Derek Breen
Derek Breen | |
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| Born | March 28, 1970 Boston, United States |
| Occupation | Writer, Educator, Graphic Designer |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | American |
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Derek Breen (born March 28, 1970 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American writer, educator and graphic designer.
Early life and education[edit]
Breen earned a Bachelor of Arts from University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in 1997[1] where his achievements included working as Editor-In-Chief for The Torch (weekly student newspaper), producing radio programs for WSMU and fiction and poetry editor for Temper (annual literary review). He later studied instructional design and educational media development in the post graduate program at Harvard Extension School, where he had a teaching fellowship in 2014[2]. He also had a teaching fellowship at Moscow State Pedagogical University in 2016[3].
Career[edit]
Breen was on the faculty of British School of Art and Design in Moscow from 2016 to 2017[4]. He worked as instructional and UX designer for StarLogo as part of the Education Arcade at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2013 to 2016. He taught computer science at Prospect Hill Academy in Cambridge, MA from 2011 to 2013. He served as owner/operator of Mod, a cybercafé and digital learning center in Charlottesville, Virginia[5]. He worked as New Media Producer at KCAL-9 TV in Los Angeles from 1999 to 2002.
In 2015 Breen started publishing books for teachers and students which explore programming, digital design and digital storytelling[6]. Since then he has done extensive educational charity work across Europe, Asia and Africa, including serving as a special ambassador for EU Code Week[7] and Africa Code Week[8]. Breen's books have been translated into several languages including French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian, Dutch, Hungarian and Chinese[9].
Breen served in the United States Navy from 1989 to 1992. He was stationed on the USS Missouri where he acted as Target Designation Officer during Operation Desert Storm[10].
Personal life[edit]
On January 29, 2018 Breen publicly disclosed he had brain cancer[11], discovered in 2014, which caused him to cease his international teaching and educational advocacy work in March, 2017.
Published books[edit]
- Scratch For Kids for Dummies, Wiley Publishing, 2015
- Programmer en s'amusant avec Scratch pour les Nuls (French), First Interactive, 2015
- Scratch, játékos programozás (Hungarian), Panem Kv, 2015
- Games ontwerpen voor kids (Dutch), BBNC uitgevers, 2016
- Erste Schritte mit Scratch für Dummies Junior (German), Wiley-VCH, 2016
- Creating Digital Animations, Wiley Publishing, 2016
- Designing Digital Games, Wiley Publishing, 2016
- Criando Animações Digitais Para (Brazilian Portuguese), Alta Books, 2017
- Computeranimaties maken voor kids voor Dummies (Dutch), Voor Dummies, 2017
- Diseña juegos digitales (Spanish), Para Dummies, 2017
- Crea animaciones digitales (Spanish), Para Dummies, 2017
- Programme tes jeux vidéo pour les Nuls (French), First Interactive, 2017
- Criando Animações Digitais Para Leigos, (Portuguese Brazilian), Alta Books, 2017
- 从头开始傻瓜 (Mandarin Chinese), CHINTL, 2017
- Animazioni digitali con Scratch: Crea e anima le tue storie (Italian), Hoepli, 2018
- Crea i tuoi videogiochi con Scratch: Progetta giochi digitali (Italian), Hoepli, 2018
- کتاب ساخت انیمیشن (Persian), Avand Danesh Publications, 2018
- کتاب طراحی بازیهای دیجیتالی (Persian), Avand Danesh Publications, 2018
- Crée des jeux vidéo - conçois tes jeux avec Scratch (French), First Interactive, 2020
- Dijital Animasyon Tasarimi - Çizgilerle Öyküleri Canlandirin! (Turkish), Nobel Yasam, 2020
Educational products[edit]
- Coding Scratch Game Design Skill Cards, ETA Hand2Mind, 2015, collaboration with Cynthia Solomon
- Digital Game Design Curriculum Guide, i2 Learning, 2016, collaboration with Cynthia Solomon
References[edit]
- ↑ https://experimentalstagereunion.wordpress.com/hall-of-presidents/
- ↑ "Amazon.com: Derek Breen: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle". www.amazon.com. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
- ↑ Horst, Jens. "international open podcast episode 005". internationalopenmagazine.org.
- ↑ "Derek Breen to lead ArtsCool course for school kids in digital direction". britishdesign.ru (in русский). Retrieved 2018-03-10.
- ↑ ""Warhol's factory with coffee and computers" - C-VILLE Weekly". C-VILLE Weekly. 2006-12-05. Retrieved 2018-03-03.
- ↑ "Derek Breen, Good Reads". Retrieved 31 January 2018.
- ↑ Digital Single Market (2015-09-29), CODE WEEK 2015: Derek Breen, retrieved 2018-03-03
- ↑ "Africa Code Week". Retrieved 31 January 2018.
- ↑ "Derek Breen, Wiley Publishing". Retrieved 31 January 2018.
- ↑ https://ussmissouri.org/learn-the-history/operation-desert-storm#
- ↑ Breen, Derek (2018-01-19). "Teaching/Learning Journey Coming To An End…". Derek Breen. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
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