[game_edu] GDC

[Darren Torpey]

  It was a great surprise when Jason presented you with the award at
the luncheon. You certainly deserve it, Susan. Thanks for all your
great work and the opportunities you've provided us all to contribute
in a meaningful way to the community.

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 7:59 PM, S. Gold <goldfile at gmail.com> wrote:

>

>  Wow, what a week. So much goes on at GDC it is very hard to go through

> everything, but I will highlight the Education Summit for all of you unable

> at attend. First, we had two days of incredible programming. Thank you

> Derric Clark for an incredible job, putting together session from what was a

> crazy brainstorming session almost a year ago.

>

>  I tried to hop between both tracks at the summit, they were both packed

> with interesting speakers, great discussions and a lot of information. The

> all-around high-point for me were the student presentations during the IGF

> Student Winner Post-Mortem's. One, hearing what they had to say and seeing

> their excitement was hard to describe. Besides a few industry folks, I

> spotted a few CAA talent agents in our audience. The fact that one of our

> student presenters was the Seumas McNally Grand Prize winner was an

> incredible achievement. (Not that I want other students dropping out of

> school to finish their game, but can we all say... Woot!). I wish the best

> to all of the students and their futures and I thank them for participating.

> For those of you who did not get a chance to see their talks, you can

> definitely go check out their games at:

> http://www.igf.com/02finalists.html#student (also make your students check

> it out as well). Thank you to all of students and for those of you who are

> coming next year, we will be doing this again next year.

>

>  I loved our keynotes, especially Ian Bogost's comments about

> interdisciplinary... I will never use that word again. I loved hearing

> Warren Spector, one of the greatest game designers say, wow, teaching was a

> lot harder than he thought. I loved all of the energy in Ann DeMarle's

> session on reaching out to industry. Now I know these comments are not

> helpful to you, so we will be putting as much of the info from the the

> summit onto to the wiki as soon as we can.

>

>  The biggest news of course is the release of the NEW and IMPROVED IGDA

> Curriculum Framework (version 3.2 – still beta). We had so many

> contributors, both academic and industry. A huge thanks to Yusuf Pisan who

> took all of those contributions and made it cohesive with a single voice,

> and incredible feat and a tremendous job. Check out the link on our blog:

> http://www.igda.org/education/. You can also see Robin Burke's thought's on

> our next steps, creating core experiences/outcomes of the framework:

> http://igda.org/wiki/Core_Experiences

>

>  On a personal note, I want to thank the IGDA for the honor of naming me MVP

> to organization. I do what I do for the Education SIG out of my passion for

> community, collaboration and the infinite possibilities of what we can

> achieve together. I did not do this by myself, I have an incredible

> leadership team: Toby Barnes, Derric Clark, Beth Aileen Dillon, Tracy

> Fullerton, Dan Hodgson, Darius Kazemi, Stephen Jacobs, Magy Seif El Nasr,

> Darren Torpey... a great advisory board: Rob Catto, Doug Church, Mark

> DeLoura, Robin Hunicke, Katherine Isbister, Katie Salen, Warren Spector and

> Eric Zimmerman and a great executive director Jason Della Rocca. I could not

> have done it without their support, advice and valuable time. Thank you IGDA

> for the recognition, it has been my pleasure.

>

>  Susan

>  --

>  Susan Gold

>  goldfile at gmail.com

>

>  "In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!" - J. G. Ballard

>

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