This post explains why I have decided to play (and blog about) Minecraft as a part of my exploration into Agile Learning Facilitation.  As such it is also about my personal self-directed learning journey: it is my belief that you can’t work with self-directed learners if you are not exploring and… Read more

In which a play Minecraft for the first time with a restrictive 1 hour time limit and seek to achieve pre-determined goals.  Happily I was able to succeed in my mission within the time-frame.  While playing I discovered plenty of potentially distracting things that could have turned this session into… Read more

This session @ryanshollenberger and @pigcraft8 (james khost) joined me.  We had a pow-wow about what to do before hand and gave Ryan an overview of the lay-of-the-land.  These guys answered my questions (‘research’) and we set off with a primary goal of trading with the Villagers. So, I had a… Read more

  This was going to be the most exciting new episode of the series.  The day I built my first Enchantment Table and opened up the possibility of so much more (namely, enchanted weapons).  Instead it turned out to be a frustrating face-palming moment. A fork in the road… or… Read more

In this session we met and planned to get the wall built.  Having collected a significant amount of cobble in the previous session, the next question was did we need stone bricks? There were actually a bunch of next steps.  We used the tactic of checking in before the session, but… Read more