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Show Us Your Skills
at FableVision’s Portfolio Day

FableVision Studios is hiring! We have a busy year ahead, full of animation, game, and AR/VR projects, and we’re looking for kindred spirits passionate about educational media to add to our talent pool for freelance opportunities. Artists, animators, developers, and project managers are invited to attend our Portfolio Day.

RSVP to meet our team, show off your skills, and make some new connections.

What to Expect
Come to our studio to have a snack and drink, meet members of our team, and show us your work! FableVision’s Portfolio Day is a professional event. Attendees who are available for full-time freelance work should attend. RSVP is required.

What to Bring
Your portfolio! Be sure to have you portfolio ready to load up via a URL (website preferred). For artists and animators, bring your finished and in-progress work. For developers, bring your resume and provide samples and links to projects you’ve worked on—professional or personal. For producers, bring your resume or a list of projects you’ve produced and what your role was.

Space is limited, so if you can't register in time, don't worry—you can still send us a link to your portfolio through our website.

Click here to RSVP now and save your spot!

Date: Thursday, October 17
Time: 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Location: FableVision Studios, 308 Congress Street, 6th Floor, Boston, MA

The Future is Now: Games as Assessment

Cast your vote to help send FableVision to SXSW EDU 2020!

Registration for the 2020 SXSW EDU Conference & Festival is just around the corner! Now entering its tenth year, SXSW EDU is known for attracting some of the most influential people in innovative educational technology and media. Participants ranging from designers and developers to teachers and administrators attend each year to celebrate education and discuss how to improve teaching and learning for students of all ages and backgrounds.

SXSW’s unique PanelPicker system allows community members to vote online for who they want to speak at the event. This year, FableVision Studios has teamed up with MIT Education Arcade, MIT Playful Journey Lab, and Filament Games to enter a proposal for a panel on developing successful games to teach and assess 21st century skills.

If you’d like to see us in Austin, create your free PanelPicker account on their site and vote for “The Future is Now: Games as Assessment.” This panel will explore the best ways to bring about successful learning experiences through technology, specifically highlighting game-based assessment as a measure for knowledge that has a demonstrated effectiveness and strong potential for the future.

To vote:

Make an account
Browse the submissions
Cast your vote

Community voting is open from August 5 to 23. Click here to vote for our panel!

FableVision Hosts a Play-Date at the 2019 Creative Juices Art Show

FableVision Studios warmly invites you to join us at the 2019 Creative Juices Art Show, which will take place on Friday, May 31. The annual art show showcases the creative work that FableVision staff, freelancers, and interns create outside of the studio.

This year’s theme is PLAY, and we’re excited for you to see the art, games, and interactives that our team has put together. Play is central to FableVision’s mission and spirit, and it gives us the opportunity to explore different kinds of creative projects—not just art, but also games, music, food, and more.

Come PLAY with us!

When: May 31 at 5:30 p.m.
Where: FableVision Studios, 308 Congress Street, Floor 6, Boston, MA 02210

RSVP is required. Click here to save your spot!

FableVision and Massachusetts Department
of Mental Health Open Conversations About Children’s Mental Health with New Campaign

The Massachusetts Department of Mental Health (DMH) has launched a new public awareness campaign to normalize conversations about mental health for children. Different Kinds of Hurt: Isaac’s Story features a graphic novel and animation created in partnership between DMH, Walker, Express Yourself, and FableVision Studios.

Isaac’s Story highlights the similarities between mental and physical health through a conversation between Isaac and his friend Mia. FableVision wrote scripts, storyboarded the animation, and created original characters for Isaac’s Story. The campaign also includes print materials: a poster, coloring page, and three-page resource guide for teachers, families, and parents. FableVision designed these resources to foster conversations both in and out of the classroom.

DMH launched the campaign at the Sarah Greenwood School in Dorchester on Tuesday, May 7. Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services Secretary Marylou Sudders read the book as a part of Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week. The story was also featured in a Boston 25 News piece for Mental Health Awareness Month.

The Isaac’s Story graphic novel is available for free for Massachusetts state residents. To order your copy, click here.

For more information, check out DMH’s full press release and our StudioFlash.

