“Thank you so much for your engaging and informative presentation today. The feedback from faculty was really positive and they had a good time with their games. Most importantly, they have concrete ideas to start out their semester with play!”
—Susan Altman, Director, Center for the Enrichment of Learning and Teaching, Middlesex College

“You knocked it out of the park, Joe. The audience won’t stop talking about you.”
—Craig Tunks, Director of Connecticut Education Technology Leaders (CTETL) Conference, and Director of Digital Learning & Technology at Weston Public Schools

“Joe offered an engaging, interactive, well-organized mini-workshop that not only inspired participants but gave us a sense that this wasn't over our heads, but a pedagogical tool we could easily embrace…”
—Dr. Aimee E. Berger, Director of Faculty Programs, Cengage Learning Publishing Company

Speaking Engagements

All across the world, Joe delivers interdisciplinary conference keynotes and professional development workshops using game-based learning pedagogy.

Joe's focus is on showing instructors in the academic world (and training managers in the business world) how to make their activities and trainings more playful and engaging, for both in-person and online classes. If your professional development event is themed around creativity and innovation, technology, or sharpening pedagogy, his workshops would be an excellent fit. (In the time of COVID, he has also restructured his workshops so they can be held completely online, if desired.)

His audience has included college and K-12 teachers, corporate marketers, sideshow performers, and other professionals, all looking for better ways to engage with their learners. Rather than a purely academic lecture, he provides interactive demonstrations and theoretical models that can be immediately applied to any problem, whether in the classroom or in the workplace. This means that even if you have a mixed room of teachers and non-teachers, everyone will walk away with practical knowledge for their field.

To date, he has presented at 150+ workshops and conferences. Highlights include a keynote workshop at the Reacting to the Past conference at Barnard College of Columbia University, an invited half-day workshop at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), and a guest panel on game-based learning with Marc Prensky at the CUNY General Education Conference.

 

Read feedback from Joe's audiences here.

Contact Joe about the services and presentations he can offer your organization here.

View a full list of Joe’s presentations here.

Professional Development Games and Activities

I have several you can look at on my designer page.