Slides from conference talk reviewing SimPa project.

1. SimPā in review Tori Weatherall Samuel Mann Khyla Russell

3. Objective 1: The development and testing of a participatory approach to game development. Objective 2:Develop a software tool for creating specific Māori virtual environments: the “SimPā toolkitObjective 3: Develop and test tools for the use of games in teaching Māori concepts. Objective 4: Develop techniques and practices for the further use of GamePā Objective 5: Develop a new specialist area in education: Māori digital content Objective 6:Develop a process of adoption of this initiative beyond the collaborating partners

4. Objective 1: The development and testing of a participatory approach to game development. Objective 2: Develop a software tool for creating specific Māori virtual environments: the “SimPā toolkit”Objective 3: Develop and test tools for the use of games in teaching Māori concepts. Objective 4: Develop techniques and practices for the further use of GamePā Objective 5: Develop a new specialist area in education: Māori digital content Objective 6. Develop a process of adoption of this initiative beyond the collaborating partners

9. Process of partnerships of ideas and capabilities rather than technology

10. engaged in wider knowledge , application of digital technology

14. Rūnaka actively using SimPā to connect with their youth

16. Need to abandon a linear flow to accommodate a process that is very much more organic.

17. SimPā toolkit has ended up being much more about process – partnerships of ideas and capabilities – than about the technology.

18. The project has taken far more partnership negotiation than the team ever imagined.