Switching on to Literacy - Kodu with Richard Olsen

Monday 16th August - 3:45pm-4:45pm (AEST)

Are you a busy teacher who needs quick and easy tips for integrating ICT effectively into literacy sessions? Are you already using ICT’s in your classroom, but are looking for some new ideas and uses? This is the right place for you!

‘Switching on to Literacy’ is a professional learning series aimed at promoting ICT use in the literacy classroom. We welcome passionate educators will all levels of experience with ICT.

Kodu Game Lab is a visual programming language that allows anyone, even those without programming knowledge and experience, to create rich 3D games.
Kodu uses intuitive icons to control the characters and objects with character behaviours expressed in physical terms.

This session will cover all you need to get started with Kodu Game Lab and look at how schools are using it.

Richard Olsen is the creator of Planet Kodu, a website for sharing Kodu Game Lab games. He has run numerous Kodu Game Lab workshops in Australia, Singapore and Malaysia.

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