Gaming and Education
Richard Ferdig, Jeff Boyer, Meredith
DiPietro
Content
Area Games
General
K-12 Game Resources Websites:
Resources
Articles
& Publications
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Resources
in Article
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RPG
Maker XP http://www.enterbrain.co.jp/tkool/RPG_XP/eng/
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Microsoft's
XNA Developer Center http://msdn.microsoft.com/xna/
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Open-source
paint program: GIMP http://gimp.org/
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Sprite
editor: Allegro http://ase.sourceforge.net/
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GIF
animator: GIFWorks http://www.gifworks.com/
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Music
editing: Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net
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Open-source
game engines:
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Unreal
Tournament http://openut.sourceforge.net/
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IRRLICHT
http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/
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Quake
engine http://www.idsoftware.com/business/techdownloads/
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Second
Life http://secondlife.com/developers/opensource/
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List
of game software and tools: http://www.ambrosine.com/resource.html
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Gaming
mailing list: http://www.seriousgames.org/
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Educational
gaming journal: http://it.coe.uga.edu/itforum/Games_Resources.html
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Gaming
blog: http://edugamesblog.wordpress.com/
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Game
Learning http://www.gamelearning.net/
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Gamequarium
http://www.gamequarium.com/
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Social
Impact Games http://www.socialimpactgames.com/
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Example
of game journal: Game Studies http://gamestudies.org/
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Example
of gaming conference: Games + Learning + Society http://glsconference.org/2007/
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Example
of gaming summit: Federation of American scientists http://www.fas.org/gamesummit/
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Example
of gaming initiative: Serious Games http://www.seriousgames.org/
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Game
research collection sites:
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Digiplay
Initiative http://digiplay.info/digibiblio
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Claims
of Games http://theclaimsofgames.netcipia.net/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome
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IEEE-CS
Task Force on Game Technology http://www.ucalgary.ca/~jparker/TFGT/publications.html