{"id":397,"date":"2011-09-30T14:18:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T13:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/2011\/09\/30\/nc-computer-games-development-level-6-first-meeting\/"},"modified":"2011-09-30T14:18:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T13:18:00","slug":"nc-computer-games-development-level-6-first-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/nc-computer-games-development-level-6-first-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"NC Computer Games Development (Level 6) first meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first meeting of the QDT for the new National Certificate in Computer Games Development at SCQF Level 6 was held this morning, in the SQA offices in Glasgow.<\/p>\n<p>Ten people attended, representing colleges, schools and employers. There was a good geographical spread (colleges from Dundee to Kilmarnock were represented) and a good gender mix (unusually for this subject area, more women than men). It was particularly pleasing to see a school representative on the team.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of this first meeting was to set the scene and provide background information on the development.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 425px\"><strong style=\"margin: 12px 0 4px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/bobbyelliott\/nc-computer-games-qdt\" title=\"NC Computer Games QDT\">NC Computer Games QDT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 5px 0 12px\">View more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/\">presentations<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/bobbyelliott\">bobbyelliott<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>We discussed how this development fits with existing qualifications, the role of the QDT, and the planned timescales. I hope to have this new award available to centres from August 2012.<\/p>\n<p>It was a good, productive meeting, which, I hope, achieved its goals. There were lots of useful contributions from people. The popularity of computer games with learners was apparent, as was the educational merits of this subject area.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s not too late to volunteer to serve on the QDT. <a href=\"mailto:hilary.weir@sqa.org.uk\">Contact Hilary<\/a> for more information. We hope to have the second meeting some time in October.<\/p>\n<p>Once complete, this new award will sit alongside a comprehensive portfolio of qualifications in computer games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first meeting of the QDT for the new National Certificate in Computer Games Development at SCQF Level 6 was held this morning, in the SQA offices in Glasgow. Ten people attended, representing colleges, schools and employers. There was a good geographical spread (colleges from Dundee to Kilmarnock were represented) and a good gender mix (unusually for this subject area, more women than men). It was particularly pleasing to see a school representative on the team. The purpose of this&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\/397","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=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}