NILE 2008

NILE Educators' Day

^{Calling all teachers, storytellers and educators who are interested in working with young people, stories and technology! Come to the Narrative and Interactive Learning Environments conference Educators' Day on Thursday 7th August 2008.}

^{Date: Thurs 7th Aug 9.30 - 5pm.}

^{Venue: St Trinnean's Room, Pollock Halls of Residence, Holyrood Park Road, Edinburgh.}

^{Cost: £50 for Educators' Day (inc lunch). Or £145 to attend all three days of the conference.}

^{Booking: See http://www.nile2008.org/conference-payment-inform.html}

^{Questions: Email nile2008conference @ googlemail.com}

• ^{Learn from the experts how to support literacy through game making and comics}
• ^{Find out how new technologies can be used within a Curriculum For Excellence}
• ^{See examples from recent classroom projects}
• ^{Meet other teachers and researchers to hear about their experiences}
• ^{Find out about a brand new book on storytelling, education and technology: "Inside Stories: A Narrative Journey" by Judy Robertson, Lisa Gjedde, Ruth Aylett, Rose Luckin and Paul Brna.}

^Programme

^{Thursday 7th August 9.30 – 10.30am}

^{Key note talk "Old Stories, New Bottles" by Dr Andrew Burn, Institute of Education}

^{Old Stories, New Bottles: Narrative, game authoring and media education
This talk will explore how children's authoring of computer games in media education provokes new understandings of narrative for both learners and teachers. These relate on the one hand to how game narrative integrates with ludic structure, and on the other hand to how games can recall older traditions of oral formulaic narrative and culture. The talk will draw on recent research in game-authoring with secondary school students.}

^{Thursday 7th August 11- 12.00}

^{Dr Judy Robertson, Ms Tessa Collins and Mr Andrew Kelly : Tales of Adventure Author: learning through making games. Reflections from researchers, teachers and pupils on an educational game making project. This project relates reading and writing in the fantasy genre with technology objectives in the new Curriculum for Excellence.}

^{Thursday 7th August 12 - 12.30}

^{Special Event. "Inside Stories: A Narrative Journey" Book Launch. Discussion and extracts from a brand new book on storytelling, education and technology by Judy Robertson, Lisa Gjedde, Ruth Aylett, Rose Luckin and Paul Brna. Copies of the book will be available to purchase.}

^{Thursday 7th August 1.30pm- 3pm}

^{Guest workshop leader Dr Mel Gibson: ‘So what is this mango, anyway?’ Understanding and working with comics, graphic novels and manga.}

^{Thursday 7th August 3.30pm – 5pm}

^{Guest workshop leader Dr Mel Gibson Comics Workshop Part 2 ‘So what is this mango, anyway?’ Understanding and working with comics, graphic novels and manga.}

NILE 2008 Conference Programme (updated)

UPDATED: JULY 18th

Narrative and Interactive Learning Environments Conference Programme 2008

Wednesday 6^th August: 9.30 – 10.30am

Key note talk “Looms for Learning” by Dr Donald Smith, Chairman of the Scottish Storytelling Centre.

Wednesday 6^th August 11- 12.30

Ruth Aylett, Sandy Louchart, Anders Tychsen, Michael Hitchens, Rui Figueiredo: Managing Emergent Narrative

Alyx Macfadyen, Andrew Stranieri and John L. Yearwood: Dramatic Level Analysis for Interactive Narrative

Katy Howland, Judith Good and Ben du Boulay : A Game Creation Tool which Supports the Development of Writing Skills: Interface Design Considerations

Wednesday 6^th August 1.30pm- 3pm

Geoff Allan and Judith Good: Narrative, Meta-narrative, and Susan.

Rania Hodhod, Daniel Kudenko: Towards Intelligent Educational Interactive Narrative

Paul Mulholland, Annika Wolf and Zdenek Zdrahal: Learning through the Construction and Use of Intelligent Image Narratives

Paul Hazel: Narrative and New Media

Wednesday 6^th August 3.30pm – 5pm

Krystina S. Madej: Traditional Narrative Structure - neither traditional nor the norm

Sean Hammond, Tim Smith, Helen Pain: Children's story authoring with Propp's Morphology: An Exploratory Study

Brian Lighthill: Shakespeare the Impartial Storyteller

Wednesday 6^th August 7pm – onwards

Dinner

Thursday 7^th August 9.30 – 10.30am

Key note talk "Old Stories, New Bottles" by Dr Andrew Burn, Institute of Education

Old Stories, New Bottles: Narrative, game authoring and media education
This talk will explore how children's authoring of computer games in media education provokes new understandings of narrative for both learners and teachers. These relate on the one hand to how game narrative integrates with ludic structure, and on the other hand to how games can recall older traditions of oral formulaic narrative and culture. The talk will draw on recent research in game-authoring with secondary school students.

Thursday 7^th August 11- 12

Judy Robertson, Tessa Collins, and Andrew Kelly, : Tales of Adventure Author: learning through making games. Reflections from researchers, teachers and pupils on an educational game making project. This project relates reading and writing in the fantasy genre with technology objectives in the new Curriculum for Excellence.

Thursday 7th August 12 - 12.30

Special Event. "Inside Stories: A Narrative Journey" Book Launch. Discussion and extracts from a brand new book on storytelling, education and technology by Judy Robertson, Lisa Gjedde, Ruth Aylett, Rose Luckin and Paul Brna. Copies of the book will be available to purchase.

Thursday 7^th August 1.30pm- 3pm

Guest workshop leader Dr Mel Gibson: ‘So what is this mango, anyway?’ Understanding and working with comics, graphic novels and manga.

Thursday 7^th August 3.30pm – 5pm

Guest workshop leader Dr Mel Gibson Comics Workshop Part 2 ‘So what is this mango, anyway?’ Understanding and working with comics, graphic novels and manga.

Thursday 7^th August 7pm – onwards

Dinner

Friday 8^th August 9.30 – 11.15 am

Sanna-Mari Tikka, Tuula Nousiainen and Marja Kankaanranta: Creative Learning by Designing Digital Board Games: Practicing deep-reading skills through game creation process

Oskana Zelenko, Jillian Hamilton: Empowering Children as Participants in Designing Resilience Strengthening Online Tools

Deborah Maxwell, Catriona Macaulay, Tom Inns: Inspired storytelling: the digital re-tellings of a traditional tale. (Note: there will be an opportunity to browse some example art created by students)

Friday 8^th August 11.45 – 1pm

Michael Kriegel, Mei Yii Lim, Asad Nazir, Ruth Aylett, Alison Cawsey, Sibylle Enz, Paola Rizzo, Lynne Hall: ORIENT: An Inter-Cultural Role-Play Game

Nicolas Szilas, Jue Wang, Monica Axelrad: Author-centered approach to Interactive Drama

John Yearwood, Andrew Stranieri, Deanna Osman: A web-based narrative construction environment

Paul Oord, Cecile Crutzen: Storytelling as a Link between Formal Knowledge and Actual Performance in a Critical Transformative Design Environment

Registration deadline extended

The registration date for NILE 2008 has been extended, so it's not too late to join us! Book your place today!