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Cacille · Joined: 05 Oct 2011

Hey all.

I know your kids probably all are bonkers over the game Minecraft. Mine are - I am teaching in a middle school of all boys, roughly 500 students. I ended up joining them and playing the game and got a little addicted too. So much so that I started learning 3d modeling just to make videos for my students using the character (Steve) and game world they love so much and the English from their textbooks! It's been a big hit so far, my first and second graders especially. I might post them one day. But for right now...
I decided to take it a step further and start making Youtube Let'sPlays using Minecraft, but tailoring it to the population of the world who knows English but can't understand fast speech. I keep the videos easy, slow English for everyone, include subtitles and webcam so people can see my speech and mannerisms, but I don't talk down as if I'm talking to a child. While I talk, I play Minecraft. Hence the "Let's Play" part.
Quite a few of my students, younger kids, and older adults also, are watching them. If your students are bonkers about Minecraft, share my Youtube name, Cacille, with them so they can find the videos. I've got about 9 up so far and I try to get about 3 out every week.

To search for the videos, besides my username, search for Easy Minecraft ESL English.

If you watch them too, please be nice. I am still rather new at making these videos (actually, I'm new at making videos at all, though I have some travel vids for family and friends and such on my channel) and it takes months to get good at it from what I've seen. I do make some stupid English word mistakes at the beginning - due completely to nervousness. Like saying "sheeps" instead of sheep accidentally and cutting out small words, something I'm trying to break my habit of doing for these videos. I got into a little bit of a bad habit in school of doing that but caught myself recently. Also, the quality of my videos are horrible until Video 8...when I finally got a better computer and a clue that Adobe Premiere was not rendering right and switched to Sony Vegas instead. Trust me, I'm my own worst critic. Constructive, helpful, respectful criticism is welcome though.

wings · Joined: 09 Nov 2006

Thanks for sharing! I have a few students who are OBSESSED with minecraft. I am always surprised with the vocabulary they have pulled out of the game. I'll share your Youtube videos with them.

Cheers!