Instructional Gaming Forum (IGFORUM)

At the last AECT (2006), those who attended the IGFORM meeting have ‘voted’ to merge the IGFORUM with the MPD blog as one, and here’s the result of that decision.

We know you have been waiting for this but several things need to happen first, and timing. With AECTNow.org we finally have the content management software and the access we needed to make this happen.

Thanks for being patient. Over the next few weeks, your communication officer will populate this space with some of the older entries from IGFORUM, before “closing” the other site.

Feel free to use this space.

Here’s Rick van Eck’s (long awaited) presentation. Well he has it in Apple Keynote and I don’t have a keynote at hand to convert it. (His keynote file was to large for upload/download (7-8 MB), but guess what? After the export to PPT & PDF, it became only 1.7MB / 700kB respectively.

Hmm, may be we should not be to quick to label Microsoft as file bloater?

I attached the PDF for you since it is the smallest in file size:

1. Ten Empirical Questions to Guide Digital Game-Based Learning
2. Intelligent Learning Games

As announced at AECT 2006, the Igforum.us will be merged into the Multimedia Production Division blog, for easier management. Since I am going to be the comm officer this year, I can finally “do that.” (mwahaha)

Nothing will change for you, you can still type in IGFORUM.US to get here, it just that the blog will be move to another server. That’s all. Hopefully the move will enable more chat among AECT/MPD members. I really don’t like the current situation when I am yakking 90% of the time.

INSTRUCTIONAL GAMING/SIMULATION SHOWCASE

The AECT Planning Committee has recently agreed to the addition of a new event to the Conference program. The “Instructional Gaming/Simulation Showcase” will take place on Oct 13, 2006 (Friday) from 9.15am to 3.30pm in the foyer of the Regency Ballroom of the Dallas Fairmont Hotel.

INSTRUCTIONAL GAMING/SIMULATION SHOWCASE

The AECT Planning Committee has recently agreed to the addition of a new event to the Conference program. The “Instructional Gaming/Simulation Showcase” will take place on Oct 13, 2006 (Friday) from 9.15am to 3.30pm in the foyer of the Regency Ballroom of the Dallas Fairmont Hotel.

If you have an instructional game/simulation developed by you or your student(s), we would like to invite you to showcase it here. The 6-hour long Instructional Gaming/ Simulation Showcase will be a free-form event. As such, we intend to place two to four tables in the foyer, allowing up to three game/simulation presentations per table. Presenters can reserve blocks of one- to two-hour slots to “setup shop” and invite conference participants to learn more about their games and to play. A handout or “job-aid” may also be useful for the players.

SIF Planning Meeting:
The Instructional Gaming SIF will be holding a planning meeting to discuss how we can move the instructional gaming agenda forward. If you are interested to help out with ideas/planning efforts, please plan on coming to the meeting on Oct 12, 2006 (1:30 PM-2:00 PM).

The Special Interest Forum is an inter-divisional group. Members of all AECT divisions are welcome.

2ND INSTRUCTIONAL GAMING SYMPOSIUM
Date: Oct 12, 2006 (THU)
Time: 1:00pm – 4:30pm
Venue: Fountain Room

1.00-1.30pm
Lloyd Rieber: Rediscovering gaming in education: High tech, low tech, and everything in-between

1:30-2.00pm
Sebastian Loh: Instructional Gaming SIF Planning Meeting

2:15-2.45pm
Rick van Eyck: Ten research areas to guide the field of digital game-based learning

2.45-3.15pm
John Rice: A taxonomy for video game research

3.30-4.00pm
William Sugar: Examining the effectiveness of the many hats of an instructional designer game

4.00-4.30pm
Goknur Akilli: Games for learning, FIDGE for instructional design

AECT has made available a list of all accepted sessions and you can search them by group/keyword/session type.

Here’s the breakdown for Game/Simulation:

There are a total of 27 Sessions, by:
(i) Presentation Type:
- 1 presidential session,
- 15 concurrents,
- 8 roundtables,
- 3 posters.

(ii) Sponsored Division:
- 8 (Multimedia Production),
- 8 (Design & Devlopment),
- 4 (School Media & Technology),
- 3 (Research & Theory),
- 3 (Teacher Education),
- 1 (Systemic Change).

The proposal review for AECT 2006 is finally over. I believe most of you would have already received notification from your divisions on the status of your proposal.

I am hoping to put together a list of GAME presentations for AECT 2006 conference to:
(1) publicize the many GAME sessions, and
(2) make life a little easier for folks interested in attending ALL the GAME sessions.

So, if your are planning to present a session (concurrent/roundtable/poster) related to GAMES or VIDEO GAMES, please let me know. I would like to have the following information:

The Multimedia Production Division received 35 proposal submissions for the Dallas conference.

We’re in need of two more reviewers who can help us maximize our allocations.

We have only five hours allocated for concurrent sessions, and five roundtable/poster allocations.

The 35 proposal submissions represent 6.3% of conference proposals.

If you can help review proposals on behalf of the Division, please email Rick Xaver as soon as possible. I’ll be posting some great material on navigating the proposal review process to this weblog as well.

I believe you would have seen/heard the AECT 2006 Call for Proposals by now. Please note that for 2006, the deadline for submitting a proposal is january 15, 2006. Yes, you are reading correctly, JAN 15!! As of today (Dec 25), you have only 20 days to get your proposal ready for submission! :eek:

IMPORTANT NOTICE:
(1) If you are interested in submitting a proposal to be included in the next Instructional Gaming Symposium, please make sure you add the following words: [For SIF-IG], as the first two words of your Proposal Abstract — so that we can identify them, and
(2) In the “submit to Division/Affiliation” box, make sure you select ”MULTIMEDIA PRODUCTION” (and NOT “Design and Development”).

Below is the “call” from the AECT homepage: (Submit Proposal)

The AECT Annual International Convention will be held in October of 2006 at the Fairmont Hotel in Dallas, Texas, right next to the Historic Arts District. The convention theme is Strengthening Connections. Supporting the main theme are four sub-themes related to making stronger connections:
(1) Between theory and practice,