Video Tour of R3 in Minecraft

Room Three in Minecraft from Myles Webb on Vimeo.

This video was created by Brock and Ben and is a tour of the model of Room Three, Auroa Primary School, that was created using Minecraft.

R3 Modelled in Minecraft

R3 Modelled in Minecraft!

We've started looking at Measurement and measuring to scale in class. As part of the activities associated with this we've had some of the students modelling our classroom in Minecraft - not as easy as some of the students thought that it might be. These screen shots were provided by Brock from Room Three who worked on the project in his own time...

Left: Room Three as seen from the outside area. Don't worry we have lots of classrooms and other parts of the school around us!

Left: Room Three from the inside - as modelled by Brock from Room Three.  Does this look like the inside of our classroom? What features can you see that are around the classroom? Where is your desk? What has Brock got right and what does he need to adjust?

R3 MOA Awards Book Trailer - Minecraft Combat Book

Our students AKO this term is creating work for the digital MOA Awards that take place next term in Opunake at the Sanfords Events Centre. One of the criteria for entries is the 'Book Trailer' to enter this students can use iMovie and use the 'Trailer' option to create it about a book - this is Jackson R. effort about the Minecraft Combat book:

Combat Handbook from myles webb on Vimeo.

Catherine's Post about Minecraft

Minecraft - By Catherine from Myles Webb on Vimeo.

Mr C's Classroom as Modelled in Minecraft

Minecraft Mystery Shots R3

Is this 8C Selwyn House? R3 Thinks it could be...

Thank you very much for all of you who have responded already for our 'Room With A View' building task for this year.   We've already completed a draft of Mrs Ladd's Class from the United States of America, which you can see below this post.  We also wanted to acknowledge the fantastic detailed feedback that we received from our friends in 8C Selwyn House.  You can follow the link to this post which features comments from the Girls here.

Our Maths groups then took the time to create a two dimensional map based on the information provided from the students of Selwyn House.   We had some great learning discussions about it and there was some disagreements about what was correct but the job was completed in the end.

Is it correct? Is this a drawing to scale? What features need to be changed?

Then once we had the two dimensional model of Selwyn House completed we converted it from a two dimensional model to a three dimensional model.  We did this by adding blocks to create an affect.  Our next task is to talk to students who are in the classroom and determine whether or not it is accurate - if we need to change anything we can do so now.   We have used blocks for this so that then can easily be shifted and adapted.

How accurate does this look? How do we need to alter it before we create a 3D model? Does the information provided need to be clarified?

RWAV: 3D Minecraft Model of Mrs Ladds' Classroom

Thanks so much for your responses - Mrs Ladd a friend of Room Three's from North Carolina responded to our request for information about her classroom to Room Three, in New Zealand, the same day! We were thrilled with her amazing response which allowed the first group from Room Three to start to put together her classroom from her instructions. We had a lot of discussion about the phrase "the desks run together" and Mrs Ladd, being from the USA had all her measurements in feed, so we had to convert it to metric. We created a two dimensional plan, a birds eye view based on her instructions (although there were five created maps everything was slightly different!), then we used blocks to convert it to a basic 3D model and then build her classroom in Minecraft. This Google Presentation created by the students from Mackenna's Maths Group - they have yet to finish the project as they have some editing and tidying up to do. Thanks so much for all the responses that we've received from around the world, we're looking forward to producing models of your classrooms!

Can you please help us? 'Room with a View 2015'

Auroa Primary Schools Senior Block: as modelled in Minecraft

Today in class is the second day back from Term Three for 2015.  Our students have just started one of our learning projects for Mathematics as part of Geometry.

We are looking at mapping to scale, with a few directions thrown in for good measure.  As part of this task we are producing a birds-eye-view map of our classroom.

This is all very standard but to make the task a little challenging we are building our own classroom to scale in Minecraft.   Where we are looking to take it to the next level is to create a scale map of your classroom - a place we've probably never been too.

When we are looking for your co-operation is with the details of your classroom.

R3 Interior

If students from Room Three can contact you and email or leave a comment on your class blog that would be amazing.   We have some specific questions that we are looking at using to build our maps and our virtual maps - if you could help either leave a comment here or email Mr Webb (mwebb@auroa.school.nz).  Once we've done that our students will start processing the information and creating two dimensional and then three dimensional models of your classroom and we'll see how close that we can get.

This is going to allow us to test our knowledge of Geometry, look at our questioning, allow us to think critically and of course relate to others.

If you are in the Northern Hemisphere and your students are on a break you can still help! Thank you all so much in advance, we really appreciate the opportunity to collaborate!

The Crafters - Amazing Minecraft Student Site

We have had some fantastic feedback on our student blogs recently - it might be the holidays for all our friends in the Northern Hemisphere; but its wonderful for our students to have great quality feedback because we are still blogging and working.

Caro is just about to overtake Bethany (we think) and have the most popular student blog at Auroa Primary School, and recently she started posting about some of her Minecraft work. 

