On Saturday, the #evomc19 tomb raiding team of Michiyo Toshima, Don Carroll, Dakotah Redstone, Jane Chien, Mattie,...

On Saturday, the #evomc19 tomb raiding team of Michiyo Toshima, Don Carroll, Dakotah Redstone, Jane Chien, Mattie, and myself, cameraman and archivist, conducted a proper temple excavation. Some back stairways were dug out and sandstone was removed from around the edges to expose the booby trap TNT and chests with the treasures inside, including diamond horse armor awarded by acclamation to Dak for his expertise and sense of adventure. But nothing was disturbed outside the temple save for a few iron doors and some gray brick walls to protect the excavators while they worked through the night.

And that wraps up our Week 4 cluster activities. Week 5 begins today where we FOCUS on what our participants have been doing throughout #evomc19. If you would like to show us your builds, or join us on another adventure somewhere (so many interesting spots on our server) simply reply to this post and we'll get back to you.

Enjoy the last week. Hope to connect in Minecraft!
https://learning2gether.net/2019/02/08/michiyo-joins-evo-minecraft-mooc-participants-in-a-deliberately-executed-tomb-raid/

I happened on OliveTree Lighthouse and Michiyo Toshima on the server last night while searching for coal at night in...

I happened on OliveTree Lighthouse and Michiyo Toshima on the server last night while searching for coal at night in a darkened mine, and ended up at a place where Mattie and others had been building fanciful sand castles near some well looted tombs. I was using my phone as a hot spot and suddenly it ran out of battery, in case people were wondering where I went (no, it wasn't another skeleton :-)

Thank you, Kim Harrison for inviting us on the East Coast Miners server.

Thank you, Kim Harrison for inviting us on the East Coast Miners server. Treasure hunting was a lot of fun! The coral reef and tropical fish are so beautiful! I think that kids can learn far more by collaborating and communicating with players in Minecraft than they can by taking online synchronous language lessons (Online language tutoring/learning has been a trend lately). I see a lot of creativity, problem-solving, and peer-teaching with patience in Minecraft. I was taught by Cats, a teenage east coast miner, how to fly. She gave me lots of tips and feedback to my repeated failing attempts, and with her help, I re-learned how to fly in survival mode in Minecraft!

===Info on East Coast Miners from the website: http://www.eastcoastminers.org/====
The East Coast Miners Minecraft Community is operated by two educators and one geek (engineer) in the hopes to enrich STEAM skills science, technology, engineering, art and math as well as communication and collaboration skills.

Greetings everyone, welcome to Week 4 in #evomc19.

Greetings everyone, welcome to Week 4 in #evomc19. As typically happens in MOOCs the 4th stage is clustering, where community members find their most like-minded colleagues and settle into projects amongst themselves. This seems to be happening here, as in the Riverbend community pictured below. This is also reflected in our Live Events schedule, where it may appear that things are tapering off, but in fact the worker bees have found the times they like to work together and have been popping onto the server at routine times to continue their builds. This doesn't mean we won't be declaring events. We'll be arranging more shortly.

Meanwhile, let us know if you want a guided tour of what's going on, or help getting started (never too late in EVO Minecraft MOOC). Feel free to join us, and keep an eye on our events page for new on what's coming up, http://missions4evomc.pbworks.com/w/page/130258521/2019_Live_Events.

Most importantly, if you want to join in, let us hear from you.

On Feb 4, 2018 Alexander Hayes helped us kick off Week 4 in #EVOMC18 by meeting in HoA with participants including...

On Feb 4, 2018 Alexander Hayes helped us kick off Week 4 in #EVOMC18 by meeting in HoA with participants including Mircea Patrascu, Maha Abdelmoneim, Jo Kay, Jane Chien, and Don Carroll. Alex presented his slides on the Minecraft dilemma at https://goo.gl/ETWD2H for about an hour, followed by another hour of stimulating discussion. You can watch the video here.

I've set up two more Doodle polls for Feb 5 thru 8th. You can find the links as well as more information about Alex's talk at our Live Events page, http://missions4evomc.pbworks.com/w/page/121439859/2018_Live_Events. Fill in the polls if you want us to look for you online; otherwise just turn up by following instructions in the Server link at the sidebar of this G+C. Let us know if you need someone to whitelist you (I'm off to work in a hurry just now).
https://youtu.be/ULIl4YebnOE

While looking for some information about enchants the title of this video caught my attention.

While looking for some information about enchants the title of this video caught my attention. While it had nothing to do with what I needed it got me curious. It's a funny video but it's also and interesting example of a someone brand new to the game and how instructions help or confuse them :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1D7swPUIA8

I have learned that not everyone has seen the event notice for Friday February 3, when Vance Stevens and Jeff Kuhn,...

