Day One – July 1st

The first three days of this course (July 1st – 3rd) comprise of virtual face-to-face online sessions (9.30 – 2.30) via Microsoft Teams. You will have received an invite to join the course Team by email, please follow the instructions contained to join the live workshops.

Welcome

Introduction to Teams

• Mic
• Camera
• Device settings
• Channels
• Breakout Rooms
• Sharing Files
• Sharing Screen

Introducing Minecraft for Education

• Why Minecraft?
• 21st Century Skills
• Links to Curriculum

Placing your first blocks

• setting up a world
• Movement and controls
• Inventory
• Placing blocks
• Destroying blocks
• Game Settings
• Classroom Settings
• Review
• Challenge 1: Classroom Build Challenge. Recreate your favourite book cover in Minecraft

Managing Worlds

• Saving worlds
• Exporting worlds
• Importing worlds

Formative Assessment (How Minecraft Can Be Used to Assess Learning Outcomes)

• The Camera
• Book and Quille
• Portfolio Chalkboard
• NPCS
• Challenge 2: Final Challenge – Using the same book as in challenge 1, recreate the story in Minecraft. Use the Formative Assessment Tools to log your build, use the Book and Quille to write a short summary of the book, and finally use NPCs to act as characters in the book. When completed export the world and share it in Teams.

Reflection