February 19, 2013 | 9AM-4PM
GameSalad prepares attendees to create full-featured games with the simple, powerful, drag-and-drop GameSalad Creator software. Using proven techniques based on essential concepts, current trends, and established best practices, attendees will learn how to create a real-world project from start to finish. The workshop’s wide-ranging coverage will encompass desktop, mobile, online, social, and serious games, as well as key platforms such as iOS, Android™, Mac, Windows, and HTML 5. This hands-on, highly visual, practice-based training is equally suited for current game developers and novice learners, with a balance of depth, detail, and step-by-step guidance that is ideal for both professionals and enthusiasts interested in developing their own games.

July 26, 2012 | 9AM-4PM
Summer Instructional Technology Teachers Seminar

The Touro College Graduate School of Technology will host a Summer Institute Seminar for teachers of Instructional Technology. This workshop will provide the knowledge, skills and resources necessary for teachers to get their students started on a pathway to becoming game designers using Gamestar Mechanic. Gamestar is a browser-based game design platform, curriculum and community for youth ages 8-14, designed to foster 21st century learning skills and to build important STEM knowledge through the principles of game design. Participants will be introduced to the key concepts of game making through physical and digital activities, will learn how to connect game making to learning objectives, and will experience first-hand how easy it is to build games using Gamestar Mechanic.