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

Press coverage

  • 'Making games is for everyone' - Judy Robertson, guest writer for Women In Games
  • 'Do-It-Yourself Gaming' - British Council
  • 'Hitting the Play Button' - Charlie Peverett, HERO
  • 'Schoolkids develop games to aid learning' - Gemma Simpson, Silicon.com
  • 'Could computer games help to transform the way we learn?' - Keri Facer, Director of Learning Research at Futurelab (also in The Guardian)
  • 'Computer experts seek shortcut to better storytelling' - Scotland on Sunday, 4th June 2006
  • EPSRC press release: New Software Will Help Children Design Their Own Games and Aid Learning . Also reported at EurekAlert , Physorg.com , eGov monitor , Innovations Report , HERO , Politics.co.uk , Scenta.co.uk , Technology Horizons , AlphaGalileo , ACM TechNews , TV Ciência (Spanish) , TeachersNews.Net (German) and BCS .
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