Category Archives: Board games

The Key of the Toy Cupboard

May 2, 2015 By in Board games, Comment Tags: , , , , Leave a comment

The Key of the Toy Cupboard

Arranging play opportunities in public areas is a professional matter. The more the workers know about play and toys  the better.

This is the program for the first course that was given at The Educational Center for Games in Israel to train teams of playworkers to facilitate play in the Centres for Elderly in Tel Aviv.

מפגש ראשון: 14/11/00
1) הקדמה ליום הלימוד הלנה קלינג
2) הודעות מנהליות נירית דסקל
3) מדוע אנו משחקים. קריטריונים למשחק הטוב. משחקי היכרות נעמי כספי
4) הפסקה להתרעננות
5) למידה מעשית צוות מחמ”י
מפגש שני  : 21/11/00
1) הקדמה ליום הלימוד הלנה קלינג
2) חזרה על משחק ההכרות מהשבוע הקודם מירב רבינסקי
3) סוגי משחקים. הפעלת משחקים הלן חזי
4) הפסקה להתרעננות
5) למידה מעשית צוות מחמ”י
מפגש שלישי: 28/11/00
1) הקדמה ליום הלימוד הלנה קלינג
2) כיצד מפעילים קבוצות ויחידים במשחק נעמי כספי
3) הפסקה להתרעננות
4) למידה מעשית צוות מחמ”י
מפגש רביעי: 5/12/00
1) הקדמה ליום הלימוד הלנה קלינג
2) משחקי חברה – תיאוריה ומעשה בועז גבעון
3) הפסקה להתרעננות
4)”שחק את המשחק” מרגלית עקביא
5) למידה מעשית צוות מחמ”י
מפגש חמישי: 12/12/00
1) הקדמה ליום הלימוד הלנה קלינג
2) קבלת ומתן משוב. התנסות פעילה ומתן משוב למפעילים מתנדבים אשר ליכטנברג
3) הפסקה להתרעננות
4) למידה מעשית צוות מחמ”י

Our Galleries

April 15, 2015 By in Board games, Comment Leave a comment

Our Galleries

We have an Accumulation of Board Games.

How to use them to create a Centre for Games and Learning for today’s Game Creators?

It is said that Good Cataloguing increases the worth of a collection.

To keep the value of this collection our Cataloguing should be Relevant to the design and analysis of these non-digital games and to the evolution of game rules.

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I first met Piet Notebaert, of the Catholic University of Bruges, when he came to Jerusalem for the Board Game Studies Colloquium. I visited him in Bruges when he ran the 14th.BGS Colloquium in 2011. He kindly gave time to initiate me into his cataloguing system. The collection in Bruges is of more than 30,000 games, of which a large amount was donated by Fred Horn.

Who knows how many theses have been written and how many doctorates gained in searching for adequacy in classifying toys and games. This will take you to Piet’s article about classifying board games. It is the best.            http://spelarch.khbo.be/PDF/Classificatie_bordspellen.pdf

Old Playstuff in Singapore

March 14, 2015 By in Board games, collecting, Comment, toys Leave a comment

http://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/more-lifestyle-stories/story/play-kampung-games-yesteryear-20150313

The business of making money from the nostalgia that is connected with toys from time past is happening in Singapore according to this article. It is a fun read with some good pictures.

Children today have glorious toys at their disposal and soon will have easy access to 3D printing machines. Why should they be given tin toys that might cut their fingers?

Most of the toys illustrated have long histories way back before the time of the parents of today’s children.

I put out reproductions of old toys with which my grandchildren may play when they come to visit. An enjoyable time is had by all.

The real old stuff is on a high shelf.

Board Games: Survival of the most Sellable; Survival of the fittest?; Darwinism in the Toy Shop.

December 14, 2013 By in Board games, Comment Tags: , , , Leave a comment

Since Rosh Hashannah I have been around the toy shops in my area, the centre of Tel Aviv, to buy for the two ‘giving seasons’ that we have had, to buy for birthdays and to check what I can use for a future family play project.

Novelty is an integral part of the business of toys and games and changes on the shelving in the shops is something to be expected but the drastic changes in the availability of board games is surprising. The reduction in the choice of what is on sale since last year is enormous and the reduction of choice in the past few months is again large.

Though there is paucity of new board games (the new European games are not sold here) there is plethora of games to be played on electronic devices.
Yet there still are board games being offered for sale. Ones which are recognised by the buyers from their own game playing times. The good oldies, well, some of them anyway, (the buyers and the games).
Darwinism in the toy shop; survival of the saleable.