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This wiki is devoted to hosting ideas, lessons, implementation strategies and more related to using the game, Minecraft in a school setting Whether you use it in a computer/gaming club, as part of your regular curricular instruction, or even at home with your own children, Minecraft's simple yet scalable "sandbox" virtual environment can be an excellent tool for engaging student learning. The open-ended nature of the game lends it to application in a variety of subject areas. Game-based learning, virtual worlds, and simulations are emerging tools for reaching our learners.

"CraftStudio is a multiplayer platform to create games and interactive movies. It's about empowering gamers and blurring the line between playing and creating. It makes a few trade-offs (a low-poly, pixel-arty look) to allow gamers with no particular experience to: Create, paint and animate 3D models (characters, objects) out of blocks. Craft infinite maps (think Minecraft's creative mode), painting your own blocks to create whatever universe you want. Give life to their worlds using a visual scripting system. It's all real-time, you can collaborate with friends or strangers over the Internet. You can set up your own server or join an existing project."

"Minecraft is a game about placing blocks to build anything you can imagine. At night monsters come out, make sure to build a shelter before that happens."

The villager mod that adds extra npcs to the game - specif types of villages, currency, commerce, cooperation

"I didn't really know what to expect, but what I discovered was that the game really afforded some nice learning opportunities for the students. First, the kids really needed to know how to make decisions based on priorities. Is it more important to start exploring right away? How important is shelter? Should I kill all the cows and pigs around, or build a rudimentary axe and start collecting wood? How important is a torch on that first night alone in the wilderness? "

"Welcome to the Massively Minecraft Community for Educators You are invited to join Massively Minecraft, a professional community of educators preparing to explore a new game suitable for children as young as 4 years of age, yet expansible enough to still stir the imagination and interaction of late teens and adults."

areas of interest include * basic skills - what every player needs to know - index, quick reference, why these * server settings, mods for educational gaming - controlling the setup and environment behaviors is important to direct learning "

Main discussion forums - wide range to Minecraft related topics, active, regular postings

"Here are some nice active community resources for discussing Minecraft. Please note that all of these are third-party and aren't hosted by us. We link them because they're great. "

"Minecraft: Building a Starting House (Minecraft Tutorial) My first Minecraft video on Machinima (link above) showed the basics of the game and how to survive your first night in a cave. This video shows you an alternate way to start: in your very own starter house!"

"This is a picture of learning in action. It's what happens when you go off-road and really explore and test the limits of things and disaster becomes success. It's also the basis for meaningful, autonomous and open ended learning and play. And the starting point for EDGElab's exploration (and destruction) of Minecraft. "