General discussion while we waited for
other students to arrive.
What could we do in Minecraft
- Teach noobs
- Make the school
- Make a video for people to show how MC works and put it on the schools Youtube channel
We discussed Virtual worlds in general.
Battlefield
3 is a virtual world. One student mentioned that when he is in the VW he is
free to explore his creativity. Not only can he build things but he can solve
problems create strategies and work with others.
Circle time = 30 seconds each person
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Question, what do you like to
do in Minecraft?
o This was recorded via video. The general answers included
o Building things
o Build an entire City
o Build a community
o Gather resources
o Find mines underground
o Make a world of my own creation
o Fighting mobs
o Make “Enderchests”
o Surviving, gaining XP and killing mobs
o Do whatever I like
o Fight the Ender dragon in the nether
We discussed with the students that we will
use our logins at school and that they wont be able to use their own personal
accounts. (Though this may change.)
We mentioned to the group that we will only
be updating Minecraft once a term.
What AWESOME thing would you like to do in
MC if you could?
- Summon Herobrien
- Get mods to make the game better
- Discover the secrets of MC
- learn about MC
- Defeat the Ender Dragon
- Make the thing that I always wanted to make(it’s a secret so I cant tell you)
- Have a Pig race
- Build a giant pyramid
- Have a secret code and that gives you a secret house appears and you get a gun and you shoot it and you destroy the world
- Just play it!
- Destroy Herobrians castle
- Just learn how to play it
- Make a City
- Use Redstone
- Make a place where people can help you destroy things
- Make a community (lots of agreement from the group)
- A blue sword and an underwater city
- Do a black ops Zombie map
- Use Redstone to dispense zombies around the map
- Make the starship enterprise life size
- Go fishing in the group all at the same time
The class then divided in to pairs, chose
something to share with the group and then demonstrated it
Topics include,
- Riding a pig
- Fishing
- How to chop down a tree
- How to use a diamond Axe
- How to use redstone
- How to move around
- How to fly
- How to land
- How to make a little roller coaster
- How a bed changes the game from night to day
There were 2 groups that didn’t get a turn.
They will go first next week.
All up the class went really well and it is interesting to observe the "type" of students that we have collected. one could say they are almost all cut from the same cloth. :-)
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