From groves.brett.g at edumail.vic.gov.au  Thu Feb 21 09:50:55 2013
From: groves.brett.g at edumail.vic.gov.au (Groves, Brett G)
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 22:50:55 +0000
Subject: [edugames] Useful resource
Message-ID: <181CEBBA06EB6C4E9AB56BD7A3F2CC80A71D23@EDUMBX07.education.vic.gov.au>

Hi all,

I developed a GameMaker website last year using an animated character called Virgil. Virgil has been around for a bit now in various guises in some prototype learning activities (and  I suspect he may in fact have developed a life of his own)

Basically the site condenses down my experiences using  GameMaker as an entr?e to OOP and provides a good step by step guide by video, image, text and audio to creating games from the simple Catch the Clown to Perilous Platforms.

It also has the resources to run moderated peer assessment and self-assessments. If anyone wants links to the forms and spreadsheets linked to on the site just  flick me an email.

The site is being expanded bit by bit and you are most welcome, as always, to use any or all of the site material as you wish. Hopefully you will find this useful, I use it at Year 9 but it could easily work at Year 8 or a strong Year 7 group

The address is http://www.virgilrules.weebly.com

Please feel free to make comments, suggestions or criticisms.

Kind Regards,

Brett Groves
eLearning Leader
03 9725 8277 ext 221
Melba Website<http://www.melba.vic.edu.au>






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From kevork at edulists.com.au  Fri Feb 22 08:15:13 2013
From: kevork at edulists.com.au (Kevork Krozian)
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 08:15:13 +1100
Subject: [edugames] Resources for all
Message-ID: <008f01ce1078$89c06390$9d412ab0$@edulists.com.au>

Hi Everyone,

 

Thanks to Brett Groves, Sonia McDonald, Keerthi Abeysinghe and Arivu Kumaran
you all have access to tremendous junior IT resources in :

1.       Gamemaker

2.       Alice

3.       Unity

4.       Blender 

 

Brett has an awesome web site set up covering learning and assessment linked
through http://virgilrules.weebly.com/index.html .

All of these are found at www.edulists.com.au through the yr7-10it and
edugames links. 

 

 

Thanks to all our generous contributors

 

Kevork Krozian

Edulists Creator Administrator

www.edulists.com.au

tel: 0419 356 034

 

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From arnott.suzanne.s at edumail.vic.gov.au  Fri Feb 22 08:29:55 2013
From: arnott.suzanne.s at edumail.vic.gov.au (Arnott, Suzanne S)
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:29:55 +0000
Subject: [edugames] Resources for all - Portal/Steam for schools, Alice,
 Gamemaker and install issues
Message-ID: <7293DDEF01D74B4A879F2047062F0F5734CADC04@EDUMBX01.education.vic.gov.au>

Agreed thank you all so much.... My first time teaching Year 10 IT this year... even with a background in VET Multimedia and Gamemaking has been a bit daunting... but the resources on edulists have been invaluable... *waves* to Keerthi
Just looking for time to explore Brett's stuff more...
Over the break I was exploring Steam for Schools, and was able to get 28 steam licences to put onto the computers... we seem to be having proxy issues... possibly... there are always issues with our network... has anyone successfully installed this...
Also having issues with the newest version of Gamemaker... which is frustrating
I am worried if I ask the techs to also install Alice I will get the same issues...
Government schools...
All stock standard specs on the network...
Issues compounded with multi campus



Regards
Suzanne Arnott
Teacher of: ICT, Textiles and VET Fashion
Sandringham College
Blog: http://c21teachingandlearning.global2.vic.edu.au<http://c21teachingandlearning.global2.vic.edu.au/>
Twitter: @suzi_q<http://twitter.com/#!/suzi_q>
Google + : gplus.to/starnott
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From: edugames-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:edugames-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Kevork Krozian
Sent: Friday, 22 February 2013 8:15 AM
To: edugames at edulists.com.au; Year 7 - 10 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: [edugames] Resources for all

Hi Everyone,

Thanks to Brett Groves, Sonia McDonald, Keerthi Abeysinghe and Arivu Kumaran you all have access to tremendous junior IT resources in :

1.      Gamemaker

2.      Alice

3.      Unity

4.      Blender

Brett has an awesome web site set up covering learning and assessment linked through http://virgilrules.weebly.com/index.html .
All of these are found at www.edulists.com.au<http://www.edulists.com.au> through the yr7-10it and edugames links.


Thanks to all our generous contributors

Kevork Krozian
Edulists Creator Administrator
www.edulists.com.au<http://www.edulists.com.au>
tel: 0419 356 034


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