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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 ==>
Event by Olivetree Lighthouse and EVO Minecraft MOOC
An EVO Minecraft MOOC event on the AZcraft Minecraft server and EVOMC21 Discord Server
Thursday, January 28, 2021 at 5 PM – 7 PM UTC
Price: Free · Duration: 2 hr
Group · Members of EVO Minecraft MOOC
We will be visiting a family friendly public server where we can go on a boat trip, a scary ride, dive and swim through a coral reef, play with dolphins and turtles, ride horses, go shopping at some creative shops, and more.
The server is called AZcraft - The address to add it is azcraftbc.mcraft.pro .
If you are just starting, don't worry, you can still join and catch up.
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.
Minecraft Mondays occur on the first Monday of any month at 8 PM Eastern time on the VSTE Place server minecraft.vste.org:11002. (GMT -5)
Basic directions to join VSTE Place, VSTE’s Minecraft world
You must have a computer Minecraft account from https://minecraft.net/en/ to join. There is a one time fee of $26.95.
Download and install the software.
Make sure you have installed and are running version 1.16.4 (I think 1.16.5 will work)
Our server is protected. You will need to be whitelisted to enter. Email Kim Harrison at K4sons@gmail.com from an educational email address with your real name and Minecraft account name.
We'll be using VSTE's Discord server
Discord is a voice and screen sharing application that will run on your computer or mobile device.
Download and install it for free.
Create an account. Many of us use the same name for our Discord account as our Minecraft account to keep things simple.
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.
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 27 Jan in the USA, but across the pond it's
Thu 28 Jan 0300 - Bobbi Bear shares the art of cat taming with Teacher Vance and Mirea Artican and others interested at EVOMC21
Thar's 03:00 UTC
It will still be Wed in San Francisco when Mirea Artican joins us online after her supper to catch Bobbi Bear and Teacher Vance finishing breakfast Thu morning in Penang Malaysia. But it will be just the right time in Minecraft when Bobbi Bear and Teacher Vance collect some string at the local /stringfarm and put a pair of strings together with three sticks to make fishing poles, and then go off to catch some fish. Next step is to go where there are likely to be some cats (a village somewhere) and attract them with raw salmon and cod. That's the tricky part, but Bobbi has perfected the technique and will try to pass it on to participants present. Once you have a cat, your life will be purrrfect; it will follow you, even when you teleport, and you will wake up to find useful bits and bobs the cats have collected such as feathers and rabbit hides and feet (must bring good luck, yeah?).
We start at the spawn point, and Vance begins by briefing the plan, which is to warp to the string farm, which is a gloomy place at level 26 under ground. That's about 38 blocks deep from the surface and it's where Sura found a couple of fire baskets that spawn mobs (skeletons and zombies). These baskets will churn them out unless they are surrounded with torches including one placed on top of the spawner to staunch the flow, at which point visitors can move around them without being incessantly attacked by the output for which they were designed.
Sura has set this one up so that the spider spawner is left operational but behind glass, so visitors can approach the glass and kill spiders with their swords through a slat the spiders can't get through. Their string and eyeballs go into a box which is constantly filling, so if you take away some string and put it in your pocket, more will appear. You can take string in bunches of 64 at a time. With just 30 strings you can buy emeralds from Liam the librarian back at spawn, so you could get yourself an endless supply of emeralds by tp'ing back and forth and feeding Liam, who would just keep giving you emeralds. Not sure what you'd do with those, maybe deposit them with Zzidkha at the /warp bank on the EVO Minecraft MOOC server..
I found the warp marker on our dynamic map and noticed that it was right under one of our trails between the ark and our castle, I also found a small cave there and saw that if I dug north at an angle down I would come out right on the spawner, which I did until I hit a spot where the bottom fell out, and I soon worked out that I was right over the mineshaft where the spawner is. But I couldn't jump down and be sure of getting back up, so I had to corkscrew around lower and lower until I worked my way low enough to step down into the spawner chamber.
So the day before this adventure Bobbi and I came here and made sure we could find those steps going back up. We put sufficient torches down and I installed a salt and pepper diorite staircase, easy to find and follow upwards. At the top I had installed a door to keep monsters from getting in from the cave or out from the spawner area, and outside the door (in the cave), I had left a chest and a crafting table.there as well as a bed.
So we warped to the spawner, got some string, and took it up top and out the door, where I illustrated how to craft fishing rods. In the morning we exited the cave and dropped down the path down the hill to the river, where we fished for cod and salmon. Then we went over to the village, following paths that took us through our castle house, and continue on to the village where there are lots of cats. Bobbi showed us how to sneak up on them and feed them enough to get their trust and next thing you know, best friends for life.
We tp'd back to our home base and the cat I had tamed followed. Bobbi showed us another couple of things about cats, but it was time to end the video. Bobbi said that no one ever gets bored with cats, but in that case they can find their own. If you find us in Minecraft we'll show you how.
