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~a high school course focused on creativity, design, innovation, problem solving, and technology~ Connecticut Career Choices Curriculum Department

The Scholastic Level Up program offers curriculum for grades 7 - 12 in video game design across the curriculum. The program focuses on the use of Gamestar Mechanic and Activate

This video case study was filmed during the Joan Cooney Center research on Games in Education. The video features my classroom as my students are working on their games for the STEM video game challenge using Gamestar Mechanic.

This is a link to the recording of Dr. James Gee's webinar on Designing Games for Learning held on 12/8/2011

A number of video tutorials on using game maker including FPS tutorials, Game Maker 8 and Game Maker 7 tutorials.

A book published to cover a variety of topics related to game based learning.

Scratch is developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab, with financial support from the National Science Foundation, Microsoft, Intel Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Google, Iomega and MIT Media Lab research consortia. Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web.

ScratchEd is an online community of educators that are using Scratch in Education.

MinecraftEdu is the collaboration of a small team of educators and programmers from the United States and Finland. We are working with Mojang AB of Sweden, the creators of Minecraft, to make the game affordable and accessible to schools everywhere. We have also created a suite of tools that make it easy to unlock the power of Minecraft in YOUR classroom.

StencylWorks is a Game Development environment that allows you to create games with or without the use of code. It is a visually appealing environment. You can create iOS game or Flash games.

Download the Overview Package for the Geological Game Design Project Welcome to this online resource for video game design in the classroom. My hope is that my own sharing out of our science-based video game design project will inspire you to consider doing the same for your students, moving them from the role of "player" into the role of "creator."