I have learned that not everyone has seen the event notice for Friday February 3, when Vance Stevens and Jeff Kuhn, present at 1700 UTC at the Connecting Online conference starting today on EVO Minecraft MOOC: Third time around overview

I have just set up a stream for it at https://youtu.be/ijRcvzLuP4I

If that works (never any guarantees :-) then you can watch there and text chat with us on http://chatwing.com/vancestev

Here's what it's about: #EVOMC17 is now in its third iteration of seeking to introduce teachers to Big G Gamification by experiencing the concept through interaction with teaching peers in the “little g” game of #Minecraft. The presentation explains how the community has sustained itself for three years as a space where experienced players and noobs alike can contribute to each other’s appreciation of Minecraft as a “toy” for enabling learning over a wide range of concepts. This presentation will focus on the evolution of the #EVOsessions Minecraft MOOC community from 2015 through the present, how it has indeed become a community, who it has attracted from other networks, and the interesting move from starting in creative and then morphing to survival (2015 and 2016, to the running of two parallel worlds as we do today (2017).

You can participate live in WizIQ, here
https://www.wiziq.com/online-class/4315972-co17-evo17-minecraft-mooc-overview

Slides
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1UmLzUVGrG-T6KmV0QJvt2-IZX99Lp2TN_mnb4TgCN2k/edit?usp=sharing

For more information see http://missions4evomc.pbworks.com/w/page/112913140/Live_events2017#FriFeb31500UTCVanceStevensandJeffKuhnonEVOMC17atthe8thannualfreeconnectingonlineconference

All are welcome

https://youtu.be/ijRcvzLuP4I

Hi all, I've created a Doodle poll for the first two day of Week 3 Jan 30/31,...

Hi all, I've created a Doodle poll for the first two day of Week 3 Jan 30/31, https://doodle.com/poll/4tvizhqa8bu6krik. The server has been quite active with most people just turning up, but if you fill in the poll I for one will try to be there when you can. Hope to see you there.

I'm still working on my Survival reflections, but here's the beginning of it:

I'm still working on my Survival reflections, but here's the beginning of it:
 http://booklady9.edublogs.org/2016/03/01/minecraft-in-survival-mode/
#evomc16  
http://booklady9.edublogs.org/2016/03/01/minecraft-in-survival-mode

Surviving... and learning about connecting in Minecraft

Surviving... and learning about connecting in Minecraft
https://eslbeth.wordpress.com/2016/02/14/minecraft-friends/
https://eslbeth.wordpress.com/2016/02/14/minecraft-friends

Thanks Rose Bard Linda Gielen Jeff Kuhn and Marijana Smolcec for participating in my discussion on running a...

Thanks Rose Bard Linda Gielen Jeff Kuhn and Marijana Smolcec for participating in my discussion on running a minecraft server. A recording will be posted when it is available.

Well I made it into the survival server this afternoon. My blog is here. #evomc16

Well I made it into the survival server this afternoon. My blog is here. #evomc16  
http://yvonneh.edublogs.org/2016/02/06/evo_mooc-minecraft-server-6-survival/

I guess this slide show from the presentation I gave last night for a convergence of #evomc16 and EVO Techn-CLIL...

I guess this slide show from the presentation I gave last night for a convergence of #evomc16  and EVO Techn-CLIL will do as a state-of-the-session posting to take us in to endgame for Weeks 4 and 5. The session was recorded at https://www.wiziq.com/online-class/3496069-3-feb-webinar-with-vance-stevens and I'll blog about it shortly.

It seems clear that participants who are engaging here are able to figure out how to play the Big G Game of EVO Minecraft MOOC, and this presentation will show you what to do if you're not already doing it.

We have more sessions lined up for Sunday Feb 7 and we'd like to plan more, server parties and tours. Beth S O'Connell will be conducting a tour on Sunday and we'd very much like to be invited to tour Mircea Patrascu 's world in Week 5. We'll create events for anything we plan, and you can see what we're planning (waiting for confirmation on times) at
http://missions4evomc.pbworks.com/w/page/104666848/Live_events

If you want to give us a tour, please let us know. If you want to know when to find when people are available, use the Doodle link in the right hand sidebar. If you have any questions, ask. If you suffer sudden demise in survival mode on our server, don't worry, you'll bounce back, and someone will show you how to store objects in a chest so you'll have some resources available for next time.

See you soon in world
http://www.slideshare.net/vances/a-convergence-of-minecraft-and-clil-57860221

Since we are switching to Survival Mode, I would like to share a video Filip Smolčec created when he was only 9...

Since we are switching to Survival Mode, I would like to share a video Filip Smolčec created when he was only 9 years old (3 years ago) and the topic is "How to survive the first night in Minecraft" _ it's a good start for all the newbies to learn and see the difference between creative and survival mode. This is also an example how he learned and practiced English, but also presenting skills etc. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ov4zqysrUs

Week 4 #evomc16

Week 4  #evomc16

Last week’s unexpected six-day winter vacation completely derailed my schedule and plans for work and study.  Who wants to work when there’s a blizzard and homemade chili in the kitchen?  Not me.  So, I was not as efficient as I could have been, but I did drink a cup of tea for three hours Monday morning, caught up on sleep and thought about homework and reports.  Most of which I got done in an exhausting 48-hour marathon on Thursday and Friday.

