'm looking to widen the community of gamifying educators, so please reach out if you have an interest.

The menu of twelve game for Robbie's rpg unit: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jFvM10bYt1Z-r-fznpGdPOG4eQy3VeV58hoTDV9xen8/edit?usp=sharing

The actual play report assignment for the rpg unit: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10T6ng7G1dlNFnL4FAgxh0b_PRIqYIX9-321suXazn7I/edit?usp=sharing

The Pool, a role-playing game by James V. West: http://www.1km1kt.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/thepoolrpg.pdf

My Life with Master, a role-playing game by Paul Czege, is available from Half Meme Press: http://www.halfmeme.com/master.html

Inspectres, a role-playing game by Jared Sorensen, is available from Momento Mori Theatricks: http://www.memento-mori.com/pdf/inspectres

Player rules for Becoming Beowulf, Robbie's game about the perilous world of the Anglo-Saxons: 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vw-TFnwVI9qkt679Bn-tz5LFuaiq1Fz9xCXrnmpsHWg/edit?usp=sharing

The Game Level Learn Discord channel is here.

Thrilled to drop this special episode of season 4, the audio feed from Jon’s visit with Dustin Staats discussing using games for sustaining classroom culture during the COVID-19 crisis.

Story Cubes

Storymatic

“When At Last We Are Together Again”