Online Lego Workshop

Before Christmas I was talking to someone at a Playful Learning event and they were saying how it'd be lovely to have something available to just get a flavour of Lego Serious Play (LSP), some practical examples, a chance to have a go, pointers as to where you might get the Lego from, etc - rather than a full blown LSP course. 

So I've finally got around to setting up a little half day online workshop - maximum 10 people, I'll send a pack of Lego out to people in advance, and we'll run through all those sort of things...

So if you're Lego curious and want to start experimenting with using plastic blocks (but are worried about doing it for the first time). You want to learn the basics in a supportive setting? Sign up to this intro course! We'll post your Lego out in discreet packaging :)

Either follow the link, or (fingers crossed), the form should appear below:

Cardiff Lego Workshop

I ran a Lego workshop in Cardiff the other day - a full day of looking at how we could use ideas from Lego Serious Play (or related ideas) in library teaching.

It was a lovely group of nearly 20 people, though I think I worked them a tad hard... lots of people were flagging towards the end. A full day has worked well in the past, but might be tempted to do a half day in future for a workshop like this (it would also make tickets cheaper!) next time I run it.

Lots of lovely tweets during the day under the #libraryplay hashtag, such as the one below - take a look if you want a flavour of the day!

... My final build is me overcoming my unwillingness to share the silly things I do in teaching, by becoming more transparent. Thanks to @playbrarian I am hopeful I will have a good reception. #libraryplay pic.twitter.com/TJt8nQKNsY

— Sarah Nicholas (@SarahNicholas) February 16, 2018

ARLG Lego workshop in Cambridge

On Monday 6th June, I'll be running a Lego workshop in Cambridge. I think I had a flying visit to Cambridge once before and spent a few hours there about 30 years ago... and not been back since! So slightly disappointed I won't be able to find time to explore properly.

That said, I'm there to run a Lego workshop, which is a fun thing to do in it's own right... so looking forward to Monday, and if I remember to take some photos and videos I'll post them on this blog afterwards.

I'm doing the workshop for ARLG Eastern, so expecting plenty of HE and FE people there, and hopefully a mix that includes a few non-librarians too, fingers crossed :)

More Lego workshops

I ran a Lego for Library Teaching workshop a little while ago in Manchester which seemed to go down well!
As a result I've just got back from Dorchester where I ran a similar Lego for Teaching workshop for a small group involved with the Peer Assisted Learning scheme at Bournemouth University.
So would anyone else like to attend a Lego workshop by me?
I've got one coming up for ARLG Eastern in Cambridge (full details on their page) on 6th June 2016. This workshop offers a reduced rate to CILIP members (£75 + VAT) or can be booked at the full price by non-members (£100 +VAT).
I can also run similar, or custom workshops if anyone wants to invite me to do so (charges will apply!) - please get in touch with me via twitter or my website and we'll work something out.

Lego for library teaching...

Not quite a games workshop... but last week I ran a Lego for Library Teaching workshop in Manchester.

We had a full day of exploring the use of Lego (and to a certain extent, other building materials) in libraries / learning support. It's the first time I've spent a full day running a workshop on this, only touching briefly on it in other workshops before, and I really enjoyed it - I think the attendees did too.

The video above is a summing up of the workshop by an attendee (Lawrie), there are more available to give a flavour of what we did, as well as some pictures I took on the day... one of which is below!

Alicja has already written a short blog post of the day too.

A photo posted by Andrew Walsh (@andywalsh999) on Jan 30, 2016 at 4:14am PST