by liam | Aug 5, 2013 | education, gamebasedlearning, Teacher's Guide, video games, virtual worlds
As Minecraft continues to storm through the world of gaming, education and everywhere else, one thing is for certain: everybody wants to create their own server! I think that is a great thing. I’ve run several servers since early 2011, through my GamingEdus...
by liam | Jul 29, 2013 | education, Teacher's Guide, video games, writing news
I’ve been writing professionally for nearly 20 years, but in the last year I’ve really started to have fun. And I’ve started to make real mistakes. Both the fun and the mistakes are due to my experiments with self-publishing. And both have taught me...
by liam | Jul 9, 2013 | appearances, education, gamebasedlearning, gaming, literacy, Teacher's Guide, video games, virtual worlds
About a month ago, I had the honour of speaking with the legendary Howard Rheingold about the GamingEdus Minecraft project I launched with some amazing teachers and the folks at EDGE Lab at Ryerson University. Our chat was for a larger piece for DML Central, about...
by liam | Jun 29, 2013 | comics, education, gamebasedlearning, gaming, literacy, media, Teacher's Guide, video games
I spent much of June talking to teachers and other folks about video games in schools. I spoke about play and alternative texts with amazing educators at the recent 2013 COCA Retreat. And I had a blast at the Academy of the Impossible talking digital learning and...
by liam | Jun 2, 2013 | education, gaming, literacy, media, Teacher's Guide, video games, writing news
The past few weeks have been very busy around here. As a teacher, I’ve been working to land a position for next school year. That all turned out well. More on that soon. As a Minecraft-teaching GamingEdu, I’ve been organizing our upcoming talk at the...