The official EVO closing ceremony takes place on Sun Feb 16 1400 UTC in Zoom at https://zoom.us/j/210143084. All are welcome to attend to hear moderators talk about their sessions and to share participant experiences.
EVO Minecraft MOOC can carry on as long as there is a server running and as long as people want to play (and learn, of course :-).
(Co-hosts wee added to our EVOMC20 group announcement for acknowledgement, not actually expected to attend :-)
And afterwards
Sat Feb 15 1930 UTC EVOMC20 Hinderval University "faux" orientation workshop-play session
Hinderval University "faux" orientation workshop-a play session
When: Saturday, 15 February 2020, 7:30pm to 8:30pm, (GMT+00:00) UTC
Where: Haliwell Minecraft Server 1.14.4 and EVOmc Discord
Description:Join Dakotah and Carol on Haliwell Server 1.14.4 continue with your learning and get caught up. Plan to communicate in Discord (Dakotah likes to yak) :)
Do you have any questions, ideas, suggestions? Bring them if you like.
Sat Feb 15 1300 UTC EVOMC20 Classic 1.12.2 Play and Learn Time - Mattie's wool race
This was perhaps the final Play and Learn event held on the EVO Minecraft MOOC "classic" 1.12.2 server for the Electronic Village Online sessions just ended. Jane asked that the session be recorded and Vance and Olivetree (Maha) both complied, and Mattie made his own recording.
This event was blogged as Learnng2gether episode #436. That post has the latest and most comprehensive updates
In this event, Mattie (Jane's precocious young son) had set up a contest in which he had placed sheep in a specially constructed flat map on the classic server. At a signal, participants were to collect wool from the sheep until all the sheep were gone. At the end of that round we moved via a series of portals to other locations where more sheep were kept. At the end of each round of wool gathering lightning would strike and set the sheep alight as well as spread to players if they weren't careful to avoid the conflagrations. Those scenes were very dramatic :-). At the end of all the rounds, players deposited their wool in boxes set out for them and the wool was counted and multiplied out by the number of points each color was worth to get a total points for each player. We then entered a final warp where there was a special stand erected as if in a sporting event where the winner took the highest position, 2nd place slightly lower, 3rd place, etc. The winners were announced and photos taken of them on the podium. It was all great fun, and a powerful illustration of the powers Mattie had acquired under Magician Dak's tutelege, which if you asked me (or perhaps his mom), would have contributed to his fluency in English.
Another illustration of his powers came on my arrival in the game where Dak had just died (some think it was suicide) due to a set of armor that had been given him by Mattie. When I arrived Dak's possessions were still on the ground (players in this version of the game would lose their possessions when they were 'killed' in game, and these objects would be on the ground ready for anyone to scoop up). I saw the armor and picked it up and despite warnings from other players not to do so, I put it on. It turned out that Mattie had put a curse on the armor, it could not be removed, and the player would experience strange behavior including death rattles while trying to get rid of it. So that was me, and I managed to record myself going through this experience in the video I recorded. Later when Emmanuel (Rose's equally precocious son :-) arrived, he put on the armor, and experienced the same. I had switched off my recording by then but perhaps Olivetree got it on hers.
It was a nice end to our EVO session, if indeed it was the end. Tomorrow we will be in the official EVO closing ceremony scheduled at 1400 UTC, the hour after we normally meet (at 1300) for the EVOMC20 sessions that Jane has been leading consistently throughout this year's sessions. Other events that met consistently throughout this year's event were the ones organized by Olivetree Grove at 1600 UTC almost every day, and those that took place on the 1.14.2 Haliwell server at 19:30 UTC each day put on by Dakotah Redstone and Carol Rainbow.
These aforementioned moderators between them put on at least 50 live events, according to my count at
http://missions4evomc.pbworks.com/w/page/134715012/2020_Live_Events, and that list (of 48) does not have all of them. Thanks to them, and to Aaron Schwarz who overcame obstacles to get the server back up and running for us, and others such as Kim Harrison and Beth Ghostraven who hosted us at VSTE, and Abu Fletcher who had to bicycle in the snow to his office in the middle of the night to join us due to the impending and eventually actual destruction of his living quarters (and byzantine delays in getting Internet installed in his current abode, which still hasn't happened) whew, where did this sentence begin?? and to others as well whom I might have neglected to mention, EVOMC20 can be considered to have been a great success!
