[games_access] Contactlist GA, for pedagogues / teacher ...

[Sandra Uhling]

Hi Barrie,

well there is no separation between "Games" and "Education Games".
Every game can be used for education, depends on the aim ;-)

There are also no special properties of education games.
An education game can be like a software and it can be like an AAA title.

So Game Accessibility is for all games :-)
It is not possible to have special GA for education. :-)

Best regards,
Sandra

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: games_access-bounces at igda.org [mailto:games_access-bounces at igda.org] Im
Auftrag von Barrie Ellis
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 16. Februar 2011 21:05
An: IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List
Betreff: Re: [games_access] Contactlist GA, for pedagogues / teacher ...

Personally, my focus at the GASIG is not on educational nor games used for
rehab.  Games for leisure and pleasure is my main focus here, and how to
open that up to as many people as possible. Yes games have side benefits of
education and maintenance and development of skills and abilities - but it's
the fun side I think is so important for the GASIG.
 
That said, these might be useful:
 
http://teachinglearnerswithmultipleneeds.blogspot.com/index.html
http://www.inclusive.co.uk/
 
But as for access, and if normal games for fun type games, they can go to
www.gamebase.info, www.ablegamers.com, www.deafgamers.com,
www.audiogames.net and so on for accessibility info on games. Not ideal, but
until we get a ratings system in place...
 
Barrie
 
 

From: Tara Tefertiller <mailto:ttefertiller at igda-gasig.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 6:39 PM
To: IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List <mailto:games_access at igda.org>
Cc: Sandra Uhling <mailto:sandra_uhling at web.de>
Subject: Re: [games_access] Contactlist GA, for pedagogues / teacher ...

Sandra, 

I was hoping that our thread in the forums would cover something like this,
but there weren't many responses.

What information are you hoping to provide the teacher? If you're just
looking on providing links we already have a link page on our website. 

--
Tara Tefertiller - Chairperson
IGDA Game Accessibility SIG

igda-gasig.org <http://igda-gasig.org/> http://gameaccesssig.forumotion.com/



On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Sandra Uhling <sandra_uhling at web.de>
wrote:


	Hello,
	
	do we have a contact list about GA topics for pedagogues and
teacher?
	
	Imagine a teacher wants to use game in the school
	and he needs information about Game Accessibility.
	
	
	At the moment the games do not have information about accessibility.
	How can they find out what games can be used?
	
	
	I have:
	www.audiogames.net, http://gameport.blindzeln.de (German)
	www.gamebase.info (One Switch Games)
	www.world-of-genesis.org
	www.lifetool.at
	www.igda-gasig.org
	
	It would be great to have one very good list.
	
	
	Best regards,
	Sandra
	
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