Games Additional Resources

Main Menu of Resources for Teaching about Educational Games

Links to Academic Programs

 * The Games, Learning, and Society Minor offered by the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.


 * The Serious Game Design Masters of Arts Degree offered by the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media at Michigan State University.


 * The Game Design and Development Specialization offered by the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media at Michigan State University.


 * Media and Information Studies and Learning, Technology, and Culture are two doctoral programs at Michigan State University of note to those interested in games and learning.


 * The 6-Course Concentration in Game Development an optional path in the the 12-course, 36 credit hour Master's degree in Information Technology at SUNY Potsdam. The courses involved are: IT 652: Computer Graphics (3D-Modeling, Level Design, Texture Creation) IT 545 Preparing/Delivering Professional Presentations (Pitching the Game) IT 644: Advanced Desktop Publishing (Preparing Documentation) IT 656: Multimedia Production (Game Production) IT 666: Simulations and Games (Game Theory, Games in Society, Instructional Games) IT 669 (Culminating Project: Putting it all together)


 * The Entertainment Technology Center (http://etc.cmu.edu) at Carnegie Mellon University offers a Masters in Entertainment Technology.


 * Exploratory Learning Through Simulation and Games - EDTEC 670, San Diego State University.

Links to Conferences

 * The Games, Learning, and Society conference co-sponsored by the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Academic ADL Co-Lab.


 * Meaningful Play: Designing and Studying Games that Matter international academic conference hosted by Michigan State University.


 * The Serious Games Summit in Washington DC.


 * The The Game Developers Conference has a two day Serious Games Summit in San Jose, CA.


 * Digital Games Research Association Conference.


 * Future Play: The International Academic Conference on the Future of Game Design and Technology.


 * The Association for Educational Communications and Technology - Multimedia Production Division has a Special Interest Forum (SIF) on Instructional Gaming. A wide variety of proposals were accepted for inclusion in the 2006 conference in Dallas.  The conference program is currently in progress, and will be available soon.  In addition to the concurrent and roundtable sessions, there will be a dedicated 'game space' at the conference for people to get together to collaborate and play.


 * The Sandbox Symposium (http://sandboxsymposium.org). ACM SIGGRAPH is hosting a two-day video game symposium on 29 July and 30 July in 2006, co-located with SIGGRAPH 06 in Boston, MA, USA. The symposium will consist of keynotes, panels and papers. In addition, a "Hot Games" session will preview unreleased titles from major game companies and indie developers.

Links to Organizations

 * International Game Developers Association
 * Digital Games Research Association
 * Games for Entertainment and Learning Lab
 * Training and Resources for Assembling Interactive Learning Systems
 * Institute for Creative Technologies
 * Serious Games List
 * ISTE Games and Simulations for Learning Ning - A Birds of a Feather group hoping to become an ISTE SIG

Links to Helpful Websites
Partnership between MIT and University of Madison WI investigating educational games Organization responsible for video game ratings, regulation and more. Weekly online magazine covers industry issues and news with a personalized spin Regularly features articles about games in education Many studies realate to teens, technology and gaming
 * Programmable Logic Circuits Simulator This is an online simulator and tutorial for teaching students how to program logic circuits]
 * Serious Games Initiative
 * Ludology.org Video Game Theory
 * Joystick101.org: Getting in-depth with games!
 * Gamasutra: The Art and Business of Making Games
 * investiGaming: Research Findings on Gender and Games
 * TwitchSpeed.com - Marc Prensky’s resource site related to his book, Digital Game-Based Learning.
 * e-Learning Center Game-Based Learning Library
 * Game Research
 * Essay Writing Help for students.
 * The International Journal of Computer Game Research
 * Ernest Adam's Designers Notebook
 * Social Impact Games entertaining games with non-entertainment goals
 * GamesParentsTeachers a toolkit for games and learning
 * Water Cooler Games - a forum for using video games outside the sphere of entertainment
 * Grand Text Auto a group blog about digital narrative, games, poetry, and art
 * Game Professor - resources on game research, conferences, academic papers, and more.
 * Gameology commentary and resources for the game studies community
 * Game Girl Advance
 * Terra Nova
 * Custom Research Papers of any level and writing assistance.
 * Game Ontology Project
 * Game Innovation Database
 * Second Life Education and the Second Life Education Wiki
 * Entertainment Software Association - the ESA is the U.S. association exclusively dedicated to serving the business and public affairs needs of companies that publish video and computer games. Their 2006 Essential Facts about the computer and video gam industry is a useful resource.
 * Entertainment Software Association - the ESA is the U.S. association exclusively dedicated to serving the business and public affairs needs of companies that publish video and computer games. Their 2006 Essential Facts about the computer and video gam industry is a useful resource.
 * Entertainment Software Association - the ESA is the U.S. association exclusively dedicated to serving the business and public affairs needs of companies that publish video and computer games. Their *2006 Essential Facts about the computer and video gam industry is a useful resource.
 * Education Arcade
 * Entertainment Software Association (ESA)
 * Escapist Magazine
 * Innovate Journal of Online Learning
 * Pew Internet and American Life Project
 * Mario Brothers Memorial Public Library A list of resources by a library science student
 * iCampus - an MIT-Microsoft Alliance
 * Ed Games Blog - Authored by students in EDTEC 670, San Diego State University

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