At the event last night, there was some talk of finding a common platform for next year. This past year we were divided into silos where some of us followed the proceedings at Groups.io and others adhered to Facebook. We discussed carrying forward with the Moodle provided to us by Nellie Deutsch, which she has kindly provided us but which we didn't activate for this year, and looking into Schoology, which Teacher Vance is using for some online workshops he's giving over the next three weeks. Talk of a 7th year of EVOMC(21) is always encouraging, a sign that what we have spawned over the past 6 years has transformed into a true community of prractice.
Thanks to all our fine moderators past and present who contributed in many small and in many very large ways as well to this grand endeavor.
Details of the event tonight (or afternoon or morning, depending on where you are on the planet)
When: Saturday, 15 February 2020, 1:00pm to 2:00pm, (GMT+00:00) UTC
Thanks for participating in the wool race that Mattie built. There were three rounds of wool sheering with a point system assigned to the different colors of wool, one point for white wool and 10 points for color/Jeb wool. We were all going for the Jeb sheep but Olivetree was the lucky person who found all the Jeb sheep, one for each round.
The first round was in a desert. Then a portal opened where we were dropped to the second round, which is the overworld. We were bounced off to a field of green slime blocks with grass growing on it. When we sheered off all the wool from the sheep, strikes of lightning were aiming towards the sheep and we had to avoid being struck by lightning. (Mattie, why the lightning?)
Unluckily, Vance was struck when we were ready for the third round, which was the Nether. Oh, no! He lost his sheers after he respawned. I immediately gave him my spare ones.
There were so many sheep in the Nether round that I got so excited until I found out there was another round of lightning and we had to stay away from the sheep in order not to be struck by lightning. Olive shouted: "But I'm away from the sheep!!!! I was standing away from the sheep when I got struck!" Dak explained that there was an area of effect so we needed to stay far away from the sheep. I was so happy that in the end, we all survived the last round!!!
After calculating the points, the winners were teleported to the winner's podiums and there were fireworks in the background to celebrate their wins!!! Congratulations, Dak, for winning the first place, Olive for winning second, Joe for winning the third place, and Vance the fourth place. I only got 164 points so I was there with Emanual to take pictures and congratulate them! Hurray!!
(When I get a moment I'll try to import the pictures from her post here.) Meanwhile here's the FB thumbnail view:
Fri Feb 14 1930 UTC EVOMC20 Hinderval University "faux" orientation workshop-play session
Reminder: Hinderval University "faux" orientation workshop-a play session
When: Friday, 14 February 2020, 7:30pm to 8:30pm, (GMT+00:00) UTC
Where:Haliwell Minecraft Server 1.14.4 and EVOmc Discord
Description:Join Dakotah and Carol on Haliwell Server 1.14.4 continue with your learning and get caught up. Plan to communicate in Discord (Dakotah likes to yak) :)
Do you have any questions, ideas, suggestions? Bring them if you like.
Description:Join Dakotah and Carol on Haliwell Server 1.14.4 continue with your learning and get caught up. Plan to communicate in Discord (Dakotah likes to yak) :)
Do you have any questions, ideas, suggestions? Bring them if you like.
Description:Sorry guys, today's session with Dakotah is cancelled because of a doctor's appointment that he'd forgotten about.
Join Dakotah and Carol on Haliwell Server 1.14.4 continue with your learning and get caught up. Plan to communicate in Discord (Dakotah likes to yak) :)
Do you have any questions, ideas, suggestions? Bring them if you like.
Description:Join Dakotah and Carol on Haliwell Server 1.14.4 continue with your learning and get caught up. Plan to communicate in Discord (Dakotah likes to yak) :)
Do you have any questions, ideas, suggestions? Bring them if you like.
Description: Join Dakotah and Carol on Haliwell Server 1.14.4 continue with your learning and get caught up. Plan to communicate in Discord (Dakotah likes to yak) :)
Do you have any questions, ideas, suggestions? Bring them if you like.
