gamebasedlearning | Liam O'Donnell

Four More Essential Plugins for Minecraft School Servers

by liam | Apr 3, 2015 | Battle of the Blocks, education, gamebasedlearning, gaming, Teacher's Guide

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 more than one visitor to this blog and my personal blog told me as much. But that changes today! So, here...

Seven Steps to Setting up a Minecraft Club at your School

by liam | Nov 30, 2014 | education, gamebasedlearning, Teacher's Guide, video games

[This post originally appeared on GamingEdus.org, but you missed it, didn’t you?] With October behind us and the school year in full swing here in Ontario, I finally got a chance to do something I enjoy each year: starting a new Minecraft club at school....

Why I cannot wait to bring my Kano to school

by liam | Oct 4, 2014 | education, gamebasedlearning, gaming, media, Teacher's Guide, video games

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 arrived last week and I’ve been having a blast making music, designing new versions of Pong and...

Kano Arrived

by liam | Sep 27, 2014 | gamebasedlearning, Teacher's Guide, video games

Look what came in the mail today. Kano! 🙂 You might also enjoy: An Overdue Tour of the Multi-School Minecraft Server Cube World: the next video game your students will be talking about Minecraft Students are evolving. They’ll pwn teachers (and servers). And...

Minecraft, the paper clip and me

by liam | Sep 21, 2014 | education, gamebasedlearning, gaming, literacy

This was meant to be a post about using Minecraft Pocket Edition with Grade 1 students. But given the giant paper clip in the room, that post will have to wait.

Instead, I’m going to write about what the recent Microsoft purchase of Minecraft could mean for educators, students and myself. [Click the post title to read more . . . ]