Four More Essential Plugins for Minecraft School Servers
About two years ago, I made a promise to write a follow-up to my post: Essential plugins for Minecraft servers. That post never happened. I am a bad blogger. And…
Multi-School server gets Flatland
The students who play on the Multi-School Minecraft server like to blow stuff up in game (who doesn't?), so we created a TNT world for them to do just that.…
Minecraft, the paper clip and me
The future of Minecraft looms large. This image taken from here. If you built this piece of awesome, let us know so we can credit you! This was meant to…
Design and Build
This summer I taught summer school for the Toronto District School Board's Model Schools Inner City (MSIC) program. This year the MSIC added a STEM task to the Math and…
GamingEdus server gets a new home
What's it take to safely move a Minecraft server across the busiest intersection in Toronto? That's the challenge Dr. Jason Nolan and myself faced earlier this week when we transported…
New ways to connect to GamingEdus servers
Having trouble connecting? Try our updated server address: ! Much stuff has been happening behind the scenes on our GamingEdus servers and some of it affects the way players connect…
Six Stories to Show that “The Easy Way Is Not The Learning Way”– Part 3
We’ve told and re-told this story many times since it first happened during the 2011-2012 school year. Since it really is a tale told in two voices, this blog post…
Passion for Play
As many of you already know, I run 2 junior/intermediate Minecraft clubs. But what you might not know is that since I created these clubs I have been the target…
Victimless Griefing?
Grief - To destroy or alter another player’s build without their knowledge or against their wishes. A couple of weeks ago we had a bit of a griefing incident in…
ETFO ICT conference for Women Technology and Teachers
On May 30th Jen Apgar and Denise Colby presented at the ETFO ICT Conference for Women: Technology for Teachers. They spoke about the ways Minecraft can be used to enrich the…