Building our temporary classroom with MinecraftEdu.

The children started to integrate MinecraftEdu very quickly into their learning during our introductory period in December. With the building work commencing at Phoenix in Term 1, the children decided to join in with the construction work. As we are in our temporary classroom, the children thought it would be a good idea to make a scale model of the temporary classroom in our first class world. With very little direction from myself, the children used laptops and workstations to collaborate with each other through Minecraft. I was very impressed with how well they worked with each other, using the scale of 1 metre to 1 block in the MinecraftEdu class world.

Sharing learning with parents - morning workshop.

On Thursday 18th December the children's parents were invited to the classroom to share in a morning of learning using iPads.

The children took the lead in the session, showing their parents how to use Book Creator to create a digital storybook for the children in P1 and P2.  The parents got the opportunity to take photos from traditional storybooks, insert them into the Book Creator app, record their voices and add text.

The children and parents then published their books to iBooks so that the Foundation Stage children could enjoy traditional stories on iPads in a digital format.

Minecraft Update in Primary 6.

There is great excitement in Primary 6 for the new year as we have been trialling MinecraftEdu since the beginning of December. The children have been studying the topic Passport to Europe. Can you identify the European Landmark they have been building on Minecraft?

Keep an eye on the blog for further Minecraft updates in the new year.

Hour Of Code In Primary 6.

An excellent morning of coding took place today. We used our iPads to access resources on code.org. We spent our morning writing code for a new Angry Birds game. We are learning to be programmers for the future!