Teaching with Games
Sponsors:
Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts (EA) (NASDAQ: ERTS), headquartered in Redwood City, California, is the world's leading interactive entertainment software company. Founded in 1982, the company develops, publishes, and distributes interactive software worldwide for videogame systems, personal computers and the Internet. Electronic Arts markets its products under four brand names: EA SPORTS™, EA™, EA SPORTS BIG™ and POGO™. In fiscal 2005, EA posted revenues of $3.1 billion and had 31 titles that sold more than one million copies.
www.ea.com
Microsoft
Microsoft is a leading developer of software for schools, colleges and universities. It also shares the commitment of the education sector to help everyone realise their full potential. Through its technology, education programmes and curriculum materials, Microsoft helps learners and educators get the full benefit of the use of IT in education.
www.microsoft.com/uk/education
Take-Two
Headquartered in New York City, Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc (Nasdaq: TTWO) is a global publisher and developer of entertainment software and accessories. Through its Rockstar Games, 2K and 2K Sports publishing labels Take-Two's published brands include Grand Theft Auto, Max Payne, Midnight Club, Sid Meier's Civilization, Prey, Stronghold, Major League Baseball 2K, NBA 2K, NHL 2K, Top Spin, among others. The Company also manufactures video game accessories through its Joytech subsidiary and has sales and marketing offices in Cincinnati, New York, Toronto, London, Paris, Munich, Madrid, Milan, Sydney, Breda (Netherlands), Auckland, Shanghai and Tokyo.
www.take2games.com
ISFE
ISFE (the Interactive Software Federation of Europe) was established in 1998 to represent the interests of the interactive software sector vis-à-vis the EU and international institutions. Initially founded by the national interactive software trade associations in the UK, France, Germany and the Netherlands, ISFE was enlarged in January 2002 to include any company representing the industry, based in the 25 Member States plus Norway, Iceland, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. Most major publishers of the interactive software industry have now joined ISFE (see full list on website).
www.isfe-eu.org
Schools:
Deutsche Schule London
Over 600 pupils from 20 nationalities attend the DSL, from pre-school through to Abitur (roughly equivalent to English A-levels). The DSL follows a German curriculum and provides a broad education with a cosmopolitan outlook. It is an important centre for the German-speaking community in London. A wide range of extra-curricular and social activities binds the school firmly to the local community.
Contact: Andreas Koini, Oberstufenkoordinator (andreas [dot] koini [at] dslondon [dot] org [dot] uk)
Address: Douglas House, Petersham Road, Richmond, Surrey, TW10 7AH
Telephone: +44 (0)20 8940 2510
Website: www.dslondon.org.uk
Bedminster Down School, Bristol
Bedminster Down opened in 1955 as one of the city's first Comprehensive Schools, and has maintained a reputation for promoting many aspects of success, and for providing a challenging yet supportive learning environment. The school aims to be a community for learning, raising expectations and valuing achievement: it demands high standards, continuous improvement and equality of opportunity while promoting respect and self respect, equal worth, self esteem and personal responsibility. Bedminster Down is working for extended opportunities, differential learning, effective teams, enrichment and partnership with parents in a safe, stimulating environment.
Contact: Marius Frank, Headteacher (head_bedminster_down_s@bristol-city.gov.uk)
Address: Donald Road, Bedminster Down, Bristol, BS13 7DQ
Telephone: +44 (0)117 964 3530
Website: beehive.thisisbristol.com/default.asp?WCI=SiteHome&ID=3693
St John's School and Community College, Marlborough, Wiltshire
St John's is an 11-18 co-educational comprehensive designated as a technology college in Marlborough, Wiltshire. It aims to be a school recognised for excellence in teaching and learning, that places the learner at the centre of all endeavour and that sets the standards to which others aspire, and a school at the heart of its community, where everyone is valued for who they are, for what they may become and where people matter more than anything else.
Contact: Miles Whittaker, Assistant Head and Manager of Technology College and ICT Strategy (mwhittaker [at] stjohns [dot] wilts [dot] sch [dot] uk)
Address: Stedman Building, Orchard Road, Marlborough, Wiltshire, SN8 4AX
Telephone: +44 (0)1672 516156
Website: www.stjohns.wilts.sch.uk/home.htm
John Cabot CTC, Bristol
John Cabot City Technology College is an independent school situated in Kingswood in the north-east of Bristol. It is one of only 15 independent schools specialising in a science and technology rich curriculum. The College is funded directly by the Government and there are no fees. Whilst the College is independent of Local Education Authorities, it works with them for many aspects of College life.
John Cabot College has a mission to promote an educational culture which is scientific and technological, vocational and international. Their aim is to ensure that their students will be both technologically skilled and broadly educated, literate, socially aware and with a European dimension, ready and able to progress into employment or further and higher education according to their individual abilities, aptitudes and ambitions.
Contact: Nick Jones, Deputy Principal (nick_jones@cabot.ac.uk)
Address: Woodside Road, Kingswood, Bristol, BS15 8BD
Telephone: +44 (0)117 976 3000
Website: www.cabot.ac.uk