Getting excited about another jump into the unknown. I just sent in the PO for the purchase of Minecraft for my lab so that I can start using it next semester. Although I have no idea what I am getting into and where this will take me even with my limited experience I can think of a number of possibilities. Our grade eights do a model country unit. I can only imagine how a creative person would be able to tie this together. Also wonder about other Civilization type games and how that might work with that project. I know I have read a number of ideas that the grade eight teachers could take adapt and call their own.
To keep the curriculum gods happy I plan on keeping things simple. Ask the students to imagine that they are travelling to a new planet, Athos IV, and tell them that they will be the first inhabitants from earth to land on the planet. They will make a journal entry every time they enter the world. I will ask the students to add these blog posts to their own blog then aggregate them all to one main blog using Feedwordpress. This way the one blog will contain a semester’s worth of narratives written by many different students.
We shall see where this takes me!
