List member, Shelley Wright, told me about Gamestar Mechanic. Her students are using it in her tech class and love it! Once they get started, students (or you) need to plan the game to unlock the toolkit and sprites, and then you can create your own multi-level game. Shelley says that her students try to make it difficult enough so that their friends can't beat it, which takes some skill and planning. There is a lot of support for teachers, including curriculum and other resources that allow for dabbling or entire courses to be built around the resource. -- The URL: http://gamestarmechanic.com/teachers/what_is_gamestar ---------------- This is the_teacher_list mailing list, managed by FreeLists.org. You can reply to this email to reach Pete directly. Please let others know how they can sign up for themselves! More Info at http://www.theteacherlist.ca