Storytelling in Minecraft

There are some amazing worlds that people have spent weeks or months creating. It may be difficult to see the ‘educational’ value in creating such things, but when you think of the process of designing, creating, refining and often collaborating with many...

Brewerton Introduction

This is something I’ve been working on for a few months now. Some students may remember building shared houses in the starter town template towards the end of 2019 and unfortunately I lost that world when my laptop died after the end of term 1 this year. The...

Week 3

We have covered quite a lot in the first few weeks of term 2. This week I don’t want to introduce anything new, but allow students some time to continue working at their own pace through the puzzles. I know a few students have finished the Advanced Sequence...

Starting out with Minecraft Education Edition

Please install Minecraft using the directions on the link below. Installing Minecraft Education Edition and logging in Some parents are concerned about online safety with collaborative games like Minecraft and that is understandable. However, be assured that when...

Advanced Sequence and Loops with Codesparks

Some of the puzzles in chapter 2 are quite difficult. If your child needs more time to complete them please feel free to work on them again this week. I’ve updated the previous lesson with new connection codes, but you should only need them if you have logged out of...

CodeSpark – The Foos

In this lesson we will be using is an app called Codespark which is available on Apple (iOS) and Google (Android) devices. You can read about it on their website here. All students have a free account which they have already used in class. However, most families will...