[game_edu] Irish Symposium on Game-Based Learning, 7h June 2012 at Waterford Institute of Technology: Registration is now open

[Patrick Felicia]

This event may be of interest to some of you.

Patrick

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Registration is now open for the second Irish  Symposium on Game-Based
Learning (iGBL2012)!

This one-day event will be held in Waterford Institute of Technology on
Thursday 7th June 2012, and bring together teachers, students and
researchers with an interest in the educational potential of games. This
conference will be a great opportunity to learn more about the different
educational applications of games,  and network with other like-minded
researchers and practitioners.

This year, we are delighted to welcome Derek Robertson as our keynote
speaker. Derek has an impressing record in innovative teaching. He has done
significant work in the area of Game-Based Learning, and given several
inspirational keynotes on how to engage students inside and outside the
classroom through games. Derek Robertson’s career in education has seen him
work as a primary school teacher, a staff tutor in a council education
department, a lecturer on the B.ED(P) and PGDE(P) teacher preparation
courses at the University of Dundee, and now as national adviser for
emerging technologies and learning at Learning and Teaching Scotland. In
his current position, he leads the team responsible for exploring and
developing the effective uses of computer games to enhance teaching,
learning and assessment approaches that underpin Scotland’s new curriculum:
Curriculum for Excellence.

In addition, the symposium will include more than 20 presentations from
national and international experts in a wide range of areas including:
virtual worlds in the classroom, using chess to improve cognitive skills
and confidence, e-Poetry, games to improve mental health, instructional
design patterns,  adaptive learning strategies, GBL start-ups, Scratch &
Kinect, gamification, Alternate Reality Games (ARGs), Role-Playing Games
(RPGs), games for health care, or games to teach people with intellectual
disabilities.


For more information on presentations please visit:
http://www.wit.ie/gbl/igbl2012/Program/Presentations/.


This event promises to be very interesting and attendees are now welcome to
register before Friday 25th May 2012.

Registration information is available at:
http://www.wit.ie/gbl/igbl2012/Registration/

For more information on iGBL2012,  please send an email to: pfelicia at wit.ie.

You can also sign up to the iGBL 2012 mailing list by sending an email to
pfelicia at wit.ie with the subject "iGBL2012 mailing list".

We look forward to seeing you at Waterford Institute of Technology for an
exciting iGBL 2012.

Best Wishes,

Patrick on behalf of the organizing committee.
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