Learning Sequence

Unit Plan and Learning Sequence: Designed for the Tasmanian Essential Learnings

Notes for Activities

Further Activities Around Games

Maree Flynn has produced a unit plan for Queensland (Australia) schools around games:  SWITCHED ON - Games Unit (114 Kb PDF)

Sonic Hedgehog Education Pack from Australian Centre for the Moving Image http://www.acmi.net.au/global/docs/sonic_education_pack.pdf

Making Connections

There are a number of collaborative sites and forums available for students and teachers to share and discuss their problems, ideas and knowledge about game making. 

• The Game Maker community at  http://gmc.yoyogames.com/ is particularly helpful for solving Game Maker problems and is valuable for beginner as well as experienced Game Maker users.
   
• BECTA has a Games in Education group at http://lists.becta.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gamesandeducation
   

• The ICT Innovation Centre, Queensland, hosts a group on games in learning. There are events, a media gallery, mailing list and links.

  • To view their program of activities go to http://www.learningplace.com.au/deliver/content.asp?pid=24029
  • To join this group go to http://www.learningplace.com.au/deliver/content.asp?pid=22470
     
• Swinburne University hosts discussion boards exploring the wider issues of teaching and learning with digital games at http://www.swinburne.edu.au/hed/digitalgames/instructions.html
   

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