GamingEdus get blocky at ECOO 2013
Join us this October for Minecraft fun at ECOO 2013. Here's what we're doing: Wednesday, October 23: Minds on Media - Minecraft Demo Thursday, October 24, 8pm: BIT Minecraft LAN…
Two quick ways to secure your Minecraft server
Avoid griefing like this. Activate your server white-list! As Minecraft continues to storm through the world of gaming, education and everywhere else, one thing is for certain: everybody wants to…
Five Essential Plugins for Minecraft School Servers
Student-led Blaze attacks on your server can be avoided with the right plugins. (But every once and a while, they're fun!) Last November, the GamingEdus Minecraft server celebrated its first…
Multi-School Minecraft and the Digital Learning Commons
As you might know, last week I spoke at the Ontario Library Association's 2013 Super Conference about my GamingEdus Multi-School Minecraft project. It was a lot fun, definitely exciting and…
Getting Started in Minecraft: From Zero to Punching Wood
A few months ago, the GamingEdus team was interviewed about using Minecraft in Education by Seann Dikkers, for an upcoming book on the subject to be published by the University…
Play is the Thing for Gaming Curious Teachers
(This post originally appeared on Feeding Change in 2012.) I regularly receive emails from teachers around the world looking for advice on how to use video games with their students.…
Five ways Minecraft (and other video games) can boost student writing skills
(This post originally appeared on Feeding Change in 2012.) With the recent surge of interest in using video games in schools, I've been asked a lot about what gaming looks…
Organizing student accounts on a school Minecraft server
One of the questions I get asked a lot is how do you organize your students' accounts for your school's Minecraft server. There are many ways to do this, but…
Setting Up a Minecraft Server at Your School
In early 2011, I set up a small multi-player Minecraft server in my school library, using school computers. In early 2012, I set up a second multi-player Minecraft server as…