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Aug 24

Washington DC Minecraft Tour

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Gamification
August 24, 2021

For the 2021 Martin Luther King, Jr Day LA Works hosted a virtual tour of Washington DC during Dr. King’s 1963 march on the capitol in Minecraft Java Edition. The world built by Mike Washburn (@misterwashburn) and Becky Lattof (@STEAMcultivator) is amazing! I wrote about the tour and shared the tour on this blog post. …

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Feb 16

Esports with Minecraft, Getting Started

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Gamification
February 16, 2020

In my last post on Esports with Minecraft, I shared resources that helped me get a Minecraft Esports Club started for my 6th graders. I got as far as having everything I needed to get started in that post, and now I’m going to show what happened after that. In that post I shared a …

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Feb 16

Esports with Minecraft

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Gamification
February 16, 2020

Yesterday I wrote a post about a game that some of my 6th-grade students played with kids in Surrey, England, Friday, Feb 21, 2020. In this post, I’m going to share how I got this going for my school. I’m going to assume that if you’re reading this you know what esports are. If you …