Jul 21
Many of you know about and read Interface Magazine. Many of you will also know that I write for them regularly and this year this has become a more formal affair. I have just spent the morning writing my latest article for the magazine, which is going from strength to strength. It recently won magazine of the year, so it is nice to be writing for a magazine that gets that kind of accolade. For those of you who do not know about Interface, take some time to visit their site. They publish most of their articles there. I thought that I might also link to the articles that I have written for the magazine this year from this blog post. So for your edification and delight here are the 4 articles that I have written this year for Interface magazine, magazine of the year 2010.
Issue 22 term 1 - 2010
Issue 23 term 2 - 2010
Issue 24 term 2 - 2010
Issue 25 term3 - 2010
Apr 17
The latest edition of Interface Magazine is about to hit all schools in New Zealand in time for the start of term 2. In this edition of the magazine is my latest article written for them. You can read it here http://www.interfacemagazine.co.nz/articles.cfm?c_id=26&id=432 The article discusses the huge potential that gaming and problem solving has in the classroom. I have just spent a week in the South Island on the westcoast in Greymouth and Westport working with students and teaching them how to problem solve through using Gamemaker as a vehicle. I have encouraged those students who I worked with to send me their completed work and have promised to publish their work onto the wiki that I produced for the event. One student has already sent his work through and you can see his work and download it for your own gaming pleasure from the following wiki: http://westcoast2010.wikispaces.com/Gamemaker Whilst you are there you might also like to look at some of the other work that I did whilst I was there. I am currently uploading to http://blip.tv a video of one of the presentations I made and will embed this into the relevant wiki page in due course.