Hi everyone.

Hi everyone. This coming Sunday Jan 14, 2018 at 1400 UTC, #learning2gether starts the new year with the Annual #evosessions Opening Webcastathon Kick Off to officially start the 2018 Electronic Village Online free, open-to-anyone, 5-week sessions. All are invited to join us in Bb Collaborate or tune in to the stream on YouTube Live. For full information, including instructions on how to join us, links to the live webinar and chat spaces, and time where you are, visit http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/w/page/32206114/volunteersneeded#SunJan141400UTCEVO2018annualkickoffevent

Whether you join us live in Bb Collaborate or attend via the stream, you can participate in the conversation, if not in Bb Collaborate directly, then in YouTube Live text chat or at http://chatwing.com/vancestev. You can go to Chatwing at any time between now and the event, or during or after, to ask questions and leave comments.

Hope to see you there.
http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/w/page/32206114/volunteersneeded#SunJan141400UTCEVO2018annualkickoffevent

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

Vance and Linda Gielen introduced #evomc17 at the Jan 7 2017 #evosessions kickoff event.

Vance and Linda Gielen introduced #evomc17  at the Jan 7 2017 #evosessions  kickoff event. We were first to present, so this video plays the first of the recording where Nina Liakos and mbarek akaddar start the event, and then at 5 min 30 seconds, Linda and I explain how EVOMC17 started and how we run the session. Participants in this EVOMC17 session might appreciate the overview as part of our Orientation week.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDHdEeILiQA

Electronic Village Online, #EVOsessions , kicks off again for 2017 tomorrow Jan 7 at 1400 UTC, with Vance streaming...

Electronic Village Online, #EVOsessions , kicks off again for 2017 tomorrow Jan 7 at 1400 UTC, with Vance streaming the online kickoff webinar as #Learning2gether episode 356 in Bb Collaborate, http://learningtimesevents.org/webheads/

Registration for all EVO sessions is now open at http://evosessions.pbworks.com,
and the sessions themselves start Sunday Jan 8. All are welcome to register in these free sessions, and to join to kickoff event online Jan 7

Or if you prefer, watch the event live streamed on YouTube here:
https://youtu.be/73SOXlMymwE
and chat with participants in real time at http://chatwing.com/vancestev

You can find more information as well as embeds of the stream and chatwing text chat spaces at http://tinyurl.com/learning2gether
http://learningtimesevents.org/webheads

Hello #EVOMC16 -- This is an announcement that Jeff Kuhn and I will be discussing our EVO experiences and inviting...

Hello #EVOMC16 -- This is an announcement that Jeff Kuhn and I will be discussing our EVO experiences and inviting folks to tour the EVO Server during the afternoon tech fair at the Ohio University CALL Conference on Friday (tomorrow).

The presentation, titled "Minecraft for Professional Development and Networking," will be informal (part of the fair), but we will have computers open demonstrating our G+ Community, and our Adobe Connect meeting space. Adobe Connect will be available during the conference at the following link: https://adobeconnect.oit.ohio.edu/evomc16/

If you are available, please join us on the server and/or in the adobe connect session so you can interact with other teachers and CALL professionals and demonstrate our community in action!

The tech fair is scheduled for 1:30pm to 2:30pm EST...that's 5:30-6:30pm UTC.

Here is the link to the conference: https://sites.google.com/site/ohiocallconference2014/ohio-university-call-conference-2015/ohio-university-call-conference-2016-8th-annual-call-conference-2016

#evosessions

https://sites.google.com/site/ohiocallconference2014/ohio-university-call-conference-2015/ohio-university-call-conference-2016-8th-annual-call-conference-2016

The final piece to the archive of the talk entitled Projects and challenges – designing and building, that @BronSt...

The final piece to the archive of the talk entitled Projects and challenges – designing and building, that @BronSt uckey gave to #evomc16, EVO #Minecraft MOOC, one of this year's #EVOsessions, is now posted as #learning2gether episode 312 at
http://learning2gether.net/2016/01/24/bron-stuckey-and-evo-minecraft-mooc-projects-and-challenges-designing-and-building/ 

A screencast was originally made of the live session but replaced with a YouTube of the Adobe Connect recording due to its better quality, so an mp3 rendition was made from that. Finally, the text chat replete with links was harvested from the Adobe Connect recording and linked to from that URL. Thanks to Bron for the effort, and I hope  you enjoy the result.
http://learning2gether.net/2016/01/24/bron-stuckey-and-evo-minecraft-mooc-projects-and-challenges-designing-and-building

Family activities at my house when son and granddaughter are present include #evosessions #EVO #Minecraft #MOOC...

