This is about the best I've been able to do so far.

This is about the best I've been able to do so far. I can't get comments to upload consistently to blogger. It might be a bandwidth problem. I'll try again with a stronger connection. At least I've got what shows in the URL posted. This screen shot compares the result with Mircea's https://evomcarchive.blogspot.com/. I'm not sure if further xml downloads are needed.

Hi again, for anyone inclined to play around with the JSON, wp4, wp5, and/or blogger xml files of our G+C, I've made...

Hi again, for anyone inclined to play around with the JSON, wp4, wp5, and/or blogger xml files of our G+C, I've made a backup of everything prior to this post, zipped it up (since drive doesn't allow upload of raw JSON files apparently) and uploaded the zip file to Google Drive, where anyone should be able to download it and upload the files in the package to blogger or wp or some other platform, e.g. Moodle.

A huge thanks to Mircea Patrascu who has worked closely with me to help me follow the steps he took to create https://evomcarchive.blogspot.com/. At this stage we're working together to get the data preserved in the formats mentioned above and we'll take the month of April to see what we can do with the xml files by way of preserving the most functional archive possible.

I plan to make another final backup before April 2 but I doubt that much will be posted here before then. If it is, we'll get it in the final b/u hopefully.

See you on the other side :-)


https://drive.google.com/open?id=1sfMptRVEEs8SRkvr4w-qupSbr6LvB2BK

Here is my question.

Here is my question. I'm collecting data on people's attitudes toward social media and it occurs to me that the only good thing about G+ shutting down is that we might be able to get some anecdotal data out of it. So here is a question meant to elicit such data :-)

How will the loss of G+ Communities impact you? What are you losing from your professional life with its demise? What will you miss most? What did you like most about G+C's or what will be hardest to replace?

Any comments you can make here along these lines will be appreciated and might help us understand tangentially how important social media is in our professional lives.

Hi everyone, I've purchased a license for GooglePlusExport (good on only one device unfortunately) and Mircea...

Hi everyone, I've purchased a license for GooglePlusExport (good on only one device unfortunately) and Mircea Patrascu and I are working together on getting one or more definitive backups of our community. I've just downloaded 1106 posts in JSON, WP, and Blogger formats just to see how long it would take. I plan to post my last backup files in my Google Drive, and of course we'll create a blog using Mircea's trickery to make a final archive.

This is to let you know we'll be wrapping up soon. G+ plans to shut down April 2 (I guess if they'd said April 1 we wouldn't have taken them seriously) so I'll probably make a last stab at a backup March 31.

Meanwhile I have a question needing attention I'll ask in a separate post. Look for it Real Soon Now. I'd appreciate any answers :-)
https://www.screencast.com/t/Wy2t2eD29

Before this group disappears, I thought I'd post Jane Chien's pictures from TESOL Atlanta.

Before this group disappears, I thought I'd post Jane Chien's pictures from TESOL Atlanta. Here is the link to our presentation at the conference on EVO Minecraft MOOC, at The Best of EVO, an event similar to the one at which she and I presented last year: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yvdqSlQzduE2-VCmk-L4_Luv-N96kgqaVCryuKjVcQU/edit#heading=h.3fwc126vsc6c

Hi all.

Hi all. As the clock counts down on the demise of this marvelous home for our community, many of us are actively considering where we should move to. If you have any thoughts on the best all-in-one home for our continued sharing and discussion, please add them here. If you'd like to talk it over live, you can meet us in Discord at 1300 UTC on March 1. It might be fun and appropriate to pop into Minecraft while we're at it, if that's not too distracting, though the focus would be on the discussion. Meanwhile, there's more information here, http://missions4evomc.pbworks.com/2019_Live_Events

Final reminder on your feedback to the EVO Coordinating team on your perceptions of this session and others you may...

Final reminder on your feedback to the EVO Coordinating team on your perceptions of this session and others you may have participated in. If you participated in EVOMC19 please fill in the form here. Your response will become a part of the annual report from EVO to the TESOL committee concerned at the annual conference in Atlanta in March.

If you have already filled in a feedback form, thank you, and we hope you enjoyed EVOMC19 at whatever level you chose to participate.

Jane and Vance presented at the EVO closing ceremony which took place on Sunday, starting at 1400 UTC,...

Jane and Vance presented at the EVO closing ceremony which took place on Sunday, starting at 1400 UTC, http://missions4evomc.pbworks.com/w/page/130258521/2019_Live_Events#SunFeb171400UTCElectronicVillageOnline2019closingceremony

This officially brought EVO 2019 to a close for this year, but it came too early for me because for much of the past week I've been engrossed in travel to Cambodia and attendance at the CamTESOL conference which ended earlier today. But if anyone is willing to meet online I would relish going back on the server and exploring what people have been doing there, especially OliveTree Lighthouse's clickable signs and whatever Dakotah Redstone has been up to at Atracity, and anyone else who's been active and has something to show us, I'd love to meet in MInecraft and see it. Minecraft is so much more FUN when others are online - as we've learned, that's essential, actually.

