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Liz Cable 🎲 👾 🔜 UKGE

@lizcable.bsky.social
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Game-based learning & community-building Educator, Author, Experience Designer ARGs, LARPs, Escape Games Convener of #GamesInEdu26 at #UKGamesExpo CfP: bit.ly/UKGECFP web: www.Linktr.ee/lizcable Start here: bit.ly/GamesinEdu

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Laura Mitchell @drlauramitchell.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Just in time for #UKGE2026 the new website for PLaY group is up at play-group.org !
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PLaY Group | A cross-disciplinary scholarship community, bringing together staff and students across the university with an interest in playful pedagogies.
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Liz Cable 🎲 👾 🔜 UKGE @lizcable.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
In less than 12 hours I'll be heading South West for #GamesInEdu26 at UK Games Expo. Looking forward to meeting @yescic.bsky.social who looks to be doing some amazing work around games education and community building.
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Sandra Sinfield @danceswithcloud.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
#LoveLD - love #creativeHE - and love the look of this new open book from #UCL - edited by Gray Kochhar-Lindgren, Wendy Sims-Schouten and Jack Tsao: uclpress.co.uk/book/transdi... #LTHEchat #EdChat #studychat
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Transdisciplinary Experiments
A dynamic exploration of how experimental, transdisciplinary approaches can transform research, teaching and institutions, fostering more adaptive and collaborative futures.
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Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk · 26/01/2026
Thanks to @lizcable.bsky.social, our Lead for External Engagement, Playful Learning Association will be there!
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Liz Cable 🎲 👾 🔜 UKGE @lizcable.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
I think blogging will have a renaissance. Any format where the source can be traced and trusted.
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Dr Daisy Abbott @daisyabbott.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Press release for my #empire #augmentedReality project. gsamediacentre.co.uk/empire-retol... Apps are now public (search for "Empire Retold: Bellahouston" and loads more useful resources/links on the website: sit.gsa.ac.uk/project/deco... #Glasgow #history #decolonisation @hauntedplanet.com
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Empire Retold: other voices from the British Empire Exhibition reflects on post-colonial perspectives of Glasgow history. - The Glasgow School of Art Media Centre
The Empire Exhibition of 1938 was a major international exposition held in Bellahouston Park, Glasgow. Its purpose was to showcase the achievements of the British Empire, promote trade, and strengthen...
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Dr Daisy Abbott @daisyabbott.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Are you interested in the #history of Bellahouston Park, #Glasgow ? A new app provides augmented reality stories about heritage, identity, and the 1938 #Empire Exhibition. Android link below, iOs available soon. See the park in a whole new way. play.google.com/store/apps/d... Please share. #gbl
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Empire Retold: Bellahouston AR - Apps on Google Play
Discover the forgotten stories behind Britain’s last Empire Exhibition.
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Liz Cable 🎲 👾 🔜 UKGE @lizcable.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Your joy is here with us @stuffbybez.bsky.social. First session of the conference and spending all day in the Spotlight session (next to the coffee and biscuits!) #PlayLearn25
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Liz Cable 🎲 👾 🔜 UKGE @lizcable.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Excited to be heading to #PlayLearn25 this week where I'll be running a workshop on "Game-based Learning as Business as Usual" talking about how to collaborate across teams to create games for learning, and lessons learnt.
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Wispfire @wispfire.com · 01/05/2025
Herald: Complete Edition is OUT NOW as part of #LudoNarraCon! Our high-seas narrative adventure represents almost a decade of work from our team, and we are thrilled to finally share it. We truly hope you find meaning in the story we've crafted. #indiedev #indiegame #visualnovel #adventuregame
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Dr Jane Secker @jsecker.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
New article on Building a playful learning community published by me, Susannah Quinsee and Sara Reimers: www.journalofplayinadulthood.org.uk/article/id/1...
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Building a playful learning community
Using play with adults has many benefits but can be challenging to design.  This research sought to understand if being part of a community and seeking advice and support from colleagues could support...
