Thursday, January 31, 2019
This evening mirella maddalena Carol Rainbow Heike Philp Dakotah Redstone and I worked on our EVOmc2019 town hall.
This evening mirella maddalena Carol Rainbow Heike Philp Dakotah Redstone and I worked on our EVOmc2019 town hall. We needed a whole lot of wood. Mirella gave us a good jump start as she'd planted some trees especially for the project but we still needed a lot more. Very quickly we ran out of bones to make bonemeal that we used to speed up the growth of the trees , so Dak set up a skeleton spawner and we spent some time killing skeletons and collecting their bones.
We made some good progress but we still have a lot of work to complete the build and decorate it, not to mention work on the surrounding area. Most probably it will remain a work in progress for as long as we all want to experiment with different ideas, the type of wood to use or the color of glass to put on the windows and different ideas of keeping baby zombies out of the place :)
We are planning to continue tomorrow evening UTC but everybody is welcome to work on it whenever they are interested and able to log in.
We made some good progress but we still have a lot of work to complete the build and decorate it, not to mention work on the surrounding area. Most probably it will remain a work in progress for as long as we all want to experiment with different ideas, the type of wood to use or the color of glass to put on the windows and different ideas of keeping baby zombies out of the place :)
We are planning to continue tomorrow evening UTC but everybody is welcome to work on it whenever they are interested and able to log in.
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
Hi Mircea Patrascu
Hi Mircea Patrascu . I've been thinking about the discussions of this year's sessions and G+ shutting down. Are the discussions being pulled automatically into blogger or will you have to do that manually again?
Tuesday, January 29, 2019
Thank you for all the wonderful and constructive feedback!
Thank you for all the wonderful and constructive feedback! It was really good to be able to run a lesson, get feedback and reflect upon it. There's a lot to discuss here but I'll start with analyzing in-game L2 learner interaction. I noticed there wasn’t much discussion going on during resources gathering because Mattie and Emanual spread out the work. Mattie asked Emanual to get wood and he told Emanual we was going to mine.
They had more interaction during collaborative building. Basically, Mattie came up with the idea on the fly. He asked emanual to look at Dak’s pig and suggested that they copy Dak’s build. Later they modified it, built a body, a tail, and four legs with hooves, two on each side as if being served on a silver platter.
M: Emanual, I have an idea?
E: What is it?
M:Just look, that’s a pig over there!
E:I know that.
M: Wait. Oh my God. One, two, three, four….
M: Emanual, just look at the pig thing.
E: I thought we’re making a full sized pig.
E: We’ve got 10 minutes to build that pig.
M: I’m gonna go count the blocks, okay?
E: Okay.
He went to Dak’s pig and started counting the blocks. Emanual stayed at their Blue Team building area and followed Mattie’s instructions “Nine on the very bottom...one straight line.” Emanual confirmed what he did “A line of nine blocks.”
M: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. (Counted again)
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.
Nine on the very bottom. Destroy every block.
One straight line.
E:One, two, three, four, five, six, seve, eight, nine. A line of nine blocks.
M: One two three four five. Destroy four blocks.
E: Destroying four blocks.
M: I have an idea…
E: Done…
During the building process, both Mattie and Emanual constantly evaluated their build, making sure it looked right. Emanual would question their build: “Are you sure this is how it looks like? Doesn’t look very good!” Mattie would fix it. Then Emanual suggested “It needs one touch to it.” Mattie responded that he noticed they needed coal blocks for the final touch.
M: Okay, we need something dark.
E: Are you sure this is how it looks like? Doesn’t look very good. There we go!
M: Because you started building!
E: Okay, let’s just go! Go! Go! Make some more things!
E: We’re making the pig face up there.
M: duh, duh, duh…(singing)
E: That looks good!
M: Oh, no, I forgot.
E: That looks good! It needs one touch to it.
M: Yes, I noticed that we need something very important. We need coal block.
E: Mattie, Mattie, be fast!
M: We need three coal blocks.
E: I’m gonna get coal.
M: What are you doing.
E: You’ve already got coal?
M: Yes.
E: We’re doing pretty good Mattie?
Anybody like our pig? We’re making the face up there!
