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Apply to the Cooney Center Prizes for Innovation in Children’s Learning
Posted by Mark Smith on 02-03-10

The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop is accepting applications for the inaugural Cooney Center Prizes for Innovation in Children’s Learning, a national competition intended identify, inspire, nurture, and scale breakthrough ideas in children’s digital media and learning.  The program will annually award cash prizes and provide ongoing business planning support to innovators in children’s educational…

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Will Wright Discussion at NYU February 17th

Posted by phoebe on 01-26-10

Games for change is proud to be sponsoring with the Games for Learning institute a discussion featuring Video game pioneer Will Wright, the creator of “SimCity” and “Spore,” will lead “Why Games are (Good) for Learning,” a discussion on how digital games encourage learning, on Wednesday, February 17, 6 – 7 p.m. at the Jack H. Skirball Center for the…

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Code of Everand: RPG for Saving Lives

Posted by Hsing Wei on 01-04-10

Moving with their constituency, British PSAs are experimenting with interactivity.  The Department of Transportation’s ongoing road safety campaign recently launched Code of Everand, an MMORPG aimed at reducing the number of teenage deaths and injuries from unsafe road crossing.  In designing the game, New York based developer Area/Code took inspiration not from other serious games, but rather from kid-focused MMOs such as RuneScape, Maple Story, Dofus, Dragon Quest and World of Warcraft.  Linking road crossing with the random battles that happen throughout traditional RPG environments, players as Pathfinders must safely traverse dangerous ‘spirit channels’ where monsters lurk by looking left and right, spotting creatures, battling with a range of attacks/spells, and accruing Concentration Points.  Players can earn cash towards customizing their character via an array of clothing, armour and weaponry… Continue reading the rest of this post.

 

Check out G4C President Suzanne Seggerman’s Slightly Embarrassing Pop!Cast

Posted by Mark Smith on 02-26-09

Suzanne was honored to be invited to present at Pop!Tech - a conference dedicated to innovative ideas - this past year, and her talk has been released.  Aside from the public speaking horror in the middle and the emotional breakdown at the end, we think the G4C message prevails.  If you’d like to see a brief overview of what G4C is all about, this is one good place to start.  And please do feel free to pass it along!

Check out the video here.

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