1st Meeting Game Education Group: Nov 27th 5-7pm

[Jeffrey]

We are happy to announce our 1st meeting will be November 27th, 5-7pm at Collective Agency, 333 NW 6th Ave, Portland, OR.  We also will have a google video chat to ease the difficulties of travel.  

We already have 14 people excited to develop game design opportunities for youths in Oregon and Washington.  The game education group is an open volunteer community dedicated to creating engaging, hands-on learning through making games. 

Our initial targets are: 1) art & animation, 2) design, and 3) programming.  We have begun reaching out to various institutes and foundations to see if they will knowledge share best practices for our learning objectives.

If you would like to be involved, please let us know or reply directly to me.

Hope to see you there,

Jeffrey

[Will Lewis]

Here are my notes from the meeting, and mine/Patrick's game learning verbs are attached! If I should post these elsewhere, let me know..!

Language for describing Pixel Arts:
social change through videogames through:
1education
2(professional) development
3entrepreneurship
specific goals:
•greating art for design centers
•create a model for other areas to mimic pixel arts
•investment

nix the consumer relationship between kids and games
provide opportunities for kids growing up (as a common practice)
provide creative economy
verbs for what we do when we learn from games - straying from "explore, learn, discover" and widen our perspective - how can we create these verbs via activities?
creating non-digital access
"by taking this class, your child is gaining access to...-skill-..."

Tasks to complete for next time:
generate 1 model for a hands-on learning exercise that may be of use to pixel arts
three potential outreach contacts (and contact information)
setup meeting time online