Tuesday, June 23rd, 2015

Today I compile my research into a draft of the Educational Minecraft Lessons (EML) layout and overall structure. I hope to land upon a method o organization and proposed implementation before starting development of the first Lesson, "Minecraft: Learn the Ropes", a complete walkthrough of the controls, block mechanics, and innate environmental features of Minecraft. This Lesson will equip students without experience with the game with the necessary tools to continue onto the consecutive modules. However, I endeavor to design these modules and system to be played in independent sections or in order. Decisions such as this are my primary concern today.

I have decided upon a three part organization for the EML: World, Web, Watch. This combines active playing within the Worlds I am designing, using the Web page and wiki to walk through the lessons and the generals of Minecraft and Watching me play through the modules explaining as I go along. The following video is NOT the final Watch component of the first module, but only a brief walkthrough of the structure I have devised for each lesson. The length and intensity will vary with the degree of difficulty associated with the tasks. This being the first one, is relatively long but not particularly complex.

Today: 7

Week: 15

Total: 118.5