Welcome to the Gaming Educators Wiki

 

Table of Contents:   Server Info  - Details about logging into the Gaming Edus server. GamingEdus Tumblr - Group blog, sharing latest builds and hijinks.   Multi-School Server Project Project Proposal Document - Proposal for Multi-School Minecraft Server. Who We Are - Biographies of educators involved. Project Status and Updates  What's happened and what's next.   Resources Links and Resources - Other people using Minecraft in education. Crafting  - Crafting recipes and ideas Curriculum Ideas - Ideas for using MC with your students. Skins - changing them and more   - Change your avatar's look in game. Player Journals Diana's Minecraft Journal1 and 2 and 3 Denise's Minecraft Journal and Club Journal Liam's Minecraft Journal Visuals of our (mis)adventures Minecraft Photo Gallery1 & 2 & 3- & 4 Minecraft Photo Gallery 5 Videos

This wiki is a storehouse of resources, ideas and fun stuff for a small group of educators using video games with their students. It's pretty Minecraft focused at the moment, but I'm sure that will change.

 

Check out the Minecraft Club Hub wiki to see what we're learning while we play!

 

Are you an educator interested in learning more about Minecraft and other video games with fellow edus in a fun, family-friendly, multi-player environment? Contact Liam at gamingedus (at) gmail (dot) com to find out how to join the GamingEdus server.

 

Gaming Edus Server Details:

Minecraft 1.2.5

Craftbukkit 1.2.5-R1.0

Plugins: Essentials, GroupManager, Battlenight (PvP)

 

 

Latest News

 

April 29, 2012

 

We are now on Mumble (a voice communication application)!  You can download the client at www.mumble.com.  Information about the server is below, but you will need to get the password in game.

 

Mumble server info:

Name: Mumble Server
Address: gamingedus.mumble.com
Port: 5544 

 

 

April 23, 2012

 

We're flying now! Thanks to the knowledge of technascribe's students, she showed us how to use /gamemode to switch into creative mode, which means we now all can fly! And we've got infinite resources to build with. And best of all, zombies still try to eat your brains at night!

 

As a result, I've tweaked the permissions we each have, cutting back on the folks with OP powers, but still letting the TNT and lava buckets fly forth. The new builds are amazing. Will have images on teh tumblrs soon. I promise.

 

 

April 14, 2012

 

We've got a few more new members to our growing server. Welcome redblueshinobi and darkana82 to GamingEdus!

 

April 06, 2012

 

We have new people joining the server! Please welcome Technascribe, to the server!

 

Update to v1.2.5! on both the GamingEdus and TDSB Servers! 

 

April 1, 2012

 

We have a tumblr! Check out our adventures here: http://gamingedus.tumblr.com/

 

Update your Minecraft for GamingEdus server

DO NOT Update your Minecraft for TDSB server (long story.)

 

Apologies if this is confusing - having issues accessing backend of TDSB server. Will get that resolved soon.

 

Mar 28, 2012

 

**Do NOT Update your Minecraft** - checking into latest update but to be on the safe side, don't update your client if you want to play on Gaming Edus or TDSB server.

 

I haven't had time to look into the new update, but will get to it ASAP. Thanks!

 

Mar 5, 2012

 

**Do Update your Minecraft**

 

Some of the plugins are broken - will update them as they become available. In the meantime, first one to tame a cat gets a  . . . um . . . badge!!!  

 

Mar 3rd, 2012

 

**Don't Update your Minecraft. **

 

The server is still running v1.1 and will continue to until Craftbukkit updates. Hang on, you'll get your cats soon enough.   

 

Feb 26, 2012

 

New Lesson Plans and Curriculum connections using Minecraft and other video games added at the Curriculum Ideas page!

 

The Gaming Edus will be leading the "Wanna Play?" webinar at the TL Virtual Cafe on Monday, March 5th. Jump in and join us!

 

Feb 19, 2012

 

GamingEdus server: the Nether continues to be explored with construction on a new castle underway near the Nether Gate.

 

Player vs Player combat has arrived! Head out to Lupus Landing and take the train to the "Island of Doom!". Be a Mage, a Fighter, a Pyro and more and see who is the toughest GamingEdu around!

 

Feb 11, 2012

 

Individual Minecraft Clubs are underway! While we wait for  access to the Multi-School Server from school computers, participating clubs are playing in single player mode and are already documenting their findings on the Minecraft Club Hub wiki.

 

Added videos to the Links and Resources page, highlighting research into gaming and learning. I also added a Who We Are page, moving our bios from here to it's own page.