Description:Join Dakotah Redstone on Haliwell Server 1.14.4 continue with your learning and get caught up. Plan to communicate in Discord (Dakotah likes to yak) :)
Description:Join us to continue learning how to play, explore, survive and create in Minecraft. Apply what you've learned so far during a "Lost" exercise, learn about dispensers and how you can use them to provide players/learners with books, maps, items etc, Work on an activity with someone.
If you have an idea and need help implementing it, share it and find collaborators. Need to catch up, let us know when you can be online.
Description:Join Dakotah Redstone on Haliwell Server 1.14.4 continue with your learning and get caught up. Plan to communicate in Discord (Dakotah likes to yak) :)
Description:Join us to continue learning how to play, explore, survive and create in Minecraft. Apply what you've learned so far during a "Lost" exercise, learn about dispensers and how you can use them to provide players/learners with books, maps, items etc, Work on an activity with someone.
If you have an idea and need help implementing it, share it and find collaborators. Need to catch up, let us know when you can be online.
Description:Join Dakotah Redstone on Haliwell Server 1.14.4 continue with your learning and get caught up. Plan to communicate in Discord (Dakotah likes to yak) :)
Description:Join us to continue learning how to play, explore, survive and create in Minecraft. Apply what you've learned so far during a "Lost" exercise, learn about dispensers and how you can use them to provide players/learners with books, maps, items etc, Work on an activity with someone.
If you have an idea and need help implementing it, share it and find collaborators. Need to catch up, let us know when you can be online.
Description:Join Dakotah Redstone on Haliwell Server 1.14.4 continue with your learning and get caught up. Plan to communicate in Discord (Dakotah likes to yak) :)
Description:Join Dakotah Redstone on Haliwell Server 1.14.4 continue with your learning and get caught up. Plan to communicate in Discord (Dakotah likes to yak) :)
Description:Join us to continue learning how to play, explore, survive and create in Minecraft. Apply what you've learned so far during a "Lost" exercise, learn about dispensers and how you can use them to provide players/learners with books, maps, items etc, Work on an activity with someone.
If you have an idea and need help implementing it, share it and find collaborators. Need to catch up, let us know when you can be online.
Description:Join Dakotah Redstone on Haliwell Server 1.14.4 continue with your learning and get caught up. Plan to communicate in Discord (Dakotah likes to yak) :)
Description:Join us to continue learning how to play, explore, survive and create in Minecraft. Apply what you've learned so far during a "Lost" exercise, learn about dispensers and how you can use them to provide players/learners with books, maps, items etc, Work on an activity with someone.
If you have an idea and need help implementing it, share it and find collaborators. Need to catch up, let us know when you can be online.
Tue 4 Feb 0100 UTC EVOMC20 participates in Minecraft Monday: Networking with VSTE Community
Announced on the VSTE Community list
Monday, February 3rd, at 8 PM EST, EVOMOOC will visit VSTE Place and Dakotah_Redstone will give a tour for them. EVO stands for Electronic Village Online. A MOOC is a Massively Open Online Course. In this MOOC participants explore the multi-player game Minecraft as a virtual world for learning. Many of the participants are teachers, particularly language teachers, but some enjoy online gaming as a way of improving their English as a second language.
This MOOC is run by Vance Stevens, who is a member of the VSTE VE PLN. Kim Harrison is a co-moderator of EVO Minecraft MOOC.
This event was announced at EVOMC 20 on our groups.io and Facebook communities
Minecraft Monday (Feb 3 evening in Virginia): Networking with VSTE Community
When:
Monday, 4 February 2020
1:00am to 2:00am
(UTC+00:00) UTC
Your tIme wherever you are in the world - confirmed (thanks Beth Ghostraven :-)
Where: Haliwell Minecraft 1.14.4 and Discord servers
Organizers: Dakotah Redstone and Carol Rainbow
Description: Join Dakotah Redstone on Haliwell Server 1.14.4 continue with your learning and get caught up. Plan to communicate in Discord (Dakotah likes to yak) :)
Description: Join us to continue learning how to play, explore, survive and create in Minecraft. Apply what you've learned so far during a "Lost" exercise, learn about dispensers and how you can use them to provide players/learners with books, maps, items etc, Work on an activity with someone.
