cairns+ACEC

Games in Learning at Cairns, [|Australian Computers in Education Conference], October 2-4th, 2006 Some other (non game related) items included by members of our Game Making cluster

=Sunday October 1=

=Pre-conference workshops=

A workshop for teachers wishing to learn and share ideas about teaching games development. It will involve workshops, sharing sessions and some hands-on time to test some of these ideas. Cost $55.00 including GST
 * Workshop 2:** Full day workshop 9.00-4.00pm

Using Action Scripting as basis for Object Oriented Programming in IPT //Allan Morrison// Making Interactive 2D games for Middle school year levels (Flash) //Kristine Kopelke// [| Mobile Phone programming] //Miranda Forwood//

Anatomy of a games project as perceived by students //Mike Hawney// SiMERR –QSITE Presentation sharing results of the project to date //Project Leaders//
 * Expert forum: Pedagogical approaches for teaching games scripting and programming.**

setting up technical details, for presenters

=Monday October 2=

12:10 - 1:15 Al Upton: //Collaborative web spaces: create your own Blog//

Jill Fitzgerald: //Go interactive with Flash//

12:45 - 1:15 Terry de Jong: //What is it about digital media games that engrosses young boys: a study in the sub-culture of Yu-Gi-Oh//

1:20 - 2:25 Tony Forster and team: //Gamemaker, getting started//

1:20 - 1:50 Mark Piper: //Developing a holistic approach to integrating games in education: the Queensland games in learning project//

2:30 - 3:35 Chatterjee Arunangsu, Jane Arnott, Mark Piper, Robert Sincic: //Computer based learning and games//

3:05 - 4:25 Peter Whitehouse: //Scaffolded writing tasks using Multi-user Object Oriented Environments (MOOs)//

4:30 - 5:00 Joan Gordon: //The games students play//

5:00 - 5:30 Roland Gesthuizen: //Digging about for an open future//

=Tuesday October 3=

11:35 - 12:05 Tony Forster: Game programming, the computer game design, programming, multimedia and mathematics cluster 12:10 - 12:40 Vinesh Chandra: //Deal or No Deal and Gran Turismo 4 in the classroom//

Kym Urquhart: GameMaker at Gillen: Indigenous education

12:45 - 1:15 [| Bernard Holkner: Learning and teaching in the contexts of creating computer games]

1:20 - 2:25 Bill Kerr, Tony Forster, Mark Piper: Games in Learning Symposium

3:05 - 3:35 Bill Kerr: Teaching game making: facilitated by blogging

4:30 - 5:00 Sylvia Martinez: //Educational games: how purchaser attitudes and markets influence design//

4:30 - 5:30 Colleen Steiler: //Girls, programming and an introduction to Macromedia Flash actionscript//

Abstracts of some of the [|Games in Learning and Games Programming events] (grouped in one spot) Cairns others link for other workshops that look interesting to me