A field with your data will appear in the dBase linked to the Google form, so we'll know when you've registered
When you have registered and obtained a Microsoft user ID from Mojang, we can whitelist you on our server
What you can do if your application is not accepted
We accept people requesting to join us when their profiles suggest that the applicant is (1) representing his or her real identity, and (2) is connected in some way with education. When we suspect from what we can see in a user's profile that one or both of these is not the case we might reject the application. As we mentioned in our proposal here:
We allow to remain with us, and accept join requests from, potential professional colleagues and their students (and sometime their children if they make separate requests and have separate Minecraft user IDs) whose profiles appear to link to identifiable people who could be potential colleagues as opposed to gamers, possibly using pseudonyms, and whose reasons for joining us would likely be incompatible with our goals and passions, which relate to gamification in education, not just playing Minecraft for hedonistic reasons. As we are a community of practice interested in assisting each other in using Minecraft creatively and constructively with students, we might reject profiles that appear irrelevant to our goals or indicate no evidence of shared aspirations.
If you are a bona fide educator wishing to join us, and for some reason we reject you, please send an email to the primary contact given at the end of the proposal, which is vancestev at gmail.com
After joining, you can create an introduction there (in case you aren't on Facebook, or want to use your post as your intro link in the registration form)
You can do this if you need help and want a personal answer (Teacher Vance and others are standing by here to help)
Once we have you registered we can whitelist you on our server.
Why?
So we can play together in Minecraft.
What should you be doing?
Purchase your login to Minecraft from Mojang http://minecraft.net Be sure and get the Java version. See the screen shot here: how2joinUs
All software downloads including server software and client software multiple devices are free; you pay around $30 for your unique login credential (to Mojang, not to us) We can only use emeralds and diamonds which we get by trading with villagers in Minecraft
On the theory that a student practices and reflects, whereas a teacher practices and demonstrates, we ask you to surpass your role as 'teacher' and do all four!; see slide 22 from Downes, S. (2007). Personal Learning the Web 2.0 Way. Stephen Downes: Knowledge, Learning, Community. Available: https://www.downes.ca/presentation/144
What should you be doing?
Read (parts or all of) any of these and write a reflective post
We also have a comprehensive compilation of literature and presentations on EVO Minecraft MOOC and its connection to English Language teaching and learning
As we continue to schedule and archive events on this page: 2021_Live_Events
You can enjoy the recordings (like the one below)
of our previous live events available through the archive links in the sidebar at right ------------>
How can you do this?
Start a blog or any kind of ePortfolio where you will share your learning journey and provide a link to it in the Google form - If you need help with this please ask
Create a post giving some reflection of your reading and impressions of the session so far
Post the link to your post on Discord, Twitter and/or Facebook, or in any of our social spaces,
Tag it #evomc21
How can you verify this mission accomplished?
Your post should appear in a Twitter search on #evomc21 - try it and see
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