Video Title: Bobbi Bear shares the art of cat taming with Teacher Vance and Mirea Artican in EVO Minecraft MOOC
Join us to continue learning, build your house, mine for stones and minerals, create your first farm, go on a boat trip, trade with villagers, create some furniture and colored carpets, or learn the basics to catch up if you are joining for the first time.
We play to learn, so tell us what activities appeal to you and would like to learn about.
Keeping with the spirit of this week, we can visit a family friendly public server that few of us have been playing on. There, we can see a commercial district fully created by players of all ages, experience an economy based server
Sun Jan 25 0200 UTC - Spontaneous happenings on our server
Not all "events" on our server are announced in advance. Teacher Vance and Bobbi Bear awoke on Sunday morning to find Mireaaartican engaged in meaningful play in a dangerous place deep underground rendered more or less safe by Sura. You can get here at /warpstringfarm.
Sura had built a glass wall to contain the spiders.
She put lots of torches around to suppress the mobs' ability to spawn here
She build an opening in the glass were participants can split the spiders and get their string
But please understand there are no guarantees in such volatile dark spaces
Sun Jan 24 1700 UTC - Play and Learn with Olivetree Grove on the EVOMC21 Minecraft Server and Discord
See the following note on the Google calendar below on this page
What happened?
Sat 24 Jan and Sun 23rd 1230-1430 UTC Join Bobbi Bear and Teacher Vance in Meaningful Play - Adventure Safari Hangouts
Teacher Vance and Bobbi Bear keep trying to find an evomc21 event title that will characterize what we are trying to do when engaging participants on our Minecraft server. We've settled on Meaningful Play - Adventure Safari Hangouts.
First we have to find a time when participants are likely to be available. We set events to draw them to our server and monitor our Discord #serverchat channel to see when they are there on their own. If we find a participant online we send them a message in world and ask if we can assist. If they want help we go there.
We don't set plans in advance for teaching people about Minecraft since our participants range from newbie to knowbie, and we have other moderators who are mounting more systematic approaches. If you need to be shown what to do we can help you with whatever you need to learn. If you know a bit about Minecraft and want to be shown around some interesting places on our server, we know of a few.
Either way, clueless or clued-in, you need to come online so we can show you. The ultimate goal is for you to become familiar enough with the medium so you can work out in your mind, Aha! THIS is how I might use this with MY students! We are all in pursuit of such aha moments; hopefully there will be more than one.
What do we mean by Meaningful Play - Adventure Safari Hangouts?
Meaningful play is a term Jeff Kuhn threw into an article we wrote together. You can find the original reference for it here:
Adventure Safari is where we agree on a destination and go there and talk through where we are headed and what we are doing using Discord. I feel that this is where we all learn best how to function in any multiplayer communicative/collaborative game environment, whether it be Minecraft or learning a target language by moving around a city where they speak that language and interacting with the natives there. You call on resources you already have and develop new ones as the need arises. It's like meeting your friend on a street corner and starting with "Whatdya feel like doing today?" ("I dunno, I hear Olivetree found a skele spawner near her farm area, wanna go look?" - or wherever, and off we go).
If you aren't up to moving about quite yet, then we can hang out with you and help get you up to speed.
We hope you can join us between 1230-1430 UTC on nights we can be there (between dinner time and bedtime for us in Penang), but if that's not a good time for you then tell us what IS a good time for you. You can leave us a note on Discord (#convos is a good place) or on Facebook, or write us at https://groups.io/g/minecraftmooc/
It will help a lot if you can have 2021_Discord set up for voice beforehand.
Teacher Vance and Bobbi Bear Blaze a trail from Olivetree's Sandbox Meadow to Shipwreck City and the Skybox Shelter
We conducted this event over two days. On Jan 23 there was no one around so Bobbi and I blazed a trail from Olivetree's sandbox meadow over to the home we had built near shipwreck city, and we video's the result: https://youtu.be/Fh3Ci4blZLk
In this EVO Minecraft MOOC Meaningful Play Adventure Safari Hangout, Teacher Vance and Bobbi Bear show you the path we blazed from Olivetree's Meadow, which she is using to introduce newcomers to the game, to Shipwreck City, and show you around the Skyhouse we built nearby.
Venturing from Olivetree's sandbox meadow we had found a nearby village and decided to build a home there since it's on the ocean, cats hang out around villages, and Bobbi can catch fish there and use them to try and tame some of the cats.
We spent many pleasant Minecraft hours in blazing the trail through the spruce and mushroom-filled oak forests. Then we went back over it and put in street lights and made road improvements. Here you can retrace the results of our endeavors.
