Anyone at TCEA conference? Also a GRS brief update :)

[Steve]

Hi TXCINC Friends,

 

If you are going to be at TCEA’s conference next month and are open to sharing information on Green Ribbon Schools please let me know.

 

Below is information on the Healthivore℠ student online game development contest around nutrition/fitness themes, which will be announced the week of Feb. 6^th at the TCEA conference.

 

Thank you for your consideration.

 

Sincerely,

 

Steve    st...@4cw3.org    512-322-9323

 

 

In the fall, we teamed with Pflugerville ISD, the AMD Foundation, and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas. Connally High School students mentored kids at Westview Middle School and 5^th graders at Copperfield Elementary, during their 21^st Century after-school program on video game design. The games focused on “nutrition/fitness” themes.

 

Students published their games on the Green Ribbon Schools’ site. Plus, the kids were able to “tell their stories” behind the games, including photos and they could have shared videos. Vital as we support kids in “thinking” and then “acting”, as they learn to make healthy nutrition and fitness decisions. Please see the links below to the games the students created.

 

What is next?

 

Well, that learning from the first phase was translated to a tool kit for any teacher/student to access to help them implement game development. PLUS, at the TCEA conference we’ll launch a national contest where teams of students can win lap top computers powered by AMD! We will not officially launch the program until the week of February 6^th.  At that time we’ll include a link to the game development info and contest from the GRS home page.

 

Please also check out the intro video from our fall pilot http://www.mediafire.com/?c4cpk9rb1tsi7yu

 

 

 

Healthivore™ Video Game Contest: "Kids getting smart about health"

Healthivore (hel thee vor):  A person who eats healthy, exercises and makes good life choices.  A Healthivore also teaches their friends, family and fellow students how to be healthy and strives to always make the world a healthier place.   Healthivores reign supreme at the top of the health pyramid. 

 

Students Learning Game Development: Nutrition/Fitness themes from fall 2011 pilot

-        Eat Your Plants – elementary students http://www.greenribbonschools.org/activity-detail.php?id=897

-        Eat Salad and Shoot Ice Cream Monsters – middle school students http://www.greenribbonschools.org/activity-detail.php?id=894

-        Learn about antioxidants - high school students  http://www.greenribbonschools.org/activity-detail.php?id=873