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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Hi Mel<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">We went away from GM, and now use Constuct2 (although this has only recently been upgraded to Construct3 which we haven’t looked at yet).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">https://www.scirra.com/construct2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Students pick it up quickly after working through only a few tutorials and produce some amazing work. Finished product can be published as HTML5.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="color:#17365D">Tony Richardson<i><br>
</i>Head of Technology</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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Ph: <a href="tel:%2B61%203%205278%209999" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">+61 3 5278 9999</span></a> Fax:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Yr7-10it [mailto:yr7-10it-bounces@edulists.com.au]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Melissa Yuan<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, 12 November 2018 9:49 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Year 7 - 10 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List <yr7-10it@edulists.com.au><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Yr7-10it] Game Maker Studio?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Hello all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">I’m interested in where others are at with their Game Maker units.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Last year I used GM Lite 8 with year 8s and it went pretty well. This year we upgraded to GM Studio 2 and the resultant student products have been much poorer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Maybe my teaching has got worse (!) but some of the challenges with GM Studio have been:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">No printed tutorials but lots of videos which are slower for the students to consume and keep track of where they’re at<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Lots more of the video tutorials are for GML and are less high-school friendly<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">More powerful software but much more complex interface<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">I am thinking of rolling-back to GM Lite 8 which has better teaching materials and simpler interface. GM Studio just does not feel like a product aimed at education
any more. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Looking forward to the STEM Videogame challenge, is it worth seriously looking at swapping over to Gamestar Mechanic or Stencyl for year 8s?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">(Years 5 & 6 do Scratch, year 7 Alice)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Thanks, Mel
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