Our first serious day in Minecraft has finally arrived. All the accounts were set up and every student had a computer.
During our research period, Peter Mahoney at the Power House Museum suggested letting the students have sandbox time for twenty minute in the initial session to just explore and learn. This session is run in survival mode.
Excercise One 20 minutes
Within two minutes the room was at fever pitch. Students were cutting down trees, making holes to hide in and shouting instructions to each other to support the newbies.
I asked one student what he was doing and he told me he was digging a shelter with "that guy." I asked him who, that guy, was and he point to the Avatar on his screen. I went around the room and found the Avatar the first student was working with and asked him about his experience. This student was also unaware of "who" he was working with, to him it was just the other Avatar.
Another student quickly showed every one how to chat online and a whole new level of communication exploded. The noise level in the room didn't change but more information was going backward and forward.
As Naithan was monitoring our server he noticed that one student had tried to enter a command to "nuke" our server. Little did the student know that Naithan was in control of our world.
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