Hi everyone :) I'm Maha connecting from Cairo, Egypt.

Hi everyone :) I'm Maha connecting from Cairo, Egypt. I've been in the Learning and Development field since 1992 as an Instructional Designer, Trainer and Coach. I also teach English and Arabic mainly to teenagers and adults as a freelancer and as a volunteer both f2f and online

I'm a MineCraft noob but I already have a licence to the game and have it on my laptop.

Other Virtual Worlds experience:

I've been experimenting with teaching, coaching and learning in virtual worlds since 2009 in Secondlife and OSgrid

In 2012 One of the courses that I attended through Secondlife (Teaching and Learning in Virtual Worlds) introduced me to World of Warcraft and I still play on both sides of the battle :)

As for MOOCs, my first was EduMooc in 2011 and since then I've been attending many C and X Moocs.

I look forward to learning from and with you.

Hi everyone

Hi everyone,

I'm Nina Liakos, and I will be participating in this session both as a Minecraft newbie and as the session mentor (representative from the EVO Coordination Team).

I've retired from teaching after 43 years. I've been involved in the EVO in one capacity or another for the past 10 years.

I'm looking forward to learning how to "play", although I won't be using the game in a classroom setting.

Hi all

Hi all,

A new year so a new introduction! Thanks for joining our Minecraft #evomc16 community. I'm Jeff and this is my second year on the team. I'm a writing teacher at Ohio University where I am also lucky to teach Computer Assisted Language Learning in our MA Linguistics program. On the side I'm working on my PhD dissertation. My research focus is on collaborative problem solving and distributed cognition in games.

I'm here to help with any Minecraft question so if you have any trouble let me know.

Let's play!
#introductions

Join the free one day event "Hack the Classroom" organized by Microsoft.

Join the free one day event  "Hack the Classroom" organized by Microsoft. Here is the direct link to register. It will fit nicely with our EVO session! 
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/education/events/hack-the-classroom/default.aspx?__f87fa416=_f87fa416

Hi, my name is Rose Bard.

Hi, my name is Rose Bard. I'm a co-moderator of #evomc16 . I'm from Brazil. I'm also a mother of a 5-year-old minecrafter whose experience in gaming has made me realize the potential of minecraft for education. I'm very excited to be participating this year in the MC MOOC.

https://plus.google.com/u/1/communities/108916089685191424230

https://plus.google.com/u/1/communities/108916089685191424230

Our tagboard at https://tagboard.com/evomc16/search isn't picking up FB and we have found so far that we need to...

Our tagboard at https://tagboard.com/evomc16/search isn't picking up FB and we have found so far that we need to post here or on Twitter and tag that post #evomc16  in order for it to register on our Tagboard. Because it has relevance to our session coming up, I am re-posting Teacher Rose Bard 's FB post here. It's a good example of the spontaneous learning we can all enjoy by participating in this session. To enroll and join us, click on the link at the end of Rose's post, this one:
http://evosessions.pbworks.com/w/page/103533067/2016_EVO_Minecraft_MOOC