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Today I started my Kodu and Literacy project with children from a local primary school. I began by teaching the children how to use the terrain tools in Kodu to create a world. The goal of the project is for them to design and develop their own literacy-style\/storytelling games.<\/p>\n
Next week we will be programming characters to talk to each other to form a treasure-hunt style game with the children adding the dialogue between the characters and objects.<\/p>\n
Following that they will design and describe<\/a> their own worlds before making them, then plan their game content<\/a> and a storyline and characters for the final game. We will conclude the project with the children developing the games they have designed using Kodu.<\/p>\n Throughout the project the children will be blogging about the progress they are making each week. We have made a start already with a class entry written at the end of today’s session. You can check out our blog here<\/a>.<\/p>\n For more information about the work I have been doing with Kodu, check out my Virtual Classroom Tour<\/a> that I will be showcasing at the Microsoft European Forum in Lisbon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"