If you have an idea and need help implementing it, share it and find collaborators. Need to catch up, let us know when you can be online.
Description: Join us to continue learning how to play, explore, survive and create in Minecraft. Apply what you've learned so far during a "Lost" exercise, learn about dispensers and how you can use them to provide players/learners with books, maps, items etc, Work on an activity with someone.
If you have an idea and need help implementing it, share it and find collaborators. Need to catch up, let us know when you can be online.
Meet and trade with villagers, visit some ancient monuments and some modern ones, go for a scavenger hunt and recreate a secret long forgotten text,. take over a witch hut, make a trampoline, or may be mine for Diamonds.
Are you starting to have some ideas for what you'd like to try with students? Is it still vague? Write a brief description of it, share it and watch the idea grow. :)
The activities are suitable for all levels, but more experienced players and moderators will be there to help.
If you've heard about something in Minecraft that you'd like to learn about or learn how to do, let us know.
Meet and trade with villagers, visit some ancient monuments and some modern ones, go for a scavenger hunt and recreate a secret long forgotten text,. take over a witch hut, make a trampoline, or may be mine for Diamonds.
Are you starting to have some ideas for what you'd like to try with students? Is it still vague? Write a brief description of it, share it and watch the idea grow. :)
The activities are suitable for all levels, but more experienced players and moderators will be there to help.
If you've heard about something in Minecraft that you'd like to learn about or learn how to do, let us know.
When: Saturday, 1 February 2020 1:00pm to 2:00pm (GMT+00:00) UTC
Where: EVO Discord and Minecraft Servers
Description:
Join us and let's:
Meet and trade with villagers, visit some ancient monuments and some modern ones, go for a scavenger hunt and recreate a secret long forgotten text,. take over a witch hut, make a trampoline, or may be mine for Diamonds.
Are you starting to have some ideas for what you'd like to try with students? Is it still vague? Write a brief description of it, share it and watch the idea grow. :)
The activities are suitable for all levels, but more experienced players and moderators will be there to help.
If you've heard about something in Minecraft that you'd like to learn about or learn how to do, let us know.
Meet and trade with villagers, visit some ancient monuments and some modern ones, go for a scavenger hunt and recreate a secret long forgotten text,. take over a witch hut, make a trampoline, or may be mine for Diamonds.
Are you starting to have some ideas for what you'd like to try with students? Is it still vague? Write a brief description of it, share it and watch the idea grow. :)
The activities are suitable for all levels, but more experienced players and moderators will be there to help.
If you've heard about something in Minecraft that you'd like to learn about or learn how to do, let us know.
When: Friday, 31 January 2020 5:00pm to 6:00pm, (GMT+00:00) UTC
Where: EVO Discord and Minecraft Servers
Description: Join us and let's:
Meet and trade with villagers, visit some ancient monuments and some modern ones, go for a scavenger hunt and recreate a secret long forgotten text,. take over a witch hut, make a trampoline, or may be mine for Diamonds.
Are you starting to have some ideas for what you'd like to try with students? Is it still vague? Write a brief description of it, share it and watch the idea grow. :)
The activities are suitable for all levels, but more experienced players and moderators will be there to help.
If you've heard about something in Minecraft that you'd like to learn about or learn how to do, let us know.
Meet and trade with villagers, visit some ancient monuments and some modern ones, go for a scavenger hunt and recreate a secret long forgotten text,. take over a witch hut, make a trampoline, or may be mine for Diamonds.
Are you starting to have some ideas for what you'd like to try with students? Is it still vague? Write a brief description of it, share it and watch the idea grow. :)
The activities are suitable for all levels, but more experienced players and moderators will be there to help.
If you've heard about something in Minecraft that you'd like to learn about or learn how to do, let us know.
Thursday, 30 January 2020, 8:00pm to 9:00pm,(GMT+00:00) UTC
Where: EVO Minecraft and Discord servers
Description: Join us and let's
Meet and trade with villagers, visit some ancient monuments and some modern ones, go for a scavenger hunt and recreate a secret long forgotten text,. take over a witch hut, make a trampoline, or may be mine for Diamonds.
