by liam | May 24, 2012 | comics, education, literacy, media, writing news
Last week, I was thrilled when super librarian Julie Found emailed me to say her students had created a book trailer for Max Finder Mystery: Collected Casebook #4. You can watch it on Julie’s blog: We Found the Library! (great title btw.) I was so happy to see...
by liam | May 10, 2012 | education, gamebasedlearning, gaming, literacy, media, video games, virtual worlds
We’ve been running our Minecraft Multi-School Server Project for nearly 5 months now. We’re actually way beyond the mid-point, so I thought I was overdue for giving an update on how things are going. In a word: fantastic. There have been a few frustrating...
by liam | Apr 15, 2012 | education, gamebasedlearning, gaming, literacy, media, video games, virtual worlds
Our GamingEdus server is growing with new people and it’s been fantastic to see them dive in and get building right away. Both technascribe and darkana82 like their builds BIG and they can build them fast. Check it out: In just a few hours, technascribe had her...
by liam | Apr 8, 2012 | education, gamebasedlearning, gaming, literacy, media, video games
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 this is the way I organized my students’ Minecraft accounts. I’m sure there are more...
by liam | Mar 31, 2012 | education, gamebasedlearning, gaming, literacy, media, video games, virtual worlds
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 part of our much larger Multi-School Minecraft Server Project, a single server hosting 30...