Nicki Maddams is an ICT teacher and SSAT Lead Practitioner at Hartsdown Technology College in Margate, Kent. She describes herself on her blog as ‘slightly geeky’. You can find out if this true by attending her workshop (workshop 6 on the registration form) at the UK Innovative Education Forum in Manchester.
This workshop will look at Kodu, a free, programming environment from Microsoft which is colourful and engaging for learners of all ages.
This session explores the Kodu game development environment, and how to make a simple game, starting with creating a new world, adding objects and characters and programming them to respond in different ways. This will be illustrated through some great example games and resources for teaching game design
In addition this workshop is an opportunity to discuss how programming can be used as an enrichment activity both as a club and as extension tasks in lessons.
You will find these links useful if you are thinking of attending this workshop.
Ø http://community.research.microsoft.com/blogs/kodu
Ø http://www.planetkodu.com/
Ø http://koduclub.org
Kodu can be downloaded from http://fuse.microsoft.com/project/kodu.aspx
Don’t miss out, register today http://uk.partnersinlearningnetwork.com