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	'''Game Maker guide for highschool students''' - This guide, that includes videos of the basic steps, was written by Margaret Meijers (Taroona High School). http://ictmindtools.net/gamemaker/		'''Game Maker guide for highschool students''' - This guide, that includes videos of the basic steps, was written by Margaret Meijers (Taroona High School). http://ictmindtools.net/gamemaker/
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		+	'''Steven Isaacs''', Middle School teacher, teaches Video Game Design to 7th and 8th grade students and online professional development web 2.0 technologies. He has been teaching GameMaker for over 10 years and has shared Tutorials (GM 8.0) http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/channels/c661FeVje Blog http://wamstechtips.blogspot.co.uk/

	'''Texas Games Network''' - Amanda Hefner, an Instructional Designer with Northside Independent School District of San Antonio, TX USA, has taught digital game-based learning for five years through classroom and web-based courses. A number of tutorials for students learning to use Game Maker are available for free download and use in the classroom. However, she has addressed the needs of classroom teachers interested in learning how to effectively teach video game development in her Teacher's Guides. Visit the Texas Games Network for curricular materials, student examples, and share ideas with a global community of gaming teachers. http://www.texasgames.net/		'''Texas Games Network''' - Amanda Hefner, an Instructional Designer with Northside Independent School District of San Antonio, TX USA, has taught digital game-based learning for five years through classroom and web-based courses. A number of tutorials for students learning to use Game Maker are available for free download and use in the classroom. However, she has addressed the needs of classroom teachers interested in learning how to effectively teach video game development in her Teacher's Guides. Visit the Texas Games Network for curricular materials, student examples, and share ideas with a global community of gaming teachers. http://www.texasgames.net/
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	===Forums===		===Forums===
-	There are a ~~number of~~ forums related to teaching game design in schools:	+	There are a other forums related to teaching game design in schools We'll be building up a list here:

	- International game making teacher's forum - [http://www.gamelearning.net/teachers forum link]		- International game making teacher's forum - [http://www.gamelearning.net/teachers forum link]
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		+	===GameMaker Community===
		+	Since GameMaker is about game design, it as a gateway product to introductory game and want to build an effective pathway for students and teachers from GameMaker to these platforms. Here are just a few things that we are involved with;
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		+	* '''National STEM Video Game Challenge''': The Entertainment Software Association, Microsoft, and AMD in partnership with the American Library Association, the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, the Boys and Girls Clubs of America and E-Line Media, will launch two annual competitions – focused on both playing and designing games for STEM learning. The Youth Prize, with $50,000 in prize money, will be for student designers from 5th to 8th grade, and will target outreach and opportunities for students in high-poverty schools from underserved urban and rural communities. The Developer Prize will be open to anyone and focus on STEM games for early learners, pre-K to 4th grade, with special emphasis on developing technologies with the greatest potential for effectively reaching underserved communities. In addition, AMD will expand its “Changing the Game” initiative over next three years, reaching 20 regions and 10,000 children in hands-on game development.
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		+	http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2010/09/16/president-obama-announce-major-expansion-educate-innovate-campaign-impro
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		+	For this competition we have a special category for GameMaker and highlighted a recently developed curriculum built around GameMaker called Activate (funded by the AMD Foundation, one of the Sponsors)
		+	http://www.stemchallenge.org/resources/Gamemaker.aspx
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		+	* Developed out of The University of Southern California, '''GameDesk''' has been implementing it’s PLAYMAKING programs - whereby students learn by playing and by making games
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		+	Below is a mini-doc of a recent program focused on GameDesk's (www.gamedesk.org) game-making curriculum using GameMaker to teach underserved students critical math content, and to build their identities as producers and engineers.
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		+	http://vimeo.com/28634159 The video is a good overview of what they have done and are continuing to do with GameMaker.

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