resources

= Resources =

Activities

 * 10 Practical Ways to Bring Gamer Superpowers to the Classroom by Jane McGonigal
 * Be the Video Game Maker - virtual video tour of game studio with interactive game making
 * Beginning Game Programming for Teens with Python - great tutorial to get started
 * Board Game Hacking - materials and principles for running your own hack jam
 * CoderDojo Tutorials - coding tutorials shared by CoderDojos around the world
 * CS Unplugged - great resource for group activities that lead to understanding underlying concepts of CS
 * Games for Change - c atalyzing social impact through digital games
 * ilearnedtoprogram.com - share how you learned to program
 * Shaun the Sheep Game Academy - learn and make Scratch games with characters from the Aardman universe
 * Sissy's Magical Ponycorn Game - created by a 5 year-old and her dad
 * So you want to be a in the game industry? - hand-out from little bit studio
 * Teaching Appmaker to Youth - resources from Digital Harbor Foundation
 * This is not a game challenge - create video games to change the world
 * Time Machine - contribute a story and/or game to this collaborative gaming project

Read & Listen

 * Adventures in Raspberry Pi by Carrie Ann Philbin
 * Calling All Girls! Don't Just Play Games. Start Making Your Own at HuffPost
 * Can coding really change the world? by Kim Wilkens
 * Can We Game Our Way to Better Health? via Science Friday
 * Computer Science and Games: Just for Girls! by Gail Carmichael
 * Create a Video Game Design Workshop Planner by Kim Wilkens
 * gameful - secret HQ for making world-changing games
 * How to Start a Game Company Incubator in a School - Texas high school experience
 * Pipeline from Valve - resource created by HS students for HS students interested in the video game industry
 * PBS Kids Stream - lots of great ideas for making video games for the STEM challenge
 * ScratchED - tutorials and resources for creating games with Scratch
 * Reality is Broken by Jane McGonigal
 * The Big List of Game Making Tools
 * Video Game Design (experience from the classroom incorporating science & writing) by Kevin Hodgson
 * Video Game Design Challenge (experience from after-school workshops) by Kim Wilkens
 * Welcome to the emotion arcade (Science Friday)
 * What it's like to attend Girls Make Games, the all-girls game dev summer camp

Research

 * Flow in Games by Jenova Chen
 * Games & Learning
 * GAMES Initiative - Girls Advancing Mathematics, Engineering + Science
 * In Gaming, A Shift From Enemies To Emotions
 * MIT professors argue for more playful educational games
 * Re-Mission improving self-efficacy behaviors in young people undergoing cancer treatments
 * SuperBetter: Show Me the Science!

Videos

 * Awesome App Race by SciGirls
 * Code Hero literacy as planting the seeds of STEAM by Alex Peake
 * Day in the Life: Video Game Designer by ConnectEd
 * Gaming Can Change the World TEDTalk by Jane McGonigal
 * Hello World! Processing documentary
 * Hack a banana, make a keyboard! by Jay Silver
 * PBS Game/Show a web show about games and culture
 * Ponycorns and Programming Kids onTEDx
 * Wayward Mansion by Neil Gaiman
 * Why I brought Pac-Man to MoMA by Paola Antonelli