Hi all

Hi all,

I plan to keep the server up for a while. However over the next two days it will be down as I do some maintenance on my computer. I'll let everyone know when it is back up.

Great EVO Closing webcast sessions!

Great EVO Closing webcast sessions! I really enjoyed moderating #EVOMC15 , maybe wasn't able to help as I wanted to, but I promise I will keep learning and sharing with you especially with the help of my two boys! :) Thank you Vance Stevens for inviting Filip Smolčec and me, thx Jeff Kuhn for being patient with us. I have learned a lot from all of you. Thanks to all partipants and moderators.  :) Greetings from Croatia!

Hi all, with #evosessions for 2015 coming to a close, your EVO Minecraft moderators Jeff, Vance, Bobbi, Filip,...

Hi all, with #evosessions for 2015 coming to a close, your EVO Minecraft moderators Jeff, Vance, Bobbi, Filip, Marijana, and David hope you enjoyed and benefited from #evomc15 . We would like to invite you now to complete the course as follows: 

(1) You are especially invited to join us at the #evo15 closing ceremony Sunday Feb 15, as listed as our final event for this session https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cr3i8u08omjagth45dss5jp7euk?authkey=CO_M5eq6oeWH8gE. All #EVOsessions will be represented, and each will have approximately 10 minutes to step forward and speak about how wonderful their experience was. It would be great if you can be present and lend your voice to the recording. The event starts at 1400 GMT and takes place in Bb Collaborate (Elluminate) http://learningtimesevents.org/webheads/.

We can have a #evomc15 Skype and/or http://chatwing.com/vancestev
back-channel to coordinator our effort on the day.

(2) Please respond to the survey at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/JBHVKT8
this is a survey which all participants in EVO are requested to complete. The results go into a report presented at the TESOL conference each year, this year in Toronto.

(3) You can claim your badge. Instructions are here http://tinyurl.com/evomc15-syllabus and here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bIrwrRqYdTjFTXbX7ZUrjQhwi6GZgJvYCMmzsbm7DJ8/edit?usp=sharing
The latter link serves as evidence of your accomplishment; that is, it is a publicly viewable record of LINKS to your missions. The requirements for a badge are to show evidence of 5 of ten possible missions accomplished. 

To get a badge you need to JOIN that space (see http://screencast.com/t/7LHU8UF7X5) and enter your accomplishments with verification links where possible (in other words, if you introduced yourself to our Google+ community, find a 
link to that post like this http://screencast.com/t/tMYgz0LYl and link the cell where you indicate YES to that URL). 

You will see when you receive your badge (from Credly) that your badge will link back to the public record of your missions accomplished. One more thing, if you want a badge, please enter your details in the spreadsheet before March 1 (we'll stop checking after that).

(4) Keep in touch via our Google+ community. I personally have learned a lot about Minecraft I didn't know before (like how to DO it for example) and I want to learn more. I have enjoyed this so much that I have decided to propose this session for EVO again next year. I will ask the existing slate of moderators to re-enlist (and if others would like to help out, let us know). So this community will hopefully remain active, and we'll reform next year in the same Google+ space.

So this is not goodbye, but a mOOC (a miniscule open online course) is a course with a beginning and end, and #EVOMC15 ends tomorrow Feb 15. But continue to use the tag and feel free to continue to post in this space. Looking forward to ongoing interaction with all of you - Vance
https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cr3i8u08omjagth45dss5jp7euk?authkey=CO_M5eq6oeWH8gE

Great God! This is an awful place - Scott's Last Expedition, Journal, 17 January 1912

Great God! This is an awful place - Scott's Last Expedition, Journal, 17 January 1912

Dear colleagues,
It has been a wonderful experience working with all of you over the last five weeks. However this correspondence may indeed be my last. I have, quite literally, dug myself into a hole. A rather large one. I can no longer judge the passage of time but I have wandered for what seems to be days with no end to this cavernous void. My supply of chickens is still quite robust however sticks with which to build pick axes runs perilously thin. Should I not see daylight again, please tell the world my story and carry on all that we have achieved in this unforgiving and blocky world.

-Jeff
#evomc15

Here are the screen shots I took during our sessions in Jeff's Minecraft server.

Here are the screen shots I took during our sessions in Jeff's Minecraft server. On a PC, your screenshots are on your C drive, under users > your user name > app data > roaming > .minecraft > screenshots

Hi folks, week 5, we're winding down here.

Hi folks, week 5, we're winding down here. Sorry for the silence, but last weekend we got together on Friday on the sandbox server. On Sunday Jeff Kuhn and I presented on #evomc15 , archived at 
http://learning2gether.net/2015/02/08/evo-minecraft-mooc-at-the-free-live-connecting-online-co15-conference/

Tomorrow, we have a meeting with Jeff at 1300-1500 GMT where some of us are determined to come away with a working server 
https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/c5qv1bj2gg9jicp7bl30o51eo68?authkey=CLHZ36iDr7imvAE

And we are awarding badges. In order to receive a badge you need to provide evidence of at least 5 missions accomplished.
Visit http://tinyurl.com/evomc15-badgetrack and fill in details with links or dates of your evidence. 

More on all of this when I get a moment (non-virtual life is a bane of all our existences)
http://learning2gether.net/2015/02/08/evo-minecraft-mooc-at-the-free-live-connecting-online-co15-conference

Jeff Kuhn and Vance Stevens will present this Sunday Feb 8 at 1300 GMT at the #CO15 Connecting Online Conference.

Originally shared by Vance Stevens

Jeff Kuhn and Vance Stevens will present this Sunday Feb 8 at 1300 GMT at the #CO15 Connecting Online Conference. The topic is of course educational benefits of #Minecraft in the context of our EVO Minecraft mOOC #evomc15 #EVOsessions. The Connecting Online 2015 conference is being held in WizIQ Friday through Sunday this weekend, and our presenation will take place at this URL:
http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/2476847-co15-evo-minecraft-mooc. This should be the link as well for the recording. 

