Up Close with Brian Mayer

摘要

Brian Mayer, a 2015 LJMover & Shaker, serves as a gaming and library technologies specialist of the school library System of the Genesee Valley Educational Partner-ship, Le Roy, NY. He collaborates with teachers to implement gaming in the class-room, helping to develop lessons that inte-grate game design, hosting gaming events, and facilitating classroom gaming activities. Mayer also curates and manages a games library for teachers to access. Though his first consideration is that the game should be fun to play, he then looks "for curricular connections within the theme and the mechanisms of the game." Mayer points out that play time is also a necessary consideration-classes only last so long, after all.