[game_edu] Education Membership and Chapters?

[Tim Langdell]

Re: [game_edu] Education Membership and Chapters?Susan, you make some good points: personally wherever possible I think it would be preferable for a local IDGA chapter to include local game academics and students (actively so) in their meetings. But I am aware that there are areas with no local chapters or where they either do not permit students to attend or have no outreach to or inclusion of academics. In those situations I think if there is sufficient interest to form a separate EdSIG chapter then that would be a good idea - once up and rolling then that chapter could perhaps reach out to the local IGDA chapter (if there is one) to foster relations ... my 2 cents.

Tim

Tim Langdell, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Lead Faculty, MFA in Videogame Production & Design
Department of Media
School of Media & Communication
National University 
tlangdell at nu.edu
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  From: S. Gold 
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  Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 9:49 AM
  Subject: Re: [game_edu] Education Membership and Chapters?


  On 4/8/08 11:08 AM, "Ian Schreiber" <ai864 at yahoo.com> wrote:


    I'm based in Columbus, where we have *mostly* students and educators and very few industry professionals, so our chapter has the opposite problem :)
      
    For other areas, I'd advocate NOT having a separate chapter for educators -- this would only serve to further distance academia from industry. Rather, give local chapters incentive to include nearby students and educators in their meetings and discussions.
      
     

  Actually there are two chapters in the states that I know of that will not allow students. Plus, of the 90 or so educators that I found in Boston, only a few had ever attended an IGDA chapter meeting in their town as the topics/subjects do not help them create collaborations, they only have the opportunity to network. I was thinking of an education chapter as providing those types of opportunities, plus sharing experiences - exercises - demonstrations, possibly have professional development that sort of thing. Also, I was thinking an ed chapter would be in addition to, not to replace an IGDA chapter. Also, probably meeting only twice a year as opposed to monthly. Could also be a student work showcase... that type of thing. Just ideas of course.

  Susan

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