{"id":666,"date":"2020-08-03T15:01:43","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T15:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pla.playthinklearn.net\/?p=666"},"modified":"2020-08-03T15:09:20","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T15:09:20","slug":"playlearn-august-round-up-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pla.playthinklearn.net\/index.php\/2020\/08\/03\/playlearn-august-round-up-2\/","title":{"rendered":"#PlayLearn August round-up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Happy Birthday to the PLA &#8211; <strong>we are 1<\/strong>! From small beginnings last August, we&#8217;ve grown to 262 members.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"285\" src=\"http:\/\/pla.playthinklearn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot-2020-08-03-at-15.56.56-1024x285.png\" alt=\"Happy Birthday spelled out in candles\" class=\"wp-image-688\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pla.playthinklearn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot-2020-08-03-at-15.56.56-1024x285.png 1024w, http:\/\/pla.playthinklearn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot-2020-08-03-at-15.56.56-300x84.png 300w, http:\/\/pla.playthinklearn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot-2020-08-03-at-15.56.56-768x214.png 768w, http:\/\/pla.playthinklearn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot-2020-08-03-at-15.56.56-1536x428.png 1536w, http:\/\/pla.playthinklearn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screenshot-2020-08-03-at-15.56.56.png 1746w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Happy 2st Birthday to the PLA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">August Featured Member &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/pla.playthinklearn.net\/index.php\/2020\/08\/03\/meet-mathias-pla-member-profile\/\"><strong>Mathias Poulsen<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized is-style-default\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pla.playthinklearn.net\/index.php\/2020\/08\/03\/meet-mathias-pla-member-profile\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pla.playthinklearn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Mathias-Poulsen-1.jpg\" alt=\"photo of Mathias Poulsen\" class=\"wp-image-681\" width=\"227\" height=\"146\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pla.playthinklearn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Mathias-Poulsen-1.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/pla.playthinklearn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Mathias-Poulsen-1-300x193.jpg 300w, http:\/\/pla.playthinklearn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Mathias-Poulsen-1-768x494.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Read about Mathias and the places where play is less welcome<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Would you like to be featured? Send through 5 photos with captions to tell your playful journey and we&#8217;ll include you to appear, one a month!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>News from the PLA members:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Nia Wearn and Emma Bearman are co-hosting an open virtual unconference\/meeting on August 10th talking amongst other things about playful experiences on virtual platforms. &#8216;Learning online: what we have learned in the last 4 months&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tZ0pc-iuqTsrHteYthlFuP-PRzlOwUG5dsO4\">Zoom event link<\/a> <\/li><li>New podcast featuring PLA member Andrew Walsh <a href=\"https:\/\/playgrounding.com\/52-permission-to-play\/\">Who Gives You Permission to Play?<\/a><\/li><li>New article, also from Andrew Walsh <a href=\"http:\/\/eprints.hud.ac.uk\/id\/eprint\/35191\/\">Playful Learning for Information Literacy Development<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>New book out this week<\/strong> &#8211; Bernie DeKoven\u2019s posthumous yet fittingly titled <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2BRzDcu\" target=\"_blank\">The Infinite Playground<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>&#8220;Bernie \u201cBlue\u201d DeKoven was&nbsp;a designer and advocate of play who influenced generations of players and designers. He deeply informed my own understanding of how games and play provide ways of understanding ourselves, each other, and the world. As he battled cancer in his final days, game designer Holly Gramazio worked closely with Bernie on the manuscript, which Celia Pearce and I helped edit into final form.&nbsp;The result is a profound and delightful work&nbsp;that sings with Bernie\u2019s wit and wisdom on every page.&#8221; <\/em> Eric Zimmerman<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s all for now &#8211; keep us updated with your news over the summer and see you in September!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Katie and Alex x<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Birthday to the PLA &#8211; we are 1! From small beginnings last August, we&#8217;ve grown to 262 members. August Featured Member &#8211; Mathias Poulsen Would you like to be featured? Send through 5 photos with captions to tell your playful journey and we&#8217;ll include you to appear, one a month! News from the PLA &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pla.playthinklearn.net\/index.php\/2020\/08\/03\/playlearn-august-round-up-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;#PlayLearn August 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-666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pla.playthinklearn.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666","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=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/pla.playthinklearn.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":691,"href":"http:\/\/pla.playthinklearn.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions\/691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pla.playthinklearn.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pla.playthinklearn.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pla.playthinklearn.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}