Speaker.

Alice Taylor

Channel 4 education commissioner & blogger

Alice Taylor Photo

Profile:

Alice Taylor commissions cross-platform educational content for 14-19 year olds, aiming to get useful, life-helpful information to teens via their most favoured platforms and formats. She specializes in videogames and virtual worlds, and Channel 4 Education’s 2009 slate includes Routes, a cross-platform game tackling DNA and genetic testing, an as-yet unnamed cross-platform game on the subject of privacy, online security and surveillance, and 1066 The Game, a web game depicting the events of the battles of 1066.

Alice was a judge for the 2006 & 2007 Independent Games Festival as well as D&AD 2008 and Dare to be Digital 2008. Alice founded the gamecentric blog Wonderland (www.wonderlandblog.com) and writes about gaming for sites and magazines, including The Guardian, New Statesman, and Kotaku.

Comments:

No comments have been posted.

Post comment

Type the code you see belowCaptcha Image

Share this video

Embed social bookmarks:

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Stumble Upon
  • Digg
  • Reddit
  • MySpace

Embed this video:

Link to this lecture:

Send to a friend

Send your friend an email about this lecture:

My Brainfood

Websites

BoingBoing
The home of the BoingBoing blog
The Guardian
The Guardian newspaper’s website
Etsy
Buy and sell handmade things
Super Punch
The Super Punch blog
Virtual Worlds News
The source for virtual worlds business news, strategy, insight and analysis.

Books

Little Brother
Author: Cory Doctorow
Description: Big Brother is watching you. Who is watching back?
ISBN: 0007288425
Uglies (Uglies Quartet)
Author: Scott Westerfeld
Description: Being Pretty isn’t all good…
ISBN: 1416911049
Makers
Author: Cory Doctorow
Description: What does the future look like? All sorts of things. Seashell robots that make toast, Boogie Woogie Elmo dolls that drive cars…
ISBN: 0007325223
Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals
Author: K Salen & E Zimmerman
Description: A monumental examination of the emerging field of games design.
ISBN: 0262240459
Mind Wide Open
Author: Steven Johnson
Description: Why you are what you think.
ISBN: 0141011157

Organisations

ORG
Preserving and promoting your rights in the digital age.
TOMS shoes
TOMS was founded on a simple premise: For every pair you purchase, TOMS will give a pair of shoes to a child in need. One for One.
SOS Kids
SOS Children, the world's largest orphan and abandoned children's charity.
The BBC
The BBC’s website
The EFF
The website of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
Next speaker