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Live Events for EVOMC21

Live and Recorded during EVO Minecraft MOOC Jan-Feb 2021

 

 


 

Here you'll find events that have been announced and scheduled for EVOMC21.

They can be scheduled at participants' initiative or request or by moderators when they indicate that they are available.

   

So, in #evomc21, events might be announced here, or in Facebook, or on Discord, and / also / or on the Google calendar, depending on the preference of whomever is hosting the event. We will try to keep an updated list on all of these venues below.

 

Compiled listing of upcoming live events 

 

Teacher Vance will attempt to consolidate events planned into this straightforward one-page chronlological listing where you can see at a glance what is happening day by day in case you are following one of the  above spaces but have missed what's happening in another.

 

  • Any event that leaves a record of what happened there will also be archived on this page.
  • You can see archives of all such events in the sidebar at right from past EVO Minecraft MOOC sessions from 2015 through 2020 ==>

 

2021 Week 1 - Orient - Sat-Sun, Jan, 9-17, 2021

 

 

Thu 14 Jan 1300-1400 UTC Teacher Vance and Bobbi Bear facilitate meaningful play in Discord and on the EVOMC21 Minecraft server

 

Teacher Vance and Bobbi bear will hang out on the server and greet anyone who wants to come online and get any kind of help with learning and playing with us in Minecraft.

 

It will help if you set yourself up in Discord beforehand; see 2021_Discord

If you need back-channel asynchronous help, join https://groups.io/g/minecraftmooc/ and ask your questions there.

 

If you want to arrange to meet us at different times, you can send us a message through Groups.io, or in any of our other online spaces (but Groups.io will reach Teacher Vance most directly).

 

More future events to be filled in when they are announced 

 

15-Jan-21 Fri

16-Jan-21 Sat

 

Sun 17 Jan 1400 UTC - Rose Bard and Jane Chien - Key Aspects for Teacher Development in Minecraft

Getting ready for Week 2

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Rose Bard and Jane Chien will lead a discussion on "Key Aspects for Teacher Development in Minecraft" in ZOOM. 

 

In Week 2, we will start with a live session to help you reflect on the key aspects for teacher development when it comes to implementing Minecraft in Education.

 

In order to get started in education with Minecraft, teachers will need to delve into the world of the game and develop a new set of skills. In this live event, we would like to introduce you to the key aspects for teacher development to enable teachers to implement Minecraft in their context and also help you define your learning goal(s) for EVOMC21 MOOC. 

 

Bring your thoughts to our live event and be prepared to actively share and discuss!

 

Where: In ZOOM

Register here: http://bit.ly/keyaspectsreg


Check your time zone, here: http://bit.ly/keyaspectstimezone

 

Announcements

https://www.facebook.com/events/417999672798405

 

 

2021 Week 2 - Declare - Mon-Sun, Jan. 18-24, 2021

 

18-Jan-21 Mon

19-Jan-21 Tue

20-Jan-21 Wed

21-Jan-21 Thu

22-Jan-21 Fri

23-Jan-21 Sat

24-Jan-21 Sun

 

2021 Week 3 - Network - Mon-Sun, Jan. 25-31, 2021

 

25-Jan-21 Mon

26-Jan-21 Tue

27-Jan-21 Wed

28-Jan-21 Thu

29-Jan-21 Fri

30-Jan-21 Sat

31-Jan-21 Sun

 

2021 Week 4 - Cluster - Mon-Sun, Feb. 1-7, 2021

 

Mon 01-Feb-21 Mon - VSTE Minecraft Monday in conjunction with EVOMC21; K4sons hosting

This takes place at 8 pm EST, which is 2 am UTC; hence the next entry

 

Tue 02 Feb 0100 UTC VSTE Minecraft Monday in conjunction with EVOMC21; K4sons hosting

 

Dark Knight is going to do part two of his redstone tutorial. Part one was on Monday, 2 November, 2020. Teacher Vance attended but did not record it, since I didn't have permission. and saw that the Minecraft app was being streamed into Discord. 

 

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That's when I learned that Discord doesn't do recordings. We'll be sure to record this one. It was great.

