If you are keen on playing survival mode in Minecraft, maybe this short video tutorial on "How to survive the first night in Minecraft" by Filip Smolčec created 2 years ago (then age 9) will help you. I wanted to post it after Jeff Kuhn great introductory video to #minecraft and Vance Stevens asking for help :) P.S. Filip's English has rapidly improved since then. Carol Rainbow, if you have time check the video! #evomc15  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ov4zqysrUs

Would anyone like to meet at the Minecraft server this Friday for fun and practice? We'll organize some kind of voice hookup. If so, respond to this poll, set at times convenient to both Jeff and me. If you want to meet at other times, you can create a poll and invite us.
http://doodle.com/b4ssyfezv48vc3c5

A neat article about kids using Minecraft.
This comes via Donelle Batty - an excellent Minecraft teacher.
https://plus.google.com/118006465829518367548/posts/LRihKX2NEZB
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How tagging works: Tagboard shows us Google+ and Twitter posts tagged #evomc15 . Shelly Sanchez Terrell just sent a tweet with this tag and the short link lands us on Tamas Lorincz's blog post http://tamasonline.com/index.php/2015/01/13/minecraft-evo-journal/. I'm about to retweet that one :-)

Here's how to request access to our Google Doc so you can add your name to the server white list

Hi all. The answer is YES INDEED! Please request access to the Google Doc so you can edit it, http://screencast.com/t/7CT6w5lKm5x2. You are welcome to do so (and we were wondering where you were :-)

I have purposely set this document so that we can write here using our Google IDs and passwords (the ones we use to join this community). This will prevent vandalism and allow us to revert in case of need. If people were to write here without credentials we would not be able to revert to points where there were anonymous edits, a little inconvenient if not dangerous.

I hope this is the correct way forward, and please request access to this document so you can provide your MC names and we can whitelist you on our server. Thanks!

My apologies, I created an EVENT for Wed Jan 14 1400 GMT before I set up the Hangout on Air for it, and the HoA also created an event here - these are one and the same. There is more information about where this event can be joined here:
 - http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/w/page/32206114/volunteersneeded
 - http://webheadsinaction.org/live

At these spaces you will be provided a DIRECT LINK to the HoA which will enable you to join it (after our lead host Jeff is in the HoA, to prevent it filling and the host not being able to get in).

The HoA can accommodate 10 people but others can listen to the stream and interact with us live at http://chatwing.com/vancestev. The stream and chat are both embedded at http://webheadsinaction.org/live

This will be the pattern for our HoAs, and we hope you can join us.
http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/w/page/32206114/volunteersneeded

To get the most out of your EVO experience learning Minecraft, you can enroll in this free MOOC https://www.canvas.net/courses/minecraft-for-educators, running Jan 26 - Mar 10. If you don't enroll (or if it fills) those of us participating there will relay what's going on there back to you.
https://www.canvas.net/courses/minecraft-for-educators

Hi and welcome to #EVOMC15 <-- note our tag!  We think we've set things up here so that you can figure out what to do (hint, a good start would be http://tinyurl.com/evomc15-week1).  You can join that document, post to 'introductions' here, post to 'Questions Needing Attn' if you want quick help, and post to 'Week 1' or 'discussion' anything else relevant. Stay tuned for events to be posted Jan 14, Jan 25, and Feb 08. For now, let the fun begin :-)

Learning Minecraft? Be sure to know the lingo to avoid sounding like a noob. Check out our Minecraft dictionary and feel free to contribute!
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Here's an intro video (15 mins) to Minecraft and its potential.
Pro tip: Avoid looking for 'answers' before diving into Minecraft as games are systems designed for learning. Which means play and figure it out as you go then ask the questions!
#evomc15  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lXaiV-ZKOQ

Hi everyone,
Welcome to the EVO Minecraft MOOC. New to games for learning? A great primer is Chapter 1 of Teachercraft: Minecraft for Teaching and Learning by Dr. Seann Dikkers
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https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6rwkn6TEyofS2wzcWhIR3B4TG8/view?usp=sharing

Week 1 - Jan 12-18, Orient - figure out who we are and why we are here. Buy Minecraft from http://minecraft.net. Serious participants will have to invest $20 to stay in the game through to week 2.  Grab a space in https://www.canvas.net/courses/minecraft-for-educators before it fills up

Jeff Kuhn is providing materials from his parallel course: 
Leaning Back vs Leaning Forward - a general discussion of games and how they are designed for engagement vs a more traditional education content-delivery approach.

Participants will need to purchase MC this week, and we'll explain how that is done (we are sorry for this unavoidable $20 outlay, but the game is not free)