{"id":340,"date":"2012-02-29T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T14:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/2012\/02\/29\/computer-games-event\/"},"modified":"2012-02-29T14:44:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T14:44:00","slug":"computer-games-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/computer-games-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer Games event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/sqacomputing.blogspot.com\/2012\/01\/free-online-course-for-teachers-of.html\">event to support teachers of the new NPAs in Computer Games Development <\/a>took place yesterday at <i>Scotland&#8217;s Colleges<\/i> in Stirling.<\/p>\n<p>There has been a fantastic response to this course, with it being over-subscribed many times over. Thirty-five people attended yesterday&#8217;s event, mostly teachers from Scottish schools but college lecturers too.<\/p>\n<p>The event was a collaboration between <i>Scotland&#8217;s Colleges<\/i> and <i>SQA Academy<\/i>. Participants undertook some [online] preparation <i>via <\/i>SQA Academy prior to yesterday&#8217;s event, which was a face-to-face meeting, led by <a href=\"mailto:cmaxwell@carnegiecollege.ac.uk\">Colin Maxwell<\/a> of Carnegie College.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t able to attend but, by all accounts, if was a good day. It&#8217;s planned to have a couple more events due to the demand for this course in March and June.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:fiona.saxby@sqa.org.uk\">Contact Fiona Saxby <\/a>for more information about this course or <a href=\"mailto:hilary.weir@sqa.org.uk\">contact Hilary<\/a> if you want to know more about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/38436.html\">qualifications<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The event to support teachers of the new NPAs in Computer Games Development took place yesterday at Scotland&#8217;s Colleges in Stirling. There has been a fantastic response to this course, with it being over-subscribed many times over. Thirty-five people attended yesterday&#8217;s event, mostly teachers from Scottish schools but college lecturers too. The event was a collaboration between Scotland&#8217;s Colleges and SQA Academy. Participants undertook some [online] preparation via SQA Academy prior to yesterday&#8217;s event, which was a face-to-face meeting, led&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post","format-standard","category-computing-posts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}