Game Maker Studio

[Norbert W]

Hello,

It has been a very useful and interesting week , so many excellent presentations. Thank you very much for the presenters, participants and Ignatia who has put a huge amount of work in that event. I would like to show all of you my apps. which I created for GCSE (Algebra), I have not evaluated them in my class as I have been away from school, I don’t know when and if I will have a chance to evaluate them. I am very keen to use technology in my classroom (SMARTBoard and games were the area of my interest).

I worked as a speaker during conferences in Hamburg and Qatar, I also provided training for my colleagues from school. At present I work with software caller Game Maker Studio which can develop apps for Android, iOS, Windows Phone(future release). The software is very easy to learn and you don’t need any programming knowledge.  I was not in school for long time so I didn’t have time to research my learners` needs (Geoff’s advice) I just started in the middle. The apps can be used for :

1. Giving pupils a chance  to reinforce their knowledge of the topic at home. They can read the slides, watch the tutorials, listen to podcast and  do the test on their own.

OR

2.“flipped classroom” – pupils should go through apps at home (as a homework) and then come to the classroom already prepared. In this case we can start doing work straight away (without need to introduce the topic). More time for group work, collaborative learning, discussion, more advanced questions …

 

In the future, my apps. will include link to other websites so that pupils can access different teaching materials.

 

Why not to teach pupils how to develop such apps. Game Maker has just released the light version (free) of the software. I used to ran Games Design Club in my school and I was amazed by what my pupils created.

 

Idea of designing teaching materials by teachers seems to be OK. Teachers can brainstorm the ideas for apps. which can suit their pupils/environment …

Unfortunately the software doesn’t let me  access the phone’s camera, I thought about the lesson when pupils can take the picture and then measure the angle to find the height of different objects (using trigonometry).I am sure that people from Tribal are able to develop such things.

 

Please make comments regarding my apps. I am aware that there is a room for improvement.  Please click this link below to see my apps.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/83622523/Norbert_Waciega.avi

Best Regards

Norbert

nwac...@gmail.com

 

 

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/83622523/Norbert_Waciega.avi

[etorresrussell]

Hi Norbert, 

Thank you so much for sharing your App with us.  You mentioned you created it in 'Game maker studio'.  I am not a developer but I produce resources and wondering is Game maker hard to use? 

Regards

Elizabeth

[Norbert W]

Hello Elizabeth,

I have used GMS for about 4 years and I must say that it is not difficult to learn. I can offer any help with running tutorials, workshops and creating simple apps. Have a look at Game Maker Site there is a lot of useful information there. Why not to start developing resources together? What is your subject?

Best Regards
Norbert

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[Elizabeth Torres-Russell]

Hi Norbert,

Thanks for the clarification.

I work in health specifically in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander area (our Indigenous communities) their health is extremely poor.) Australia.

I am currenlty at the very start of converting a face to face course on Indigenous cultural capability for our staff (over 65,000) onto eLearning and combining some mLearning???

What area are you in?

Regards

ET

[Norbert W]

Hi Elizabeth,

You project sounds interesting, I live in Scotland but I can offer any help you need.

Norbert
nwac...@gmail.com

[Ignatia/Inge de Waard]

Hi Norbert,
Thanka for the link and info. Low on  time right now, but will certainly try out your apps and the light version of game maker.
Best wishes,
Inge

Op 26 sep. 2012 16:11 schreef "Norbert W" <nwac...@gmail.com> het volgende:

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