2016_Week1_Orient


 

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Missions for Week 1 Orient

Jan 10-16, 2016

 

 

Check here to tick off your missions accomplished for Week 1

 



There are six missions for weeks 1 and 2

 

Mission 1 - Introduce yourself on our Google+ Community

 

What should you be doing?

Join our Google+ Community and introduce yourself there

Save the link to your introduction

 

How can you do this?

Join at https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/112993649763396826671

Create a post there to tell us who you are and what brings you to Minecraft 

Here’s how to save the link: http://screencast.com/t/6YLsvyWEB

 

How can you verify your mission accomplished?

The link to your post will appear in Mission 3

 

 

Mission 2 - Install and enter Bb Collaborate

Install and enter our Bb Collaborate room

 

What should you be doing?

Join the room at http://webheads.learningtimesevents.org

 

How can you do this?

Find help at the Tech Check tab,

direct link here http://webheads.learningtimesevents.org/tech-check/

 

For those still having problems with this consult the tutorial here

http://goodbyegutenberg.pbworks.com/w/page/71255037/2014_tutorials#BlackboardCollaborate/Elluminate 

 

And especially this video created by EVOMC co-moderator Vance explaining how to brute force your BbC into cooperating with your recalcitrant .collab files

 

 

How can you verify your mission accomplished?

By speaking to us through BbC when you join us in-world in Minecraft 

 

Late breaking news, Jan 18, 2016

 

In the face of this evidence

we are looking for an alternative VOIP tool. Possibilities include 


 

Mission 3 - fill in the Google registration form

Fill in the Google form at http://goo.gl/forms/zALHMWsPGX 

 

Details required:

 

How can you do this?
The link to the form is http://goo.gl/forms/zALHMWsPGX

 

How can you verify your mission accomplished?

A field will your data will appear in the dBase linked to the Google form 

 

 

Mission 4 - Reflect on your activities for Weeks 1-2

 

What should you be doing?

Read one of more of these and write a reflective post

  1. Review our proposal for EVOMC16, http://evosessions.pbworks.com/w/page/103533067/2016_EVO_Minecraft_MOOC
  2. Smolčec, Marijana and Smolčec, Filip. (2014). Using Minecraft for Learning English, with an introduction by Vance Stevens. TESL-EJ 18, 2:1-15.Available: http://tesl-ej.org/pdf/ej70/int.pdf and http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume18/ej70/ej70int/
  3. Kuhn, Jeff. (2015). Meaningful Play – Making Professional Development Fun. TESL-EJ 18, 4:1-8. Available: http://tesl-ej.org/pdf/ej72/int.pdf and http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume18/ej72/ej72int/
  4. Why Games? Chapter 1 of Teachercraft: Minecraft for Teaching and Learningby Dikkers
    https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6rwkn6TEyofS2wzcWhIR3B4TG8/view

 

How can you do this? 

Start a blog or ePortfolio where you will share your learning journey and provide a link to it in the Google form

 

Create a blog or electronic journal post giving some reflection of your reading and impressions of the session so far

Post the link to your post on Twitter or Google+ and tag it #evomc16

 

How can you verify your mission accomplished?

Your post will appear in our TagBoard at https://tagboard.com/evomc16/search or https://tagboard.com/evomc16/253132 

 

Mission 5 - Join our Missions Accomplished Google sheet

Join our Weeks 1-2 “Missions Accomplished” Google Sheet.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qExrG9_11GoSeIm97YRXlzvcCOypieNOmbdwbHzK4uc/edit?usp=sharing 

 

What should you be doing?

Simply visit the sheet and request to join it

 

How can you verify your mission accomplished?

We'll see you in the list of writers on the Google sheet

 

You can fill in information here leading to the awarding of the Minecraft Survivor's Badge.

This sheet acts as the “evidence” for your accomplishments in the course toward attaining goals set forth for the awarding of the badge.

The evidence is contained in a shared Google spreadsheet where participants tracked their learning journeys in such a way that

 

 

 

Mission 6 - Join us in Minecraft

Once we have you registered we can white list you on our server, whose IP address we will provide on or around Jan 10, 2016

 

What should you be doing?

Join us in Minecraft (procedure to be provided once we announce the IP address of our server) 

We’ll arrange times we can meet using Doodle

  1. Purchase the program from Mojang http://minecraft.net 
  2. Check out some tutorials (start at https://minecraft.net/game/howtoplay )
  3.  View one of our other videos, or one or more of your own choosing
    1. Jeff’s cool Minecraft Basics: https://plus.google.com/+JeffK/posts/YzNWqVXLNLs
    2. Robert Wachman's suggestions ...  
    3. Filip’s How to Survive the First Night: https://plus.google.com/118365096931980735372/posts/dT8pGJxZDu2 
  4. Fill in our Doodle scheduling form to let us know your availability 
    Here is the link for Week 2 Jan 18-24
    http://doodle.com/poll/9bws7d7xvbzg96h5  

  

How can you verify your mission accomplished?

You can list the days you participated with us in the spreadsheet where you track your missions.

Your activity on the server is logged and can be verified

 

 

Live events scheduled for Weeks 1-2

 

 

Missions for Week 2 Declare

Jan 17-23, 2016

Week 1 orientation missions will all likely carry on into Week 2 - Declare 

 

You are viewing the archived Missions pages for EVOMC16

To reach the Sidebar for the current version of this EVO sessionclick here

 

 

Live events scheduled for Weeks 1-2

 

Summary of Missions for Weeks 1-2

If you're keeping up with us, you'll have done all the following by the end of Week 2

 

Mission 1 - Introduce yourself on our Google+ Community

Mission 2 - Install and enter Bb Collaborate (or another voice tool, it may be too difficult to accomplish this mission)

Mission 3 - fill in the Google registration form

Mission 4 - Reflect on your activities for Weeks 1-2

Mission 5 - Join our Missions Accomplished Google sheet

Mission 6 - Join us in Minecraft