Coffs Harbour Public School Blog

Courtesy & Honour – Principal:Leonie Buehler

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Minecraft Library Club

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Thanks to the super Nick, a year 10 student from a DEC high school on the south coast, we managed to get our multi-user Minecraft server up and running. Nick has packaged Minecraft with settings that work wonderfully with DEC graphics and computers. As a result virtual world library club was crazy! So many students wanted to be a part of the server but they firstly need to purchase their own Minecraft accounts from Mojang as the server only works with full accounts and not lite/free ones. Next Wednesday we will write a charter and create rules for in-world behaviour which is a critical component of digital citizenship. Mrs Booth used the MCJam DEC map that Nick sent her for our world and the students loved the spawn point and buildings that had already been created by Nick and other DEC teachers during professional learning days in the school holidays. Other students were able to play the Pocket Edition on our iPads.

Also, coping with all the noise, was the very patient Luke who was building a bathroom using Sim-on-a-Stick as part of his building design. His attention to detail using this technology is amazing and we will also be using his expertise for a UNICEF school design project  that Mrs Booth and Mrs Newton are currently undertaking with an enrichment group of students.

See you next Wednesday and happy mining 😉

Mrs Booth

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Minecraft Maths with 3P and Virtual Library Club

“An innovative curriculum cultivates a culture of learning that values creativity, critical thinking, curiosity, risk taking and rigor. Innovation is creativity with purpose and meaning that brings learning to life in the pursuit of wisdom and knowledge.” Karen Yager and Andrew Weeding – ‘Focus on Creativity – A Pedagogical Shift’ (p 105-138)

 

Judy Willis, neurologist and teacher, assessed how learning that is challenging is similar to the way in which a gamer becomes engaged in a video game. She states:  When learners have opportunities to participate in learning challenges at their individualised achievable challenge level, their brains invest more effort to the task and are more responsive to feedback. Students working toward clear, desirable goals within their range of perceived achievable challenge, reach levels of engagement much like the focus and perseverance we see when they play their video games.” Jeffrey Adams- ‘Inquiry Learning? Try a Game

 Thursday maths with 3P and lunchtime library club

 

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Virtual World Library Club is Full

Thursdays virtual world library club is proving so popular that Mrs Booth will have to select the classes that will be able to access it for the final 5 weeks of Term 4. This Thursday, 22 November, will be Kindergarten. This will be fairer to those younger students wanting to access our schools virtual sim and Minecraft loaded iPads. The library club has grown immensely and it is amazing to see what students are creating not only with building but also cooperative game play. Many students also come in to work on their virtual projects for class 🙂 Great stuff!

Library club from Coffs Harbour PS on Vimeo.

Mrs Booth

 

 

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April builds some Olympic rings

April must have finished her book she was reading because at lunchtime on Thursday she walked through the library door asking for a USB to ‘play’ sim-on-a-stick. She then set about completing one of the quests which was to identify what was wrong with the Olympic rings and then fix them. Good job April 🙂

See you all in virtual world library club next Thursday.

Mrs Booth

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Virtual World and iPad Library Club

VWiPLC is in full swing again and the iPad booking form worked very well this week….thank goodness. I love this video and Kobie’s line ” look I am in survival mode” which made me a little concerned as his world was in full darkness and he still hadn’t made a shelter…yikes… He is a little trooper and had plenty of students to help him out of his dire situation!

Other students were working on building airships after being inspired by Ener Hax’s ‘Shark Zeppelin’. Great work:)

Our school bookworm April still waved the flag for a more traditional past time in a school library by absorbing herself in a book. Well done April and Emily Rodda is an excellent author (one of my favourites).

Mrs Booth

 

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