Are you starting to have some ideas for what you'd like to try with students? Is it still vague? Write a brief description of it, share it and watch the idea grow. :)
The activities are suitable for all levels, but more experienced players and moderators will be there to help.
If you've heard about something in Minecraft that you'd like to learn about or learn how to do, let us know.
Thursday, 30 January 2020, 5:00pm to 6:00pm, (GMT+00:00) UTC
Where:
EVO Discord and Minecraft Servers
Description: Join us and let's:
Meet and trade with villagers, visit some ancient monuments and some modern ones, go for a scavenger hunt and recreate a secret long forgotten text,. take over a witch hut, make a trampoline, or may be mine for Diamonds.
Are you starting to have some ideas for what you'd like to try with students? Is it still vague? Write a brief description of it, share it and watch the idea grow. :)
The activities are suitable for all levels, but more experienced players and moderators will be there to help.
If you've heard about something in Minecraft that you'd like to learn about or learn how to do, let us know.
Thursday, 30 January 2020 1:00pm to 2:00pm (GMT+00:00) UTC
Where: EVO Discord and Minecraft Servers
Description:
Join us and let's:
Meet and trade with villagers, visit some ancient monuments and some modern ones, go for a scavenger hunt and recreate a secret long forgotten text,. take over a witch hut, make a trampoline, or may be mine for Diamonds.
Are you starting to have some ideas for what you'd like to try with students? Is it still vague? Write a brief description of it, share it and watch the idea grow. :)
The activities are suitable for all levels, but more experienced players and moderators will be there to help.
If you've heard about something in Minecraft that you'd like to learn about or learn how to do, let us know.
Wednesday, 29 January 2020, 8:00pm to 9:00pm, (GMT+00:00) UTC
Where: EVO Minecraft and Discord servers
Description: Join us and let's
Meet and trade with villagers, visit some ancient monuments and some modern ones, go for a scavenger hunt and recreate a secret long forgotten text,. take over a witch hut, make a trampoline, or may be mine for Diamonds.
Are you starting to have some ideas for what you'd like to try with students? Is it still vague? Write a brief description of it, share it and watch the idea grow. :)
The activities are suitable for all levels, but more experienced players and moderators will be there to help.
If you've heard about something in Minecraft that you'd like to learn about or learn how to do, let us know.
Wednesday, 29 January 2020, 5:00pm to 6:00pm, (GMT+00:00) UTC
Where: EVO Discord and Minecraft Servers
Description: Join us and let's:
Meet and trade with villagers, visit some ancient monuments and some modern ones, go for a scavenger hunt and recreate a secret long forgotten text,. take over a witch hut, make a trampoline, or may be mine for Diamonds.
Are you starting to have some ideas for what you'd like to try with students? Is it still vague? Write a brief description of it, share it and watch the idea grow. :)
The activities are suitable for all levels, but more experienced players and moderators will be there to help.
If you've heard about something in Minecraft that you'd like to learn about or learn how to do, let us know.
Wednesday, 29 January 2020, 1:00pm to 2:00pm, (GMT+00:00) UTC
Where: EVO Discord and Minecraft Servers
Description:
Join us and let's:
Meet and trade with villagers, visit some ancient monuments and some modern ones, go for a scavenger hunt and recreate a secret long forgotten text,. take over a witch hut, make a trampoline, or may be mine for Diamonds.
Are you starting to have some ideas for what you'd like to try with students? Is it still vague? Write a brief description of it, share it and watch the idea grow. :)
The activities are suitable for all levels, but more experienced players and moderators will be there to help.
If you've heard about something in Minecraft that you'd like to learn about or learn how to do, let us know.
When: Sunday, 26 January 2020 1:00pm to 2:00pm (UTC+00:00) UTC Repeats: Daily, 7 times
Where: EVO Discord and Minecraft Servers
Description:
Join us and let's:
Meet and trade with villagers, visit some ancient monuments and some modern ones, go for a scavenger hunt and recreate a secret long forgotten text,. take over a witch hut, make a trampoline, or may be mine for Diamonds.