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Liz Cable 🎲 👾 🔜 UKGE @lizcable.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Despite 8+ hours in the car, realising the venue has moved since my last visit, & a disagreement about parking at my AirBnB, I am awake, alert, and looking forward to @voidspacezine.bsky.social live events this weekend. Who will become the Sixth Suspect? #voidspacelive #thevoidpsace
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Liz Cable 🎲 👾 🔜 UKGE @lizcable.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
If you missed @ukge.bsky.social this year, but would like to get involved in all the game-based learning and #GamesinEdu goodness, you can sign up here: bit.ly/GamesinEdu #UKGamesExpo #UKGamesExpo25
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Games in Education @UKGE 2025
All the info! You may have missed us at the Expo, but we are planning to be back, and in the meantime there are a few things you can get involved in. Please fill in the bits that are relevant for you...
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Liz Cable 🎲 👾 🔜 UKGE @lizcable.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
I’m pleased to share the Call for Papers for a special edition of The Journal of Play in Adulthood to celebrate 20 years of #UKGamesExpo. bit.ly/UKGECFP #GamesinHE #LTHEchat #CfP #CallForPapers #GamesinEdu
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Alex Moseley @alexm11.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Mine and @nicwhitton.bsky.social 's 'unconventional' case for playfulness in HE leadership: wonkhe.com/blogs/the-ca...
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The case for playful leadership
Openness, creativity, honesty, humility - Nic Whitton and Alex Moseley make the counterintuitive case for playfulness in higher education leadership
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Liz Cable 🎲 👾 🔜 UKGE @lizcable.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Seize the Power! In playtest with @mattcowardgibbs.bsky.social at 2-113 (at the back of the Playtest zone). #GamesinEdu #UKGamesExpo
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Liz Cable 🎲 👾 🔜 UKGE @lizcable.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
“Seize the Power” play-through tomorrow at #UKGamesExpo stand 2-113 10AM for an hour. Come along sharpish if you’d like to play rather than watch.
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Liz Cable 🎲 👾 🔜 UKGE @lizcable.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Liz King dropped by our stand 2-113 to pitch her boardgame about lab work. Brilliant stuff. So I invited Liz to show it off at the #GamesinEdu networking & demo at 12.30 Sunday in the Pizza Suites at #UKGamesExpo
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Liz Cable 🎲 👾 🔜 UKGE @lizcable.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Playtesting some puzzles from our Immunology game with @immunojo.bsky.social. Three very happy players - that was fun! So clever! Would definitely recommend. Drop by stand 2-113 if you’d like to play and/or playtest some mini escape games. #UKGamesExpo #GamesInEdu
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Liz Cable 🎲 👾 🔜 UKGE @lizcable.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Standing here 🎶 on the street 🎶 where you live… 🎶
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Liz Cable 🎲 👾 🔜 UKGE @lizcable.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
There’s a proliferation of games based on a chessboard. Somehow extending the game to a different world with theming. Chess is having a renaissance. Anna Taylor-Joy started it. #UKGamesExpo #GamesinEdh
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Liz Cable 🎲 👾 🔜 UKGE @lizcable.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
And we are on our way! #UKGamesExpo #GamedinEdu25
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Women Of TTRPG @womenofttrpg.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Our UK Games Expo panelists are here! Join Lyssa of @slovenlytrulls.com as she hosts a panel discussion with these 4 incredible women from across the TTRPG space. See you there! Add it to your schedule: www.ukgamesexpo.co.uk/events/2414-... #WomenOfTTRPG #SlovenlyTrulls #UKGE #UKGamesExpo #TTRPG
Graphic with black and white chairs. Dice overlay the image, along with text reading: ‘A Seat At The Table: Women in TTRPGs. A panel discussion. 10-11am, Saturday 31st May. NEC Piazza 5. Meeple Theatre. UK Games Expo’.

In the centre are the photos of our 4 panelists: Dr Rachel, Chelsea, Aida and Jess Jewell.
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Liz Cable 🎲 👾 🔜 UKGE @lizcable.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Heading to UK Games Expo at the NEC at the end of the month? Come and join us at the first ever academic track on Sunday 1st June. This link is to the first of three events on the Sunday: www.ukgamesexpo.co.uk/events/2871-... #UKGE25 #UKGamesExpo #GamesinEducation #LTHEchat #HigherEd
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Games in Education Short Talks
Now in it's 19th year, UK Games Expo (UKGE) is the largest Hobby Games Convention in the UK. A fun event appealing to families as well as the enthusiast.
