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Brussels Workshop

Serious Games Round Table

Venue: Crowne Plaza Brussels Europa
Rue de la Loi 107
Brussels, Belgium

Date: 6 March 2008


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An informal meeting between experts in the games industry, members of the eMAPPS.com project, and European Schoolnet stakeholders to exchange ideas and explore issues and solutions related to the use of games in education.

Invited to attend:

  • ISFE members and executive
  • eMAPPS.com project representatives
  • European Schoolnet members
  • Industry representatives
  Draft Programme  
1 Lunch and introductions  
2 "Playing games, and playing games in schools: what is the difference?" (1 hour)

A look at what we know about 'playfulness' in primary and secondary schools in Europe Attitudes in schools to video games

Which video games are used in schools?

3 Games in the eMAPPS.com project ( www.emapps.com ) (1 hour): How the games worked (use of phones with GPS, game authoring platform …)
Video case study
Lessons learnt, opportunities for future development
4 Games for education (30 minutes)

Presentation of Slitherene (for teaching history)

Music making with consoles

5 Round table discussions (30 minutes)
 

For further details please contact Roger Blamire: roger.blamire@eun.org