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Missions for Weeks 1 & 2 Orient & Declare
Check here to tick off your missions accomplished for Weeks 1 and 2
Here are your missions for weeks 1 and 2
Sat-Sun, Jan, 9-17, 2021
Complete the 2-step registration process by filling in the Google form for 2021, https://forms.gle/WLdPYYdLDohb8h9b6
Please review the information here with screenshots of things you should be aware of when filing in the form, how2joinUs
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 for 2021, https://forms.gle/K2WhQAZNUg698ZCV7
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
When you have registered and obtained a Microsoft user ID from Mojang, we can whitelist you on our server
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:
http://evo2021proposals.pbworks.com/w/page/141302220/EVO_Minecraft_MOOC_2021
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
Why?
We'd like to get to know each other.
What should you be doing?
How you can verify this mission accomplished
We will see your introduction at https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/introductions/?__gid__=1473050936163127
Why?
We use this app to communicate in voice during our in-world Minecraft sessions.
How can you do this?
If you don't have Discord, have never used it before or need help remembering how to join our server, do the following:
How can you verify your mission accomplished?
By speaking to us through Discord when you join us in-world in Minecraft
What should you be doing?
How can you verify this mission accomplished?
We'll see your post on our groups.io here: https://groups.io/g/minecraftmooc/topics
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?
We also have a video tutorials page especially set up for EVOMC21 here: Video_Tutorials
How can you do this?
How can you verify this mission accomplished?
You can capture screen shots, post them on Twitter or Facebook, tag them #evomc21 ... and in so many other ways :-)
Your activity on the server is logged and can be verified.
You can cite the link of any live online session in which you participated that is recorded here 2021_Live_Events
This page will populate as the session progresses.
Mon-Sun, Jan. 18-24, 2021
Week 1 orientation missions will all likely carry on into Week 2 - Declare
EVOMC20 and Learning2gether will schedule events on this page: 2021_Live_Events
Review how to join us before connecting with us for the first time
Why?
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?
How can you verify this mission accomplished?
Your post should appear in a Twitter search on #evomc21 - try it and see
If you're keeping up with us, you'll have done all the following by the end of Week 2