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Empowering Learners with Kodu: A Creative Writing Game Development Journey

Kodu, a game lab tool, offers a unique approach to teaching creative writing through interactive game creation. This session breakdown guide helps reluctant readers and writers engage in purposeful writing, emphasizing narrative study, creating key scenes, and developing coding skills. Explore the progression from basic functions to complex narrative structures, such as mini-games and climactic moments. Discover how Kodu fosters storytelling, coding, and self-evaluation, preparing learners for future challenges. Join the collaborative challenge to make learning interactive and fun!

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Empowering Learners with Kodu: A Creative Writing Game Development Journey

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  1. Computing At School, 2011 TheNational Curriculumenjoinsschools to teachnot computer science but ICT – a strange hybrid of desktop publishing lessons and Microsoft tutorials. While PowerPoint and Excel are useful vocational skills, they are never going to equip anybody for a career in ....

  2. Computing At School, 2011

  3. Computing At School, 2011

  4. Computing At School, 2011

  5. Computing At School, 2011 “Computer science is to ICT what writing is to reading.” Ian Livingstone, Games Publisher

  6. Introducing Kodu

  7. Kodudes – The Write Buzz The story so far…

  8. Kodudes – The Write Buzz ???? Kodu Game Lab – BETT 2010

  9. Kodudes – The Write Buzz The idea Premiere Stories Project

  10. Kodudes – The Write Buzz The cohort The Kodudes! – reluctant readers / writers…??? … disengaged ???

  11. Kodudes – The Write Buzz Session breakdown – narrative study Reluctant readers – not interested in story narrative???

  12. Kodudes – The Write Buzz Session breakdown – purposeful writing Reluctant writers??

  13. Kodudes – The Write Buzz Session breakdown – creating interactive key scenes Kodu skills progression – land tools and basic functions

  14. Kodudes – The Write Buzz Session breakdown – the story walkthrough experience … The Premiere - entrance

  15. Kodudes – The Write Buzz Session breakdown – the story walkthrough (coding in the bg) Kodu skills progression – paths, if > then procedures …

  16. Kodudes – The Write Buzz Session breakdown – the mini-game – narrative climax Game design – supporting the narrative

  17. Kodudes – The Write Buzz Session breakdown – the mini-game – narrative climax Kodu skills progression – Creatables and variables

  18. Kodudes – The Write Buzz Session breakdown – the XML ‘hack’ Editing and revising - a more traditional end product!

  19. Kodudes – The Write Buzz Summary USB Engaged motivated learners

  20. Kodudes – The Write Buzz The Wreck of the Zanzibar Adapting the concept, making it more ‘mainstream’

  21. Kodudes – The Write Buzz The Wreck of the Zanzibar Interrogating the text – stimulating writing

  22. Kodudes – The Write Buzz The Wreck of the Zanzibar Modelling the Scilly Isles, turtle rescue scene, gig boat race (mini-game)

  23. Kodudes – The Write Buzz The Wreck of the Zanzibar On-going self evaluation of coding capabilities… working towards Kodu certification!

  24. Collaborative Challenge

  25. Computing At School, 2011 Let’s make a PONG!

  26. Computing At School, 2011 Primary Computer Science Club Innovating the Primary Curriculum tmeeky@googlemail.com @tmeeky

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