Websites

		Reference		Category	Annotation
		www.educationarcade.org		games & learning	Education Arcade is a network of US scholar and game industry professionals
		www.seriousgames.org		games & learning	Dedicated to the design of games for purposes other than pure entertainment
		www.marcprensky.com		games & learning	Author of 'Digital Game-Based Learning'. This is Marc's own site
		www.andrewstapleton.com		games & learning	Australian site on nexus between games, play, design and learning
		www.becta.org.uk		games & learning	UK site on games and learning
		www.gdaa.com.au		game industry	Game Developers' Association of Australia website
		www.igda.org		game industry	International Game Developers Association website
		www.gamasutra.com		game design	All that is the art and science of games
		www.theesa.com		game industry	Entertainment Software Association (US) site on facts about the game industry
		www.cs.uu.nl/people/markov/gmaker/		software	Game Maker software
		www.discreet.com		software	Discreet, makers of 3D Studio Max and gMax.
		www.turbosquid.com/gmax		software	gMax download
		www.macromedia.com		software	Macromedia for Flash and Director for making games
		http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/fac/peabody/game-book/Coverpage.html		game design	Chris Crawford's seminal text 'The Art of Computer Game Design'. Available for free online
		www.gdconf.com		game design	The Game Developers Conference in the US
		www.sumea.com.au		game industry	Local Australian and New Zealand game industry news
		www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,59855,00.html		games & learning	Wired article on games and learning
		www.sloperama.com		game design	Game designer, Tom Sloper, puts together this own views on game design
		www.funbrain.com		software	Pearson Publishing games site. Has games by year level in Teachers section (covers K-12), or by topic
		www.tsof.edu.au/events/axpo/pdfs/AHS_flyer.pdf		games & design & learning	Activity designed for students to develop own game. Outlines activity and links to examples produced by students Was part of Exciting Learning Expo 2003
		www.school.discovery.com		teaching resource	Discovery Channel's school oriented site has some great resources for teachers on a variety of topics
		www.simcity.com www.thesims.ea.com www.simcity3000unlimited.ea.com/us/guide/tips/teachers/		teaching & game resource	Available on the official SimCity 3000 unlimited site
		www.80smusiclyrics.com/games/		game resource	This site is full of classic '80s retro style games free to play and download
		www.abc.net.au/acience/play/games.htm		software	Links to many games, including The Lab with loads of science games
		www.agdc.com.au		game industry	The Australian Game Developer's Conference in held every year (Nov/Dec) and includes an Academic Summit
		www.atari.com www.atari.com.au		game publisher	Atari's official sites
		www.bfi.org.uk/education/research/teachlearn/editplay/		games & learning	Funded by the British Film Institute this research explores how to use games to tell stories
		www.civ3.com		game	Official site of Sid Meier's classic Civilization III
		www.disneyland.com www.disneyworld.com www.dreamworld.com.au		theme park	Official site of Disneyland Official site of Disneyworld Official site of Dreamworld
		www.ea.com www.eagames.com.au		game publisher	Electronic Arts' official US and Australian sites
		www.flashdeveloper.nl/g_flash_game.html		development resource	A great resource that lists a heap of site on developing all kinds of games in Flash
		www.futurecity-phoenix.org/FCGuidelines.htm		teaching resource	A US competition that asks students to use SimCity to develop their own city
		www.futurenet.com/edge/		game culture	Official site of Edge magazine
		www.gameculture.com		game culture	Sue Morris' great site on game culture
		www.games2train.com		teaching resource	Marc Prensky's Games2Train have a number of game resources
		www.gotoandplay.it		development resource	Another Flash game website
		www.howstuffworks.com		teaching resource	A great site all about "How stuff works" !
		www.learner.org/exhibits/parkphysics/		teaching resource (theme park)	Educational resource by USA's Annenberg/CPB on theme park physics
		www.machinima.com		games & film	Site dedicated to the art of 'machinima' (using games as a means to make films)
		www.mcli.dist.maricopia.edu/director/		development resource	This excellent resource is full of Director examples, scripts and just about anything to do with Director development
		www.mediamacros.com		development resource	A website with heaps of scripts and tips for developing with Flash and Director...including games
		www.microsoft.com/australia www.microsoft.com/games www.microsoft.com/games/ageofmythology/ www.microsoft.com/games/riseofnations/		game publisher and games	A range of Microsoft sites
		www.mindstorms.com		robots	Lego's site for the Mindstorms robotic development system
		www.movieworld.com.au		theme park	Official site of Australia's Movieworld on the Gold Coast
		www.nintendo.com www.nintendo.com.au		game publisher	Nintendo's official websites
		www.oflc.gov.au		government	Federal government's Office of Film and Literature Classification group
		www.paranoidproductions.com		game resource	Richard Rouse's (of Game Design Theory + Practice) official site
		www.pogo.com		game resource	Pogo, part of Electronic Arts, is full of games with free trials available
		www.shockwave.com		game resource	A great site for a whole lot of Shockwave based games
		www.teachnet.com		teaching resource	Has games and other resources for teachers
		www.teem.org/uk/publications		games & learning	An excellent resource for teachers including free reports on games in education
		www.themedattraction.com		teaching resource (theme park)	Comprehensive site on a variety of aspects on designing theme parks