And Bobbi got her cat
Bobbi is so proud of herself. She says she did it the hard way. She killed spider to get string, cut wood to make a pole and then went fishing around the spawn area. She caught cod and salmon and tried it out on cats lurking around the spawn area. She finally found one that would love her after perfecting her technique wasting fish on 3 other cats. Now she's happy. So is the cat.
Teacher Vance and Bobbi Bear meet Dakotah Redstone on his realm and itsasecret
The next day, same time same station, we found Dakotah Redstone streaming into DIscord from his Halliwell Realm and made these screen shots from my Discord view of his stream. First I watched Dak as he flew above his realm and captured images of the confluence of biomes there.
Then he talked me through entering his realm. In the start stream where you can choose to play single player or multiplayer, the third option is to play on a realm. Under that option I had to find Dak's invitation to join his realm, and when found that, I was able to join him there. These screenshot show my desktop with my Minecraft realm play view at the upper left, concurrent with Dak's view as he streamed what he saw in Discord on the right.
Then we went over to the EVO Minecraft MOOC server and went to Dak's recent build at /warp itsasecret. Anyone can go there but not many will find the many secrets lurking underground and behind the bushes. Many of these latter are revealed in the video, filmed with Dak's wholehearted permission.
For voice, we'll be in 2021_Discord- Look for us in Playground Central (or wherever you see Olivetree's name)
What happened?
This session left a great record in discord on what newcomers can expect if they come on our server and learn from us.
Thu Jan 21 1700 UTC - Play and Learn with Olivetree Grove on the EVOMC21 Minecraft Server and Discord
EVOmc Minecraft and Discord Servers
Thursday, January 21, 2021 at 7 PM – 9 PM UTC+02
Group · Members of EVO Minecraft MOOC
Join us to learn more about the different activities players do in Minecraft while you reflect on how those can be part of a learning activity, and what would you like to try out and maybe get help with during the EVOmc session.
Whether you are joining for the first time or you already have some experience, in a Sandbox World like Minecraft, there is always something new to learn and try.
It will help a lot if you can have 2021_Discord set up for voice beforehand.
Teacher Vance and Bobbi Bear came online about an hour before the event. We started at a warp called The_Real_Rock_Ridge, which looked to be a movie set for a spaghetti western complete with actors frozen in time, and worked our way eastward toward an old mine I had identified on the dynamic map. This was a network of mineshafts containing rails and timbers and guarded by skeletons of old Navahos. From there were island hopped to the taiga forest below the badlands on the opposite shore.
We saw this critter in the water while doing that. He didn't threaten us so we left him alone.
We were actually on our way to the taiga forest adjacent to the badlands. Once there we continued down the coast to where I had seen a pier jutting out over the water marking a taiga village. Just off the pier there was this elaborate house, apparently not native to the village.
We worked our way over rough country to the meadow where Olivetree bases her activities. Eventually we found her in her mine which she has drilled down to level 11. She and StarLizard had found diamonds there using the grid technique of opening a chamber (at level 11; below that you might hit lava) and digging two tall by one wide tunnels off it every two blocks so you could see all the blocks in between the tunnels.
I told her there was a village nearby so we went to see it. We found an ancient shipwreck there. No telling how old it was but there was a treasure map inside given to me for safekeeping. I drowned while trying to get it but fortunately Olivetree was able to help me recover my death chest, two deep for me to recover it alone without repeatedly drowning. In a later meeting we'll try to follow the map to the hidden treasure.
For voice, we'll be in 2021_Discord- Look for us in Playground Central (or wherever you see Olivetree's name)
Announcement on Discord says
Play and Learn on Wednesday Jan 20 at 2AM Join us to If you are an absolute Newbie, played for a bit or an expert, join us to learn more about the basics (how to move, teleport, get basic resources, craft basic tools, take a picture), or learn different ways to mine, villages and villagers' professions and trading, or find a nice place and build your first house.
Also, how to set up a Single Player Server that suits your needs with enough challenges to help you learn.
Have never used Discord before? You will learn what you need in just a few minutes . Oh, and we may have Close Encounters of the Third Kind. :wink:
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.
When Olivetree had to go, we noticed Beth_Ghostraven working on her home deep in the jungle, so we warped back to spawn, swam across the bay (because we couldn't put our boat down at the protected pier) and took a boat we found tied up somewhere over to the mouth of the bay. From there we hacked our way through the jungle, treetop to treetop, till we go our avatar icons on the map right on top of Beth's. I fell accidentally, Bobbi tp'd to me, and we found ourselves on the beach outside Beth's home, where she was installing her atrium windows.
By then it was our bedtime so Beth wished us sweet dreams and we homed in our our castle in the plains and exited the game.
If you think you can learn about Minecraft by following us around one day, I hope you will join us on one of our Meaningful Play - Adventure Tutorial Safaris. We'll announce more here soon.
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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