 

Feb 5, 2012

 

Built the Safe House near the initial spawn point and stocked it with some basic supplies - bread, wooden shovels and pick axes and a few torches.That's it. Also put up signs reminding players to share resources. We'll see if that happens. Hoping to have my crew of students on the server this week or next week. Just waiting on the IT dept to ok the Open Port requests.

 

 

Jan 25, 2012

 

The Multi-School Server is Live! The good folks at EDGE Lab have set it up and I'll be adding the necessary plugins in the coming days. Once we get the IT people at the board to okay connecting to the port, we can start running our clubs! I hoping sometime within the next two weeks.

 

Jan 20, 2012

 

The Multi-School Minecraft Server took several big steps closer to becoming reality this week. First, Denise and I handed the proposal to a key IT person at the TDSB and I explained our technical needs (school computers connecting directly to a specific port on another server). He seemed confident that it could easily be done, provided it's a low security/non-essential port (it is.) Phew! I knew it technically was easy, but wasn't sure how the IT dept would feel about letting it happen. The second big step, is that the ball is now in motion over at EDGE Lab to get the server installed and running. The amazing folks over there are on the case and hopefully the server will be a reality by the end of January.

 

Jan 15, 2012

 

The Proposal is Done!  (I think)

 

I've gone through our latest version of the proposal, tweaked it a bit, added images and turned it into a .pdf for easy sharing. You can download and view here: Multi-School-Minecraft-Project-Proposal.pdf

 

It will need on last copy edit with fresh eyes before it's submitted. Aside from fixing any stubborn typos, I feel it's good to go!

 

Liam

 

Jan 11, 2012 

Final, I hope, tweaks to proposal. Once it's been approved, we'll send it out. You can read the Jan 11 version here: Project Proposal Documents

 

Jan 6, 2012

Added an updated version of the proposal to the Project Proposal Documents page. Thank you all for your quotes and words. Please read it and feel free to add notes, change, etc.

 

Jan 2, 2012

Liam is back from holiday mode and will continue to work on proposal. Suggested due date for 1st draft: Thursday Jan 5th, for us to review. Aim to submit it during first week back (week of Jan 9th).

 

Liam planning on adding plugins to server to allow privacy controls, etc.

 

Dec 18, 2011

Craftbukkit updated successfully. Login and "Invalid server" issues solved. Diana building a house! Club proposal being written.

 

Dec 14, 2011

CraftBukkit updated and server is up and running. Trying to log in without Hamachi, so please refer to the old (new) log in instructions on Server Info page. 

Let me know of any log in issues and I'll see about fixing them!

 

Wednesday, Dec 14 2011

Moved Multi-School Proposal document into the wiki. You can visit at the Project Proposal Documents page. I suddenly saw the redundancy of having a Google Doc for our proposal when we have this wiki. To me, they both allow us to craft the document together. If it's okay with everyone, let's just add to the document in the wiki and abandon the google doc. If it's not okay, let me know and we can work it out. :)

 

Saturday, Dec 11, 2011

*Invalid Server Key* bug - if you get that message, it's a bug with the new release, 1.0. They're working on a fix, me on a work around. In the meantime, if you get it, quit game and try again. Sometimes it takes 2 or 3 tries. Hopefully it'll be fixed soon.

 

Great meeting with Liam, Diana and Denise to discuss plans to get the multi-school server rolling.See Project Status and Updates page for latest info.

 

Trying to use Logmein Hamachi to get others logged into GamingEdus Server. Working so far. Visit Server Info page for details.

 

Thursday, Dec 9, 2011

Server is borked. Log in issues go beyond Diana's system. Liam tried to log in from EDGE Lab with no luck. Liam will pull out some of his hair and continue to work on it.

 

Tues, Dec 6, 2011

Server woes. Logging into the server is proving to be a pain for some of us. Not sure why. I've reset our IP again. In order to not jam up the front page with useless IP addresses, I encourage to check out th

e Server Info  page for the latest way to connect.  

- Liam  

 

This Just In! We went boating.   Liragrim, MissColby and Praxismaxis sailing away. That was fun.

 

Mon, Dec 5 2011

I've linked the server address to a server name, which will hopefully make logging in easier. In the server address window paste: gamingedus.liamodonnell.com:25565 (won't work anymore)

 

Because I host the server on my network, I can't test if this works. But you can! Please try and tell me if it works or what error messages you get (via email or twitter dm)

 

Sun, Dec 4, 2011

My IP address has changed! When logging into the server, enter the follo

wing as the server address: 65.95.93.231:25565 (old IP - u no use!) Go to Server Info page for latest.

 

Sat, Dec 3, 2011

GamingEdus Back Up! (sort of) Read more at the Server Info page.

 

MinecraftEdu Accounts now available! Buy Minecraft for your school for only $14.00 (reg $25).