My presentation is tomorrow at 13:40! At the Learning Teaching Scotland stand!

Please come. Saw another game maker’s presentation today and it was great. Hopefully mine will be ok!

So far I have spent a lovely four hours at the scottish learning festival. I’m home again now as I decided to come and drop off all the millions of leaflets and stuff I got. Here’s my highlights so far:

Talk by Janette Thomson on Game Maker in the classroom. Janette admits to being a technophobe but has done amazing things with Game Maker so far. The class used Game maker to make a game based around three characters. They sources all the images and then they used the material to make booklets for younger pupils in the school. Sounds great!

Introduction to Glow - was nice to see a fully functioning glow on screen and see what was being done. General comments from other audience members were that it looked really good but that it couldn’t be easily explained through a presentation. Talking to various people at various stands, there is still quite a bit of scepticism about Glow making it out to the public successfully.
General stand banter - met a few interesting characters. The Inquisitor people were most helpful and very insightful into the place of online assessment stuff and how it might fit into Glow. Saw some cool stereoscopic stuff but the kit costs.. wait for it.. £17,000 per set. hmm.

Time to get packed up and head back in for glow meeting then a bit of teachmeet.

Bye!