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Many sessions might be scheduled on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/evomc/ Check there under events to see what meetings are about to happen
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 chronological 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 ==>
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 without permission. and saw that the Minecraft app was being streamed into Discord.
That's when I learned that Discord doesn't do recordings. We'll be sure to record this one. The last one 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
The calendar shown here is set to Cairo time. Cairo is UTC + 2 at the moment.
Copy any event to your calendar and view it there to get its time where YOU are
Dakotah Redstone, one of evomc21's most esteemed gurus, is prone to deciding on the spur of the moment to hang out on our server.
Look for his events and assume they are either going on when you see them or have happened already.
You can see if they are going on in the moment by checking the dynamic map at http://mc.evomc.net:8123/ and seeing if he is there. You could go on and join him. He is very helpful and might have interesting things to show you.
Tue 19 Jan 1230-1430 UTC Join Bobbi Bear and Teacher Vance in Meaningful Play - Adventure Tutorial Safaris
with tutorial guidance from Olivetree
Teacher Vance and Bobbi Bear will be on the server at 12:30 UTC January 19, which is right after dinner for us and 7:30 a.m. EST. But we'll be there for two hours exploring on the server. You are welcome to join us or if you need help finding your footing, we can /tp (teleport) to you and assist you in whatever your project or goal is for the day.
We'll accommodate any experience level. We can help you take baby steps or big steps away from the protected spawn area.
It will help a lot if you can have 2021_Discord set up for voice beforehand.
Teacher Vance and Bobbi Bear were ready for anything. Olivetree was on the server when we arrived at her specially selected landing across the sea from the great pyramid, just east of Ari's hole in the ocean, so we went there. First we warped to /ocean_structure, the jungle temple-in-the-sea south of the pyramid. From there we took a boat northeast to Ari's hole-in-the-ocean and then rowed east for the mouth of the river up which Olive was waiting. On the way we passed these industrial structures bellowing fumes overheads, somehow not polluting the pristine air in Minecraft.
Olive has set her self up on a lush meadow where she has corralled some sheep and set up a small farm. It's bordered by a thick dark oak forest and has horses in the meadow. By then StarLizard had joined us, and we provided her with hay to give the sheep and shears to get wool. We took selfies with her on one of the horses there.
Olive let me ride one of her donkeys :-)
StarLizard had to go back to class so Olive showed us the Skeleton spawner she found up the mountain just over the river.
Mon 18 Jan 1700 UTC - Laura Briggs and Olivetree Gro host Mining Monday at EVOMC21
When: Mining Monday meets Jan 18 at 12 PM EST.
Where: We will meet in Discord in Playground 1 and on the EVOmc server starting at the Spawn Base.
Everyone would LOVE to have one of these drillers for mining all of the treasures!
We will have to save that for another day as it is from another version of MC.
All miners attending will receive a diamond pickaxe with enchantments along with tips and ideas for what to bring along and how to manage all findings.
Hope you can join us! All miners are welcome, no previous experience required. 12 PM EST/5PM UTC/9AM PST
The session was delayed by an apparent enchantment placed over permissions (due to the shift from 1.16.4 to 1.16.5) until Zzidkha was able to roust out of bed, have some coffee, and get in there under the hood. But the good news is, the fix is in, and it worked. Sura's session was able to go ahead after some delay.
Mon 18 Jan 1200 noon UTC Play and Learn with Olivetree
Announced in Discord by Olivetree
Play and Learn on Monday Jan 18 at 2AM Whether you are an absolute newbie, have played a little or an expert, join us in Discord and Minecraftfor an hour or two. Learn how to move, get resources and craft weapons and tools. Go for an adventure, survive the night or die and find your way back
We end Week 1 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!
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
We met at the spawn point but went exploring Teacher Vance and Bobbi Bear's tracks with special guest Walton Burns who had dropped in for the Meaningful Play experience. As Bobbi and I had been about to create part 21 of our trek through various biomes we'd visited the past couple of months, we invited Walton to join us as we journeyed through icebergs from Savanna Beach to Greenland and continue by boat to an eroded badlands biome, ending in a shelter on a lonely mesa as part of a Meaningful Play experience in EVO Minecraft MOOC 2021
You can find more details here.
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After that we went with Walton, at his request, back to the spawn point and then over to Ari's builds where Walton climbed the tricky scaffold that leads up to the balloon. We visited Ari's colored wool factory, and found where he keeps bees, then tp'd to spawn and started on a trek to Dak's pyramid, when Walton needed to go because his son needed more bandwidth for his school project. So Bobbi and I kept on up the trail with the blue glass markers, past a panda lying on its back across the trail, and found the bed at the entrance to Dak's where we went from dusk to dawn. Then we took our boats northeast to where Ari has made his hole in the ocean. We continued to the island just beyond but got caught in a spillway there where the boat rode it down and got lodged in a crevice. Fortunately it was easy to just walk back to the top. There we found an ender chest, one of only a few objects on the flat postage-stamp sized island, but we'd spent a couple of hours already, and tp'd back to our own beds.
Wed 13 Jan 2300 UTC - Sura hosts Weekly Warping Wednesday
Where mc.evomc.net server and Discord
Description
Join us each Wednesday as we explore fun locations in our Minecraft world!
Get set up in Discord and grab some items from our Spawn Base before we go.
Make a sword too, as we will need it where we are going! Hope you can join us!
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
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)
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.
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
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.
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.
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:
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 🙂.)
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
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