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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

 

Missions for Week 1 Orient

Mon Jan 10 through Sun Jan 16, 2022

 

Mission 1 - fill in the Google registration form

 

Register for EVO Minecraft MOOC using our Google Form for 2022

 

Please review the information here with screenshots of things you should be aware of in 2922 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

  1. Your real name and where you’re from
  2. 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
  3. 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 2022_how2joinUs
  4. Your level of experience with Minecraft (ranging from “noob” to expert)
  5. A link to where you will track your learning journey (e.g. a wiki, blog, or ePortfolio)
  6. Your Twitter handle (if you have one)
  7. Your Discord ID (see Mission 3)

 

How can you do this?
Fill in the Google Form for 2022 

 

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 Microsoft user ID from Mojang, 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.

 

As is mentioned in our Official 2022 proposal

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

 

Mission 2 - Introduce yourself on Facebook

 

Why?

We'd like to get to know each other.

 

What should you be doing?

 

  • Join our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/evomc and introduce yourself to the group
  • Follow the instructions there and tell us who you are and what brings you to Minecraft

 

How you can verify this mission accomplished

We will see your introduction at https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/introductions/?__gid__=1473050936163127 

 

 

Mission 3 - Install Discord and Join our game chat space (EVO Minecraft)

 

Why?

We use this app to communicate in voice during our in-world Minecraft sessions.

 

How can you do this?

 

  • If you have a discord account and know how to use it, join EVO Minecraft in DIscord
    by clicking on this invitation link https://discord.gg/9QAvHcV .
  • If clicking the link doesn't work for any reason please copy the link and use it to join the server.

 

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

 

 

Mission 4 - Join our groups.io (optional, but it's where you can get help)

 

What should you be doing?

  • Join our groups.io at this link https://groups.io/g/minecraftmooc/
  • 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) 
  • You can do this if you need help and want a personal answer (Teacher Vance and others are standing by here to help) 

 

How can you verify this mission accomplished?

We'll see your post on our groups.io here:  https://groups.io/g/minecraftmooc/topics 

 

 

Mission 5 - Join us in Minecraft

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?

  1. Purchase your login to Minecraft from Mojang http://minecraft.net
    Be sure and get the Java version. See the screen shot here: how2joinUs

    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 trading with villagers in Minecraft

  2. Check out some tutorials (start at https://minecraft.net/game/howtoplay)
  3. Rose has created an infographic with tips for evomc19 (warps may no longer work, but type /warp in Minecraft to get a current list)



  4.  View any of our other videos, or one or more of your own choosing

 

Videos for beginners to help you work out what to do

 

    1. Co-moderator Jeff Kuhn’s Minecraft Basics:



    2. Co-moderator Filip Smolčec’s How to Survive the First Night: 



    3. One of Teacher Vance's earlier stabs at recording a screencast of a first day survival in Minecraft 

       

    4. Dakota Redstone reveals some of his techniques in this charming video about how to stay alive your first night in Minecraft and thrive the next day

       

 

We also have a video tutorials page especially set up for EVOMC21 here: Video_Tutorials  

 

How can you do this?

  1. See how to join us in Minecraft <-- here
  2. See 2021 Server information <-- here

 

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.

 

Missions for Week 2 Declare

Mon Jan 17 through Sun Jan 23, 2022 

 

Week 1 orientation missions will all likely carry on into Week 2 - Declare

 

Mission 6 - Attend live events scheduled for Weeks 1 - 2

 

 

Stick with us - this could be you 

 

 

 

 

Mission 7 - Reflect on your activities for Weeks 1-2

  • Do some background reading (see below; and also this page: Pedagogy_of_Minecraft )
  • 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. 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 

  1. Review our proposal for EVOMC21,
    http://evo2021proposals.pbworks.com/w/page/141302220/EVO_Minecraft_MOOC_2021 
  2. Smolčec, Marijana and Smolčec, Filip. (2014). Using Minecraft for Learning English, with an introduction by Vance Stevens. TESL-EJ 18, 2:1-15.
    Available: http://tesl-ej.org/pdf/ej70/int.pdf and http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume18/ej70/ej70int/
  3. Kuhn, Jeff. (2015). Meaningful Play – Making Professional Development Fun. TESL-EJ 18, 4:1-8. 
    Available: 
    http://tesl-ej.org/pdf/ej72/int.pdf and http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume18/ej72/ej72int/
  4. Teachercraft: How teachers learn to use Minecraft in their classrooms, edited by Seann Dikkers, pdf available here:
    http://press.etc.cmu.edu/content/teachercraft-how-teachers-learn-use-minecraft-their-classrooms
  5. Kuhn, J. and Stevens, V. (2017). Participatory culture as professional development: Preparing teachers to use Minecraft in the classroom. TESOL Journal 8, 4:753–767. https://doi.org/10.1002/tesj.359. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/tesj.359/full
    Pre-publication proof available: https://vancestevens.com/papers/tesol/r1_TESJ_359_review2017oct25_1_archivecopy.pdf 
  6. Chien, Y. (2019). The language of massively multiplayer online gamers: A study of vocabulary in Minecraft gameplay.TESL-EJ, 23(3), 1-16. Retrieved from http://tesl-ej.org/pdf/ej91/int.pdf. Also available: http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume22/ej91/ej91int/ 
  7. Find more resources to explore at this crowd-sourced document maintained by EVOMC participants
    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ewaaku-5bsT7n88XAp_LyimLg6V13QPaXXNho0TB5yI/edit?usp=sharing  

 

We also have a comprehensive compilation of literature  and presentations on EVO Minecraft MOOC and its connection to English Language teaching and learning

Pedagogy_of_Minecraft

 

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? 

  1. 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
  2. Create a post giving some reflection of your reading and impressions of the session so far
  3. Post the link to your post on Discord, Twitter and/or Facebook, or in any of our social spaces, 
  4. Tag it #evomc21

 

How can you verify this mission accomplished?

Your post should appear in a Twitter search on #evomc21 - try it and see

 

 

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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