teaching | Liam O'Donnell

Two quick ways to secure your Minecraft server

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...

Three self publishing lessons I’m bringing into my classroom (and so can you!)

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...

GamingEdus Minecraft Project on DMLCentral

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...

Interview: GamingEdus and Autism at Squag.com

by liam | Jul 2, 2013 | appearances, education, gamebasedlearning, literacy, media, video games, virtual worlds

Last week, I chatted with Sara Winters from Squag.com about the GamingEdus Minecraft server and some of our amazing players who are on the spectrum. In case you don’t know (and I didn’t until Sara contacted me), Squag.com is a curated online experience...

Alternative Texts in Schools: Future of Videogames = History of Comics

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...