Are you starting to have some ideas for what you'd like to try with students? Is it still vague? Write a brief description of it, share it and watch the idea grow. :)
The activities are suitable for all levels, but more experienced players and moderators will be there to help.
If you've heard about something in Minecraft that you'd like to learn about or learn how to do, let us know.
Description:Join olivetree to learn how to survive in Minecraft, how to create different tools, how to build different structures, explore different biomes looking at their different features (flora, fauna, terrain, monsters etc.), how to navigate the world.
For those who are logging in for the first time we will help you set up your discord and log in Minecraft, we will help you learn how to join different text and voice channels and catch you up in-game.
When: Saturday, 25 January 2020 1:00pm to 2:00pm (GMT+00:00) UTC
Where: EVOmc Discord and Minecraft servers
Description: Join Jane Chien to learn how to survive in Minecraft, how to create different tools, how to build different structures, explore different biomes looking at their different features (flora, fauna, terrain, monsters etc.), how to navigate the world.
For those who are logging in for the first time we will help you set up your discord and log in Minecraft, we will help you learn how to join different text and voice channels and catch you up in-game.
Description:Join olivetree to learn how to survive in Minecraft, how to create different tools, how to build different structures, explore different biomes looking at their different features (flora, fauna, terrain, monsters etc.), how to navigate the world.
For those who are logging in for the first time we will help you set up your discord and log in Minecraft, we will help you learn how to join different text and voice channels and catch you up in-game.
When: Friday, 24 January 2020 1:00pm to 2:00pm (GMT+00:00) UTC
Where: EVOmc Discord and Minecraft servers
Description: Join Jane Chien to learn how to survive in Minecraft, how to create different tools, how to build different structures, explore different biomes looking at their different features (flora, fauna, terrain, monsters etc.), how to navigate the world.
For those who are logging in for the first time we will help you set up your discord and log in Minecraft, we will help you learn how to join different text and voice channels and catch you up in-game.
When: Thursday, 23 January 2020 5:00pm to 6:00pm (GMT+00:00) UTC
Where: EVOmc Discord and Minecraft servers
Description: Join olivetree to learn how to survive in Minecraft, how to create different tools, how to build different structures, explore different biomes looking at their different features (flora, fauna, terrain, monsters etc.), how to navigate the world.
For those who are logging in for the first time we will help you set up your discord and log in Minecraft, we will help you learn how to join different text and voice channels and catch you up in-game.
Description:Join Jane Chien to learn how to survive in Minecraft, how to create different tools, how to build different structures, explore different biomes looking at their different features (flora, fauna, terrain, monsters etc.), how to navigate the world.
For those who are logging in for the first time we will help you set up your discord and log in Minecraft, we will help you learn how to join different text and voice channels and catch you up in-game.
Description:Join olivetree to learn how to survive in Minecraft, how to create different tools, how to build different structures, explore different biomes looking at their different features (flora, fauna, terrain, monsters etc.), how to navigate the world.
For those who are logging in for the first time we will help you set up your discord and log in Minecraft, we will help you learn how to join different text and voice channels and catch you up in-game.
When: Wednesday, 22 January 2020 1:00pm to 2:00pm (GMT+00:00) UTC
Where: EVOmc Discord and Minecraft servers
Description: Join Jane Chien to learn how to survive in Minecraft, how to create different tools, how to build different structures, explore different biomes looking at their different features (flora, fauna, terrain, monsters etc.), how to navigate the world.
For those who are logging in for the first time we will help you set up your discord and log in Minecraft, we will help you learn how to join different text and voice channels and catch you up in-game.
@everyone We are now in week 2 of EVOmc20. Join us every day to learn how to survive in Minecraft, how to create different tools, how to build different structures, explore different biomes looking at their diverse features (flora, fauna, terrain, monsters, architecture etc.) and how to navigate the world. For those who are logging in for the first time we will help you set up your discord and log in Minecraft, we will help you learn how to join different text and voice channels and catch you up in-game. Sessions are at 13:00 UTC and 17:00 UTC. If you'd like to login and practice on your own anytime please go ahead, and if you'd like help or some company let us know in the #conversations channel tagging us by starting with @Moderators . Remember to take some pictures using F2 in-game, and use the #adventures-in-world channel to tell us about your learning adventures.