There's more information about times and URLs for connecting with ours and all the CO15 sessions at http://tinyurl.com/learning2gether. All are welcome to attend.
events/c30tdg0s9bmmlj2a2i1ctbiufqo?authkey=CJ3FkeLk24TkOQ

Just on the topic of gaming and community and co-opeartion.

Just on the topic of gaming and community and co-opeartion. We have just started a project with a school across the pond. We know nothing of the place, didn't even know it existed up to a week ago. Lo and behold I get this email from one of my students.... What do you think his level of motivation is to get into this project now? Is he going to influence the attitude of the rest of the class? Questions? (Ignore the language, the email was written in haste ;-)

Hi everyone, I have just managed to catch up the hangout - listening ho wto set up a server and it sounds much...

Hi everyone, I have just managed to catch up the hangout  - listening ho wto set up a server and it sounds much easier and possible than I thought h- one question though - where does one get that server program from please :-)

For #learning2gether this week Vance Stevens is scheduled to present double header #CO15 and ICT4ELT ...

For #learning2gether this week Vance Stevens is scheduled to present double header #CO15 and ICT4ELT #EVOsessions presentations Sunday Feb 8. 
 - The first is at 1300 GMT and is a presentation on the #evomc15 EVO Minecraft MOOC session with co-moderator +Jeff Kuhn. It's part of the Connecting Online 2015 conference, held in WizIQ, at this URL:
http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/2476847-co15-evo-minecraft-mooc
 - The second at 1400 GMT is about the evolution of Webheads in Action, for the #ICT4ELT #EVOsessions , and is to be held in Bb Collaborate, http://learningtimesevents.org/webheads/ 
 - There's more information about times and URLs for connecting with these sessions at 
http://tinyurl.com/learning2gether
 - All are welcome.
http://integrating-technology.wiziq.com/online-class/2476847-co15-evo-minecraft-mooc

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/02/teaching-in-the-age-of-minecraft/385231/ #evomc15

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/02/teaching-in-the-age-of-minecraft/385231/ #evomc15  
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/02/teaching-in-the-age-of-minecraft/385231

Would you be willing to answer 5 quick questions in a poll created by Nina Liakos, head coordinator of EVO?

Would you be willing to answer 5 quick questions in a poll created by Nina Liakos, head coordinator of EVO? It's here https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/JBHVKT8 and its purpose is to get feedback regarding #EVOMC15 for a report Nina needs to make at TESOL in Toronto, and she needs these questions answered by as many EVO participants as possible. If you're in other #EVOsessions, you'll be getting polled in those sessions as well. This is just for Minecraft MOOC.

Hi all

Hi all,
Sorry for being a lurker so far but these four weeks have been terribly busy and here I am, still at Introductions and hoping to catch up.

I am an EFL teacher from Croatia. I teach at a primary school in Velika Gorica, a town in the greater area of Zagreb, the capital of Croatia. My students are 12 and 14 years old and a lot of them play Minecraft. I am a noob but very enthusiastic and determined to learn.

Looking forward to learning from you and hope to be able to share some ideas before the end of the session.

Hi everyone, I've posted the video and audio mp3 from yesterday's session with David Dodgson and Jeff Kuhn here:

Hi everyone, I've posted the video and audio mp3 from yesterday's session with David Dodgson and Jeff Kuhn here: 
http://learning2gether.net/2015/02/01/learning2gether-with-dave-dodgson-and-jeff-kuhn-evo-minecraft-mooc-modifying-the-game-for-language-learning/

At that session we tentatively agreed to try a survival session in Jeff's server on Thu at some time after 11:00 GMT. I set up a Doodle to help us set a time (range) for it.  If you think you'd like to play, let us know your preferred time at the Doodle poll here:
http://doodle.com/defkrem9f94rfu6r

If you'd like to try for another day, feel free to set up your own poll and post its link here.
http://doodle.com/defkrem9f94rfu6r

We end our Networking Week 3 in EVO Minecraft MOOC with dispatches from Canvas MOOC, and invite you in Week 4...

We end our Networking Week 3 in EVO Minecraft MOOC with dispatches from Canvas MOOC, and invite you in Week 4 Cluster with us there. https://www.canvas.net/courses/minecraft-for-educators

"Week 2 is all about servers; what they are, how to download them, install them and some things to watch out for along the way." Here is the schedule:

Monday 2nd Feb: An introduction to servers - What they are and the different kinds that are out there.
Tuesday 3rd Feb: To host or not to host? LAN maybe your answer
Wednesday 4th Feb: Installing a Vanilla 1.8 Server
Thursday 5th Feb: Working with Bukkit
Friday 6th Feb: The world of Forge and MinecraftEDU
d
https://www.canvas.net/courses/minecraft-for-educators

We just had a great session with Jeff Kuhn and David Dodgson on using MC with students, and part of that was about...

We just had a great session with Jeff Kuhn  and David Dodgson on using MC with students, and part of that was about setting up a server (recording http://youtu.be/cvpi4_a0wCE). Jeff has me convinced i can set one up on my laptop and get going with my students between classes.  Meanwhile, check out this declare statement by a participant in the Canvas MC course where setting up your server is first order of business. This participant has expressed my own goals at this point (except my kids are grown)


I am new and my plan is to:

- get a Minecraft EDU account
- learn to access Minecraft on various platforms
- learn to provide something for my students

- learn to use minecraft with my children
- learn to install own server
- learn to build learning adventures to be discovered by my classes.
http://youtu.be/cvpi4_a0wCE