Family activities at my house when son and granddaughter are present include #evosessions #EVO #Minecraft #MOOC #EVOMC16. My 7 year-old granddaughter has no trouble engaging, even with adults like Teacher Rose Bard , in-world from half a world away in Brazil

Hi all, with #evosessions for 2015 coming to a close, your EVO Minecraft moderators Jeff, Vance, Bobbi, Filip,...

Hi all, with #evosessions for 2015 coming to a close, your EVO Minecraft moderators Jeff, Vance, Bobbi, Filip, Marijana, and David hope you enjoyed and benefited from #evomc15 . We would like to invite you now to complete the course as follows: 

(1) You are especially invited to join us at the #evo15 closing ceremony Sunday Feb 15, as listed as our final event for this session https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cr3i8u08omjagth45dss5jp7euk?authkey=CO_M5eq6oeWH8gE. All #EVOsessions will be represented, and each will have approximately 10 minutes to step forward and speak about how wonderful their experience was. It would be great if you can be present and lend your voice to the recording. The event starts at 1400 GMT and takes place in Bb Collaborate (Elluminate) http://learningtimesevents.org/webheads/.

We can have a #evomc15 Skype and/or http://chatwing.com/vancestev
back-channel to coordinator our effort on the day.

(2) Please respond to the survey at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/JBHVKT8
this is a survey which all participants in EVO are requested to complete. The results go into a report presented at the TESOL conference each year, this year in Toronto.

(3) You can claim your badge. Instructions are here http://tinyurl.com/evomc15-syllabus and here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bIrwrRqYdTjFTXbX7ZUrjQhwi6GZgJvYCMmzsbm7DJ8/edit?usp=sharing
The latter link serves as evidence of your accomplishment; that is, it is a publicly viewable record of LINKS to your missions. The requirements for a badge are to show evidence of 5 of ten possible missions accomplished. 

To get a badge you need to JOIN that space (see http://screencast.com/t/7LHU8UF7X5) and enter your accomplishments with verification links where possible (in other words, if you introduced yourself to our Google+ community, find a 
link to that post like this http://screencast.com/t/tMYgz0LYl and link the cell where you indicate YES to that URL). 

You will see when you receive your badge (from Credly) that your badge will link back to the public record of your missions accomplished. One more thing, if you want a badge, please enter your details in the spreadsheet before March 1 (we'll stop checking after that).

(4) Keep in touch via our Google+ community. I personally have learned a lot about Minecraft I didn't know before (like how to DO it for example) and I want to learn more. I have enjoyed this so much that I have decided to propose this session for EVO again next year. I will ask the existing slate of moderators to re-enlist (and if others would like to help out, let us know). So this community will hopefully remain active, and we'll reform next year in the same Google+ space.

So this is not goodbye, but a mOOC (a miniscule open online course) is a course with a beginning and end, and #EVOMC15 ends tomorrow Feb 15. But continue to use the tag and feel free to continue to post in this space. Looking forward to ongoing interaction with all of you - Vance
https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cr3i8u08omjagth45dss5jp7euk?authkey=CO_M5eq6oeWH8gE

Jeff Kuhn and Vance Stevens will present this Sunday Feb 8 at 1300 GMT at the #CO15 Connecting Online Conference.

Originally shared by Vance Stevens

Jeff Kuhn and Vance Stevens will present this Sunday Feb 8 at 1300 GMT at the #CO15 Connecting Online Conference. The topic is of course educational benefits of #Minecraft in the context of our EVO Minecraft mOOC #evomc15 #EVOsessions. The Connecting Online 2015 conference is being held in WizIQ Friday through Sunday this weekend, and our presenation will take place at this URL:
http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/2476847-co15-evo-minecraft-mooc. This should be the link as well for the recording. 

There's more information about times and URLs for connecting with ours and all the CO15 sessions at http://tinyurl.com/learning2gether. All are welcome to attend.
events/c30tdg0s9bmmlj2a2i1ctbiufqo?authkey=CJ3FkeLk24TkOQ

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

Would you be willing to answer 5 quick questions in a poll created by Nina Liakos, head coordinator of EVO?

Would you be willing to answer 5 quick questions in a poll created by Nina Liakos, head coordinator of EVO? It's here https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/JBHVKT8 and its purpose is to get feedback regarding #EVOMC15 for a report Nina needs to make at TESOL in Toronto, and she needs these questions answered by as many EVO participants as possible. If you're in other #EVOsessions, you'll be getting polled in those sessions as well. This is just for Minecraft MOOC.