Thursday, December 31, 2015

Family activities at my house when son and granddaughter are present include #evosessions #EVO #Minecraft #MOOC...

Family activities at my house when son and granddaughter are present include #evosessions #EVO #Minecraft #MOOC #EVOMC16. My 7 year-old granddaughter has no trouble engaging, even with adults like Teacher Rose Bard , in-world from half a world away in Brazil


I thought I could tag these to #evomc16 "photos" but that was not an option.

I thought I could tag these to #evomc16   "photos" but that was not an option. After all the caption work I'm posting anyway.














Saturday, December 5, 2015

There are a number of treats posted at http://learning2gether.net/2015/11/29/learning2gether-with-moodle-mooc7/,...

There are a number of treats posted at http://learning2gether.net/2015/11/29/learning2gether-with-moodle-mooc7/, mostly relating to the #Learning2gether Episode 303 presentation given by Vance Stevens at Moodle MOOC #MM7 on #evomc16 EVO Minecraft MOOC and #gamification in teacher professional development.

Your choices for recapitulating this presentation range from a Camtasia recording on YouTube of the original WizIQ recording, to a 45 min distillation of the talk in mp3 format which you can stream or download, and play as an accompaniment to the slides which are available via http://slideshare.net/vances.
https://youtu.be/tBPhpYghs9E

Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Of course they are sold out now, but if you are into programming, or teaching programming to kids, the newest...

Of course they are sold out now, but if you are into programming, or teaching programming to kids, the newest version of the Raspberry Pi is only $5 (sold out now but you get a free one with a subscription to the MagPi magazine)

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/raspberry-pis-5-computer-is-as-powerful-as-2005-laptop/articleshow/49978726.cms

Note: when they say it will run Minecraft, they mean a less-than-full-featured version of minecraft...that said, Minecraft Pi Edition is great for learning Python.  You can enter commands in Python in the terminal and they will affect your world in Minecraft.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/raspberry-pis-5-computer-is-as-powerful-as-2005-laptop/articleshow/49978726.cms

This is about the best I've been able to do so far.

This is about the best I've been able to do so far. I can't get comments to upload consistently to blogger. It might be a bandwidth ...