Gamers Camp Wednesday

Wednesday

Today the campers started building their Minecraft school.  They had to work cooperatively in the same world building the same structure.  At first they struggled to collaborate on the project.  However after creating a chat forum,  they were able to discuss and set ground rules.  It was an opportunity to discuss respect and digital citizenship. 




Their school includes a cafeteria, bathrooms (with "working" toilets), classrooms, a playground and an aquarium.  They used their measurement of the rooms in Holy Child Academy as a basis to know the relative size of their rooms in Minecraft.

Campers were also introduced to KoDu (https://www.kodugamelab.com/).  Kodu is a visual programming language used to create games for Windows.  It uses Xbox 360 controllers to link visual blocks with the code library.  Tom showed the campers the game he had previously created in school and they were able to explore the program.