The slides from presentations at Games:EDU South have started to go up on Slideshare. We’ve had many requests for Jolyon’s slides, which should be up there soon.

I got this in my inbox, and it’s definitely worth passing on. Game
Jams have been a venerable part of games culture around GDC for a long
time, and now the IGDA Education SIG is aiming to send them global:

I am really excited to announce to friends the live
website of a new project that the SIG is organizing. I hope with your
help to make at a real success with everyone globally. The Global Game
Jam will be announced at Sandbox and SIGGRAPH, where we are doing a
call for host venues and looking for sponsorship money to pull of such
a large scale project. The Global Game Jam is a first of its kind Game
Jam that will take place in the same 48 hours around the world, January
30-February 1st, 2009. Our friends at the Nordic Game Jam will be our
flagship Jam – they have had years of success. This should be a real
experience in creativity, innovation and experimentation.

If you know of anyone willing to host a Game Jam in their local area
or for that matter, help us sponsor the project, please let me know.
Information regarding hosting and sponsorship is available on the site.
We hope to have local jams throughout Asia, Europe, North/South
America, South Pacific… and anywhere else willing to host a jam. The
Global Game Jam is open to everyone. Sign-up for the local Jams will
happen in late October. The GGJ will provide one representative of each
winning local jam a round-trip ticket to present their game at the IGDA
Education SIG Workshop at GDC.

http://www.globalgamejam.org

I’m looking forward to seeing the results of this.