Last week, Deb, Sherwin and Colleen headed off to Aspley State High School to introduce 10 teachers to the new interfaces of MiLK version 0.5. The teachers familiarised themselves with the new processes of administering a MiLK class. They created mock events to which they assigned mock builders and also mock class discussions.

We also introduced MiLK to a class of 23 year 8 students. The teacher of the class Katrina Beakley is setting her students the task of building school orientation events that will be played by the new year 8’s coming to the school next year.

The students were very excited about building their profiles, adding images, links and a short description about themselves. Colleen introduced MiLK with a demo game from the Adelaide Botanic Gardens workshop and walked the students through the steps of building events. The students encountered difficulties with saving images from the web to upload to their profile pages, with many sites including Google Images being barred. In a smart move to get over these issues, Katrina set profile building as homework so that students could upload images from their home computers.

The students will begin building their games this week and we look forward to seeing the results!