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Touring the Multi-School Minecraft Server

Join Praxismaxis as he takes you on a quick tour through the portals that link four inner-city schools and 40 students in one shared Minecraft server. We play on the server during school as part of our daily lessons in math, science, language and much more. We're always looking for other educators and students to play with us. Find out more at: http://gamingedus.org

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Five Essential Plugins for Minecraft School Servers

Last November, the GamingEdus Minecraft server celebrated its first year anniversary.

In the time, I’ve learned that running a Minecraft server for teachers and students takes 3 Ps: Patience, Persistence and Plugins. I  can’t help you with the first two. But with the third P, Plugins, I got you covered.

Here’s a list of my Five Essential Plugins for educators running a Minecraft server in school.

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Multi-School Minecraft and the Digital Learning Commons

After lunch yesterday, a small group of my students logged into our Multi-School Minecraft server for the first time. These kids hadn’t played multiplayer Minecraft yet, so were pretty excited to be able to build together and, let’s face it, fight each other. When we logged in, we were pleasantly surprised to see Miss Colby’s  students were also on the server. They were on the other side of the map working on their bridge projects, so we couldn’t actually see them. But we knew they were there. In reality, her students were on the other side of the city. My students were like “whatever” and went off exploring. Miss  Colby’s kids weren’t too fussed with us being there either. Both groups just went about their play, work and learning.

That’s when it hit me: our server had become a typical “learning commons”.

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