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Nick LaLone

2 — Elevating Session 0 — Let’s Talk About Dungeons

Or why is it we love putting our imaginary friends in Danger?

10 min readNov 12, 2023

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2 — Elevating Session 0 — Let’s Talk About Dungeons

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Nick LaLone

1 — Elevating Session 0 — The Game of Dungeons

And other ways of enhancing your players’ voice at the table

7 min readOct 9, 2023

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1 — Elevating Session 0 — The Game of Dungeons

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Nick LaLone

0 — Elevating Session 0 Past an Explanation of the Syllabus

And other ways of enhancing your players’ voice at the table

5 min readOct 6, 2023

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0 — Elevating Session 0 Past an Explanation of the Syllabus

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Nick LaLone

3 Tenets on the Integration of Information Technology with Emergency Management

We need a better approach than what we’ve been using.

12 min readFeb 21, 2023

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3 Tenets on the Integration of Information Technology with Emergency Management

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Nick LaLone

What Outcome Does Emergency Management Need in Data Science?

It isn’t about learning to write code or compile

7 min readJan 2, 2023

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ICS Org Chart

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Nick LaLone

On the Mode of Existence of Tables of Contents

And other ways one could help others find one’s position in the thick of things.

9 min readDec 24, 2022

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A child on top reading an instruction manual before playing versus a child on the bottom demanding to know what happened because they jumped into a piece of software.

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Nick LaLone

Data Science for Emergency Management

Reaching an audience that doesn’t want to be an audience in an effort to teach skills that audience doesn’t understand, want, or…

5 min readDec 16, 2022

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An illustration highlighting where emergency management work is often situated. Between the incdents, the evaluations after the incident, and the work done on potential tech, there is a tiny space for where we should be working.

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Nick LaLone

Emergency Management and Games

Games Based Learning or Games Based Training, some suggestions on finding things to play that can help you think about Emergency Management

14 min readMay 27, 2022

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Emergency Management and Games

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Nick LaLone

Tech in Emergency Management Cannot Follow the Standard Cycle

Or stop trying to “save” emergency management by coating it in Technology

6 min readJan 12, 2022

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A table outlining different approaches from western versus japanese companies. The easiest way to describe this table is to say that Japan seeks to connect practice to technology whereas the west seeks to supplant practice with technology.

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Nick LaLone

A Course on Emergency Management and Technology: Readings, Multimedia Content, and Resources of…

Syllabus Next!

5 min readAug 13, 2021

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A reminder that Godzilla is a human-created disaster just like anything else.

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Nick LaLone

Nick LaLone

PhD: Information Science. Programming Pedagogy, Data Science, Crisis-Informatics, Map Interfaces, Science and Technology Studies, Play, and Game Studies.

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