Thanks you, It was lots of fun creating this and showing what I’ve done. I am going to try and answer all your questions so here we go:

First, the attractive atributes of minecraft i think is that its just a place where you can build whatever you want and its just sort of a place to mess around for some people and not really do anything. It would be something hard to encourage but letting students share what they’ve buit is probably the best way because it is encouragement coming from their friends not necessarily their teacher and that is usually more attractive. Again, I mostly just answered your second question but I think it is more about providing opportunities for them to do something in minecraft or another technology source rather then requiring it.

As for my minecraft menu, I’ve built in many worlds more because I’ll learn something new or want to start over with something new in mind. A lot of my worlds are influenced by who I watch on youtube also so when I start watching someone for a while I will start to build things more like them per se. And my test worlds, those are worlds where I can “cheat” and experiment around with things when in my normal minecraft world I couldn’t do, or it was just easier and I wanted to see if I would like it before I built it for real. I will also occasionally test out game mechanics to find out how exactly something works for myself which is a lot of fun also.

Finally, If you are looking to start then its better almost to jump into it because you learn a lot as you play and you will find sort of what you like doing. Again, its helpful to watch other people and what they build or do to play in minecraft just because it will give you ideas as to what to do. One of my favorite people to watch on youtube has been Ethoslab and I would probably also recommend Zistseau. I can’t remember if I already mentioned them in my presentation but they build some pretty cool stuff. Some of their builds may be too large scale for you to start off but can always start you thinking of new things. There are also a lot more people out there to watch but these two are good to start with I think. It also may not be for you but you never know till you try.

I hope all of this helped you some
thank you very much,
Alexander Fryer