I have created a document in Word, a sample of a possible project to use with a university EFL class. How can I share it online so that you EVO members can see it?
It's a project tied to a desert temple that I recently discovered. Of course, it's just a hypothetical example of a possible project for now and would have to be implemented differently with students playing on a different server.
Don Carroll the easiest is to copy the document and past it in a google doc file on your google drive then share the link here. You can put sharing permissions on it, from "view" only to ability to edit depending on what you are planning.
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Let's see if that works.
ReplyDeleteOf course for this to work as an actual project, I would have to build and copy and bury enough pyramids for each group to have their own. And it would probably need to be done in creative mode.
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ReplyDeleteOK, I think I was able to change the permissions so anyone can access these documents.
ReplyDeleteThis is a wonderful project!!! It requires observation, identifying the materials, measuring and estimating how much resources are necessary for the replica, describing the structures of the temple, and building as a team. Once they presented their replicas, another task can be to send them on a journey to seek out other team's replicas and loot the hidden treasures without breaking a block. This would provide them a purpose to build a replica elsewhere, somewhere hidden on the other end of the map. Just an idea. :) Thank for sharing!!! ^___^
ReplyDeleteIt would be very interesting to observe and record (both text and talk) all the interaction that happens in the various stages of this project. Only by examining the actually talk (and actions) produced by participants while carrying out a task can we say anything empirical about the effectiveness of the task.
ReplyDeleteBut I still don't grasp how such a project would actually be implemented in MC. I'm sure it could be done, I just wouldn't know where to begin. The original temples would first have to be built for the student groups to work on right? One per group. And they would have to be distributed around. And I suppose also partially buried. I definitely couldn't do this myself.
Can someone lay out what would be required to implement such a project? Let's assume I had (or had access to) a dedicated server. And I think it would be better to play in creative mode, since IMHO the "survival" aspect wouldn't add any useful complexity to the project as a language learning activity.
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Thanks, Maha! I tried this as it works just as you say. (I posted a screenshot). Now to figure out how to do it in multi-player.
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