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Jan 8-14, 2017
Check here to tick off your missions accomplished for Weeks 1 and 2
Here are your missions for weeks 1 and 2
Why?
We'd like to get to know each other.
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 this mission accomplished?
The link to your post will appear in Mission 3
Install and enter our Bb Collaborate room
Why?
We'll likely use this as one of our live presentation spaces
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?
Join us in a live event held in BbC, as per our Live Events link in the sidebar ------------>
Install our Discord EMM space
Why?
We'll likely use this app to communicate in voice during our in-world Minecraft sessions
What should you be doing?
Visit http://discordapp.com where you will see these options
How can you do this?
How can you verify your mission accomplished?
By speaking to us through Discord when you join us in-world in Minecraft
Fill in the Google form http://tinyurl.com/evomc17-register
Why?
This registers you in our session and allows us to whitelist you on our Minecraft server
What should you be doing?
Assemble the following information
How can you do this?
Fill in the form. The link to the form is http://tinyurl.com/evomc17-register
How can you verify this mission accomplished?
A field with your data will appear in the dBase linked to the Google form, so we'll know when you've registered
Join our Weeks 1-2 “Missions Accomplished” Google Sheet, http://tinyurl.com/evomc17-badgetrack
Why?
This gets you into the system whereby we can award your badges based on information you supply here.
For example, 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.
When you receive your badge, the evidence makes possible that ...
Anyone can see and verify how they have completed the set criteria
Anyone clicking on a Credly awarded badge can be hyperlinked to this document giving evidence for what you did that led to the awarding of the badge,
thus giving the badge its credibility.
What should you be doing?
You need to join the sheet and be prepared to enter your missions accomplished at
http://tinyurl.com/evomc17-badgetrack,
but you won't be accepted to join that form until you have registered on our Google form in Mission 4
How can you do this?
Simply visit the sheet and request to join it
How can you verify this mission accomplished?
We'll see you in the list of writers on the Google sheet
Once we have you registered we can white list you on our server, whose IP address we will provide on or around Jan 8, 2017
Why?
This is the practice part of a student's practicing and reflecting
What should you be doing?
How can you do this?
How can you verify this 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
Jan 14-21, 2017
Week 1 orientation missions will all likely carry on into Week 2 - Declare
EVOMC17 and Learning2gether will schedule events on this page: Live_events2017
Meet-ups in Minecraft in-world are arranged spontaneously using Doodle (see these examples from 2016)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/162ftLKGHaiJtFab7o7xmoLPot661Z5NrgvLKWb6ZXFE/edit?usp=sharing
Why?
On the theory that a student practices and reflects, we ask you to do both
What should you be doing?
Read (parts or all of) one of more of these and write a reflective post
Until we schedule events on this page: Live_events2017
Enjoy the recordings of our week 1 presentation from last year
How can you do this?
How can you verify this mission accomplished?
Your post will appear in our TagBoard at https://tagboard.com/evomc17/search
If you're keeping up with us, you'll have done all the following by the end of Week 2