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Why Prep During After Other things
Running an 8-week Judge Class
Joe Hughto
7 December 2014
Joe Hughto
Running an 8-week Judge Class
Why Prep During After Other things
Outline
1 Why
2 Prep
3 During
4 After
5 Other things
Joe Hughto
Running an 8-week Judge Class
Why Prep During After Other things
What exactly is a judge class?
Definition for the scope ofthis talk:
8-week class
Teaches rules primarily
A little on Regular &general eventmechanics/WER
Joe Hughto
Running an 8-week Judge Class
Why Prep During After Other things
Who should you expect?
People that want to bejudges
People that already arejudges
Players who want to knowmore about rules
Joe Hughto
Running an 8-week Judge Class
Why Prep During After Other things
What are the eight weeks?
1 Turn structure
2 Casting a spell
3 State-based actions
4 Keywords
5 The JAR
6 Layers
7 Triggers
8 Running your first event
Joe Hughto
Running an 8-week Judge Class
Why Prep During After Other things
Preparing the course
Figure out the style thatsuits you best
I like PowerPoint/PDFs!
Also, Prezi.
Joe Hughto
Running an 8-week Judge Class
Why Prep During After Other things
Different methods of learning
People learn in lots ofdifferent waysTry including differentapproaches
LecturesRole-playingVideosPictures
Joe Hughto
Running an 8-week Judge Class
Why Prep During After Other things
Getting people to attend the first week
Advertise!
Local FB group
Flyers in store
Adding to store’s calendar
Talking with people youknow who are interested
Joe Hughto
Running an 8-week Judge Class
Why Prep During After Other things
Getting people to attend the other weeks
You have to give them areason to come back
There will be people wholose interest
Make it enjoyable
Joe Hughto
Running an 8-week Judge Class
Why Prep During After Other things
How do you make it fun?
For me, enjoyable meansfun
Tell stories
Have them tell stories toyou
Steal those stories forfuture classes
Joe Hughto
Running an 8-week Judge Class
Why Prep During After Other things
How do you make it fun?
Make judging real
Show that you have fundoing it
People are more engagedwhen you are as well
Joe Hughto
Running an 8-week Judge Class
Why Prep During After Other things
Make discussions engaging
Talk with vs. talk at
Ask for lots of volunteers toanswer questions
Role-playing
Joe Hughto
Running an 8-week Judge Class
Why Prep During After Other things
What if they stop coming?
Is the scheduled time/dayconflicting with something?
Can you make it moreengaging?
Are you ok with yourcandidates not beingmotivated?
Joe Hughto
Running an 8-week Judge Class
Why Prep During After Other things
Class over. Now what?
Keep in contact
Let them run events
Test for L1
Joe Hughto
Running an 8-week Judge Class
Why Prep During After Other things
Feedback
Ask what worked and whatdidn’t
Be willing to change thingsfor the future
Perhaps get one of theprevious students to helpnext time
Joe Hughto
Running an 8-week Judge Class
Why Prep During After Other things
Next time?
Why stop with just oneclass?
Keep open the possibility todo it multiple times
We do ours every semester
Joe Hughto
Running an 8-week Judge Class
Why Prep During After Other things
Like L1 education?
eJudge!
Talk to me about it
We need developers
Joe Hughto
Running an 8-week Judge Class