ECGBL - European Conference on Games Based Learning http://academic-conferences.org/ecgbl/ecgbl2010/ecgbl10-home.htm Updates to the conference information Thu, 04 Aug 2011 11:26:18 +0100 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 1440 RSSeditor v0.9.54 (http://www.rss-info.com) PlayLearn 2011 - Playful Learning Media Exhibition http://academic-conferences.org/pdfs/PlayLearn_2011_call.pdf Website Co-ordinator Running in conjunction with the 5th European Conference on Games-Based Learning (ECGBL 2011), the first Playful Learning Media Exhibition (PlayLearn 2011) aims to bring together school teachers and students with creative teams, higher education students and researchers of learning media, Greek learning media creators and experienced creators and researchers from abroad to exhibit, view and discuss original productions in playful learning media, analog (educational toys, educational board games, playful educational narratives), digital (video, animation, digital storytelling, interactive applications), and any other transmedial formats.

Organised by the Laboratory of New Technologies in Communication, Education and the Mass Media and the Joint MA Programme on Information and Communication Technologies for Education, with the support of the University Research Institute in Applied Communication (URIAC) and the cooperation of the Hellenic American Union (HAU), the exhibition will be open to ECGBL and PlayLearn participants on Thursday 20th and Friday 21st October and to the general public on Saturday 22nd October.

Expressions of interest are invited from higher education students, designers and researchers of playful learning media of any format, school teachers and students, and especially young creators and independent teams, who wish to participate with their original productions in the Playful Learning Media 2011 exhibition, in order to demonstrate their work and at the same timecollect feedback from experienced learning media practitioners as well as school teachers and students and the general public. Learning media productions may address pre-school and school children, young or adult users, and there are no constraints concerning learning contents,
production genre or the analog, digital or transmedial platforms used. However, please note that digital games for learning productions are the subject of another parallel event SGS-Best 2011 .

For further details, please click the title link to download the call for submissions.

]]> Serious Games Showcase and Best Practice Exhibition http://academic-conferences.org/pdfs/SGSBest_2011_call_EN_final.pdf Website Co-ordinator Expressions of Interest due tomorrow.

This three day showcase and exhibition runs alongside ECGBL 2011 for the first two days and then opens to the general public for the final day. The goal is to present the latest developments in the design of serious games and celebrate the use of games and game technology in teaching and education.

The organisers, the Laboratory of New Technologies in Communication, Education and Mass Media of the University of Athens and the Hellenic American Union, invite games designers, companies, students and researchers of digital games to submit 1-2 page expressions of interest to Maria Saridaki at msaridaki@media.uoa.gr outlining the content and (possible) application of their game along with screenshots and a demo/url of the game if available. Final submissions will be required not later than 15 September 2011.

For further details, download the full announcement

]]> Serious Games Showbase and Best Practices 2011 (SGS-Best 2011) Website Coordinator The University of Athens NTLab (Host Institute for ECGBL 2011) is arranging a Serious Games Showcase & Best Practices (SGS-Best 2011) event, to run in conjuction with ECGBL 2011. The event, chaired by Assistant Professor Constantinos Mourlas, seeks to bring together good examples of serious games, exhibit them for the conference participants and the general public as well as give an opportunity for open feedback with respect to their quality, fun, usability, and other dimensions. The event will run during Thursday 20, Friday 21 October 2011 (in parallel with the conference, for ECGBL participants) and Saturday October 22 2011 (post conference day, for the general public).

The first annoucement can be downloaded from the programme page of the ECGBL website and first expressions of interest are required by 20th July 2011.

]]> Conference hotels confirmed http://academic-conferences.org/ecgbl/ecgbl2011/ecgbl11-venue.htm website co-ordinator Welcome to the ECGBL RSS feed Website Co-ordinator To help conference participants keep up to date with conference developments, we have put in place an RSS feed that will be updated on a regular basis throughout the year.

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