Don’t Split the Party: Using tabletop RPGs to teach collaborative skills

Short Description:

We’ve developed a workshop series that uses the tabletop RPG Weave to help participants develop vital soft skills such as communication, collaboration, and creativity. Workshop participants also explore their own approaches to developing and practicing these skills. In this session, we will call upon our audience to participate in a brief session of gaming and have the rest of our audience play the role of researcher and “code” the session. We will then compare their data with the outcomes we’ve seen from our first few sessions and discuss how others can create similar experiences for their patrons.

Session Style/Format:

Demonstration (with participation) & discussion

Takeaways:

Participants will learn about how tabletop RPGs can be used as a vehicle to discuss and develop 21st century skills. They will also receive our guidelines and materials for running similar workshops.

Organization:

We will be the main presenters, but we will post a CFP to get participants for the demonstration.

Contact Information:

Max Ofsa (maxo@vt.edu)

Sara Sweeney Bear (sweensk@vt.edu)