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Part 2 in the guest blog series by Marianne Malstrom on NetFamily News. More great insight :)

MinecraftEdu is the collaboration of a small team of educators and programmers from the United States and Finland. We are working with Mojang AB of Sweden, the creators of Minecraft, to make the game affordable and accessible to schools everywhere. We have also created a suite of tools that make it easy to unlock the power of Minecraft in YOUR classroom.

This stream includes Knowclue Kidd and her students from Elizabeth Morrow Middle School providing a tour through their Morrowcraft server, their wiki, and a demo of the game 'Escape from Morrow' that they created in MineCraft.

ComputerCraft is a mod created for Minecraft by dan200 that adds Computers, Monitors, Modems, Turtles and more! ComputerCraft's Computers and Turtles are programmed with the easy-to-learn Lua programming language. You can use Redstone, RedPower or even MineFactory Reloaded alongside with your devices for the best experience.

This video (clocking in at 1 hr. 41 mins) provides details about how to use the Custom NPC mod and navigate and utilize the tools associated with the different tabs.

Collated and kept up to date by Tim Wicks

A terrific list of MC Mods via the Google User Group.

qCraft is not a simulation of quantum physics, but it does provide 'analogies' that attempt to show how quantum behaviors are different from everyday experience, allowing players to create structures and devices that exhibit Minecraft versions of quantum properties like observer dependence, superposition and entanglement. This wiki provides documentation of the features and capabilities of the mod. For a thorough tour of what the mod can do, check out this overview from Direwolf20. You may also want to check out the qCrafting series of videos on the mod's official YouTube Channel.

This tutorial shows you how to use command blocks to give items to players.

A collaborative build of the city of Oakland, Ca.

Teacher POV for using NPCs for the first time. Includes video for how to make a quest.

Playlist of redstone tutorials starting from the basics.