2014 Summer PD

We will have 2 opportunities for summer professional development - SGD Institute for Districts and SGD Summer Institute

1.SGD Institute for Districts at CU Boulder for Beginners: June 11 – 13

This special Institute will bring together groups of teacher Scholars to the University of Colorado at Boulder from 4 or 5 school districts to learn game design, create collaboration, relationship, and community between and amongst districts. How game design is used and progresses to STEM simulation design is covered in this training. The 3-day training culminates in an evening workshop with a national STEM speaker.

Any teacher new to Scalable Game Design would attend this 3 day training. We will ask the participating district to contribute a fair-share amount to cover the cost of providing professional development to their teachers, the amount depending on how much other funding we can find. With the event cost being shared (staffing and venue being provided by the CU project), along with some monies provided by Google, the cost to the districts to train new SGD teachers should be minimal (cost of food and parking)

2. SGD Summer Institute


 * 1) Beginner Level: June 16 - 18 and evening of the 18th, 2D Game Design and Introduction to STEM Applications
 * 2) Intermediate Level(at least 1 year of teaching SGD in the classroom): Evening of June 18th and 19 – 20 STEM Game and Simulation Design.
 * To be held at CU Boulder, the program will begin on the evening of the 18th with a national STEM speaker presenting a hands-on workshop. Then for 2 days Scholars will learn how to apply their AgentSheets beginner knowledge to creating STEM games and simulations.
 * 1) Advanced Level(at least 2 years of teaching SGD in the classroom, or by project approval): June 21 – 22 Summer Institute 3D game and simulation design
 * To be held at CU Boulder, the program takes Scholars into the world of designing and creating 3D games using AgentCubes software. In this advanced training, Scholars will also create 3D simulations.