FableVision and Big Picture Learning’s
Navigating Our Way Hits the Big Screen
at Boston International Film Festival

Navigating Our Way is a leading national initiative committed to shifting how society values career and technical education and the skilled trades, so all students may follow their interests and pursue their passions. The short animated video created by FableVision in partnership with Big Picture Learning, will screen at the 17th annual Boston International Film Festival! The festival, which takes place April 11-16, aims to share the work of international independent filmmakers.

The film follows two friends, Seymour and Sylvie, on different, but equally enriching life journeys. Their story strengthens students’ senses of identity, confidence, and purpose, no matter what path they choose.

When: April 13 at 11 a.m. (session 14)
Where: Kendall Square Movie Theater

Check out Boston International Film Festival’s website for more information.
See you at the festival!

FableVision Wins Parents’ Choice Gold Awards for Project Here Games and The Water Princess

FableVision Studios is proud to announce that we won two Parents’ Choice Gold Awards for our work on Project Here Games and The Water Princess! We would like to thank and congratulate all those involved in both projects.

Project Here Games is a collection of games dedicated to ending substance abuse in teens that we designed and developed in partnership with Health Resources in Action, the GE Foundation, and the Massachusetts Attorney General Office. The game is a part of Project Here, a Massachusetts state-wide initiative to promote substance use prevention and healthy decision-making through social-emotional learning and to make substance use prevention education available to all public middle schools in the state.

The Water Princess is an animated film that we created in collaboration with Weston Woods Studios. The film is based on the award-winning book of the same name, written by Susan Verde and illustrated by FableVision founder Peter H. Reynolds, which tells the story of supermodel and activist Georgie Badiel’s life and brings awareness to the clean water crisis.

We’re proud of the hard work that our team put into these projects and the important messages that both Project Here Games and The Water Princess share with young audiences and their families.

To read more about Project Here Games’ Gold Award, click here.
To read more about The Water Princess’ Gold Award, click here.

FableVision CEO Paul Reynolds
Keynotes iSTEAM Conference

When: Friday, January 11, 2019

Details:
9:30 a.m.: FabMaker Studio Breakout session: ASB 136 - Paper Prototyping for STEAM-Powered Learning with Andrea Calvin
12-2:00 p.m.: Book sale sponsored by Watchung Booksellers
1:00 p.m.: Featured Keynote with Paul Reynolds
1:30 p.m.-2:15 p.m.: Book signing with Paul Reynolds

Throughout the event discover FabMaker Studio in the iSTEAM Playground. There will also be a break out session to explore FableVision Learning’s Fab@School Maker Studio, the design and fabrication program accessible and affordable to all schools and libraries.

For more information, click here.

ED Games Expo 2019 Showcases
Cyberchase Fractions Quest, Project Here Games, Fab@School Maker Studio

When: Tuesday, January 8, 2019, 4-8 p.m.
Where: The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC

The ED Games Expo showcases successful ed tech products given a kick start with government small business grants through the ED/IES Small Business Innovation Research program. Vote for two FableVision-developed games, Cyberchase Fractions Quest and Zoombinis, both nominated for 2019 Learning Games Awards.

Fab@School Maker Studio is a web-based design and fabrication tool for students in PreK to grade 8 to design, invent, and build their own geometric constructions, pop-ups, and working machines using low-cost materials like paper and cardstock and a wide range of tools from scissors to inexpensive 2D cutters, 3D printers, and laser cutters. Developed by FableVision Studios, Reynolds Center for Teaching, Learning and Creativity, with initial funding in 2010 by ED/IES SBIR.

Cyberchase Fractions Quest, based on the popular PBS KIDS math series Cyberchase, is an immersive game combining a high-stakes adventure story with a research-based approach to fractions learning. Created for use in Grades 3 and 4, the game is designed for use in both schools and homes, and for all major tablet, smartphone, and desktop/laptop platforms. Developed by FableVision Studios with support provided by a 2017 ED/IES SBIR award.

Project Here Games is a free and innovative online app for middle school students to practice healthy decision-making for substance use prevention. The game is part of Project Here, a public-private collaboration to make substance use prevention education available to every public middle school in Massachusetts. Developed by FableVision Studios in partnership with the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office, GE Foundation, Health Resources in Action, The Herren Project.