This could have been a lot of posts......
I have been thinking about starting this blog for a while, if you consider "a while" to be since December 1st that is. It certainly feels like a while! I have had no less then 20 great blog post ideas...
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Number 7 becomes number 1!
MckennaP (her user name) came into class today all excited. "I'm number 7 on your blog!!".It took me a moment to figure out what she meant, and yes, she is #7 from yesterday's blog post. She is the...
View Article"I'm very sorry for making the class invisible"
This can be filed under "Conversations I never thought I would have", which, teaching Minecraft, could be it's very own blog name!Brandon "I just want to tell you that I'm very sorry about yesterday"Me...
View ArticleGuest Blogger- Anthony
My experiences in Minecraft EDU have been amazing. So far I have been able to build a scene from a book I love, Bud Not Buddy, I've gotten to explore the World Of Humanities, I've gotten to build...
View ArticleThings overheard....
"Hey, how did you build that?""Can you show me....""Want some help?""That's really cool!""Do you have any ... to share?""Hey, come look at what I made""Can I stay after school today to work?""I love...
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Welcome to Science Craft!
How I introduced our new unit- "In this unit, you are a scientist working in a remote Lab location. You are carrying out scientific experiments, and recording your data to share with the world!"There...
View ArticleGuest Blogger- Mckenna
Best Class Ever! I tell Mrs. Stetson all of the time that I LOVE Minecraft class. It is by far the best class I have ever had. I wish that I had it like five times a day. It is fun but...
View ArticleOcelots on the loose
I knew that there would be classroom management issues in my MinecraftEdu classroom, but I wasn't expecting ocelots running loose in the science lab....In my robotics classes, I have issues with...
View ArticleData, data, data...
There are a variety of experiments going on in ScienceCraft! Along with the experiments, there is a good amount of really interesting data being collected. Here is just a sampling….Hypothesis- we think...
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MACUL Student Showcase
Today and tomorrow, March 19th and 20th is the MACUL (macul.org) conference for technology focused education and educators. One of the fabulous things they put on, is a student showcase presenting...
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Sustainable building update
The 8th grade students have been eating up this sustainable building project! I was worried it might feel too confining and "sciency" for them, but they are loving the challenge. As usual, I am...
View ArticleBud Not Buddy. Connecting English to Minecraft
One of the units that my 6th grade students LOVED was our Bud Not Buddy unit. They read the book in their ELA (English language arts) class and we reviewed the plot, story line, characters, and setting...
View ArticleGuest bloggers- The Beast Roller Coaster of the Century
While making the best house in the world we upgraded it with the best roller coaster in the world. After some hard work from Simon N, Nick C, Owen S and Brixhildo D, one of the best creations in...
View ArticleMath!!!!
The 7th grade is starting building for our world religions unit. The step after writing their essays is finding a building and converting the measurements into minecraft block measurements. The first...
View ArticleThinking out loud
I really think this is the best part of being a minecraft teacher, hearing my student's thoughts as they are thinking them. In a traditional classroom, the emphasis is on quiet listening, answering...
View ArticleSkype in the Classroom!
I'm very excited about this, so I wanted to share it with all of you. I was asked to be a guest speaker on Skype in the classroom! They found me because I tweeted a few pictures of my 8th grade...
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Taj Mahal
The 7th grade students are working on our World Religions unit. This group is building the Taj Mahal and I'm just so impressed with their progress, that I had to share it!Shout out to Ben G, Max Z, and...
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Do we have to leave?
We, like pretty much all classes in America, are doing weeks and weeks of standardized testing right now. As a result, the bells that signal classes ending and beginning are turned off. Both yesterday...
View ArticleSustainable community peer reviews
Yesterday I broke all the border blocks, and let the class explore the entire community. They were extremely impressed with what they had created together! Here are a sampling of the peer and self...
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Carpenter Blocks mod
If you know Minecraft, you know that there are hundreds of mods. (Mods is short for Modifications and refers to anything that changes the game content from what it originally was). One of my 7th grade...
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