[Yr7-10it] Searching year 8 material 2009

[Caterina Garwoli]

>>
So what sort of quests can you get 13yr old girls to produce?  Are we
talking fairies collecting stars on a screen?  What is the project or
activity you run?  Great idea for students to work in group, currently
doing that with Flash Animations.  Any ideas on producing games in Flash
or is this harder than Game Maker?

Too many questions...

Thanks Caterina

Don't know if Gamemaker would be interesting for girls?  Would
>> appreciated
>> any ideas.  We have 2x 45 minute periods each week with 30 girls in a
>> computer lab. Already we cover excel, Flash and Access.
>
> Yes good for girls
> show them a quest style game rather than an action game
> pair them on computers
>
> more reading:
> http://del.icio.us/tonyforster/gender
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