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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Hi Maggie and all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>My 2c.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>I must confess that I was quite interested when I saw the brochure
– and my Prin. handed me one as well (so they have cast the net wide!)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>It is a paid session and goes for 2 hours and they mention
software that will be ‘given?’ to the students (but it is all free
anyway – my impression). I did email them to ask them for more info
and what I received back was very vague and generic. My feeling is that
anything that you can teach in 2 hours in the area of games design is going to
be very ‘surface’ and I imagine them showing lots of ‘wow’
media clips and saying ‘hey you can do this great stuff with this
software’ and here it is. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>So my personal feeling about this is that it is not worth it –
and I will be steering clear (and not promoting it to my students at
all). But just to emphasis – JUST MY OPINION! It could be
great and if anyone does promote it / send students along – it would be
interesting to hear first hand. I am sceptical. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Adrian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#002060'>Adrian
Janson </span></b><b><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:#002060'>B.Sc, Dip.Ed,
M.Ed<br>
</span></b><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#002060'>eLearning
Coordinator<br>
</span></b><span style='color:#244061'>Melbourne High School, Forrest Hill,
South Yarra, Victoria 3141 Australia.<br>
Phone: 03 9826 0711 International: +61 3 9826 0711<br>
Fax: 03 9826 8767 International: +61 3 9826 8767<br>
E-mail: <a href="janson.adrian.a@edumail.vic.gov.au">janson.adrian.a@edumail.vic.gov.au</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#244061'>Website: <a
href="http://www.mhs.vic.edu.au/">http://www.mhs.vic.edu.au</a></span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#244061'>Blog: <a
href="http://jansona.edublogs.org/" target="_blank">http://jansona.edublogs.org</a></span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au
[mailto:itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Margaret Iaquinto<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, 30 March 2012 6:24 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] game development roadshow [Scanned] [Spam
score:8%]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:black'>'They <b><i>appear </i></b>to have had a big impact in ACT and
NSW' -- Is that true or is it part of the hype? <br>
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Maggie<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>From:</span></b><span
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itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au [itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au] on behalf of
Timothy Kitchen [TKitchen@strathcona.vic.edu.au]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 29 March 2012 9:07 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] game development roadshow [Scanned] [Spam
score:8%]</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Hi Folks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>This group was on the phone to me
today trying to push their product. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>They seem genuine and appear to
have had a big impact in NSW & ACT.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>They are in Melbourne early next
term - too early for us to get involved at this stage but they seemed
interesting in investigating another trip to Melbourne around ICT Week.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>$45 is a bit steep, but they claim
to offer $3000 plus game development software for for each student.
I'll investigate further when they come next term as we don't currently offer
any game development options.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Ta<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Tim Kitchen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Strathcona BGGS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>On 29/03/2012, at 11:31 AM,
Margaret Iaquinto wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:black'>Does anyone out there know about this company? They give you the
posters and the kids fork out about $45 and get games software kits. They come
to the individual school.<br>
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</span><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:
"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Commercial Game Development Roadshow
which will be presenting to Melbourne schools in Term 2.</span></span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><br>
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Maggie<br>
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