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Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
It's the 1 May. Happy #InternationalWorkersDay Remember we are always #StrongerTogether
A black and white woodcut print by artist Ricardo Levins Morales that shows a woman working at a loom with the text 8 hours for work. Then someone sleeping in bed with the words 8 hours for rest. And a couple enjoying being on a row boat in a lake with '8 hours for what we will' written by it.
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Liz Cable 🎲 👾 🔜 UKGE @lizcable.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Extra this year is the Games in Education track, so I will be busy with the stand and the seminars. Am immensely excited and expecting to top my personal best step count over four days of 57,000!
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Digital Schoolhouse @digitalschoolhouse.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
We are delighted to announce the speakers for the Game-Based Learning strand at The Playful Computing Conference 2025. For more information on the talks and to buy tickets, go to zurl.co/cKHmh #PCC2025 #PlayfulComputing #GameBasedLearning #ComputingEducation #STEMeducation #UKEdChat
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Liz Cable 🎲 👾 🔜 UKGE @lizcable.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
It’s like exploring the TARDIS - we just found the pool room! Loving playing the game - has replaced watching TV with my daughter. Would like to win a copy for a friend.
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Sight - Guild66 @guild66.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
15 days remain until this year's Narrative Design Awards kicks off. It's a much smaller, cosier jam this year, but we're still in need of writers, programmers, 2D and 3D artists, designers and everyone else in the game dev circle! itch.io/jam/nda-25 #art #jam #itch #gamedev #ttrpg #indie
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Narrative Design Awards 2025
A game jam from 2025-05-01 to 2025-05-31 hosted by SighTdesigns. Narrative Design Awards 2025 Shield and Laurels. Hosted by Sight, developer and director of the upcoming ttrpg Guild66. Winners from th...
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Liz Cable 🎲 👾 🔜 UKGE @lizcable.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Loving @nowplaythis.bsky.social so far. Currently listening to @annablackwell.bsky.social and being inspired to write a solo RPG about angels.
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Liz Cable 🎲 👾 🔜 UKGE @lizcable.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Interested in Lego for education and training?
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Liz Cable 🎲 👾 🔜 UKGE @lizcable.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Very much looking forward to this. Will you be there?
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Kentucky Educators for Role Playing Games @kyedrpg.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Big announcement, friends! My book on #ttrpgs in education will be published soon from @mcfarland.bsky.social! For more information, visit the new "Books" page at the #kyedrpg site: sites.google.com/view/kyedrpg... #ttrpgcommunity #dnd #gamebasedlearning #kygoplay #KyLchat #EduSky #TTRPGsky
Flier for an upcoming book by Adam Watson.
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Liz Cable 🎲 👾 🔜 UKGE @lizcable.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Booked my spot. We’re going to use Daisy’s research game in our research skills module next academic year.
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Dr Daisy Abbott @daisyabbott.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
One of my papers on #Games4Research is all about gamification of research skills training. Did it work? Find out here! radar.gsa.ac.uk/9317/ #GBL #GameStudies #AcademicSky #research #EduSky #EdTech #LoveLD
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Choose Your Own Adventure! An empirical study on gamification of postgraduate learning on research project design - RADAR
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Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk · 28/03/2025
Latest update from the Playful Learning Association is out - if you want to keep up to date with lovely playful stuff (for grown-ups, not children), sign up to the Jiscmail list! (playfullearningassoc.co.uk/sign-up/) playfullearningassoc.co.uk/march-update/
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March update – Playful Learning Association
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Dr Daisy Abbott @daisyabbott.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
CALL FOR PEACE GAMERS Are you a young person based in Scotland who is interested in peacebuilding, and in how people resolve and transform conflict? Apply to join the CEASEFIRE! Project as a volunteer ‘Peace Gamer’. For more information contact: Dr. Rebecca Sutton, Rebecca.sutton@glasgow.ac.uk #GBL
Drawing of a hand holding a videogame controller and making a peace sign.
