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References for the Final IDDS 2008 Report
Additional Resources:
About Educational Games
Journal Articles:
Books:
Ian Bogost (2007). Persuasive Games MIT Press.
Egenfeldt-Nielsen, Simon (2007). Beyond Edutainment: The Educational Potential of Computer Games. Continuum Press.
James Paul Gee: What Video Games can Teach us about Learning and literacy (via Amazon)
Game Design:
-General book I recommend for game design methods: Fullerton et.al.: Game Design Workshop
-Game for making games: http://gamegame.blogs.com/gamegame/2006/02/gamegame_20_rel.html
Tools:
-Game for making games: http://gamegame.blogs.com/gamegame/2006/02/gamegame_20_rel.html
-GameMaker: http://www.yoyogames.com/gamemaker/
-Gamestar mechanic - http://www.gamestarmechanic.com/GSMWeb/site/index_out.jsp
CIA World Fact Book – Ghana. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/gh.html (last updated on 24 July 2008)
Harold Coulombe. (May 2005). GHANA CENSUS-BASED POVERTY MAP: District and Sub-District level Results. SAGA. http://www.saga.cornell.edu/images/coulombe.pdf
Soumitra Dutta, Bruno Lanvin, Fiona Paua. (2004). The Global Information Technology Report 2003–2004: Towards an Equitable Information Society. Oxford University Press
Ghana Schools Online. MDG Profile: Ghana. http://www.mdgmonitor.org/factsheets_00.cfm?c=GHA&cd=288 http://www.ghanaschoolsonline.com/intermediate/school_select.cfm?regionID=6
GhanaDistricts.com. http://www.ghanadistricts.com
Millennium Development Goal Monitor (MDG Monitor). MDG Monitor: Tracking the Millennium Development Goals: Ghana. Last updated 1 November 2007. http://www.mdgmonitor.org/factsheets_00.cfm?c=GHA&cd=288
Owen Thomas. (2003, Sept. 1). The Outsourcing Solution No need to wait for a worker shortage to have code written in India or data entered in Ghana. The offshore option could cut your costs by 20 percent or more. Business 2.0 Magazine.
CNNMoney.com. http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2003/09/01/348368/index.htm
Republic Of Ghana. Ministry Of Education and Sports. Basic Education Comprehensive Assessment System (BECAS). (2006, March). REPORT ON 2005 ADMINISTRATION OF NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSESSMENT PRIMARY 3 AND PRIMARY 6 English and Mathematics. http://www.equip123.net/docs/e2-NEA.pdf
Randy Pausch. (2007, Sept 18). The Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams. http://www.thelastlecture.com
Paul Polak. (2008). Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail. Berrett-Koehler.
Pruitt, J. and Grudin, J. 2003. Personas: practice and theory. In Proceedings of the 2003 Conference on Designing For User Experiences (San Francisco, California, June 06 - 07, 2003). DUX '03. ACM, New York, NY, 1-15. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/997078.997089
Dan Roy. (2008, July 17). Personal communication with the TVC group. http://www.educationarcade.org/about/people#dan
UNDP. Human Development Report 2007/2008: Fighting climate change: Human solidarity in a divided world. http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/global/hdr2007-2008
UNESCO. (August 2008). UIS STATISTICS IN BRIEF: Ghana. http://stats.uis.unesco.org/unesco/TableViewer/document.aspx?ReportId=121&IF_Language=eng&BR_Country=2880&BR_Region=40540
UNESCO. (2008). EFA - Global Monitoring Report 2008: EDUCATION FOR ALL BY 2015: WILL WE MAKE IT? http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=49591&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
UNICEF. ACHIEVING UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION IN GHANA BY 2015: A REALITY OR A DREAM? United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), New York, 2007.
UNICEF. At a glance: Ghana – Statistics. August 3, 2008. http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/ghana_statistics.html
U.S. Trade Representative (USTR). (2005). Ghana: Trade Summary. http://www.ustr.gov/assets/Document_Library/Reports_Publications/2005/2005_NTE_Report/asset_upload_file304_7469.pdf
ROBERT F. WORTH. (2002, July 22). In New York Tickets, Ghana Sees Orderly City. New York Times. Technology Section.
Additional Resources:
About Educational Games
Journal Articles:
- What makes things fun to learn? Heuristics for designing instructional computer games. Malone, Thomas. Symposium on Small Systems, Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGSMALL symposium and the first SIGPC symposium on Small systems, 1980
- What makes things fun to learn? A study of intrinsically motivating computer games. Malone, T. W. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif., 1980a.
- Tactical memorization software. Hollan, J., McCandless, T., Prince. R., Putz, S. Sharp, J., & Williams, M. Technical Note, Navy Personnel Research and Development Center, San Diego, Calif., forthcoming (1980).
- Localized iterative design for language learning in underdeveloped regions: the PACE framework, Matthew Kam , Divya Ramachandran , Varun Devanathan , Anuj Tewari , John Canny, Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, April 28-May 03, 2007, San Jose, California, USA
- Successful implementation of user-centered game based learning in higher education: An example from civil engineering, Martin Ebner , Andreas Holzinger. Computers & Education, v.49 n.3, p.873-890, November, 2007
- All work and no play: measuring fun, usability, and learning in software for children, Gavin Sim , Stuart MacFarlane , Janet Read. Computers & Education, v.46 n.3, p.235-248, April 2006
- Good Video Games and Good Learning, James Paul Gee
- Barab, S., Arici, A., & Jackson, C. (2005). Eat your vegetables and do your homework: A design-based
investigation of enjoyment and meaning in learning. Educational Technology 65(1), 15-21.
Books:
Ian Bogost (2007). Persuasive Games MIT Press.
Egenfeldt-Nielsen, Simon (2007). Beyond Edutainment: The Educational Potential of Computer Games. Continuum Press.
James Paul Gee: What Video Games can Teach us about Learning and literacy (via Amazon)
Game Design:
-General book I recommend for game design methods: Fullerton et.al.: Game Design Workshop
-Game for making games: http://gamegame.blogs.com/gamegame/2006/02/gamegame_20_rel.html
Tools:
-Game for making games: http://gamegame.blogs.com/gamegame/2006/02/gamegame_20_rel.html
-GameMaker: http://www.yoyogames.com/gamemaker/
-Gamestar mechanic - http://www.gamestarmechanic.com/GSMWeb/site/index_out.jsp
