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Building a global educational games community CounterPlay 2014 Aarhus, Denmark Kirsten Campbell-Howes @campbellhowes @edugameshub Edugameshub.com

Building a global community of edugamers

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Page 1: Building a global community of edugamers

Building a global educational games

communityCounterPlay 2014Aarhus, Denmark

Kirsten Campbell-Howes@campbellhowes@edugameshub

Edugameshub.com

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Making friends is the most important thing you will ever do

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Becoming a teacher was the smartest thing I ever did

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I started designing games by accident…

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Now I help people make better educational products…

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In April 2011 I was bored, and made a life-changing decision…

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3 years later - #LEGup has grown and I’ve learned a lot

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Many successes…

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• Reached £200K and closing £350K this month

• Reached 16,000 teachers around the world• Used in 126 countries

• Partnerships w/ Telefonica & RM Education• Licensing deal in Japan worth £250K

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• Moved from 150K users to 700K• 100m questions answered• £117k investment (now raising

£2 million)

• Used in over 100 countries

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Just a few of our overseas friends…

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The UK edugames community now…

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A few challenges…

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Our ambitions…

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Growing edugameshub…

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Be happy to stand out…

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Don’t worry (too much) about money...

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Stay interested…

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What we can do together…

• Learn• Play• Grow

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We’re better together

• Let’s talk about what we can do next…

@edugameshub

edugameshub.com

#LEGup