Hi everyone :). How's summer going? Anyone playing?

Hi everyone :). How's summer going? Anyone playing?

Here's a new PhD Dissertation on Language Learning in Virtual Worlds by a long-time resident of Secondlife

https://search.proquest.com/openview/563a7b6fe0caa08c9f3be4a87632e813/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y

I share my article that has just been published in the scientific Journal of Information Technology Education:...

I share my article that has just been published in the scientific Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice with the title: Categorizing the Educational Affordances of 3-Dimensional Immersive Digital Environments .. with my dear teachers: Juan C Valdés Godínes, Paul Rudman. https://www.informingscience.org/Publications/4056 ... This paper provides a general-purpose categorization scheme for assessing the utility of new and emerging three-dimensional immersive digital environments (3D-IDEs), along with specific pedagogic approaches that are known to work. It argues for the use of 3D-IDEs on the basis of their ludic appeal and ability to provide intrinsic motivation to the learner, and their openness that allows the learner to gain a more holistic understanding of a topic.

https://www.informingscience.org/Publications/4056

Just came across this resource document. Lots of resources and ideas for using Minecraft with world languages:

Just came across this resource document. Lots of resources and ideas for using Minecraft with world languages:
Minecraft for World Language Teachers
Lesson Plans- Resource Document - http://bit.ly/MCWorldLanguageResources

I wonder if someone here can help me with a problem we are having running Minecraft Education Edition in our LAN...

I wonder if someone here can help me with a problem we are having running Minecraft Education Edition in our LAN setting. The problem is that students running Minecraft at the computers are not able to join each other's games. In some cases they cannot even see each other's computers, but in other instances the computers can detect each other (they show the user names of the students at other computers), but when the students attempt to join each other's games in progress, they get a communication error. We have checked in all cases that the students have enabled multiplayer, but they are never able to play in multiplayer mode.

Can anyone advise on what might cause this and how we can troubleshoot and repair the problem? Thanks if you can help :-)

In case you missed the in-world tour of EVO Minecraft MOOC at the recent Virtual Round Table #vrtwebcon, I made a...

In case you missed the in-world tour of EVO Minecraft MOOC at the recent Virtual Round Table #vrtwebcon, I made a YouTube video from the Adobe recording. It's embedded at the #Learning2gether Episode 393 archive of the event at https://learning2gether.net/2018/04/29/176467730/. Hope you enjoy it :-)
https://youtu.be/Wmg8O-y2iJU

http://www.academia.edu/30774444/Mining_for_Social_Skills_Minecraft_in_Home_and_Therapy_for_Neurodiverse_Youth

http://www.academia.edu/30774444/Mining_for_Social_Skills_Minecraft_in_Home_and_Therapy_for_Neurodiverse_Youth
http://www.academia.edu/30774444/Mining_for_Social_Skills_Minecraft_in_Home_and_Therapy_for_Neurodiverse_Youth

A few screenshots from Vance and Jane's tour of Minecraft for their presentation for the vlanguage conference.

A few screenshots from Vance and Jane's tour of Minecraft for their presentation for the vlanguage conference.