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

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  • class materials
  • community education
  • creativity
  • curriculum
  • Games
  • learner centred design
  • literacy
  • news archives
  • parents
  • press
  • School projects
  • software
  • teacher training
  • wider issues around games

Team members

  • Dr. Judy Robertson is the principal investigator on the AdventureAuthor project. She is a lecturer at the School of Mathematics and Computer Science at Heriot-Watt University.
  • Cathrin Howells is the project's educational researcher. She runs the educational consultancy organisation Creative Contexts.
  • Keiron Nicholson is the project's programmer. He is a research associate at Heriot-Watt University.
  • Dr. Judith Good is a project collaborator, and developed the original AdventureAuthor prototype with Judy Robertson. She is a lecturer at the University of Sussex.
  • Katy Howland is a project collaborator, and developed the visual programming language ScriptCards in association with the project. She is a PhD student at the University of Sussex.
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