Play and Learn Time
When: Tuesday, 21 January 2020 5:00pm to 6:00pm (GMT+00:00) UTC
Where: EVOmc Discord and Minecraft servers
Description: Join olivetree to learn how to survive in Minecraft, how to create different tools, how to build different structures, explore different biomes looking at their different features (flora, fauna, terrain, monsters etc.), how to navigate the world.
For those who are logging in for the first time we will help you set up your discord and log in Minecraft, we will help you learn how to join different text and voice channels and catch you up in-game.
Description:Join Jane Chien to learn how to survive in Minecraft, how to create different tools, how to build different structures, explore different biomes looking at their different features (flora, fauna, terrain, monsters etc.), how to navigate the world.
For those who are logging in for the first time we will help you set up your discord and log in Minecraft, we will help you learn how to join different text and voice channels and catch you up in-game.
Olivetree posted this on behalf of Jane Chien on Facebook, for the 1300 UTC event
Play and Learn Time
When: Monday, 20 January 2020 1:00pm to 2:00pm (UTC+00:00) UTC Repeats: Daily, 6 times
Where: EVOmc Discord and Minecraft servers
Organizer: Jane Chien
Description: Join Jane Chien to learn how to survive in Minecraft, how to create different tools, how to build different structures, explore different biomes looking at their different features (flora, fauna, terrain, monsters etc.), how to navigate the world.
For those who are logging in for the first time we will help you set up your discord and log in Minecraft, we will help you learn how to join different text and voice channels and catch you up in-game.
When: Monday, 20 January 2020 5:00pm to 6:00pm (GMT+00:00) UTC
Where: EVOmc Discord and Minecraft servers
Description: Join olivetree to learn how to survive in Minecraft, how to create different tools, how to build different structures, explore different biomes looking at their different features (flora, fauna, terrain, monsters etc.), how to navigate the world.
For those who are logging in for the first time we will help you set up your discord and log in Minecraft, we will help you learn how to join different text and voice channels and catch you up in-game.
Sun Jan 19 more play adventures in minecraft planned
to get help joining EVO Minecraft Server and come on a short tour while learning the basics.
More details on when: 13:00 UTC, 08:00 New York, 15:00 in Egypt, 21:00 in Malaysia and Taipei, 22:00 am in Japan
What happened in-world
A group of half a dozen moderators, including Olivetree Grove, Chien Jane, Mattie Tsai, Dakotah Redstone, and newcomer Tricky Eel Joe from Taiwan, met in the EVO Minecraft classic server starting a little earlier than the appointed meeting time. Teacher Vance and Bobbi Bear were late and found the classic server down. According to Dakotah Redstone, they had been "moving huge blocks around" and the server crashed. When Bobbi and Teacher arrived in DIscord we were directed to join them at Dak's server Haliwell. The IP address of that server is given here: 2020_Server_Info
Screenshots
These screenshots are by Teacher Vance and give a flavor of our experience on the Haliwell server.
We found where the Christmas tree was, which had been used in one of Dak's holiday greetings
Dak has a map room with a wall map where locations of builds in the area are tracked
This is outside the map room
Here are two more views of the builds there. As you can see Dak is a tasteful, and prolific, designer
After an hour Dak led us for a run along the edge of an acacia plateau
Back to the spawn point where he had placed beds near some boxes of supplies.
If you sleep in one of the beds, and it is still there when you are next terminated due to some unfortunate happenstance, then you will respawn in the bed you selected, assuming the bed is still there and you haven't reset your personal spawn point meantime. In that case you can grab a magic bow and an arrow (you just need one with the magic bow) and be better prepared to ward off happenstance when you venture out into Dak's world anew.
Sun 12 Jan EVO kickoff meeting
The EVO20 annual Kickoff event is on January 12, 2020 at 2 PM UTC (9:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
In our first adventure of the season, we showed some newcomers around the spawn point and then set off to neutralize a nest of skeletons in the spawner that Teacher Vance I had discovered earlier in explorations around the wilderness portal, a great source for bows and arrows I might add.