As an EFL learner, Mattie does not have much chance to converse in English in Taiwan. The speaking activities held in class at school are mainly role play or skit based on the dialogues in the textbook. Students are encouraged to come up with different endings to the dialogue or skit, but these activities are designed for more controlled practice. It is true that Mattie's learned of lot from watching Youtubers play minecraft and reading books about Minecraft, and I believe these helped tremendously in building his listening/reading comprehension and receptive language skills. Speaking English to communicate ideas was very difficult for him at the beginning. Although he understood a lot of the contents of those YouTube videos when he was seven, he was not able to converse effortlessly during his first year in EVO 2017. Therefore, this is why I valued Minecraft as a world that kids can connect with one another. This would be a debate on whether there should be pushed output or what role does Merrill Swain's "Comprehensive Output" Hypothesis play in second language acquisition. Swain proposed that CO facilitates second language learning in ways that differ from and enhance input due to the mental processes connected with the production of language.... to be continued.
They had more interaction during collaborative building. Basically, Mattie came up with the idea on the fly. He asked emanual to look at Dak’s pig and suggested that they copy Dak’s build. Later they modified it, built a body, a tail, and four legs with hooves, two on each side as if being served on a silver platter.
M: Emanual, I have an idea?
E: What is it?
M:Just look, that’s a pig over there!
E:I know that.
M: Wait. Oh my God. One, two, three, four….
M: Emanual, just look at the pig thing.
E: I thought we’re making a full sized pig.
E: We’ve got 10 minutes to build that pig.
M: I’m gonna go count the blocks, okay?
E: Okay.
He went to Dak’s pig and started counting the blocks. Emanual stayed at their Blue Team building area and followed Mattie’s instructions “Nine on the very bottom...one straight line.” Emanual confirmed what he did “A line of nine blocks.”
M: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. (Counted again)
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.
Nine on the very bottom. Destroy every block.
One straight line.
E:One, two, three, four, five, six, seve, eight, nine. A line of nine blocks.
M: One two three four five. Destroy four blocks.
E: Destroying four blocks.
M: I have an idea…
E: Done…
During the building process, both Mattie and Emanual constantly evaluated their build, making sure it looked right. Emanual would question their build: “Are you sure this is how it looks like? Doesn’t look very good!” Mattie would fix it. Then Emanual suggested “It needs one touch to it.” Mattie responded that he noticed they needed coal blocks for the final touch.
M: Okay, we need something dark.
E: Are you sure this is how it looks like? Doesn’t look very good. There we go!
M: Because you started building!
E: Okay, let’s just go! Go! Go! Make some more things!
E: We’re making the pig face up there.
M: duh, duh, duh…(singing)
E: That looks good!
M: Oh, no, I forgot.
E: That looks good! It needs one touch to it.
M: Yes, I noticed that we need something very important. We need coal block.
E: Mattie, Mattie, be fast!
M: We need three coal blocks.
E: I’m gonna get coal.
M: What are you doing.
E: You’ve already got coal?
M: Yes.
E: We’re doing pretty good Mattie?
Anybody like our pig? We’re making the face up there!
As an EFL learner, Mattie does not have much chance to converse in English in Taiwan. The speaking activities held in class at school are mainly role play or skit based on the dialogues in the textbook. Students are encouraged to come up with different endings to the dialogue or skit, but these activities are designed for more controlled practice. It is true that Mattie's learned of lot from watching Youtubers play minecraft and reading books about Minecraft, and I believe these helped tremendously in building his listening/reading comprehension and receptive language skills. Speaking English to communicate ideas was very difficult for him at the beginning. Although he understood a lot of the contents of those YouTube videos when he was seven, he was not able to converse effortlessly during his first year in EVO 2017. Therefore, this is why I valued Minecraft as a world that kids can connect with one another. This would be a debate on whether there should be pushed output or what role does Merrill Swain's "Comprehensive Output" Hypothesis play in second language acquisition. Swain proposed that CO facilitates second language learning in ways that differ from and enhance input due to the mental processes connected with the production of language.... to be continued.
When I went to creative today I found some beautiful and interesting new builds.
When I went to creative today I found some beautiful and interesting new builds. A beautiful tower and a huge sphere with a musical train on top.
Monday, January 28, 2019
Don Carroll here some interesting examples of how to use MC in language learning from Irvspanish who is a Spanish...
Don Carroll here some interesting examples of how to use MC in language learning from Irvspanish who is a Spanish teacher.
https://youtu.be/C-mtYlOVfqo
https://youtu.be/C-mtYlOVfqo
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