iLearn Project

1. iLearn Project By Carlotta Eaton East Coast Game ConferenceApril 2011 Eaton

2. Agenda Eaton The iLearn Project Partners Games and Education NRCC Game Programs The iLearn Team iPhone Apps Store – Our Games

3. iLearn Project TeamEnhancing Education Through Technology Grant from Virginia DOE Eaton & Dunleavy Carlotta EatonProfessor, Information TechnologyDirector, Game Technology ProgramsNew River Community CollegeEmail: ceaton@nr.edu Phone: (540) 674-3600 x4250www.nr.edu/eaton and www.nr.edu/it Dr. Matt Dunleavy Assistant Professor, Instructional TechnologySchool of Teacher Education & LeadershipRadford UniversityEmail: mdunleavy@radford.edu Phone: (540) 831-5168gameslab.radford.edu/ilearn/ Pulaski County Schools Radford City Schools Virginia Department of Education Apple

4. iTouch Project Partners

5. New River Community college Game Programs Eaton

6. NRCC Game Technology Programs Eaton • First Game programs in Virginia • Started in Fall 2006 • Information Technology AAS DegreeGame Design Specialization • Computer Aided Design AAS DegreeGame Technology & Animation Specialization

7. NRCC Game Curriculum Eaton & Dunleavy • ITD 120 Design Concepts for Mobile Applications (iPhone, ObjectiveC) • CSC 200 Intro to CS (Python, Lego Robotics) • ITP 160 Intro to Game Design & Development (GameMaker) • ITP 134 C++.NET Programming (DarkGDK) • ITP 120/220 Java I and II Programming • ITD 112 Creating Web Graphics (Photoshop) • ITD 212 Interactive Web Design (Flash) • CAD 238/239 3D Modeling (3D Studio Max) • CAD 250 3D Game Level Design (UnReal)

8. Skills Eaton & Dunleavy Pre-requisite Skills • Game Design & Development • Programming: C++, Java, VB etc. • Drawing skills: 2D Graphics, Story boards – Photoshop or Fireworks • Creativity, Problem Solving • Math skills: coordinate systems, geometry, trig • Physics skills: Speed of falling objects, bouncing • Writing skills: Story lines, game documentation iPhone Development Skills • Mac Operating System • iPhone SDK • Objective C Programming LanguageMix of C and Smalltalk • Cocoa Touch – iPhone class library • Xcode, Interface Builder, Simulator etc.

9. The iLearn Team at New River Community College Eaton & Dunleavy

10. NRCC Games Team Justin Price – Programmer Adrian Lowry – Programmer Cody Beasley – Character Artist Carmel Stowers – Game Design Heather Walters –Game Artist Jason Clemons – Content Creation Carlotta Eaton – Project Director Mike Kaylor – Hardware Administrator Eaton

11. YouTube of NRCC iLearn Team Eaton & Dunleavy

12. iLearn Project Free Games Now available in iPhone App Store Games created by Students for Students

13. iLearn Web Site gameslab.radford.edu/iLearn/ Eaton

14. Try our iPhone Games Created by Students for Students Search for NRCC Games or RU Games Lab See our web site at gameslab.radford.edu/ilearn/ Eaton

15. iLearn Games App Store Sales Eaton

16. Math Games Eaton & Dunleavy

17. #1 Freddy Fraction – RU By Daniel Burgess • Freddy Fraction is an alien who needs your help! He was exploring a strange, foreign planet when he realized he couldn't remember where he parked his spaceship...Freddy is lost! Help Freddy find his way back home safely using fractions, decimals, and percentages to lead him back to his spaceship! • Second Place finish in the  Virginia Mobile Learning Apps Development Challenge, Freddy Fraction is designed to enhance the student's ability to determine equivalence relationships among fractions, decimals, and percents, as well as improve fractional computation. Eaton & Dunleavy

18. #2 Computer Carl - RU By A.J. Tucker & Daniel Burgess • Computer Carl needs to recharge his battery. Solve basic arithmetic problems to get Carl charged up! • This game is designed to address Virginia Standard of Learning (SOL) Math 1.8: Students will recall basic addition and subtraction  facts.  Eaton & Dunleavy

19. #3 Equation Creator – NRCC By Matt Special & Carmel Stowers The Equation Creator needs help finishing 10 equations! Create the equations from any of the available number or operator tiles to form any correct equation. Practice using the 4 basic mathematical operators with several different settings and modes. Eaton & Dunleavy

20. #4 Egberta’s Equation - RU By Matt SpecialEgberta the macaw has a nest full of tasty eggs that Cliff the climber wants to eat. Unfortunately, the eggs are on top of a tall cliff. Help Cliff reach the top and get the eggs by completing equations. Beware though! Egberta will drop eggs on Cliff's head if you waste too many eggs! Eaton & Dunleavy

21. #5 Fraction Factory – RU By Dave Payne • Enter the Fraction Factory and use your math skills to place fractions into their correct positions on a number line. When the game begins, fraction gears will move across the screen on a conveyor belt. Use your finger and drag the fraction gear to where you think they should go on the number line at the top of the screen. • Third Place finish in the Virginia Mobile Learning Apps Development Challenge, Fraction Factory is designed to enhance the student's ability to find and order equivalent fractions and decimals on a number line. In addition, Fraction Factory targets fractional computation Eaton & Dunleavy

