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1. Why Prep During After Other things
Running an 8-week Judge Class
Joe Hughto
7 December 2014
Joe Hughto
Running an 8-week Judge Class

2. Why Prep During After Other things
Outline
1 Why
2 Prep
3 During
4 After
5 Other things
Joe Hughto
Running an 8-week Judge Class

3. Why Prep During After Other things
What exactly is a judge class?
Definition for the scope of
this talk:
8-week class
Teaches rules primarily
A little on Regular &
general event
mechanics/WER
Joe Hughto
Running an 8-week Judge Class

4. Why Prep During After Other things
Who should you expect?
People that want to be
judges
People that already are
judges
Players who want to know
more about rules
Joe Hughto
Running an 8-week Judge Class

5. Why Prep During After Other things
What are the eight weeks?
1 Turn structure
2 Casting a spell
3 State-based actions
4 Keywords
5 The JAR
6 Layers
7 Triggers
8 Running your first event
Joe Hughto
Running an 8-week Judge Class

6. Why Prep During After Other things
Preparing the course
Figure out the style that
suits you best
I like PowerPoint/PDFs!
Also, Prezi.
Joe Hughto
Running an 8-week Judge Class

7. Why Prep During After Other things
Different methods of learning
People learn in lots of
different ways
Try including different
approaches
Lectures
Role-playing
Videos
Pictures
Joe Hughto
Running an 8-week Judge Class

8. Why Prep During After Other things
Getting people to attend the first week
Advertise!
Local FB group
Flyers in store
Adding to store’s calendar
Talking with people you
know who are interested
Joe Hughto
Running an 8-week Judge Class

9. Why Prep During After Other things
Getting people to attend the other weeks
You have to give them a
reason to come back
There will be people who
lose interest
Make it enjoyable
Joe Hughto
Running an 8-week Judge Class

10. Why Prep During After Other things
How do you make it fun?
For me, enjoyable means
fun
Tell stories
Have them tell stories to
you
Steal those stories for
future classes
Joe Hughto
Running an 8-week Judge Class

11. Why Prep During After Other things
How do you make it fun?
Make judging real
Show that you have fun
doing it
People are more engaged
when you are as well
Joe Hughto
Running an 8-week Judge Class

12. Why Prep During After Other things
Make discussions engaging
Talk with vs. talk at
Ask for lots of volunteers to
answer questions
Role-playing
Joe Hughto
Running an 8-week Judge Class

13. Why Prep During After Other things
What if they stop coming?
Is the scheduled time/day
conflicting with something?
Can you make it more
engaging?
Are you ok with your
candidates not being
motivated?
Joe Hughto
Running an 8-week Judge Class

14. Why Prep During After Other things
Class over. Now what?
Keep in contact
Let them run events
Test for L1
Joe Hughto
Running an 8-week Judge Class

15. Why Prep During After Other things
Feedback
Ask what worked and what
didn’t
Be willing to change things
for the future
Perhaps get one of the
previous students to help
next time
Joe Hughto
Running an 8-week Judge Class

16. Why Prep During After Other things
Next time?
Why stop with just one
class?
Keep open the possibility to
do it multiple times
We do ours every semester
Joe Hughto
Running an 8-week Judge Class

17. Why Prep During After Other things
Like L1 education?
eJudge!
Talk to me about it
We need developers
Joe Hughto
Running an 8-week Judge Class