Change Game

Last week in the 5080 class we played the "Change Game". It was kind of hard to understand at first, but once we got going with the process it all started to make sense. I still think it's kind of funny that our last class all we did was eat Olive Garden take out and play a board game! But the board was definitely about what we've been reading about and the role of Media Coordinator's. The way the game worked was we were split into three groups. On the game board we had a list of names ranging from school board peopoe, elementary teachers/personel, to highschool personel. We were trying to make a committee that would help with more equality within schools and to teach children about this subject...I think... Like I said it was sortive of confusing at first... Anyways, we had to earn "student benefits" and well my group was the group with the least amount of student benefits, so we didn't win that part. The game made us all realize how hard and time consuming it is to make changes with any areas in schools. There is a lot of "red tape" to crawl through before you can ever make any progress. The game was set up to be played with a time limit. The first time limit represented one year, the next timer was for two years. We finally began making progress with our committee at the end of year two. I think my group listened to each other and our ideas pretty well. If something didn't work, we would try something else. As a whole the entire class voted that Dr. Nita should play again once she teaches this course for another semester!