Saturday was an interesting day; I woke up to read that the White House had announced a $4 billion computer science initiative for K-12 students.  Computer literacy is now a basic skill.  We’ll see how it plays out.

Later in the morning, I went to Microsoft’s  #HacktheClassroom , which I feared would be a two-hour advertisement, but it was not.  There was, as usual, a lot of data, but I took away two new things that I want to use in a future classroom:  Code.org and OneNote.  Code.org has online computer science fundamentals and an “hour of code” with Minecraft https://code.org/mc.  I have always ignored OneNote on my computer, but it apparently can be extremely valuable in a classroom (with computers), and I would like to explore how to use it.

This morning, I took a tour of Thorsten Groß and his students’ Minecraft Ricarda-Huch-Schule.  Impressive but very intimidating.  However, I did learn how to jump, which I did not even know was possible because I always fly.  I want to add a basketball court to my ranch before we go into survival mode.

Later, I spent hours in survival mode alone.  My first try was ended by a zombie on the first night.  Oh well.  In my second try, I lasted for five days and five and a half nights and then was killed by a zombie.  I could not find coal for fire, only diorite, and the nights were spent huddled in a hollow with a sword.  And I didn’t eat at all because there were only rabbits which refused to be food.  They just got mad and jumped away.

On the last night, with only half a heart, I knew it was over.  A zombie was jumping up and down on the ledge in front of me, and then a second one came at me from the right.  All I had was a stone sword, and it didn’t work to my advantage this time.  I learned a lot about gathering and crafting, and realized I am at a real disadvantage without a mouse.  I am really clumsy right clicking with my touch-pad mouse while crafting, and I need to practice before going into multiplayer survivor.

For #learning2gether this week Vance Stevens is scheduled to present double header #CO15 and ICT4ELT ...

For #learning2gether this week Vance Stevens is scheduled to present double header #CO15 and ICT4ELT #EVOsessions presentations Sunday Feb 8. 
 - The first is at 1300 GMT and is a presentation on the #evomc15 EVO Minecraft MOOC session with co-moderator +Jeff Kuhn. It's part of the Connecting Online 2015 conference, held in WizIQ, at this URL:
http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/2476847-co15-evo-minecraft-mooc
 - The second at 1400 GMT is about the evolution of Webheads in Action, for the #ICT4ELT #EVOsessions , and is to be held in Bb Collaborate, http://learningtimesevents.org/webheads/ 
 - There's more information about times and URLs for connecting with these sessions at 
http://tinyurl.com/learning2gether
 - All are welcome.
http://integrating-technology.wiziq.com/online-class/2476847-co15-evo-minecraft-mooc

Hi everyone, I've posted the video and audio mp3 from yesterday's session with David Dodgson and Jeff Kuhn here:

Hi everyone, I've posted the video and audio mp3 from yesterday's session with David Dodgson and Jeff Kuhn here: 
http://learning2gether.net/2015/02/01/learning2gether-with-dave-dodgson-and-jeff-kuhn-evo-minecraft-mooc-modifying-the-game-for-language-learning/

At that session we tentatively agreed to try a survival session in Jeff's server on Thu at some time after 11:00 GMT. I set up a Doodle to help us set a time (range) for it.  If you think you'd like to play, let us know your preferred time at the Doodle poll here:
http://doodle.com/defkrem9f94rfu6r

If you'd like to try for another day, feel free to set up your own poll and post its link here.
http://doodle.com/defkrem9f94rfu6r

We end our Networking Week 3 in EVO Minecraft MOOC with dispatches from Canvas MOOC, and invite you in Week 4...

We end our Networking Week 3 in EVO Minecraft MOOC with dispatches from Canvas MOOC, and invite you in Week 4 Cluster with us there. https://www.canvas.net/courses/minecraft-for-educators

"Week 2 is all about servers; what they are, how to download them, install them and some things to watch out for along the way." Here is the schedule:

Monday 2nd Feb: An introduction to servers - What they are and the different kinds that are out there.
Tuesday 3rd Feb: To host or not to host? LAN maybe your answer
Wednesday 4th Feb: Installing a Vanilla 1.8 Server
Thursday 5th Feb: Working with Bukkit
Friday 6th Feb: The world of Forge and MinecraftEDU
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https://www.canvas.net/courses/minecraft-for-educators

Week 4 - Feb 2-8, Cluster - this describes what happens when participants identify others in the MOOC with like...

Week 4 - Feb 2-8, Cluster - this describes what happens when participants identify others in the MOOC with like goals and start working in subgroups within the MOOC. By now we expect participants in the MOOC to have found colleagues with compatible interests and be on their way to decentralizing their learning trajectories.

Our syllabus will again reflect what is happening in Canvas. #EVOMC15 participants continue to blog and share builds and YouTube video embeds with one another, and share what they are learning in Canvas with those in the group not in Canvas

Again Jeff's topic for his course fits nicely here:
Crafting the Classroom - developing Minecraft-focused material for individual content areas