Please provide a link to one of your web or social media profiles, or to your introduction to our community in one of our networks
Your Minecraft player name (known or intended) You'll need to obtain a valid Minecraft user name in order for us to whitelist you on our MC server; more information at 2023_how2joinUs
Your level of experience with Minecraft (ranging from “noob” to expert)
A link to where you will track your learning journey (e.g. EVO minecraft mooc facebook, discord, padlet, a wiki, blog, or ePortfolio)
Your Twitter handle (if you have one)
Your Discord ID (see Mission 3)
How can you verify this mission accomplished?
A field with your data will appear in our dBase linked to the Google form, so we'll know when you've registered
When you have registered and obtained a Minecraft id, 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.
We accept join requests from educators (and sometimes their students and/or their children) whose profiles appear to link to identifiable people who could become potential colleagues as opposed to gamers apparently 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 your application to join us, please send an email to the primary contact given in the proposal, explaining why you feel you fit in with our community, and we'll sort it out.
Mission 2 Join us in Minecraft
Once we have you registered we can whitelist you on our server.
Why?
So we can play together in Minecraft and learn how to use it with students
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 mining and trading with villagers in Minecraft
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)
This is where you can get help and a personal answer to any questions you might have (Teacher Vance, Bobbi Bear, and others are standing by here to help)
Post your reflection in one our social spaces, tag it #evomc23, and tell us (on FB, Groups.io, or Discord) where it is.
Attend our live sessions
Join us in the game
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. Audio 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 at our Pedagogy_of_Minecraftpage
As we continue to schedule and archive events on this page: 2023_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 #evomc23
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
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