When she did she received some feedback from some amazing students and friends of ours at Selwyn House in Christchurch - that led us to 'discover' (if a site that has had nearly 10,000 pageviews is a new site) the students collaborative Minecraft Site 'The Crafters' our students were thrilled to find the site and loved the contents and the details.

You have to check out this site if you are a fan of Minecraft and students work - its an incredible site and we're big fans - amazing Selwyn House. The amazing link is here.

Room One Auroa Primary - As Mapped by Nexus from Singapore!

Already this year we've been involved in some great collaborations involving the use of various programes.  We've created three dimensional models of the Third Grade Thinkers from the USA and our friends from Selwyn House, Christchurch.  Recently our friends from Nexus International School went through the process of creating a model of our classroom.   They intially asked for volunteers on their class page.  Meg and Will left comments describing our classroom.  Last Friday they Skyped our classroom for further information.   Alyssa lead this learning conversation.   Today in class we saw the first stage - the students of Nexus putting together and describing their two dimensional models of Room One, Auroa Primary School.  How accurate was it? Well you'll have to stay tuned.  This is the video produced by Fabulous Five @ Nexus, Singapore, describing Auroa Primary School, Taranaki, New Zealand.

8c Selwyn House in Minecraft

Yesterday in Mathematics our students started constructing a grid map of another classroom, in this case, Selwyn House in Christchurch. These photographs are of our Mathematics groups working. We would like to thank Tilly from 8C for her fantastic instructions and of course the teachers and students from Selwyn House for being available to collaborate with us on this project.

Minecraft2014 - Video Maker

The next stage is to: refine our models and drawings, receive feedback to see if we are on the right track, look at the information that Tilly and Selwyn House have supplied to us, see what needs to be checked - are there any further questions that we now have? What are we not sure about?

Minecraft: 3D Modelling of Classrooms.

Stage Two: Minecraft Modelling in the Classroom.

We've contacted, or been contacted by schools in Christchurch, New Zealand, the West Coast of the South Island.   We had classes in the USA contact us and have a look at this fantastic post which is a collaboration with Mrs Essenburgs Class from Michigan, USA.    As a result of this Brylee and Heavenlee created this grid map of the classroom.  Tomorrow we're going to start investigating how accurate it is and which refinements need to be made.

We Skyped in two classes today with more to come.  Previously each of our groups had recorded information that we needed and details that would allow us to ultimately build a three dimensional model of another classroom around the world using Minecraft.

Were our questions and our preparation correct? We are going to be reflecting on this during Mathematics tomorrow.  What information didn't we receive from the classrooms? How accurate are the maps that we have created? What needs to be refined?

This is the map that Brylee and Heavenlee created as a result of the fantastic information that was provided from Mrs Essenburg and her students.  How accurate is this?

The other classrooms that we have spoken to are our #QuadbloggingAotearoa buddies: Selwyn House and Awahono School.  We spoke to Selwyn House first and we hadn't even thought about a point of orientation! When the students started to talking to us and mentioned the compass points its threw us a little, however our groups continued to gain information and two were produced that are possible grid maps of the Selwyn House Classroom, by Kaiah and Tahana.  There work is here - again we are going to be contacting these schools and classrooms and checking our information and details.

 We believe that this, on the information supplied is a two dimensional model  of 8c, Selwyn House from Christchurch - but we also believe that this is correct.  The problem is there is already some significant variation starting to appear and we've only just started the process.  Stay tuned.

Auroa Primary School: Modelling in Minecraft

This week we've started a new unit of work on Geometry.  As part of this unit and also a tie in with our Unit Studies 'Relating to Others.
We're looking at creating two dimensional models of classrooms and then a three dimensional model.

The purpose of the two dimensional model is to create a model to scale, for the three dimensional model we're using Minecraft.

Were going to post the results here on our blogs so you can see if they're correct, or need to be refined.   We started the process today by contacting schools and people that we've been networking with, and asking questions about your classrooms.   The first part of the process is the questioning.  Once we start getting some answers we can start the mapping process.   Thank you so much to those of you who have already indicated that you would take part in this process.

Auroa Primary School - Modelling in Minecraft

Our students are busy working on their individual student blogs, which are developing and you can view on the sidebar on this blog.   We also have several other projects underway.   One of the changes this year is that we have Minecraft installed on the class ipads.  We're using Minecraft to create three dimensional models of our classroom to publish online.   The first part of this process was that the students created a map of the Room One classroom.   We were focussing on scale.

Students have drawn this in their planning book.  Stage two was that the students used a resource to build a block model of the classroom or the school.   The next stage of the process is that our students are creating a three dimensional model of our classroom using Minecraft.   The students have used Minecraft before, but for some this is the first time

that they are modelling an actual building that they are familiar with.

One of the sites that we will be using in the classroom this year was created by Shaun Wood, a teacher from Auckland.  Minecraft Kids Quests has been designed to create thought provoking challenges for students to create using Minecraft.  There is collaboration between students based on ideas and tasks.  You can visit the site by clicking on the link here.