 

I only made these screenshots. It was hands-on and took place in this workshop space in Minecraft. We moved from challenge to challenge, and the last challenges were left to this second session. I hope Dark Knight will recap the first ones.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Further details forthcoming

 

03-Feb-21 Wed

04-Feb-21 Thu

05-Feb-21 Fri

06-Feb-21 Sat

 

Sun 07 Feb - MineAcademy English Club - Bard Rose hosting

Details to be announced

 

2021 Week 5 - Focus - Mon-Sun, Feb. 8-14, 2021

08-Feb-21 Mon

09-Feb-21 Tue

10-Feb-21 Wed

11-Feb-21 Thu

12-Feb-21 Fri

13-Feb-21 Sat

14-Feb-21 Sun

 

EVOMC21 moderators can create events here directly on this page. Participants can create events here by requesting to join this wiki.

 

If you create an event please share its time using the Event Time Announcer here: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedform.html

 

 

 

 

 

A Google Calendar of Events

 

In order to see the events in your local time, please add the calendar to your own Google calendar. This is how you add this Calendar to your own Google Calendar.

 

 

 

 

2021 Live Events ARCHIVE

 

EVOMC21 events are being archived here in reverse chronological order after they happen.

If there was a recording, it will be linked from here.

 

Wed 13 Jan 1000-1100 UTC - Olivetree Lighthouse hosts Play and Learn in Discord and on the EVOMC21 Minecraft server

 

 

For newbies we are going to go through the basics, of the Discord set up, where to find things and how to communicate. In Minecraft we will practice moving, teleporting, warping, getting our first resources in the wild including dying and finding our way back 🙂 We'll have fun playing and later reflect on the language that we used and how the environment can be used for learning.

 

If you are not new, come get acquainted with the server and the different builds that we have, and find a place for yourself.

 

You'll need to set yourself up in Discord beforehand; see 2021_Discord

If you need back-channel asynchronous help, join https://groups.io/g/minecraftmooc/ and ask your questions there.

 

 

Mon 11 Jan 1400 UTC - Vance and Jane - EVO Minecraft MOOC kickoff event in Zoom and Minecraft

 

Resident turtle at the EVO MInecraft MOOC spawn point

 

If you're considering participating in EVO Minecraft MOOC in 2021, please come to our Zoom meeting to enjoy a screencast from within Minecraft and learn about Discord and the other tools we'll be using in #evomc21.

 

If you miss it we'll post a recording in the 2021 Live Events Archive (and here it is)

 

Recording

https://youtu.be/1FfCGuxnafo 

 

 

 

Minecraft moderators Teacher Vance Stevens and Jane Chien organized this EVO Minecraft MOOC kickoff event for 2021 with the help of several other moderators tuning in from Zoom and unexpectedly, Discord, voice-broadcast through Zoom. Some of us were actually in Minecraft as well and screen sharing the game into Zoom. We started where most visitors will begin, at the spawn point, where, although we are in survival, mobs (monsters) have been suppressed for their safety. And we ended at, of all places, with the ultimate experience in Minecraft, a rare visit to the Enderdragon engineered by our Minecraft server guru Zzidkha, aka Aaron Schwartz. 

 

It was meant to be an informative visit, the main purpose being to make a recording of how participants could join us in-world, and how we would welcome them there and tend to their needs as they immerse themselves into the challenging world of our Minecraft server, and it ended with an out-of-this world visit under the hood, covering the gamut of ways people might interact with us in EVO Minecraft MOOC this 2021 EVO season.

 

Announcements

 

Facebook groups

 

Groups.io 

 

LIve stream

 

The event was live-streamed on https://www.facebook.com/groups/evomc 

We stared the stream about 15 min before we started the Zoom recording, https://www.facebook.com/vance.stevens.3/videos/10158846255149719 

 

 

Sun 10 Jan 1400-1600 UTC - EVOMC21 pre-session Kickoff & BBQ

 

This is from the Google Calendar below. Bring your own rotten flesh for the BBQ.

