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Students sitting around a table solving a breakout game. You see
different boxes, locks, hasps, documents, artefacts and pens on the table and
in the hands of players. 

Will it work? Do we need more scaffolding? Seeing your own game in action for the first time can be very exciting! Students in the “English Escape: Breakout games and gamification in the EFL classroom” seminar spent a full-day session trying and critiquing each other’s games. The observations and the feedback gathered will informed the revisions of their games – before they, in the last phase of their projects – playtest their games at local schools. 

Chaincourt Theatre

Jan 17 2025

Winter-semester production 2024/25

"Hamlet" - article in Frankfurter Rundschau 17.01.2025


Click article to enlarge.
FR article online.

TEFL



Zoom call screenshot. Presenter, course lecturer and
participating students are visible on the right, the title slide of with the
title ‘From research questions to classroom impact: Insights into research on
educational escape games’ on the left.
On January 17th, Jonna Kaßner, doctorate student at Leuphana University Lüneburg, delivered a guest lecture at Dr. Bündgens-Kosten's “English Escape: Breakout games and gamification in the EFL classroom" seminar. Jonna Kaßner shared how she first approached the topic during her MA thesis, and then gave an exclusive glimpse into her ongoing doctorate research. The attending students had the opportunity to ask questions, the answers to which informed their own escape game designs.

Literary Journal

IEAS Literary Journal Poster Volume. 7

American Studies

On Dec 12, the book launch of Myslet média, the Czech translation of selected essays by Bernd Herzogenrath will take place at Kino Svetozor in Prague, accompanied by a screening of Bill Morrison’s film Decasia.

https://kinosvetozor.cz/en?sort=sort-by-data&cinema=3&hall=1%2C2%2C3&search=Decasia&projection=33507