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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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