 

Here is the recording of the Sun 10 Jan EVOMC21 pre-session Kickoff & BBQ. Having left another online Zoom meeting and come directly to this one, Teacher Vance started it quickly and did not take time to make a test recording first. Everything usually works fine, but maybe because I had taken my USB mic to another computer for the Zoom session, Camtasia switched my mic off for this recording. I was devastated to discover that at first, but then it dawned on me that no one needs to hear me natter on all the time, so here is the result

YouTube URL https://youtu.be/c6O9emiidWQ 

 

 

In this video we meet at the spawn point developed by Sura so meticulously over the past week or so. I exit the gate to look for MrMikeGR whom I find standing near the chest full of shears, provided so that newcomers won't simply slaughter the sheep in order to get wool to make beds. However the sign says "Please use shears to get wool. Do no kill the sheep", but it looks like a sign posted in a park somewhere. The newcomer doesn't know that it's posted on a chest, let alone how to to right-click to open it, and then how does he use what he finds inside on sheep? Being in Discord would help us to explain. However MrMikeGR is a brave newcomer here in this survival world for the very first time, though the area around the spawn point has been rendered 'peaceful' - no monster mobs. I am even unable to place a boat in the water here except in the designated safe swimming area directly off the pier.

 

We travel across the water to Dak's and climb some vines to reach the terrace where the BBQ is in progress. We meet Dak's cured zombie, Captain Francis, who guards a freezer full of fish and dairy supplies. He is standing near a chest where we can get fishing poles and take them down to the water to catch our own fish. Back on the terrace Dak has prepared special mesquite charcoal for us to cook our catch, which is delivered unfathomably into a separate delivery system. Go figgah!? Meanwhile Olivetree Grove is busy digging her own firepit that emits puffs of smoke that would pollute any real world, but here the smoke has zero effect on the environment. 

 

Mattie comes along and brightens up the night with an incessant display of fireworks, though when his mom Jane is handed an 'Old Betsy' fireworks launcher she turns out to be equally hedonistic amongst this group of staid and serious educators. Just kidding (about the educators)! We all pose for photos on the landing, we can probably find them posted in Discord, although the video renditions are not that bad either. They just won't hold still.

 

Eventually MrMikeGR finds his way to where we are and we pass him snacks and I pass him my finest stone sword. It is not an easy process explaining to someone who is not in Discord the seemingly simple series of keypresses required to eat something, so that takes some time.

 

Finally it approaches midnight in the uber-overworld where Teacher Vance, Bobbi Bear, Jane Chien, and Mattie Tsai go about their real lives (Mattie is still up? we thought he has gone to bed already). Teacher Vance and Bobbi /home home off to their castle elsewhere and though you can't hear it on the video, we are all saying goodbye to one another in Discord.

 

 

Feedback

 

Mr Mike's take

https://mreltmike.wordpress.com/2021/01/10/evomc2021-day-1-the-beginning/

 

My reply (applies to all)

 

Hi Mr Mike, it was great to see you in world with us. Thanks for the family portrait. I’ve produced a lot more videos starting from the spawn point where the shear sign is (that’s a chest, btw, you can right click on it to open it and help yourself to shears inside. Then with a shear in your hand, you right click on a sheep, and it ‘drops’ wool. You walk over the wool to pick it up.

 

The updated videos are here, http://missions4evomc.pbworks.com/w/page/142108218/Video_Tutorials. The first one here, https://youtu.be/iLxoWmbbJpw is a better one for showing you how to survive in the wilderness. The rest of the videos guide you down paths that others have made, where there are shelters along the way.

 

I will soon render the video I made from our party last night. I’ll put that one on the Live Events page here http://missions4evomc.pbworks.com/w/page/142133859/2021_Live_Events.

 

My advice is to go on the server and meet people there. Contact us through discord to see when we’ll be online, or write us at https://groups.io/g/minecraftmooc/. I follow all messages posted there. Also, you can visit our dynamic map at http://mc.evomc.net:8123/ and see who is online now and use the dialog box at the bottom to chat with people on the server whether you are in game or not.

