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Kia ora koutou, just wondering if anyone has any pearls of wisdom in regards to submitting student work in Minecraft to NZQA for moderation. At this stage, we're thinking of exporting the students' worlds to pen drive and sending that...

Hi all, Is anyone using minecraftedu in Auckland? I would love to pick your brains!

Has anyone had any luck playing minecraft on chromebooks? Rachel :)

Hi, am a couple of weeks into setting up a Minecraft server and would like to know what plugins people are finding useful. I am specifically looking for a plugin that allows me to restrict/whitelist which users can access the different worlds we...

Our older Macbooks are coming to the end of their lease, and we don't want to purchase them. The cheapest option (in terms of Apple) to lease in future is 11" Macbook Airs with 128GB Flash storage. I have licences for 14 copies of...

I found this if anyone else is interested? Its a map of the landing at Gallipoli that students can interact with on Minecraft. Here is the link if you are...

Hi everyone, new to the group! Is anyone using minecraft Edu at school? I'm interested in the costs and what this allows. My biggest frustration is having students' work griefed by anonymous users... Maybe the Edu set up enables us to avoid this??...

Great to see people posting in this groups and there are lots of ideas and questions. Why not come to Rotorua to an educamp at Mokoia Intermediate where we can share these successes and queries? The link...

You're invited to join us in the following FREE webinar event:  Webinar: Gaming in education: 13 November 2013, 3.45-4.45pm Gaming in education has huge potential for engaging and motivating learners, as well as developing key comptencies...

Puzzle maps has become the latest craze in my classroom. They are maps created for single player mode. Players have to manipulate their way through obstacles and challenges to complete each map. In order to complete these challenges players have to...

We have used YAMS Yet Another Minecraft Server to create our persistent world. It is housed on a virtual server and I remote in using a remote desktop connection to then configure the available servers. I remote in becasue YAMS administration...

I am currently using Minecraft as an assesment tool in maths, getting my students to "tell me everything they know about fractions, decimals and ratios. Well! the focus, problem solving, sharing ideas has been amazing!! Not as quick to complete and...

We were against minecraft as we saw it just as another distraction in school. However a couple of our students have brought us round. We have a student who sets up a temp server in the classroom at lunchtimes. They have since convinced us of it's...

Would appreciate your thoughts on the world of humanties. looks fantastic intend to try it out next term with a class of students. Will keep you posted. http://minecraftedu.com/wiki/index.php?title=Teaching_with_MinecraftEdu The link

Our tech has been working on getting us a virtual server so I can have groups of learners use minecraft offline - so far it's been five weeks and today's message was 'it will take a long time and is actually quite a difficult thing to create'...

Wonderings from a non-gamer... For those already using MInecraft with their classes are you using the Edu version or a regular account? What are the affordances/constraints of either. All advice/wonderings gratefully appreciated....

We are not yet set up for Minecraft - I am still away from school on leave. I hopefully have the techie sorted to think about Minecraft Server on our school machine. I am also going to experiment with PrintCraft - where you log in to the PrintCraft...

Hi all Anyone know if there are any issues with minecraft games  collaborating  between a PC and an iPad? I have a student with minecraft on his iPad but his parents would also like to have it on their PC so that the other children in the...

I am really keen to get Minecraft started in my classroom.  I have no idea about the game but have a group of avid gamers.  I want to hook them into literacy through minecraft.  Any ideas?  I have downloaded the lite version on...