{"id":134,"date":"2012-12-06T21:21:13","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T21:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/conferencecontent\/?p=134"},"modified":"2013-04-13T14:42:03","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T14:42:03","slug":"pocket-quizzes-learning-on-the-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/conferencecontent\/2012\/12\/06\/pocket-quizzes-learning-on-the-floor\/","title":{"rendered":"Pocket Quizzes: Learning on the Floor"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following document contains information originally provided by Martha Lufkin<\/a><\/span><\/span>.<\/h3>\n

Slide 1: Pocket Quizzes<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Martha Lufkin is a level 2 judge from Rockville, Maryland (a suburb of Washington, DC).
\nShe has been judging for ten years, mostly in the mid-Atlantic states.
\nGreat tool for team leads, mentors, and downtime on the floor. Ask questions of testing candidates or play “Stump the L3”.<\/p>\n

Slide 2: Characteristics<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Brief<\/strong>: quiz should fit in between judge calls.
\nEducational<\/strong>: should illustrate an area of the rules or IPG of interest to new judges.
\nPocket-sized<\/strong>: carry it in pocket or phone case so it’s handy when you have a spare moment during the tournament.<\/p>\n

Slide 3: Purposes<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Build skills<\/strong>: help new judges gain practice and confidence with typical floor calls
\nScreening<\/strong>: if the quiz covers an area on the test it can give you a sense of how well the candidate will do
\nInteresting<\/strong> calls<\/strong>: discussion can branch out into corner cases, \u201cwhat if\u201d<\/p>\n

Slide 4: Advantages<\/strong><\/h3>\n

No Memorization<\/strong>: a real plus for some learning styles
\nMimics floor calls<\/strong>: prepares new judges for typical situations
\nEasy to develop<\/strong>: grab a handful of commons, look for a theme
\nFlexible<\/strong>: rotate cards when new sets come out, add advanced situations<\/p>\n

Slide 5: Missed Triggers<\/strong><\/h3>\n

If you’re reading this at home, Martha describes a judge call involving each card.
\nNiblis of the Mist<\/a>: Player A (Amadeus) casts Niblis of the Mist<\/a>. Then he plays a land and then starts to declare attackers. At this point he realizes he forgot to tap a creature and calls for a judge.<\/p>\n

Farbog Boneflinger<\/a><\/a>: Player A (Amber) chooses a target for the -2\/-2 ability (Ben’s Ulvenwald Mystics<\/a>, a 3\/3) but by the time they get to the Combat Damage step both players have forgotten about the effect and when the Mystics take a point of damage Ben does not put them in the graveyard. Amber notices this during her second main phase.<\/p>\n

Slide 6: Missed Triggers<\/strong><\/h3>\n

If you’re reading this at home, Martha describes a judge call involving each card.
\nUlvenwald Mystics<\/a>: Player B (Bob) casts no spells and passes the turn. Player A (Austin) fails to transform the Mystics during his upkeep, draws a card, then notices and calls a judge.
\nGlint Hawk<\/a>: Player B (Barb) cast Glint Hawk<\/a> but forgets to return an artifact to her hand. She passes the turn and Player A (Arnold) draws a card, then notices the problem and calls a judge.<\/p>\n

Slide 7: Discuss Missed Triggers Quiz<\/strong><\/h3>\n

4 cards<\/strong>: short simple scenarios
\nRecent sets<\/strong>: easy for new judges to recognize
\n4 types of triggers<\/strong>: Optional trigger, No visual effect on the game, Has a Default, Non-optional, No Default with visual effect on the game.
\nOne question involved a game rule violation after a trigger was properly resolved and later forgotten.<\/p>\n

Slide 8: Build Your Own Pocket Quiz<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Other ideas:<\/p>\n

    \n
  • How combat works<\/li>\n
  • Layers<\/li>\n
  • Phases and steps of a turn<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Slide 9: Sharing Your Pocket Quiz<\/strong><\/h3>\n

    (No notes.)<\/p>\n

    Slide 10: Questions, Closing<\/strong><\/h3>\n

    Finishing touches: add cards that illustrate related rules<\/p>\n

    Try it out, look for ways to add beginning, intermediate and advanced examples<\/p>\n

    Thanks for coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    This Document illustrated the advantages of pocket quizzes, as a learning and\/or socializing tool<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[115,150,47],"language":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-judge-program-and-mentoring","tag-document","tag-martha-lufkin","tag-mentoring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/conferencecontent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/conferencecontent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/conferencecontent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/conferencecontent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/conferencecontent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/conferencecontent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":753,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/conferencecontent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/conferencecontent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/conferencecontent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/conferencecontent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/conferencecontent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}