 

There’s much to learn, but many on hand to help you, especially if you want to learn by doing. When you get into discord and can speak to us this will speed up the process because then we can explain to you quickly, directly, and hands free what you should be doing. Look forward to seeing you in #evomc21

 

 

Announcements

in the Google Calendar on the EVOMC21 live events page and:

 

In Facebook groups

 

At Groups.io

 

 

 

 

Sun 10 Jan 1400 UTC - EVO plenary kickoff in Zoom

 

Recording: https://youtu.be/Hq3VRYeu8pU

 

 

Also archived here: https://learning2gether.net/2021/01/10/electronic-village-online-opening-kickoff-and-evo-minecraft-mooc-pre-session-server-party/ 

 


 

Slides (a work in progress) 
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1rbwr2Bal1t4zSGeEE_4wuFHtQUdkWDVbqnBXnzMM-K0/edit?usp=sharing 

 

All #EVO2021 moderators and participants are welcome.

 

Please note that for #EVOMC21 participants there is a BBQ at Dak's place on the EVO Minecraft MOOC server coinciding with the start of this event at 1400 UTC but extending for an hour after the EVO session ends (or we slip out early, see you there 🙂.)

 

Announcements

 

In Facebook groups 

 

At Groups.io 

 

 

Sun 15 Nov 2020 - 1500 UTC Meeting Moderators for in Discord for testing and planning

 

https://www.screencast.com/t/5wsfnj7g2

 

Meeting Moderators

Sun, Nov 15, 2020 - 7 am PST

 

Here, we were playing with streaming our game play through Discord.

 

Discord does not provide a way for streams to be recorded in Discord. Vance has since worked out how to record the live streams in Camtasia, tricky since it requires two computers, one to collect the stream and record it there, and the other to play Minecraft, if the person recording wants to be a player in the stream.

 

It would be possible to stream our gameplay live using this technique by using OBS (Open Broadcast Software). Discord streams live, but only on Discord, and only to the people who are in the Discord group where the stream is being broadcast. OBS could be used to simulcast that out live to a wider audience (and/or make a recording).

 

 

Tue Dec 8, 2020 - VSTE Minecraft Monday regular monthly webinar for December 2020: Fun with skins and resource packs

 

https://learning2gether.net/2020/12/08/vste-minecraft-monday-regular-monthly-webinar-for-december-2020-fun-with-skins-and-resource-packs/ 

 

 

The events that were listed here for planning purposes are all archived here

http://missions4evomc.pbworks.com/w/page/134715012/2020_Live_Events 

 

Fri 08 Jan 1300 UTC JaneC and T/Vance invite you to attend a rehearsal in Zoom and Minecraft

 

The rehearsal will be held in Zoom in this room: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85422872272

Meeting ID: 854 2287 2272

Passcode: rehearsal

 

This event will take place in Zoom and in Minecraft for those able to reach the EVO Minecraft Server.

It is in preparation for our EVOMC21 kickoff event on Monday Jan 11, 2012, more info at http://missions4evomc.pbworks.com/w/page/142133859/2021_Live_Events#Mon11Jan1400UTCVanceandJaneEVOMinecraftMOOCkickoffeventinZoomandMinecraft 

 

 

 

 

 

Recent promotional materials

 

Fri Jun 28, 2019 - Vance Stevens plenary on EVO Minecraft MOOC in Melaka, Malaysia

 

https://learning2gether.net/2019/06/28/vance-stevens-plenary-on-gamifying-teacher-professional-development-through-evo-minecraft-mooc/

 

 

 

View our 2018 video trailer

 

This video trailer appeared when

Vance Stevens presented on EVO Minecraft MOOC at WorldCALL 5 on November 16, 2018, in Concepcion, Chile

Find this presentation online at https://tinyurl.com/vance2018worldcall for which was created this video trailer to introduce EVOMC19

 

 

The trailer derives from a

presentation made by Vance Stevens and Jane Chien on EVO Minecraft MOOC in Chicago, March 28, for TESOL 2018 

EVO Minecraft MOOC at TESOL Chicago _ Smore Newsletter4.pdf

Handout prepared for Chicago: TESOL2018Chicago_MinecraftHANDOUT.pdf

 

 

See our archived live events from previous years

 

 

 

 

Date and time of most recent updates

January 13, 2021 - 20:00 UTC - Vance

 

 

 

 

 

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