ÿþ<html><!-- #BeginTemplate "/Templates/possible.dwt" --><!-- DW6 --> <head> <!-- #BeginEditable "doctitle" --> <title>Welcome to ITCS 4010/5010 Serious Games</title> <!-- #EndEditable --> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <table width="690" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td colspan="4" bgcolor=black align="right"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="white"><b> ITCS 4010/5010 Serious Games </b></font><br></td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="4" bgcolor=lightyellow align="right"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b> Fall 2009 </b></font><br></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="50" height="500" bgcolor="lightcyan"> <table align="center" bgcolor="lightcyan" width="100%" > <tr><th bgcolor=white><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Home</font></th></tr> <tr><th><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <a href="mailto:Tiffany.Barnes@uncc.edu"> Contact</a></font></th></tr> <tr><th><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <a href="syllabus.html">Syllabus</a></font></th></tr> <tr><th> </tr></table> </td> <td valign="top" colspan="2"><!-- #BeginEditable "content" --> <center> <h2>Announcements:</h2> </center> </div> <ul> <li><p> <b>8/25/2009</b> Welcome to Serious Games. Your first assignment is to read the papers: <ul> <li><a href="papers/ReadingResearchPaper.pdf">How to Read a Research Paper</a></li> <li><a href="papers/ACM-iticse08-eagle-barnes.pdf">Wu¼s Castle: Teaching Arrays and Loops in a Game</a>, ITiCSE 2008 paper</li> <li><a href="papers/ACM-GDCSE09-barnes-powell.pdf">Game2Learn: Improving the motivation of CS1 students</a>, ACM GDCSE 2009 paper</li> <li><a href="papers/ACM-siggraph09-chaffin-barnes.pdf">Experimental Evaluation of Teaching Recursion in a Video Game</a>, ACM SIGGRAPH Game paper</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><p> <b>8/26/2009</b> Assignment 2, due Wednesday, Sep 2: Complete the online <a href="https://www.citiprogram.org/">Human Subjects Research Tutorial</a>, selecting to complete the Basic Course in Social and Behavioral Research. Your Employee ID is your Banner number.</p></li> </ul> <!-- #EndEditable --></td> </tr> </table> </body> <!-- #EndTemplate --></html>