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Minecraft and MakerSpaces
A few weekends ago (November 22-23, 2014), the Toronto Reference Library hosted the Toronto Mini-Maker Faire (, #mmfto on Twitter). It was a wonderful event. I volunteered to help my…
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Collaboration for Survival and Creativity
"Community Garden" by Gumby Blockhead, on Flickr There have been a couple of very clear examples over the past week that point to how successful Minecraft can be in promoting…
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Minecraft Club @ the (Public) Library
Post by Sharon Wagenaar The Owen Sound & North Grey Union Public Library has just wrapped up the last session of Minecraft Club @ the Library for the year. Since…
Seven Steps to Setting up a Minecraft Club at your School
Student Minecraft Clubs are a great chance to have fun during lunch or after school. With October behind us and the school year in full swing here in Ontario, I…
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Gumby sees the other side
Last week, the entire GamingEdu team, with associates, friends and fans gathered at the Educational Computing Organization of Ontario's Bring IT Together conference in Niagara Falls. It was a fantastic…
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Badgification: Now with Lanyards!
So 2 weeks ago I drove for more than hours and attended 3 events that earned me 3 more Lanyards. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the conference…
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A Pair of Minecraft Library Lessons
I love project-based learning, and Minecraft lends itself well to culminating tasks. In the past, I've incorporated Minecraft into media literacy, social studies, reading, writing, math (geometry, number sense and…
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If You Give Students a Minecraft Club
Stack of 25 signed permission forms to be in the club. More are still being handed in. If you give students a Minecraft club, they will want to join. When students…
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Growing the group through teacher support
It's wonderful to see so many great articles online about the benefits of Games Based Learning - this week, it has been this article on Wired by Clive Thompson that…
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Why I cannot wait to bring my Kano to school
Around the world, young computer makers are rejoicing. Kano has arrived. While I am definitely not young, I am right there geeking out with the kids. My own Kano kit…