This is an interesting read.
https://minecraft.net/en-us/article/making-diversity
https://minecraft.net/en-us/article/making-diversity
Friday, February 3, 2017
Market place is ready for trading with visitors!
Market place is ready for trading with visitors! Feel free to warp to Enfield ( /warp enfieldvillage). Village renovation still in progress. Careful with the construction sites! :)
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
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
Thursday, February 2, 2017
My husband, Emanuel and I love MC!
My husband, Emanuel and I love MC! We have different preferences when comes to it though. Emanuel loves playing Minigames in different MC servers. His fav are Hypixel and The Hive! My husband loves building and is not very patient to gather resources, so in our family realm which is set to survival, he has super powers and can choose to play in creative to build. He loves renovating the villages he finds around the map. I love survival!
Last year when we started playing as a family, we enjoyed spending time together. Emanuel had already been playing since he was 4, but only in singleplayer and mostly building and exploring the tools and items. My husband was always near by but never really played it. I was just starting my adventure in MC. As we all evolved in the game, so did our preferences. Nowadays, we don't play together as much as we used to and It took me a few days to convince my husband to come to EVO server to help me renovate the village. Everytime I invited him, he'd say: "It's in survival" This is us today at the nether gathering some resources.
As my epic journey across the expanse of the Mincraft wilderness continues, it has me thinking about teaching.
As my epic journey across the expanse of the Mincraft wilderness continues, it has me thinking about teaching. Recently, I passed through an icy winter biome and having ran low on supplies, I got to thinking about the book The Worst Journey in the World. It's a fantastic read on an ill-fated expedition to the South Pole and would be an interesting complimentary read to my Minecraft adventure. Now I'm kicking around a course idea where players have to survive an arctic biome and read survival literature like Worst Journey or perhaps reading about Shackleton's expedition to Antarctica.
Anyway, it has me thinking about other traditional literacies that I could pair up with Minecraft. A few years back I taught a writing class that paired Minecraft and the book World War Z. Our goal was to better understand the experiences of the characters in the book by having similar experiences in-game. The reading and the gameplay fueled our writing. It was fun.
Any thoughts? Based on your in-game experiences what book, movie, or TV show would be a good pairing for the classroom?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Worst_Journey_in_the_World
Anyway, it has me thinking about other traditional literacies that I could pair up with Minecraft. A few years back I taught a writing class that paired Minecraft and the book World War Z. Our goal was to better understand the experiences of the characters in the book by having similar experiences in-game. The reading and the gameplay fueled our writing. It was fun.
Any thoughts? Based on your in-game experiences what book, movie, or TV show would be a good pairing for the classroom?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Worst_Journey_in_the_World
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
After discovery a zombie spawner below my house a few weeks back, I decided to create an XP farm as well as a Zombie...
After discovery a zombie spawner below my house a few weeks back, I decided to create an XP farm as well as a Zombie Villager Recovery Center. Since most of the villages we knew of were quite a distance from spawn city, I thought it would be nice to have a few NPCs at spawn that we could trade with, and what better way to do so than by curing zombie villagers. It took quite a time to get all the resources I needed (brewing station, fermented spider eye, golden apples and weakness potions) and even more time to cull the zombie villagers from the regular zombies. Once I had all the resources and was able to get a good number of cured villagers, I soon realized that their quarters were not the best (1X3 rooms!) and that they needed a new home.
Well, lucky for me, I was able to find a collaborator who was willing to build a village for our new residents. Dakotah Redstone said he had a perfect place where my villagers could reside in comfort, so last night we took on the task of moving the villagers from their dark and dungy quarters to their new bright and open community. We built a railway from the “dungeon” to the new village, and after much frustration, were finally able to get all of them transported out.
It only took a matter of minutes for the villagers to take to their new home (especially when it turned to night) and to start forming “lasting relationships” with one another. Before we knew it, baby villagers began appearing!
We invite everyone to visit the “Glitch Gulch” (called that because of all the glitches we had with our railway system) and welcome our new residents, and perhaps start a new trading relationship!
Well, lucky for me, I was able to find a collaborator who was willing to build a village for our new residents. Dakotah Redstone said he had a perfect place where my villagers could reside in comfort, so last night we took on the task of moving the villagers from their dark and dungy quarters to their new bright and open community. We built a railway from the “dungeon” to the new village, and after much frustration, were finally able to get all of them transported out.
It only took a matter of minutes for the villagers to take to their new home (especially when it turned to night) and to start forming “lasting relationships” with one another. Before we knew it, baby villagers began appearing!
We invite everyone to visit the “Glitch Gulch” (called that because of all the glitches we had with our railway system) and welcome our new residents, and perhaps start a new trading relationship!
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