Let's say a student asked me about wanting to try learning English through MC. And I am not going to use MC myself but would like to encourage this student to try it out on his/her own.
Is there a server that would be open to such a student, such that he or she could just buy a copy of MC, log on, and start exploring?
There are many multiplayer servers where English is the main (or required) language...and there are some maps that can be played single-player or put on class servers -- like these : https://education.minecraft.net/class-resources/worlds/
ReplyDeleteI can recommend indiesquish.com - IndieSquish - Child-friendly Minecraft community as a great community of kind people - they allow all ages and things are well managed in terms of respect and tolerance amongst players. .. To join in you have to post in their forums and then you get whitelisted. This is where I tend to send those who are too old to join my server. ;)
ReplyDeleteThanks for all these responses. It would be an interesting case study for me to find a student or two who are already gamers and set them loose in one of these English-medium servers. The challenge for me would be how to document what they do (and ideally also what they learn).
ReplyDeleteBTW, to ALL servers offer a Dynamic Map of the world? Or is that something that has been created specifically for EVO?
ReplyDeleteDon Carroll Dynmap is a very popular plugin that many servers use. So, no .. not all servers have a dynmap .. but many do. https://github.com/webbukkit/dynmap/wiki
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