Technology Integration Video: Video Game Design with Patterns and Tessellations

Listed above is a video that demonstrates how my students created video games utilizing the free web site Gamestar Mechanic.com

If you would like to read more detailed info such as learning outcomes, standards, summary of findings, you can CLICK HERE on a post for a student sample

 

Not to mention, you can view more in-depth resources by clicking my links to full length videos and posts that I made about my students' learning through this project:

 

Hooking them with Xbox Kinect

Teaching art with video games day 1

Teaching art with video games day 2

Teaching art with video games day 3

Student interviews while making video games

My Classroom Arcade (which already has links to the previous posts in it along with student samples)

You can also view my lesson plan that I used to teach the lesson:

http://prezi.com/8qdggog_t3aa/gamestar-mechanic-instructions/

 

Gamestar Mechanic Instructions on Prezi

video - Art Olympics in the Black Water Middle School art classroom 2011

art_olympics_spring_'11.wmv Watch on Posterous

The Art Olympics was an event that I intially got to participate in Coastal Carolina University's Gifted and Talented Summer Arts prorgram. Basically, you get a bunch of games together (we got most of our's off of summer camp games sites). And then I could easily adapt them to the art students. You can watch the video to see some of the games and activites that we used and if you are a teacher, you can use my power point below