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moniqueroffey.bsky.social @moniqueroffey.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/passiontid... Passiontide is a protest novel. We need protest more now than ever. Come join me at The Wanstead Tap, 15 May for the paperback launch of Passiontide. #books #protest #uprising #femicide #women
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Passiontide: Monique Roffey in conversation with Joanna Pocock
A very special evening with award winning authors Monique Roffey and Joanna Pocock for the paperback launch of Passiontide.
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Dr Susan D Blum @susandblum.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
I've been obsessed with trying to figure out how people can learn well even in alienating systems. My book Schoolishness: Alienated Education and the Quest for Authentic, Joyful Learning (Cornell 2024) is my latest thinking about it. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
cover of book, Schoolishness: Alienated Education and the Quest for Authentic, Joyful Learning, by Susan D. Blum. Image is of a bank of battered gray school lockers with one replaced by vibrant flowers.
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Liz Cable 🎲 👾 🔜 UKGE @lizcable.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
@drntasler.bsky.social what’s your favourite boardgame?
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Liz Cable 🎲 👾 🔜 UKGE @lizcable.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
What’s your recommendation for educational boardgames for adults, please? Especially keen on games that aren’t made to be educational. Doesn’t have to be knowledge, could be thinking skills, social skills, etc. What springs to mind? #EduGames #Gamebasedlearning #GamesinHE #HigherEd
Four boxes of boardgames - Holding On, Scout, Vaalbara, and Sky Team.
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Liz Cable 🎲 👾 🔜 UKGE @lizcable.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Writing a simple card game with a chasing mechanism for tomorrow about dark patterns in real world retail and website design. Shall I teach the ethics first THEN play the game, or have the students play the game, THEN tell them how unethical they have been? #yearofteachingplayfully
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BaronWombat @baronwombat.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Games and play are innately good. And with proper framing, can be powerful tools for structured education aimed at specific outcomes. Google 'game based learning' to learn more.
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Liz Cable 🎲 👾 🔜 UKGE @lizcable.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Heading to @aireconuk.bsky.social in Harrogate today to run some of my educational escape rooms for the public and an evening workshop on how to write puzzle-based games. #gamedesign #escaperoom #gamebasedlearning #yearofteachingplayfully
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Karen Costa (she/her) @karencosta.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I so rarely see #Disabled folks centered in the #AI conversation, so I appreciate this. #HigherEd #AcademicSky cdt.org/insights/bui...
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Building A Disability-Inclusive AI Ecosystem: A Cross-Disability, Cross-Systems Analysis Of Best Practices
This report is co-authored by AAPD’s Henry Claypool. In 2021, the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) and the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) released a report entitled “Ce...
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Liz Cable 🎲 👾 🔜 UKGE @lizcable.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Looking forward to playtesting some educational escape games, running an old favourite, and a workshop on how to make your own at home. All on the Saturday of @aireconuk.bsky.social. Who’s going to be there? #yearofteachingplayfully
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LTHEchat @lthechat.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Join us for #LTHEchat today at 8PM GMT to explore podcasting as assessment, with Jonatan Berhane @jonatanberhane.bsky.social and Nicole Blythe @njblythe18.bsky.social. Review the blog post for more information: lthechat.com/2025/03/02/l...
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#LTHEchat 321: Podcasting as assessment
Led by Jonatan Berhane @jonatanberhane.bsky.social and Nicole Blythe @njblythe18.bsky.social Part of the UoS Nursing Associate Programme Team (Nic, Karen, Sofia and myself) recording our first podc…
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Liz Cable 🎲 👾 🔜 UKGE @lizcable.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Taking my Deck of Worlds into class today to inspire my Interactive Storytelling students. #yearofteachingplayfully
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Santanu Vasant PFHEA @santanuvasant.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
👀 FREE Webinar this afternoon at 4 pm - YouTube Live Streamed: How Teaching and Learning Happens: Retrieval Practice with Drs @carlhendrick.substack.com and @hugheshaili.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/Y87zYYx... #LearningScience #CogSci #HigherEducation pls share
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How Teaching and Learning Happens: Retrieval webinar
YouTube video by Academica University of Applied Sciences
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Liz Cable 🎲 👾 🔜 UKGE @lizcable.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
What educational games are people making? #EduGames
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