Posts on “ Globaloria ”

Globaloria, established by the World Wide Workshop, is a program that teaches students how to create web-based educational games and interactive simulations.  Each year, the program hosts the Globeys, a game design competition in which hundreds of Globaloria students participate.  Celebrating excellence in the game design process, the Globeys are launched in the fall, giving students most of the school year to work on their projects before the spring submission deadline. On August 10th, Globaloria proudly announced the names of the following West Virginia STEM and Civics Globey winners, as well as the Educator Inspiration Award winners. WV STEM Globey Winner: Power Supply, by Dylan Sturgeon WV Civics Globey Winners: Cause and Effect the Daniel Calwell, Story, by Caitlin Moore & Austin Susman Globaloria Educator Award Winners: Nyssa Arcos Evans (Best Returning Educator) and Diane White (Best Educator Mentor) These winners were recognized for their hard work and creativity at the special Globey Award ceremony in Charleston, WV and received certificates, awards, and prizes, including subscriptions to BrainPOP.  Congratulations!  

As teachers we know the summer provides time to consider new ideas for the upcoming year.  BrainPOP Educator Jen Wagner has put together a list of educational game organizations that can help guide you toward bringing game based learning into your classroom.  Click through to her useful blog post to learn about organizations including our friends from Globaloria and Whyville and the Games for Learning Institute that can help support your efforts!  

Join us for Wednesday’s webinar at 4:30PM ET. At BrainPOP we’re committed to providing high quality games not only through GameUp but by supporting game design projects in multiple education settings. To that end, we welcome Shannon Sullivan, Vice President of World Wide Workshop, for this special webinar on the Workshop’s Globaloria game design curriculum and social network for learning. She’ll explain how it’s inspiring innovation and learning among thousands of students across the country.  

I learned about an an innovative program that is engaging young people in Flash game design at the Games 4 Change conference in NY. We are very interested in this space because BrainPOP has launched a new initiative to showcase educational games, learning games and student made games called GameUp. I found this program particularly interesting because Flash is the program BrainPOP.com uses to create their educational animations. I was very impressed by a presentation given by Otis Robinson a teacher in Brooklyn who is teaching students to use Flash in his classroom. Flash is a very powerful tool and a very sought after skill in the 21st Century workplace so I was psyched to learn about Globaloria, the program that he was representing.  I was able to speak to Otis after the program and was blown away by the great things he is doing with game design in his urban classroom.  The Gateway School services an urban community where almost one third of the population lives below the poverty line and over seventy percent are minorities. Globaloria-NY is in its first pilot year with eighth grade students at I.S. 364-Gateway Intermediate School and it has been very successful in engaging students in compelling project-based learning to… Read the Rest»