July 17, 2015
Hi Everyone! Dr. Guthals here! Our amazing intern Harsha is on vacation right now, she is not only an amazing coder, but she is also a model! She is currently in New York looking into some modeling opportunities so we don’t have an update from her this week. But I still wanted to reach out […]
July 16, 2015
Hi Everyone! Dr. Guthals here again! I met Paula on Twitter, talking about using Minecraft in the classroom and she shared with me a wonderful story about how she uses Minecraft to teach Music! I thought it was so amazing that I asked if she could write a guest blog post, which she did (thanks […]
July 15, 2015
Teaching New Subjects Using Modding We’ve been working with a lot of teachers lately, and we’ve been exploring new ways to teach subjects beyond coding using LearnToMod! You’ll be seeing lots of ideas on our blog in the future, but here’s just one concept video for teaching reading using LearnToMod as a classroom tool: Let […]
July 14, 2015
Our book is officially out! Check it out today on Amazon! Published in partnership with Wiley & Sons, the book contains tutorials for 9 awesome mini-games that can be made using the LearnToMod software: It’s a great extension to all the tutorials that are already on the L2M website! This is our first book in […]
July 13, 2015
Hi Everyone! Dr. Guthals here again and I’m excited to announce that we have a Meetup group for San Diego Minecraft Educators! Whether you have been using Minecraft in your classroom for years or have only heard about Minecraft from the students in your classroom for years, we invite you to come and learn effective ways […]
July 10, 2015
ESA LOFT Video Game Innovation Fellowship The Entertainment Software Association & Hispanic Heritage Foundation will award grants to 20 youths who will present their video game concepts at the U.S. Capitol. One of our developers won a LOFT Fellowship last year! So can you! The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) and Hispanic Heritage Foundation (HHF) Leaders on […]
Hi Everyone! This week has been super busy. I’ve come up with some cool things to try and build with redstone. I can’t wait to try them out once I get my new laptop ! I flew out to New York this week, which took up a lot of time with packing to only get […]
July 9, 2015
Hi Everyone! Dr. Guthals here again! Today I wanted to share with you the STEM Exhibits Minecraft World that I made to showcase some basic STEM concepts that you could teach with the help of Minecraft! Check it out in the video here (which also explains how to put it in your version of Minecraft!): […]
July 8, 2015
Minecon 2015 was epic! This year, the L2M co-founders got the chance to attend Minecon in London, thanks to our partners on the Minecraft in Education Team at Microsoft! We helped Microsoft run workshops at Minecon to train teachers and parents in how to use Minecraft as a teaching tool for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math). These are just […]
July 3, 2015
I finished two of my self defense mods!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The first was the LAVA TRAP mod, which basically creates a lava trap for you every time you break a block. It wasn’t super difficult to code, which was nice. When I tested it out in the LTM server in Minecraft, I burnt down a few stuff […]
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