Hi everybody.

Hi everybody. The 10th VWBPE (Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education) conference starts today at 11 AM PDT in Secondlife. If you're going I look forward to seeing you there (my avatar is Olivetree Lighthouse) and if you've never been to Secondlife before, it's a great opportunity to jump in and explore the environment and how educators have been using it. This is a link to the conference calendar https://vwbpe.org/conference/vwbpe-calendar .

If you're new just

1- go to https://secondlife.com/my/index.php?lang=en-US and create an account (choose a name that you like. Choose an avatar but also know that you can change later)
2- Download and install this viewer http://www.firestormviewer.org/downloads/ . It usually works better than the official one.
3- Let me know your Avatar name so that I can send you a friend request and let me know when you would like to try it and/or which sessions you can attend so that I meet you and show you around.
4- make sure you have a working headset.

From what I've heard, this year's conference promises to be a really good one with good examples of how Virtual Worlds have been and can be used in education.

I've volunteered to help in the conference, which means I'll be in-world a lot so if you cannot make it to a particular session but would like to take a tour or try the environment any time please let me know

I hope to see you in-world.
https://vwbpe.org/conference/vwbpe-calendar

This video was recorded at the TESOL Conference in Seattle on March 22, 2017.

This video was recorded at the TESOL Conference in Seattle on March 22, 2017. It shows one part of an event entitled The Electronic Village Online: Best of 2017. Christine Bauer-Ramazani introduced the session, and this excerpt cuts to the presentation by Vance Stevens on EVO Minecraft MOOC.

The presentation includes a live tour of the #evomc17 server. Many thanks to +Dakota Redstone and Aaron Schwartz for joining me online for that part of the presentation, and being there to illustrate how gamification works through collaboration, as when Dakota helped me out of a hole I had fallen into so we could quickly continue our romp around the server.
https://youtu.be/DxyHfREMjyU

Whoa, forgot to mention that +David Dodgson has an article out in the latest issue of TESL-EJ, the free,...

Whoa, forgot to mention that +David Dodgson has an article out in the latest issue of TESL-EJ, the free, everyone-is-already-subscribed journal of issues in ESOL. Participants in #evomc17 will enjoy reading this one :-)
http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume20/ej80/ej80int/

Minecraft Monday

Minecraft Monday
If anyone is interested "Bented" a middle school student in Maine or New Hampshire, not sure which, is going to teach basic redstone on the VSTE server Monday at 8 PM Easter time. That's GMT -5.

We'd love to have any of you come who are interested.

The photo is the first station on his lesson plan.

woot!

woot! I've just discovered my first ZombieSpawner while mining near my hideout at the Mesa biome . This picture is after I neutralized it and the contents of the two chests that were in the room (yay for the saddle and music discs). :)

Feels good to help heal someone :)

Feels good to help heal someone :)
This is a picture of Olivetree trading with her first zombie villager she saves .
Now the trick is to take him to his new family, and for that I think she will wait till one of the experts are online.
btw he's yet another cleric, still no farmers . At the moment we don't have any farmers at Hinderval and Glitch which got me searching for information about the spawning probabilities. No wonder we don't get many farmers.

One more thing, did you know that there's a farmer type called "Nitwit? lol

Find all that and more here http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Villager

Here's the doodle. Please select the times that you can come play with us to explore a Desert Temple .

Here's the doodle. Please select the times that you can come play with us to explore a Desert Temple .
http://doodle.com/poll/762rwrtvz6e9mibr
http://doodle.com/poll/762rwrtvz6e9mibr