by liam | Jun 3, 2013 | appearances, education, gamebasedlearning, gaming, literacy, media, video games, virtual worlds
I’m very excited to announce that myself and my GamingEdus pals will be returning to the amazing Academy of the Impossible for another night of Minecraft Mayhem & Learning. It all happens at 7pm on June 20th and if you’re reading this, then...
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...
by liam | May 4, 2013 | education, gamebasedlearning, gaming, literacy, media, Teacher's Guide, video games, virtual worlds
Since we launched the Multi-School Minecraft server in early 2012, myself and my GamingEdu pals have received a lot of questions about it. The most common question is usually: “What the heck is the Multi-School server and how does it work?” It can be...
by liam | Dec 19, 2012 | education, gamebasedlearning, gaming, literacy, media, Teacher's Guide, Uncategorized, video games, virtual worlds
I regularly receive emails from teachers around the world looking for advice on how to use video games with their students. While each teacher, student and learning environment is unique, my first piece of advice is always the same: Play the game yourself. For fun....
by liam | Oct 27, 2012 | appearances, education, gamebasedlearning, gaming, literacy, media, virtual worlds
Yesterday, I had the great pleasure of talking Minecraft with my two GamingEdu pals, Diana Maliszewski and Denise Colby and many, many fantastic educators at the ECOO 2012 conference. We were there presenting our talk: Playing with TNT and Other Lessons from...