[game_edu] Education Membership and Chapters?

[Beth Aileen Dillon]

Don't forget the quick and fun method of having your students put together a
working game group through your school and then reaching out to other
campuses. That seems to be a lot more useful than setting up a separate IGDA
education interest chapter. Rather, you're actually getting the students
involved in something that will help them develop content for their careers
and personal interests.

At one point we had more of a Student SIG that did this and it got
umbrella'ed under the Education SIG with no strides made recently, so this
may be an interesting initiative to pick up if anyone wants to get back to
it. It'd be nice to have a list of IGDA school groups and what they're up to
beyond the forums.

- Beth


On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Tim Langdell <langdell at gmail.com> wrote:


>  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

>

> ----- Original Message -----

> *From:* S. Gold <goldfile at gmail.com>

> *To:* IGDA Game Education Listserv <game_edu at igda.org>

> *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

>

> --

> Susan Gold

> goldfile at gmail.com

>

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Beth Aileen Dillon
PhD Student, Simon Fraser University
School of Interactive Arts and Technology
Research Assistant, Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace
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