Game Educator Resources
A Listing of Educational Companies, Blogs and Other Pieces of the Education Puzzle
The goal here is to list links that may inform or enhance your curriculum. If you have had success with your curriculum and would like to share it, please let me know!
iFoundry - This is a project for Engineering Schools, but what they are working on is incredibly relevant to game education.
Startup Weekend - These are 54-hour events that occur globally, where developers, designers, marketers, product managers and startup enthusiasts come together to share ideas, form teams, build products, and launch startups!
Lectures by Ernest Adams - A variety of lectures including basics of design, game design, technical lectures and more.
The Multiplayer Classroom: Designing Coursework as a Game - This is a Facebook Community led by the author of the book (The Multiplayer Classroom).
Technical Artist Interviews from GDC 2011 - Interviews done with students in mind by Bill Crosbie at GDC with a wide variety of Technical Artists working in the industry.
IGDA Education Connection
IGDA 2008 Curriculum Framework
Game Design and Development Textbooks from Cengage
EdReach - EdReach provides a platform for passionate, outspoken educators- aiming to strengthen their voices by highlighting innovation in the field of education, through reporting critical educational news, providing commentary, and offering criticism of the educational issues of the day.
ETC-Press- The ETC Press is an academic and open-source publishing imprint that distributes its work in print, electronic and digital form affiliated with the Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and in partnership with Lulu.com.
Interdisciplinary Computing Blog - This is an interesting blog that focuses on pedagogy, academia and all things related to integrating CS into other disciplines and other disciplines into CS.
Society of Women Engineers: 2010 Literature Review - A great compilation of the research on Women in Engineering that is valuable to everyone who is looking at retention and recruiting of women in their technology program.
GameDevMap - This is an amazing global map of game developers, publishers, organizations and much more.
GameDev.Net - Resource for game developers, featuring daily news updates, over 1500 featured articles and tutorials
Design3 - Design3’s Academic Alliance Program (AAP), offers exclusive game development support and special discounts for educational institutions and students.
Smithsonian Video Game Exhibition
Essays on Game Studies in Portuguese
iFoundry - This is a project for Engineering Schools, but what they are working on is incredibly relevant to game education.
Startup Weekend - These are 54-hour events that occur globally, where developers, designers, marketers, product managers and startup enthusiasts come together to share ideas, form teams, build products, and launch startups!
Lectures by Ernest Adams - A variety of lectures including basics of design, game design, technical lectures and more.
The Multiplayer Classroom: Designing Coursework as a Game - This is a Facebook Community led by the author of the book (The Multiplayer Classroom).
Technical Artist Interviews from GDC 2011 - Interviews done with students in mind by Bill Crosbie at GDC with a wide variety of Technical Artists working in the industry.
IGDA Education Connection
IGDA 2008 Curriculum Framework
Game Design and Development Textbooks from Cengage
EdReach - EdReach provides a platform for passionate, outspoken educators- aiming to strengthen their voices by highlighting innovation in the field of education, through reporting critical educational news, providing commentary, and offering criticism of the educational issues of the day.
ETC-Press- The ETC Press is an academic and open-source publishing imprint that distributes its work in print, electronic and digital form affiliated with the Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and in partnership with Lulu.com.
Interdisciplinary Computing Blog - This is an interesting blog that focuses on pedagogy, academia and all things related to integrating CS into other disciplines and other disciplines into CS.
Society of Women Engineers: 2010 Literature Review - A great compilation of the research on Women in Engineering that is valuable to everyone who is looking at retention and recruiting of women in their technology program.
GameDevMap - This is an amazing global map of game developers, publishers, organizations and much more.
GameDev.Net - Resource for game developers, featuring daily news updates, over 1500 featured articles and tutorials
Design3 - Design3’s Academic Alliance Program (AAP), offers exclusive game development support and special discounts for educational institutions and students.
Smithsonian Video Game Exhibition
Essays on Game Studies in Portuguese