Adventure Author

The adventures of the Adventure Author team - computer game making in schools. Written by Judy Robertson, Keiron Nicholson and Cathrin Howells.

MGiS Teacher blogs

  • Derek and Steve, Bo'ness Academy, Falkirk Counci
  • Helen and Stephanie: Fife ABE
  • Gerry, Balwearie HS, Fife
  • Derek(CS), Balwearie HS, Fife
  • St Ninian's High School's Making Games in School Project Blog
  • James Young High School
  • Hazel, Dalbeattie HS, Dumfries & Galloway
  • Kimberly & Susan, Pentalnd PS & Firrhill HS, Edinburgh:
  • Jil, Gorgie Mills, Edinburgh
  • Richard, Easter Carmuirs PS, Falkirk

Recent Posts

  • Making Games in Schools teachers to present at SQA conference
  • Game Design Through Mentoring and Collaboration
  • Adventure Author team reunion
  • Quest to Learn
  • Welcome to the new Adventure Author team member
  • Turns out brain training games don't work
  • Book on creativity and education
  • Comments on the last Making Games in Schools training workshop from EPSRC mentor
  • Best practice in computing teaching award
  • How to assess computational thinking?

Categories

  • about Adventure Author
  • academic talks
  • analysis
  • Books
  • class materials
  • community education
  • creativity
  • curriculum
  • Games
  • learner centred design
  • literacy
  • news archives
  • parents
  • press
  • School projects
  • software
  • teacher training
  • wider issues around games

Fridge Magnets

UPDATE: There was a mistake in our original post about Fridge Magnets - please note that in order to run this software, you must install Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 - version 3.0 just won't cut it! There are instructions for installing this (free) software further down the page.

The first release of our Fridge Magnets application is now available.

Fridge Magnets is a program for capturing ideas. It runs in the system tray to enable you to quickly capture ideas at any time.

Each idea you capture will be saved as a fridge magnet in your collection. You can arrange the magnets on magnet boards, and save interesting configurations for later viewing.

Fridge Magnets are specifically intended to help children capture ideas about the video games they're creating (with Adventure Author and Neverwinter Nights 2 software). However, we hope they will be useful for capturing ideas on any topic.

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Download Fridge Magnets (v0.1)

Fridge Magnets is designed to run on Windows operating systems.

IMPORTANT: In order to use Fridge Magnets, you must first install Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5. Download it here. (It's free.)

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Feedback and bug reports

The Fridge Magnets application is a work in progress, and any feedback is welcome. You can leave a comment on our blog, or email us at adventure.author@googlemail.com.

If you discover any bugs, let us know at adventure.author.bugs@googlemail.com, and we'll try and patch things up.




Pages

  • About Adventure Author
  • About Making Games in Schools
  • Comment Cards
  • Downloads
  • Fridge Magnets
  • Getting started with Adventure Author
  • MGiS: Blogs
  • MGiS: Fantasy literature and other curricular resources/ideas
  • MGiS: Learning professionals
  • MGiS: Project resources
  • MGiS: Training
  • Press coverage
  • Publications
  • Research Materials
  • Teaching Materials
  • Team members
  • Video Tutorials

Archives

  • January 2011
  • November 2010
  • October 2010
  • September 2010
  • May 2010
  • April 2010
  • March 2010
  • February 2010
  • January 2010
  • December 2009

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