Interested in what can be done with Minecraft in the context of a local Arts festival? Here are the slides of a short presentation my co-organiser and son Ciarán and I gave at a recent meeting of educators interested in ICT in Dundalk, Co. Louth (Ireland) ;)

1. Skerries Soundwaves Minecraft
Project 2012
By Sabine & Ciarán McKenna

2. Minecraft

3. Skerries

4. Skerries Soundwaves Festival

5. Idea: Soundwaves Minecraft Project!

6. First, let’s re-create Skerries….

7. ….make the lines straight…

8. ….and straighter….

9. ….then learn how to use Worldedit

10. Find a place to host the world.

11. Tell people about the project!

12. Set up a blog...

13. …. a Facebook page…

14. …. learn how to get codes for tickets
Random Code Generator – googled!

15. And the builders came!

47. We even made our own skin.

48. We tweeted about our project…

49. … and found a judge that way!

50. Mr Liam O’Donnell, Canada.

54. Some stuff we learned…
• Admin and PR
• Running a server
• World Edit in Minecraft
• Being online Admins / Ops
• Setting rules
• Dealing with Griefers
• Running a competition
• Keeping in touch with everyone

55. The best day perhaps:
Meeting the players at the Lego competition!

56. Lots of interest.

57. The 2012 Skerries Minecrafters!

58. And in the flesh.

59. We’re in Skerries News!