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Yamake - game maker for Nokia mobile phones

Daniel Livingstone wrote 8 months ago: It was surely only a matter of time… “Yamake is a groundbreaking new game for the N-Gage … more →

Tags: Mobile, technology

Links for today

Daniel Livingstone wrote 1 year ago: Who plays, how much and why? Dmitri Williams, Nick Yee and colleagues have published the first resul … more →

Tags: Play, technology, Education, virtual worlds

Upgrade: Technology-Enhanced Learning

Daniel Livingstone wrote 1 year ago: The new issue of UPGRADE is now online, a special issue on Technology-Enhanced Learning. Quite a few … more →

Tags: games based learning, technology, Teaching, Learning, Education, Second-Life, Moodle, virtual worlds, upgrade

Scratch for Second Life

Daniel Livingstone wrote 1 year ago: What it says… Eric Rosenbaum at MIT (where Scratch, the programming environment for children, … more →

Tags: technology, Learning, Education, Second-Life, virtual worlds, scratch

Education for Industry?

Daniel Livingstone wrote 1 year ago: My colleague John Sutherland (who amongst other things founded the first games industry specific deg … more →

Tags: technology, Students, Teaching, Learning, Education, Akademos Gamer, Skillset

Skills shortage hits games firms1 comment

Daniel Livingstone wrote 1 year ago: From the BBC article of the same name, and further discussion on the Develop magazine website. The U … more →

Tags: technology, Education, Game Development, Add new tag

Games on the curriculum - Scottish schools

Alexandra Matthews wrote 1 year ago: Daniel Livingstone wrote a post today regarding an article on game design being taught in Scottish s … more →

Tags: Trends, Games, Pedagogy, DGBL, technology, Learning, schools, Game design, Education

Games on the curriculum2 comments

Daniel Livingstone wrote 1 year ago: I spotted this intriguing piece earlier in the week -” ‘Games’ to be taught in Sco … more →

Tags: games based learning, technology, Teaching, Learning, Education, scratch, Squeak, curriculum for excellence

Channel 4 sponsors Dare to Be Digital... Introduces education as a theme1 comment

Daniel Livingstone wrote 1 year ago: Channel 4 has announced sponsorshop of the Dare to Be Digital summer game development competition. A … more →

Tags: games based learning, Game Development, Dare to be Digital

Alan Kay at TED1 comment

Daniel Livingstone wrote 1 year ago: If I hadn’t fallen behind again on my RSS feeds, I might have had this last week… but I … more →

Tags: Communication, technology, Learning, Education, OLPC, Conferences

ThinknDrinkn1 comment

Daniel Livingstone wrote 1 year ago: ThinknDrinkn is a game created by S1 pupils at two local Paisley schools to raise awareness of many … more →

Tags: Education, games based learning, Alcohol, alcohol awareness

Newtoon update1 comment

Daniel Livingstone wrote 1 year ago: Newtoon update… (last mentioned here) A video has been added to the page at Futurelab, so you … more →

Tags: games based learning, Physics, Teaching, technology, FutureLab, Newtoon

Catching up on reading1 comment

Daniel Livingstone wrote 1 year ago: I’m almost embarrassed about how far behind I’ve fallen in my attempts to catch up with … more →

Tags: games based learning, Learning, Education

Visual Studio Pro for Free

Daniel Livingstone wrote 1 year ago: Microsoft have announced Dreamspark (yeah, not a great name, but hey) – a program allowing stu … more →

Tags: technology, Microsoft, Visual Studio, C#, XNA

Workshop on Teaching Programming

Daniel Livingstone wrote 1 year ago: 31st of March will see the 8th Programming Workshop of the HEA-ICS. This time it’s being held … more →

Tags: Teaching, Conferences, scratch

Newtoon: Learn Physics Making Games3 comments

Daniel Livingstone wrote 1 year ago: Yet another exciting looking project from Futurelab – Newtoon: Newtoon is a mobile phone and w … more →

Tags: Education, Physics, Teaching, technology, FutureLab, Newtoon

XNA, Rare and Microsoft Live Meeting

Daniel Livingstone wrote 1 year ago: A trio of updates from the MS UK Academic blog. Nick Burton of Rare on graduate recruitment and trai … more →

Tags: Game Development

Gamemaker competition and GameCreator in C++6 comments

Daniel Livingstone wrote 1 year ago: I know quite a few educators are using Mark Overmar’s Gamemaker. His YoYo games site has a new … more →

Tags: technology, gamemaker

Links of the day...

Daniel Livingstone wrote 1 year ago: Children should talk more in class (BBC) Makes sense really – and indeed this is something I d … more →

Tags: technology, Teaching, Education


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