{"id":457,"date":"2020-03-02T09:56:31","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T09:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pla.playthinklearn.net\/?p=457"},"modified":"2020-03-12T17:21:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T17:21:29","slug":"playlearn-march-round-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pla.playthinklearn.net\/index.php\/2020\/03\/02\/playlearn-march-round-up\/","title":{"rendered":"#PlayLearn March round-up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Welcome to March everyone, how about we start with a puzzle? Name the &#8216;<strong>March<\/strong>&#8216; themed movies from these emoji clues:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\ud83d\udc67\ud83d\udc67\ud83d\udc67\ud83d\udc67\ud83d\udc67<\/li><li>\ud83d\udc63\ud83d\udc27\ud83d\udc27<\/li><li>\ud83e\udd2b\ud83c\udfe0\u2777<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Guess on Twitter with the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23PlayLearn&amp;src=typeahead_click&amp;f=live\">#PlayLearn hashtag<\/a> and if you think these are hard, then feel free to share your own!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pla.playthinklearn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screenshot-2020-02-29-at-16.24.11.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-472\" width=\"286\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pla.playthinklearn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screenshot-2020-02-29-at-16.24.11.png 794w, http:\/\/pla.playthinklearn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screenshot-2020-02-29-at-16.24.11-300x259.png 300w, http:\/\/pla.playthinklearn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screenshot-2020-02-29-at-16.24.11-768x664.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px\" \/><figcaption>Elizabeth Taylor as Jo March 1949 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/x-ray_delta_one\/8663887061\">photo credit James Vaughan<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our featured member for March is games designer <a href=\"http:\/\/pla.playthinklearn.net\/index.php\/2020\/02\/29\/meet-jana-pla-member-profile\/\">Jana Wendler<\/a>. Read about her bottle cap fanaticism!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-circle-mask\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pla.playthinklearn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/brainscanner-1024x938.jpg\" alt=\"Jana Wendler\" class=\"wp-image-460\" width=\"170\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pla.playthinklearn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/brainscanner-1024x938.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/pla.playthinklearn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/brainscanner-300x275.jpg 300w, http:\/\/pla.playthinklearn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/brainscanner-768x703.jpg 768w, http:\/\/pla.playthinklearn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/brainscanner-1536x1406.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/pla.playthinklearn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/brainscanner.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 170px) 100vw, 170px\" \/><figcaption>Jana Wendler<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What&#8217;s coming up this year, you ask?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>[update: <a href=\"http:\/\/pla.playthinklearn.net\/index.php\/2020\/03\/12\/update-pla-london-event-postponed\/\">this event has been postponed<\/a>] The next\u00a0<strong>PLA in-person meet up<\/strong>\u00a0is in a few weeks time on 26\/27 March at City University, London on the theme of Playfulness at Work. The event will run from lunchtime on Thursday 26th until lunchtime on Friday 27th. There are 8 spots remaining if you want to join us &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/pla-meeting-london-march-2020-tickets-92806688303?utm-medium=discovery&amp;utm-campaign=social&amp;utm-content=attendeeshare&amp;aff=escb&amp;utm-source=cp&amp;utm-term=listing\"><strong>Book Now!<\/strong><\/a><\/li><li>July 8th \u2013 10th is the 2020\u00a0<strong>Playful Learning Conference<\/strong>, at the University of Leicester &#8211; thanks to all of you who have offered sessions. Registration is still available at <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.le.ac.uk\/conferences-and-events\/leicester-conferences\/leicester-learning-institute\/playful-learning-conference-2020\">bargain Early Bird rates<\/a> until the end of March &#8211; and think about students of yours who might want to go: there are special rates for them.<\/li><li>The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.academic-conferences.org\/conferences\/ecgbl\/\">European Conference on Games Based Learning<\/a> <\/strong>(ECGBL) is in the UK this year. If you fancy a trip to Brighton in late September, do check it out and note the call for papers closes this Wednesday so be quick!<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What\u2019s going on with you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This round-up comes out during the first week of each month. If there is any playful activity\/event\/book\/idea you\u2019d like to promote to members in April, then email Katie Piatt or tweet #PlayLearn and we\u2019ll include it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to March everyone, how about we start with a puzzle? Name the &#8216;March&#8216; themed movies from these emoji clues: \ud83d\udc67\ud83d\udc67\ud83d\udc67\ud83d\udc67\ud83d\udc67 \ud83d\udc63\ud83d\udc27\ud83d\udc27 \ud83e\udd2b\ud83c\udfe0\u2777 Guess on Twitter with the #PlayLearn hashtag and if you think these are hard, then feel free to share your own! Our featured member for March is games designer Jana Wendler. Read &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pla.playthinklearn.net\/index.php\/2020\/03\/02\/playlearn-march-round-up\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;#PlayLearn March round-up&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pla.playthinklearn.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pla.playthinklearn.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pla.playthinklearn.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pla.playthinklearn.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pla.playthinklearn.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/pla.playthinklearn.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484,"href":"http:\/\/pla.playthinklearn.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions\/484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pla.playthinklearn.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pla.playthinklearn.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pla.playthinklearn.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}