I was pleasantly surprised to learn that the action scripting used by GameMaker was similar to Flash (in fact there is a beta utility floating about that converts gamemaker code to flash) .. there is an advantage using this to leverage an interest in programming, cross over of skills etc. Students are free to take and use the software at home etc, submit work for ACMI ScreenIT compettitions etc.
<br><br>Not criticism of Flash, I cut my baby teeth on it. As I pointed out to the Arts/Media teacher last year, we could buy a class set of digital cameras or wycom tablets with the money saved using freeware or FOSS. He ended up pushing for a huge A1+ format inkjet printer and jumped in with GameMaker. Perhaps 2007 ? ;-)
<br> <a href="http://www.osv.org.au/index.cgi?tid=155">http://www.osv.org.au/index.cgi?tid=155</a><br><br>Regards Roland<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 17/01/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tony Forster</b> <
<a href="mailto:forster@ozonline.com.au">forster@ozonline.com.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;">> I am going to introduce flash action script to Year 9 students.....
<br><br>See Kristine Kopelke's site <a href="http://www.flashclassroom.com">http://www.flashclassroom.com</a><br>Kristine may be able to answer questions too<br>You could ask on the Games in Learning list<br><a href="http://www.learningplace.com.au/deliver/content.asp?pid=24029">
http://www.learningplace.com.au/deliver/content.asp?pid=24029</a><br>They have done a lot of Flash work<br><br>_______________________________________________<br><a href="http://www.edulists.com.au">http://www.edulists.com.au
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