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Using Student Interest Without Being an Expert

Site of home and bridge building at the Jean Augustine Girls' Leadership Academy (TDSB) area in the Minecraft Multi School Server. My student teacher @megpolley has never played Minecraft. She…
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Buying Accounts from MinecraftEdu

Minecraft Master and GamingEdus guru Jen Apgar has created another quick video for teachers just getting started with Minecraft. This one covers Buying Accounts from MinecraftEdu and is ideal for…
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MinecraftEdu vs Regular Minecraft: The Teacher’s Dilemma

"Should I get MinecraftEdu or regular Minecraft for my classroom?" That is one of the most common questions from teachers we get here at GamingEdus. The answer is: it depends.…
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Servers up and running!

*Update* The Blaze attack has been averted and many bugs squashed. The servers are back up and running. Hey GamingEdus! All the servers will be brought offline this weekend as…
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Perseverance in the Face of Technology

Perseverance is: "a steady persistence in a course of especially in spite of difficulties, obstacles or discouragement" ().   We try and scaffold our students' learning so that they develop this character trait, along…
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Minechat Visits the Gaming Edus

Collin Gallagher, the creative talent behind Minecraft Minechat, visited the Professional Play and Multi-School servers belonging to the Gaming Edus. See the tour and hear the interview in this video,…
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Minecraft Students are evolving. They’ll pwn teachers (and servers). And that’s awesome.

"You'll never know more than your students. And that's okay." I find myself saying that a lot to teachers looking to bring Minecraft into their classrooms. Any adult who's been…
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Setting Up Minecraft on Your School Computers

The amazing GamingEdu, Jen Apgar, has put together a short and simple tutorial video showing teachers how to get Minecraft running on your school computer. If you're wondering where to…
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Multi-School Server Gets TNT World

Blowing stuff up in Minecraft is fun. We've been doing it since 2011, sometimes with disastrous results. And it's something our students love to do. While playing with TNT is…
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Multi-School MinecraftEDU Server Launches!

A lunch time Multi-School Minecrafter messes with Quantum Physics using the qCraft mod. When we first started the Multi-School Minecraft server three years ago, MinecraftEDU  was merely a twinkle in…
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