Hi everyone

Hi everyone,

Week 2 Jan 17-23 is dedicated to the DECLARE phase of coping in MOOCs.

After the initial ORIENT week we have 31 people so far who have filled out our Google form at 
http://tinyurl.com/evomc16-enroll. From that around 25 Minecraft user names have been whitelisted on our server.

You are welcome to join us at any time but please fill in the information we need to whitelist you in our form.

Several of us have met in-world already using a variety of VoIP tools so we can talk live with one another while exploring the game.

Our proposed VoIP tool Bb Collaborate is not working out for 40% of those who filled in the form so we must find another. I will create a Skype Group for #EVOMC16 using the Skype names provided when you filled in the form. This will serve two functions: (1) to give us a group text chat for better communications, and (2) to possibly use it for voice calls while we are in MC. Other moderators have other suggestions and we'll let you know when we find the best one, or you can suggest one in a comment here.

If you did not provide your MC user name or Skype name on the form and want to rectify that, try to edit the form. But if you can't do that, just visit again and fill it out again and submit. We can eliminate duplicate records later but we need your MC user name to whitelist you so you can join us in world.

Last night several of us went to our server after Jeff's talk and played around. It's in creative mode at the moment, so it's safe. If you are with us on this session you need to get there as soon as possible and practice before Jeff and Aaron put us in survival mode (yikes!)

We have created a Doodle for Week 2 here 
http://doodle.com/poll/9bws7d7xvbzg96h5
Please register your times available to join us in Minecraft and we will try to meet you there.

I have added a category in the left sidebar for "Arrange meetings in Minecraft" so if you want to post in this community to that category perhaps this will help facilitate people managing to meet up in world.

Recordings are forthcoming for our two keynote talks so far, mine on Jan 12 and Jeff's on the 17th. Jeff's should be posted by tomorrow. We'll update you.

I have updated the missions list at 
http://missions4evomc.pbworks.com/ to remove the one about joining Bb Collaborate (no longer required) and to postpone my promise to have a Google sheet set up for missions tracking. I'll get to that asap, and thanks to those who have been looking for it and helping to get me in gear.

You can find your missions through the syllabus document whose link is in the right-hand sidebar at this community as shown in the screenshot here: http://screencast.com/t/ehm2DnRuKY

I hope we're responding to your questions. If you have any suggestions, doubts, concerns, or anything of interest to share please post here.

This is being posted under category of Week 2: Declare
http://tinyurl.com/evomc16-enroll