As regards other housekeeping if anyone wants a certificate of participation in this session, we can arrange that for you, you can alert us here or email vancestev at my gmail address. And if you are going for a badge, I'll be checking the spreadsheet and working out who has been pursuing that track.

At the closing ceremony that's wrapping up now (and to which I am listening) many sessions are talking about continuing into March. We could do that if enough are interested. And those who wish to moderate next year will need to be discussing what changes we want to make based on what we continue to learn year to year.

Thanks very much for a very stimulating EVO Minecraft MOOC for 2019
https://www.screencast.com/t/bZT8pVrO

Dear PARTICIPANTS in this week 5 of FOCUS can you please fill out the EVO final participant survey.

Dear PARTICIPANTS in this week 5 of FOCUS can you please fill out the EVO final participant survey. It shouldn't take long. The data are presented at the annual TESOL conference for EVO as a whole, and the deadline for filling in the survey is March 1. Much appreciated if you can fill one in for EVO Minecraft MOOC if you participated in our activities this year. THANKS!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/18c26mJdgGCzccnH_Q_1Mi6TlDosTrpZ8AKg_jDWsHo4/edit?ts=5bf41c5d

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/

If you are free today Feb 7 at 13:00 UTC and you'd like to join us on the #evomc19 1.12.2 server (and in Discord if...

If you are free today Feb 7 at 13:00 UTC and you'd like to join us on the #evomc19 1.12.2 server (and in Discord if you wish) you'll find people online at that time. All are welcome, and if you want help with anything else, there will be people online to answer your questions, help you advance to the next level, or admire your builds if you'd like to show them to us. Hope to see you there.
http://missions4evomc.pbworks.com/w/page/130258521/2019_Live_Events#ThuFeb71400UTCEVOMinecraftnbspMOOCparticipantshelpMichiyowithherhousebuilding

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 :-)

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.

Kim Harrison has invited #EVOMC19 participants to come to VSTE's Minecraft Monday on February 4 from 8 to 9 PM EST...

Kim Harrison has invited #EVOMC19 participants to come to VSTE's Minecraft Monday on February 4 from 8 to 9 PM EST (New York).

What time is 8-9 PM New York time? 01:00 UTC on Monday
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Mon+Feb+4+8-9+pm+EST+K4sons+hosts+visit+to+VSTE+monthy+Minecraft+Monday+server+party&iso=20190205T01&p1=1440&ah=1 (this has been corrected from what was here before).

How to join the VSTE server?
You need the latest release 1.13.2
connect to server.eastcoastminers.org

Any questions, feel free to ask them here and hope to see you there

Here is the destination.

Here is the destination. Starting point 24k. Overland trek west by northwest. Eventually we'll reach a river. We'll make boats and head for this biome. We might need a few Minecraft days for this one, and Teacher Vance is still working on route planning, but if you want to help with that, meet me and Bobbi Bear at the 24k warp on the 1.12.2 Minecraft server at 1400 UTC, Friday Feb 1. All you need is a sense of adventure. We'll help equip you and build shelters en route. More information here http://missions4evomc.pbworks.com/w/page/130258521/2019_Live_Events#FriFeb11400UTCTeacherVanceandBobbiBearleadsandboxadventuretrekkingonEVOMinecraft1122server

Teacher Vance and Bobbi Bear have created a Doodle Poll for the times we can be available in Minecraft 1.12.2 on...

Teacher Vance and Bobbi Bear have created a Doodle Poll for the times we can be available in Minecraft 1.12.2 on Saturday Jan 26 for an hour or two between 02:00 and 06:00 UTC

You can find the poll here, hopefully times given in your time zone (starting at 2 am UTC, 8 pm in Chicago): https://doodle.com/poll/ae98udezap5ce5ib.

The time FRAME is 02:00 to 06:00 UTC on Sat Jan 26
That time frame where you are is
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Sat+Jan+26+Teacher+Vance+and+Bobbi+Bear+arranging+Sandbox+Adventure+in+EVO+Minecraft+1.12.2&iso=20190126T02&p1=1440&ah=4

If you'd like to join us, indicate your availability in the poll,
we'll see it, and we'll schedule a time we will definitely be in Minecraft when we know that the most people can be there.

We can either meet with no plan, or if you would like an adventure, we can explore the jungle mansion near the spawn point or go looking for desert temples. Teacher Vance knows where two are, at least one of which is likely unexplored (hence not yet looted).

