Games apps Design for Teens with Special Needs

Interactive Games Apps design for Teens with Special Needs Official is an Academic course I teach and mentor @ Shenkar College of Engineering & Design.

 Finals projects are around the corner as the students games dev teams make the effort to meet the deadline. Below you can see some examples:

TeamUp Kinect Game Prof of Voice control game demo


CATCH THE PIE trailer

I challenged my students @ SHENKAR with game design, programming, game engines modding, multi-player game server side programing, team work gaming industry like, and above all the making an engaging and fun game for teens with special needs which have a meaning and values. In the teaching process I used several game mechanics #Gamification 

I'm very prod of my students that made fantastic game design app CONCEPTS for teens with special needs [CP in particular] come to life. Inspired by face to face meeting with Tzamid - Israel Scouts With Special Needs teens the games projects developed aim to add to their life fun and in a collaborative engaging way: Play Games

Client: Tzamid - Israel Scouts With Special Needs 

Development platforms: 
Unity3D Game engine, Kinect, Xbox, facebook, #C..

check our Pinterest Board which reflects some of the fun my students and I had in the process

Hanan Gazit, PhD
My Hub @ Gamescademy

Academic teaching XP

My PhD academic journey started ten years ago and I felt it's about time to update my personal Academic Hub website. I added my past, current and future teaching XP , a cool QR bar code for smart phone scan, flickr pics and twitter stream and social networks buttons for fast CONNECT - check out the Mobile gamification app on the top right corner!

Using Google Sites framework was fun. Due not finished, highlighting some of the great work themes my students done so far made my day.

p.s to self

I wish I had more free time to sit down and write more academic papers

ViMentors Academic: Web3D for Higher Education Workshop

Dr. Hanan "Vrider" Gazit, ViMentors.com CEO to mentor and deliver a workshop: Using Web3D for Higher Education at MEITAL the Inter-University Center for e-Learning (IUCEL), which is part of the Israeli Inter-University Computation Center (IUCC), located at Tel-Aviv University.
MEITAL assists Israeli institutions of higher education, universities and academic colleges in advancing the use of e-learning technologies and creates opportunities for institutional connections and collaboration among academic institutes in Israel.

Main Goal:

The workshop will focus on using virtual worlds such as Second Life for meaningful instruction and learning.

Audience:

Israeli Universities and academic colleges' instructional designers' staff.

When: 10th of September 2008.
Were: Open University, Ramat-Aviv, Israel.

Personal note:

I regard the workshop as an important step for creating Israeli Academic institutes presence in Second Life and other relevant virtual worlds for meaningful instruction and learning.

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Dr. Hanan "VRider" Gazit serves as the Israeli Games Research Association (DiGRA) Chapter. A researcher & lecturer at the Instructional Systems Department at H.I.T-Holon Institute of Technology. Entrepreneur, owner of a start-up company specializing in delivering services for Israeli investors, companies and organizations interested in using virtual worlds and video games for business, marketing & instruction. His research interests include: Analyzing virtual worlds and video games interactions; Designing effective serious games; Skills acquisition and virtual-real world transfer and New Media. He holds a Ph.D. degree in the Learning Sciences and a Magna Cum Laude M.A. degree in Science Education, both from Tel-Aviv University. A former post doctorate fellow researcher at the Virtual Reality Lab, Institute for Interdisciplinary Applications of Computer Science, University of Haifa. Dr. Gazit serves on the Association of Virtual Worlds` Advisory Board and on the Editorial Review Board of the International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations.

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Studying the Fashion Industry in Second Life Big Time

The fashion industry in Second Life is a big thing. Last week, I've visited Canimal's fashion store and observed quite interesting and unexpected interactions of Canimal's fashion savvies. Conducting academic research in Second Life is a big thing too.

As a member of the Second Life's Academic Research Special Interest Group (SIG), it's my pleasure to assist my SIG collage Dr. Jeffrey Bardzell, an assistant Professor at Human-Computer Interaction Design at the School of Informatics at Indiana University. Dr. Bardzell formed a research group that study Second Life fashion. Specifically, studying the relationships it forges between identity and technology.
Now they put together a survey to try and get a better sense of the Second Life fashion industry as a whole. If you would take this survey, and perhaps even circulate it amongst your fashion-savvy SL friends, Jeffrey would be grateful!

Here is the URL:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=eZ938dlZvLtStvfLL3tVUg_3d_3d

The survey should take no more than 20 minutes (probably less in most cases), is anonymous, and its data will be made available to the public—all this and more is spelled out in the consent form at that URL. Only few days Left before closing time!

Thanks in advance for your consideration and support!

Dr. Hanan "VRider" Gazit DiGRA ISRAEL Chapter
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