BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Lewis & Clark//NONSGML v1.0//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20120311T100000 RDATE:20120311T100000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20121104T090000 RDATE:20121104T090000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120310T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120310T120000 LOCATION:Lewis &\; Clark Graduate Campus\, room 116 GEO:45.445733;-122.671119 SUMMARY:Games and Education Working Together DESCRIPTION:Please join us for part 3 of 3 in our FREE technology symposi um series for educators and administrators. \; Electronic games seem to have taken over in the lives of young people with many students spend ing far more time playing games than on any other endeavor. Teachers comp lain that students are preoccupied with games and have "no attention span "\, yet these students spent 200 hours playing their favorite game last m onth. \; Games and education are not that different and games in fa ct present many opportunities to enhance classroom education. \;Game s involve automatic pre- and post-testing. \;They reinforce behavior s\, probably much more efficiently than any other system we know. \; This workshop will discuss how we can harness the power of electronic g ames and make them work for us. We will also cover what it takes to make a game\, from assembling the right team of people\, even on a limited bud get\, to how to get the game completed and in the hands of parents or stu dents. \; This workshop is FREE. If you will be joining us\, please RSVP below. \; About the Instructor Ed Magnin received an MEd in Special Education in 1973 from the Lewis &\; Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling. Ed taught deaf children with the Los Angeles Un ified School District and served as Administrative Director of the Greate r Los Angeles Council on Deafness. \;He bought an Apple II computer in 1979\, taught himself to program\, and has been making games \;for the past 30+ years. \;After working for several leading game compan ies (MicroProse\, Cinemaware\, Virgin Games\, and Park Place Productions) \, he started his own studio to focus on handheld game development. \ ; Magnin &\; Associates was an authorized Nintendo developer (Game Bo y Color\, Nintendo DS). \;They now focus on the iPhone and iPad with over 7 games now available and several others in various stages of devel opment. \;For the past 12+ years\, Ed has also made time to teach ga me studies classes to the next generation of game developers. He teaches and serves as Chair of a large game-programming department. He is also pr oud to serve as a Trustee of the International Game Developers Associatio n (IGDA) Foundation. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Please join us for part 3 of 3 in our F REE technology symposium series for educators and administrators. \;< /p>
Electronic games seem to have taken over in the lives of young pe ople with many students spending far more time playing games than on any other endeavor. Teachers complain that students are preoccupied with game s and have "no attention span"\, yet these students spent 200 hours playi ng their favorite game last month. \;
Games and education ar e not that different and games in fact present many opportunities to enha nce classroom education. \;Games involve automatic pre- and post-tes ting. \;They reinforce behaviors\, probably much more efficiently th an any other system we know. \;
This workshop will discuss h ow we can harness the power of electronic games and make them work for us . We will also cover what it takes to make a game\, from assembling the r ight team of people\, even on a limited budget\, to how to get the game c ompleted and in the hands of parents or students. \;
This wor kshop is FREE. If you will be joining us\, please RSVP below. \;
< h4> About the InstructorEd Magnin received an MEd in Special Education in 1973 from the Lewis &\; Clark Graduate School of Educati on and Counseling. Ed taught deaf children with the Los Angeles Unified S chool District and served as Administrative Director of the Greater Los A ngeles Council on Deafness. \;He bought an Apple II computer in 1979 \, taught himself to program\, and has been making games \;for the pa st 30+ years. \;After working for several leading game companies (Mi croProse\, Cinemaware\, Virgin Games\, and Park Place Productions)\, he s tarted his own studio to focus on handheld game development. \;
Magnin &\; Associates was an authorized Nintendo developer (Game Bo y Color\, Nintendo DS). \;They now focus on the iPhone and iPad with over 7 games now available and several others in various stages of devel opment. \;For the past 12+ years\, Ed has also made time to teach ga me studies classes to the next generation of game developers. He teaches and serves as Chair of a large game-programming department. He is also pr oud to serve as a Trustee of the International Game Developers Associatio n (IGDA) Foundation.
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