[games_access] FuturePlay 2007

[d. michelle hinn]

Interesting panel -- thanks for letting us know about that too! I 
might make a few comments to the panel I have on my mind about how 
accessibility can be taught in game design courses. :)

Michelle

>  agree, FuturePlay looks like it's going to be really exciting. 
>Looking forward to seeing everyone there!
>
>I'm going to be on a panel on Friday morning at 10:45 called "Harder 
>Lessons" (along with John Hopson, Anthony Whitehead, Mia Consalvo, 
>and John Lester) which talks about the things that the IGDA games 
>curriculum doesn't currently cover. It won't have much to do with 
>accessibility, but it should be interesting, especially for those 
>out there in academics who also make games (i.e. all of us).
>
>See you there,
>Eitan
>
>At 07:05 PM 11/11/2007, d. michelle hinn wrote:
>
>>Hi all --
>>
>>Some good news I thought I'd share about FuturePlay that starts 
>>later this week ( http://www.futureplay.org) -- the accessibility 
>>workshop that Kevin and I are doing has over 40 pre-registered 
>>attendees. That's about 38 more people than usual for our all-day 
>>workshops. For a small conference, this is pretty amazing -- 
>>especially since attending our workshop means that they have chosen 
>>not to attend any other session besides the keynote because the 
>>workshop is on day 1 of 2.5 days so there's a lot of competition 
>>coming up against us! Also that number is especially impressive 
>>given that so many more people *could* have attended our past GDC 
>>and Brighton versions of the workshop but did not. I think we are 
>>starting to turn the corner! I just have this feeling... :)
>>
>>Anyway, I also wanted to let you know that Dimitris' "Game Over" (a 
>>game to educate people about designing games for all) has made it 
>>to the finals of the game competition and I will be presenting for 
>>him at the awards show, as he had to be in a different continent 
>>for another meeting this week. So cool! Nice to see it up for a 
>>conference award! Finger's crossed for a win, everyone!
>>
>>So that's two more big SIG announcements for the week! Yeah!
>>
>>Michelle
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