[game_edu] game_edu Digest, Vol 85, Issue 8

[Linda Sellheim]

We spent the last year reinventing our secondary learning content and we have some great new project based curriculum out from Autodesk, check out the new Autodesk Digital STEAM Workshop www.autodesk.com/digitalsteam<http://www.autodesk.com/digitalsteam>

We have used Unity for a project to create a game about recycling and also create interactive project viewers for all our projects, we also have an app on learning about visual design. It’s a new dynamic portal and we will be adding content on a regular basis.

Linda Sellheim MFA
Academic Segment Manager Primary/Secondary
Autodesk Education
Autodesk, Inc.
111 McInnis
San Rafael, CA 94903
Direct 949 494-2808
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From: game_edu-bounces at igda.org [mailto:game_edu-bounces at igda.org] On Behalf Of Alex Myers
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I mentor at The Kent Bellows Studio for Visual Art<http://kentbellows.org> as a digital/interaction artist. I've run workshops on analog game design as well as helped interested students make video games. Given the nature of the Studio, and my training, we approach games not as a commercial venture, but as a medium for artistic expression.

Alex Myers

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Today's Topics:

1. Re: K-12 Game Education (Scott Nicholson)
2. Re: K-12 Game Education (Maria Droujkova)
3. Re: K-12 Game Education (Peter Border)
4. K-12 Game Education (Allan Fowler)


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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:12:05 -0400
From: Scott Nicholson <srnichol at syr.edu<mailto:srnichol at syr.edu>>
Subject: Re: [game_edu] K-12 Game Education
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I come from Library and Information Science, and I work with school libraries. My current research project is to create a toolkit to help librarians to make their school library into a game design resource for teachers to tap. If one school librarian gets excited about game design, she/he has the ability to inspire many, many teachers. The tools I create will also be useful for teachers, but my primary focus is to work with school librarians.

My own focus is on face-to-face games such as board and card games to complement all of the research currently going on with digital game creation tools. I'm currently on a research leave from the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University and am working with the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT game lab at MIT on this project.

My new blog on the topic is called Because Play Matters, and it is at http://becauseplaymatters.com .

Scott Nicholson





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Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:38:03 -0400
From: Maria Droujkova <droujkova at gmail.com<mailto:droujkova at gmail.com>>
Subject: Re: [game_edu] K-12 Game Education
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I work on multiple game-related projects aimed at children and teachers,
learning and teaching through both games and making games.

Cheers,
Maria Droujkova
919-388-1721

Make math your own, to make your own math




On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Suzanne Freyjadis
<freyjadis at austin.rr.com<mailto:freyjadis at austin.rr.com>>wrote:


Hello Everyone!****

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I?m wondering how many people on this list are involved with K-12 Game
Education. I?ve noticed that this sector of Game Education is growing about
as quickly as higher education programs and I want to make sure we are
addressing everyone?s needs in this SIG.****

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So, let me know if you represent this sector!****

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Best,****

Suzanne****
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Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:45:47 -0500
From: Peter Border <pborder at msbcollege.edu<mailto:pborder at msbcollege.edu>>
Subject: Re: [game_edu] K-12 Game Education
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I have done a one-week summer camp on game design for high schoolers at University of Minnesota at Crookston for the last 5 (6?) years. We usually get about 20 students, but last year it was cancelled as we only had 9.

Try again next year!

Peter Border
Game and Application Design Chairman
Globe University/Minnesota School of Business
1401 West 76th St
Richfield, MN 55423
pborder at msbcollege.edu<mailto:pborder at msbcollege.edu>
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From: game_edu-bounces at igda.org<mailto:game_edu-bounces at igda.org> [game_edu-bounces at igda.org<mailto:game_edu-bounces at igda.org>] On Behalf Of Gillian Smith [gsmith at soe.ucsc.edu<mailto:gsmith at soe.ucsc.edu>]
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Subject: Re: [game_edu] K-12 Game Education

Hi Suzanne,

I teach game design and programming in a summer outreach program for
9th - 12th graders. It lasts a month, and we focus on teaching them
how to design and create their own games (2D) over the course of a
month. Many of them have no programming experience, so we teach them
all of that too.

-Gillian

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Rafael Fajardo <Rafael.Fajardo at du.edu<mailto:Rafael.Fajardo at du.edu>> wrote:

Hello Suzanne,
I am part of an NSF sponsored project that has been focused on high school and middle school game education, and specifically learning through making games. Some details are available at our website http://www.p4games.org/ . We have hosted weeklong summer camps for high schoolers on our campus in the past, and are now more focused on teaching the teachers. Thanks for thinking about this sector too.
paz,
Rafael

On Sep 12, 2011, at 12:22 PM, Suzanne Freyjadis wrote:

Hello Everyone!

I?m wondering how many people on this list are involved with K-12 Game Education. I?ve noticed that this sector of Game Education is growing about as quickly as higher education programs and I want to make sure we are addressing everyone?s needs in this SIG.

So, let me know if you represent this sector!

Best,
Suzanne

Suzanne Freyjadis
IGDA Edu SIG Co-Chair
Game Education Evangelist
Freyjadis at austin.rr.com<mailto:Freyjadis at austin.rr.com>
M: 512-619-4151
Twitter: GameEducation
Skype: suzanne.freyjadis

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Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 20:34:25 +0000
From: Allan Fowler <Allan.Fowler at waiariki.ac.nz<mailto:Allan.Fowler at waiariki.ac.nz>>
Subject: [game_edu] K-12 Game Education
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Hi,

We have an outreach program that teaches programming concepts from years 6-12 which I run (and teach on) using Kodu Game Lab. We have also been running some workshops for secondary school teachers to provide them with the skills to teach programming concepts with Kodu Game Lab and LEGO Mindstorms.


Allan Fowler
Senior Lecturer - Game Design
School of Computing Technology & Communications
Waiariki Institute of Technology
Private Bag 3028
Rotorua 3046
New Zealand

Landline: +64-7-346-8955




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