22. #6 Sticker Shop - RU By James St. Clair & Matt Special • The shop keeper has a variety of stickers in his sticker book for you to purchase. Collect as many stickers as you possibly can while learning how to count coins! • This game is designed to address Virginia Standard of Learning (SOL) Math K.7, 2.11 The student will count and compare a collection of pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters whose total value is $2.00 or less and identify the correct usage of the cent and dollar symbol Eaton & Dunleavy

23. #7 Apples and Hour Hands - RU • Pluck apples containing the correct time shown on the clock and try to catch them in your basket as they fall by tilting the ipod left and right. • The student will tell time to the hour, using an analog or digital clock. • By A.J. Tucker and Matt Special Eaton & Dunleavy

24. Social Science Games Eaton & Dunleavy

25. #8 European Exploration - RU iPad Game Explore the new world as a European power in the 15th Century by funding and sending expeditions out into the unknown. Hire captains, build ships and outfit voyages to learn of the wonders of the new world. The other powers of europe will also be exploring so it's a race to who can chart out the world first! Eaton & Dunleavy

26. #9 Governomics - RU • You are the newly elected governor of Virginia and you have inherited a poor economy. Your goal is to improve the quality of public services (public safety, transportation, health, education) in an attempt to increase your approval rating. Improve the quality of the public services by researching the US economy. This will earn you special abilities and extra cash for the state budget. You will serve a 4 year term and readjust the budget every round (fiscal quarter) for 16 rounds.Virginia Standard of Learning (SOL) areas targeted: Civics and Economics CE.11, CE.12, and CE.13 Eaton & Dunleavy

27. #10 Zeppelin Adventures - RU • You are traveling through history in a zeppelin and will encounter different people from different time periods and different locations. Talk with the people and see what they have to say, you might just learn something. • Virginia Standards of Learning (SOL):World History 1 (WH1) Eaton & Dunleavy

28. Language Art Games Eaton & Dunleavy

29. #11 Same Sound Spell Bound - NRCC Same Sound Spell Bound is an adventure designed to help the player understand homophones. To begin the adventure, users choose to play as either Luna or Leo, young magicians who are beginning to master the magic of words. The game is designed for third and fourth graders. Eaton

30. #12 Same Meaning Magic - NRCC The Same Meaning Magic game engages children in learning synonyms.    The targeted grade levels are grades 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. If you get 3 wrong in a row, the earth shakes. If you get 5 wrong in a row, an imp appears. If you get 5 right in a row, a fairy appears and gives you a jewel and bonus points. Eaton & Dunleavy

31. #13 Opposite Ocean - NRCC • Opposite Ocean helps students learn antonyms. The student starts this game by choosing to play as the girl Luna or the boy Leo. The next choice is the grade level from 2nd to 6th grade. • The student chooses the antonym, opposite meaning, of the highlighted word in each sentence. Eaton & Dunleavy

32. #14 Grammar Dragon - NRCC Released 10-24-10 • The dragon has captured all your friends from the castle. You must rescue a different person on each level by choosing the correct grammar item. • Grades 3-6. Eaton & Dunleavy

33. #15 Spelling Cat - NRCC Released10-20-10 • Students can create spelling word lists every week. • 3 drills available • Speak Easy • Word Scramble • Missing Letter • For grades 1-8 Eaton & Dunleavy

34. #16 Factor Race - NRCC • Factor the equation and move your car to the finish line. • Binomial factoring of trinomial equations

35. #17 Portion Platter - NRCC • Helps students understand fractions and percents. • Identify the fraction or percentage depicted.

36. #18 Disaster Chaser - RU • Become a master of disaster by chasing and responding to disasters around the world. • Compete against your friends by beating their score on the leaderboard, and gain bragging rights as the master of disaster. Eaton

37. Student to Student Networking Apple Game Center

38. Teacher Comment 10/27/2010 Mrs. Eaton, I'm not sure if you are the one I should be writing to, but I wanted to get in contact with someone to say THANK YOU for the great iPod apps for education that NRCC has developed.    I have a 1:1 iPod touch classroom this year and am always looking for great, free apps.  I can't tell you how long I have been looking for and wanting an app exactly like Spelling Cat and I just found it today.  The ability to customize a list and then have the kids play games with their own word lists is fantastic.  I can't wait to put it my kids' iPods and let them use it to practice their spelling. All of your other apps as well are perfect for the classroom.  They hit specific skills that kids need and have just the right amount of "play" with learning.  And I still can't believe they are all FREE!  Thanks again, and please pass along my thanks to anyone else in your program that has helped develop the apps. Thanks, Kyler Pace  4th Grade Teacher, Archer Glen Elementary Sherwood, Oregon Eaton & Dunleavy

39. Coming Soon from NRCC Games Eaton & Dunleavy • Aesop’s Ant2nd – 6th grades Reading Comprehension Play game as you read a story • Financial Literacy GameFor high school teens. Make smart financial decisions and buy a car. • Same Meaning Magic Vol 2 • Opposite Ocean Vol 2 • Grammar Dragon Vol 2

40. Partners Needed • Currently seeking partners for educational projects • Current partnersBizKids TV Show by PBS The public TV series where kids teach kids about money and business. Eaton

41. Summary • iLearn Project • The Team • The Games • Partners Needed Carlotta EatonNew River Community CollegeEmail: ceaton@nr.eduWeb: www.nr.edu/it Cell: (540) 250-5677 Eaton & Dunleavy