<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Show your students the basics for 1/2 hour, provide the resources then stand back, providing assistance where needed. There are ooodles and oodles of resources at all of the following locations (I can highly recommend the space invader tutorial by Bill)
<br> <a href="http://www.freewebs.com/schoolgamemaker/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.freewebs.com/schoolgamemaker/<br></a></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">
<a href="http://www.users.on.net/%7Ebillkerr/index.htm" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.users.on.net/~billkerr/index.htm</a></font></div>
<div> <a href="http://www.mindtools.tased.edu.au/gamemaker" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.mindtools.tased.edu.au/gamemaker</a><br><br>There are some sessions on programming stuff with GameMaker at the VITTA 2006 conference.
<br> <a href="http://www.vitta.org.au/conference">http://www.vitta.org.au/conference</a><br><br>Lastly, some of my year 10/11 students are working with this on their entries for the ScreenIT competition run by the ACMI. Deadline is the 1st December so there is still time to join in. No programming experience needed to begin work on your first game. :-)
<br> <a href="http://www.acmi.net.au/screenit.htm">http://www.acmi.net.au/screenit.htm</a><br></div><br>Regards Roland<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 02/11/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Clare, Ian J</b> <
<a href="mailto:Clare.Ian.J@edumail.vic.gov.au">Clare.Ian.J@edumail.vic.gov.au</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Can anyone recommend any game making software that is suitable for my<br>year 9 computer class? Some freeware or shareware would be good.<br><br>Ian Clare<br>Information Technology Teacher<br>Casterton Secondary College<br>
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