[Yr7-10it] Searching year 8 material 2009

[Meadows, Roslyn M]

Can recommend

GameMaker http://www.yoyogames.com/make  
Alice www.alice.org 
or 
Scratch http://scratch.mit.edu/

For game making

Cheers
Ros



Roslyn Meadows
Head of ICT Implementation
Head of Assessment and Reporting
Bentleigh Secondary College 
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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:yr7-10it-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Diane Peat
Sent: Monday, 23 June 2008 12:19 PM
To: 'Year 7 - 10 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List'
Subject: RE: [Yr7-10it] Searching year 8 material 2009

We are using Gamemaker with a group of students for extension work and
they
totally love it.


Diane Peat
Firbank Grammar School
BRIGHTON  



-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:yr7-10it-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Tony Forster
Sent: Monday, 23 June 2008 12:02 PM
To: Year 7 - 10 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Yr7-10it] Searching year 8 material 2009

> 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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