Books

		Reference/Title		Category	Annotation
		What videogames have to teach us about learning & literacy		games & learning	Jim Gee's book
		Science, order & creativity		creativity & learning	David Bohm and David Peat's exploration of science and creativity
		Improving teaching & learning in science & mathematics		construct[iv/ion]ism	An introduction to creating constructivist classrooms
		Constructionism in practice		construct[iv/ion]ism	A great book on constructionism by Kafai and Resnick of MIT
		Minds in play		games & design & learning	Excellent book on game playing and game design as a means for learning
		Mindstorms		technology & learning	Papert's seminal work
		The design of everyday things		design	Don Norman's classic
		Metaphors we live by		learning & action	Lakoff and Johnson's excellent book on the role metaphor has in our thought and action
		The handbook of qualitative research		research	Denzin and Lincoln's comprehensive text on qualitative research methods
		Things that make us smart		technology & design & learning	Norman's book on technology and user centred design which includes the power of games for learning
		Digital game-based learning		games & learning	Prensky's text on all that is digital game-based learning
		The art of interactive design		game design	Chris Crawford's text on interactivity
		Rules of play		game design	Eric Zimmerman and Katie Salen's incredible book on game design
		Tricks of the windows game programming gurus		game design	LaMothe's book on C++ Windows game programming
		Constructionism		construct[iv/ion]ism	Harel and Papert's work on constructionism
		Andrew Rollings & Ernest Adams on game design		game design	Game guru Ernest Adams teams with Andrew Rollings in this expose of game design
		The ultimate history of video games		game industry	Steven Kent's excellent text on the history of videogames
		High score - the illustrated history of electronic games		game industry	Rusel Demaria and Johnny Wilson team to provide an excellent resource on the history of electronic games (includes plenty of pictures)
		Interaction design		design	Sharp, Preece and Rogers explain concepts of human interaction with technology
		Film directing shot by shot		filmmaking	Excellent text on visualizing the process of filmmaking from concept to screen
		Five star mind		game resource	Wujec's book on games and puzzles to stimulate creativity and imagination
		Fourth generation evaluation		research	Guba and Lincoln's constructivist methodology of naturalistic inquiry
		Game design workshop		game design	Fullerton, Swain and Hoffman team to provide a great activity based introduction to designing games
		Game developer magazine		game design	The industry resource on all that is game development (covers design, art, graphics, programming, production ….)
		Guide to video production		filmmaking	Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS) on video production
		How to read a film		filmmaking	Monaco's classic on the analysis of film
		Serious creativity		creativity	Edward de Bono's explores creativity as a learned skill
		Teaching and learning in science - The constructivist classroom		construct[iv/ion]ism	Hand and Prain's book on constructivism in the science classroom
		The animation book		animation	Fantastic book by Laybourne on animation theory and technique
		The art of interactive design		game design	Chris Crawford's text on interactivity
		The encyclopaedia of games		game resource	Barb Whiter's compilation on a heap of family, written, word, card, Board, domino, dice and active games
		Trigger happy		games & culture	Steven Poole's great text on videogame culture
		Understanding comics		comics	Scott McCloud's excellent expose of the visual form of comics