On the first day of EVO20, and 24 hours before the official EVO kickoff event Jan 12 we attracted several moderators and a few newcomers to Minecraft. Heike joined Vance briefly in Zoom (pictured below) but I left that space after half an hour in order to focus on the others on the EVO Minecraft server and speaking in DIscord
If you can't reach those spaces, drop by Vance's Zoom Learning2gether Zoom Learning Space https://zoom.us/j/5786977523
When? The event is set for Sat 11 Jan at 1400 UTC
We gathered at the /warp Whitetower or /warp spawn and then went over to the /warp hub
Someone named ~tour_helper joined us there
From there we stepped into the Wilderness portal and were beamed up to the wilderness outpost
There is a high point there with a ladder up a tower where you can then jump into the treetops and get a nice view
From there we took a trail signposted "to the village" and crossed the river to the village with a red building added by Dak
Heike had had a run in with a skeleton by then
From the red building you can see a tower to the west
From that tower you head for another tower in a bend in the river at the base of the mountains
Here are the coordinates for the second shelter
From there go down to the bend in the river you find your way signposted up the mountain. Follow the torches.
Up the mountain we found the spawner guarded by skeletons
There was a grand battle
Most of us survived, barely
Hi mom, it's meeeee !!
You can suppress the spawner by putting torches on it. Mobs don't spawn in bright light.
Dak built a wall around the spawner designed so that skeletons coming out of the spawner wouldn't be able to shoot out but someone outside could shoot in.
In preparation for EVOMC20 in early January
Teacher Vance and Bobbi Bear and Jane Chien and Olivetree Grove and others have been exploring the area northwest of the Wilderness Warp at 20k x 20k on our classic server. Those are the X (-west +east) and Z (-north +south) coordinates you see when you press F3 in Minecraft.
Our new area is in the tiaga at around 19.5000-X and 20.5000-Z Here are some screenshots of the area:
You can tame llamas nearby if you give them about ten bundles of wheat
If you feed parrots seeds they might sit on your shoulder
Be careful, some of the candlelit paths up the mountains come out on a skeleton spawner
You can recover wherever you respawn. Right click on a bed inside this shelter to set a bed spawn here.
Here are the coordinates for this shelter
Down across from the bend in the river you find your way signposted up the mountain
You can see some of the torches marking the way up behind AbuFletcher. The spawner is a good place to pick up a few arrows, and you might collect some bows if you manage to get a few skeletons before they get you. If you linger there they'll overwhelm you.
There are ways to deal with spawners. The first step is to light up the chamber. We've put enough light there where we can see our way in the dark cave, but we're leaving this for a group of EVOMC20 adventurers to sort out. Welcome to join us.
EVO Minecraft MOOC Live Events from March through December, 2019
Mon 09 Dec 1200 UTC EVOMC20 Planning and a Minecraft Field Trip
This was announced in our EVO Minecraft Facebook Group
meet in discord and Minecraft as well (optional) and record the meeting to allow others to follow the discussion
Hi all. As the clock counts down on the demise of this marvelous home for our community, many of us are actively considering where we should move to. If you have any thoughts on the best all-in-one home for our continued sharing and discussion, please add them here. If you'd like to talk it over live, you can meet us in Discord at 1300 UTC on March 1. It might be fun and appropriate to pop into Minecraft while we're at it, if that's not too distracting, though the focus would be on the discussion.
The following is from a thread in FB which captures one part of the genesis of this proposed meeting
<Rose Bard> Vance Stevens and I talked about Moodle Livre. Now that I can work on the computer again, I need to discuss this with the team. The great thing about Moodle is that we can link the blog (wordpress) into it and use the blog as external tool to the community. Let's have a meeting in Discord this week to discuss it.
<Jane Chien> Absolutely! Mattie Tsai will be reading this tomorrow, and he'd be touched as well. Great suggestion! Moodle is better than Google Classroom! we'll set up a discord meeting this week.
<Jane Chien> Vance Stevens I think Friday March 1st 1300 UTC works well. I've checked with Olive, Rose, and Dak. I'll ask Don and Mircea as well.
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Fri Jun 28, 2019 - Vance Stevens presented on EVO Minecraft MOOC at the ICCTAR conference in Melaka, Malaysia
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