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Whats it all about?
The Games project was, and still is, an attempt
to build engaging ICT teaching and learning
courses in a variety of educational settings and
test the notion that an engaged learner is a more
effective learner.
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Who took part?

• A number of schools from different parts of the
  county have trialled different aspects of the
  ideas. Some have just build games as a control
  module, other have build full assessment courses
  around the ideas.
• Some of the schools involved included
• Astley High School
• Seahouses Middle
• Ponteland Middle
• Bebside Middle
• St Peters Cramlington
• Amble Middle

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What did they do?
Schools adopted a variety of approaches to the
idea of integrating games into their courses.
Some schools made a whole Year 9 course around
it, others used the ideas as transition modules,
others used the courses as a full ICT project.
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The full project.

• Control
• Make a game
• Financial Modelling
• Profit and loss of marketing the game
• Presentation
• Packaging and PowerPoint adverts

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The Commercial Link
Grainger Games Kindly offered to sell games that
pupils produced and this was able to be used as a
major incentive to get pupils further motivated.
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Software

• Office
• Free stuff
• Cheap stuff
• Expensive stuff
• FPSC
• 3D Games maker
• Gamemaker 6
• MicroWorlds EX
• Mission Maker

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Outcomes
So what did we learn?
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