Hi,

welcome to the Teaching Strategies Podcast with Giles, Pritchard and Tom Vassal. Gassil.

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Gee am well... Good day and welcome to the Teaching Strategies podcast with Giles Pritchard and

Tom Vasswell welcome to the show. Today we're going to talk about how to get hold of games and bring them into the school

and also about how to start up or how to get permission to start up, things like games clubs

and using the games in the school itself.

Well the first thing is there's just about

600 million games out there and in future episodes we'll be talking about what specific games to go after.

But let's just, we're just talking in generalities now.

We're assuming that most teachers have very little money because that's just the way it goes and so we're trying to say

where do you get these games from how do you get games for the game club so

it's a collection at school how many games have you got roughly?

I have about 900 games and the collection of games that I use for school comes from my own personal collection.

I do realize that that's a unique situation not everyone has piles of games like

that and I get them from a variety of sources so in my instance I'm using my

personal collection but my game club and school is small enough that I keep track of that.

The disadvantage is that my games get beat up pretty badly in the game club, I mean even when kids are trying to be careful there's still

you know it's still just gonna be some natural beat-up mutilation of your games to

some degree and so you got to go on realizing that and if you're

someone who wants pristine games in your own collection that's not the best

route to go. Right. In my collection at school we've got about probably 65-70 games in our collection at school we've got about probably 65 70 games in our collection at school

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