PLEASE NOTE we will come Minecraft ONLY IF someone responds to the poll and indicates the time they will be there

For updated information see
http://missions4evomc.pbworks.com/w/page/130258521/2019_Live_Events#SatJan2602000600UTCTeacherVanceandBobbiBeararrangingSandboxAdventureonEVOMinecraft1122server

How do we meet up in Minecraft?

How do we meet up in Minecraft? One way is to set Doodle polls. I might try that shortly (for it to work though, people have to respond to the polls :-(.

Another way is to just go online and see who is there. We had no event scheduled for last night, but that's what we did at around 1300 UTC, just went online. Michiyo Toshima was there and she said she was ready to learn to build a house. So we started building one. Dakotah Redstone and Jane Chien caught wind of what was going on and dropped in to lend a hand. See pics of the result here: http://missions4evomc.pbworks.com/w/page/130258521/2019_Live_Events#WedJan2313001500UTCEVOMinecraftMOOChelpsMichiyobuildahome

So there's another idea for a project. Would any participants like help building a house in survival mode on the 1.12.2 server? Or anywhere for that matter? Just tell us when you'd like to have a team of builders come and help.

Teacher Vance and Bobbi Bear plan to hold a Guided practice on the EVO Minecraft MOOC 1.12.2 server today Jan 22...

Teacher Vance and Bobbi Bear plan to hold a Guided practice on the EVO Minecraft MOOC 1.12.2 server today Jan 22 from around 13:30 (we hope to get back home in time for it) until 15:00 max (bedtime) for anyone with questions or who wants some guided practice or who just happens to be there. We'll be in Minecraft 1.12.2 and in Discord.

I have updated http://missions4evomc.pbworks.com/2019_Live_Events with the information.

Although there are no further events planned for this week that I can see, and keeping in mind that PBWorks was down briefly this morning, please be aware that there is a backup/planning space here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EBBpjp6ofpfHz6i2eNVBEYBXXPLMgL3BEnBzZP9Deso/edit?usp=sharing

I hope that moderators will update that space with their events, and that someone will update the live events page as well.

Happy Minecrafting

Good morning everyone.

Good morning everyone. We have begun week 2 in EVO Minecraft MOOC, and we've got off to a great start. Our 5 weeks are patterned after Dave Cormier's 5 stages of success in MOOCs. It is assumed people are going to need time to ORIENT, and that's what most of you were doing our first week. Week 2 is more of the same except we expect to hear more of you DECLARE your positions here with regard to #evomc19. Next week we NETWORK, and by then our true participants should be with us in the game. Track our program week by week here http://missions4evomc.pbworks.com/

Moderators Dakotah Redstone, OliveTree Lighthouse, Don Carroll, Rose Bard, Barbara Stevens, Jane Chien, myself, and perhaps others I didn't detect have been on the server every day this week helping participants get into Minecraft and start learning how it works. We expect other moderators to propose more live events as we get rolling in the course, and you can find these as they are declared on our live events page, http://missions4evomc.pbworks.com/w/page/130258521/2019_Live_Events.

Note that there is a live event tonight Jan 21 at 1400 UTC on the 1.12.2 server. If it will be your first time, we have set up tutorials to help you get connected here: http://missions4evomc.pbworks.com/w/page/130258518/2019_Server_Info. If you just want to watch, look for the stream on my channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/vancestev

Meet us in world and we'll guide you through the rest. If you're late to an event we can send you a teleport request, which you can accept to join us where we are by following instructions you'll see in the Minecraft text window.

To learn to swim, you need to get wet. If you have any questions, just ask us, we have responded to every dialog started here in this community. But most importantly, we look forward to meeting you in Minecraft. See you there.
https://youtu.be/r8avYQ5ZqM0

Teacher Vance proposes a #learning2gether streamed event in the EVO Minecraft MOOC 1.12.2 server on Mon Jan 21 at...

Teacher Vance proposes a #learning2gether streamed event in the EVO Minecraft MOOC 1.12.2 server on Mon Jan 21 at 1400 UTC. This will be a Wilderness adventure trek to Black_Kitten's village to help develop the seaport there. We meet at the Birch House and push the button in the Wilderness Warp closet to be transported to the place in the picture below. Then we head west where we hope to be met by Black_Kitten herself, a.k.a. Oleksandra Sladkovska

All who wish to join us are welcome. If you join us, don't worry, we'll take good care of you, but I will attempt to stream the event for anyone who would like to sit back and watch, and of course that will make a recording, which I'll post later, if all works well and nothing gets blown up by a creeper.

More information, times where you are, and so on, at the link provided.
http://missions4evomc.pbworks.com/w/page/130258521/2019_Live_Events#MonJan211400UTCLearning2getherwithEVOMInecraftMOOCWildernessadventuretrektoBlackKittensvillagetohelpdeveloptheseaportthere