Blog Archive
Revitalize your teaching with improv!
Free Workshop Led by Carrie Lobman, Gwen Lowenheim and Jiunwen Wang, PhD Online Friday, October 25 from 12:00-1:30 MST Register Here Looking to make your classroom more inclusive, collaborative, and fun? Improv can do just that—while keeping it rigorous and engaging!...
Boo! PlayBook Deadline.
Welcome to October. That can only mean one thing: The deadline for submitting your playful online techniques to the Professors at Play Online PlayBook is only a month away! We have been collecting playful ideas for making online learning more relevant, engaging and...
Play Story Press
You might have noticed that The Professors at Play AI PlayBook was put out by Play Story Press and wondered, “Who is that?” In short, PSP is the evolution of Carnegie Mellon’s ETC Press. The new consortium will carry on the work started with ETC, and will be run by...
Online Playbook Submission Deadline
Have an idea to make online classes more fun? Well, what are you waiting for? Submit your creative solutions to the Professors at Play ONLINE PlayBook! With a winter 2025 publishing date looming, we are happy to announce the submission deadline: Halloween, October...
Wanna Play?
Are you ready for the Fall term? Neither are we, but we're gearing up for an exciting start! The Professors at Play headquarters might be a quirky space filled with ducks, stickers, and an assortment of other fun items, but it’s also where we're gathering supplies and...
Let’s Play: Online Playbook
What? A new Playbook? Yes, indeed. That's the plan. Last year, when we released the original Professors at Play Playbook, we responded to ongoing requests for techniques that profs could use in their classrooms. The response to the call for submissions was fantastic,...
Summer Playcaction
Remember the sound of the school bell on the last day of class before summer vacation? That bell combined the thrill of freedom with a sense of accomplishment and spiced with the excitement of summer vacation plans. Things have changed and summer might look more like...
Embracing life, loneliness, introversion and games
By Nanditha Krishna As I approach my 25th birthday this June, I find myself reflecting on my journey through my turbulent teenage years to the even more tumultuous twenties, with an evolving sense of self-awareness. Over the years, as I have started living my...
When Play Fails
In my university library you will find a checkerboard table in a comfortable seating section, right next to a kiosk that sells teriyaki and sushi. During the academic year this area is busy with students grabbing cups of coffee, sharing lunch with friends, taking...
Visuals, Themes, and Bitmojis, Oh My!
by Peggy Holzweiss, PhD I have a confession to make. I love teaching fully asynchronous, online courses. You may wonder how anyone could love teaching online courses. After all, it can be difficult to engage students through a computer screen. Learning...