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Noobing it up with Teachers at Brock U Tech Showcase

Teachers n00b it up on the GamingEdus Professional Play Minecraft server at Brock University. (photo by: Zoe Branigan-Pipe) There's nothing better than introducing people to a video game for the…
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Gamertags / Naming Your Avatar

When servers get crowded clear gamertags are handy! I have a few names that I have used repeatedly as I hop from one computer game to another.  There are two…
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Survival Server First: Gumby Discovers a Massive, Majestic Mesa Biome

Although some significant changes to the MineCraft world took place over the holidays, I was pretty much hanging out at HorsieField Castle, what with the Open House and all, and…
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Holiday Open House at HorsieFieldCastle

(Cross-posted from ) I invite you to visit my new MineCraft digs at HorsieFieldCastle for some holiday cheer on Saturday, December 28th. It was a little less than two months…
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Changing your Minecraft Game Version

For players new to Minecraft, one of the most confusing elements of the game is all this talk about "Game Versions". This page will explain what that all means and…
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Multi-School Minecraft Server Year 3: New Players, Community Build Zone and Unknowable Outcomes

When we first launched the Multi-School Minecraft server in 2011, we had no idea if it would work. Three schools and over 30 students sharing a single server sounded great,…
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Two quick ways to secure your Minecraft server

Avoid griefing like this. Activate your server white-list! As Minecraft continues to storm through the world of gaming, education and everywhere else, one thing is for certain: everybody wants to…
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Five Essential Plugins for Minecraft School Servers

Student-led Blaze attacks on your server can be avoided with the right plugins. (But every once and a while, they're fun!) Last November, the GamingEdus Minecraft server celebrated its first…
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Organizing student accounts on a school Minecraft server

One of the questions I get asked a lot is how do you organize your students' accounts for your school's Minecraft server. There are many ways to do this, but…
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