Recent Changes

The first thing we noticed was that it got pretty dark as night fell, so our first project was to install street lights. Matt and Brady did this by putting up some poles on the streets with Glowstone at the tops. Andrew is currently working on the central "park" area.
More soon...
We're having a weird little glitch in the NF Village world where there's a small area that, if you're not an operator (op), you can't place or destroy blocks. If you place a block, it just disappears immediately, and if you destroy a block, it comes right back. I've set Andrew as an op, and that's fixed it for him, but not for anybody else trying to build in that area. Not sure how we'll deal with this, yet. It's a small area.

We've decided to make an effort and using Minecraft educationally in our school. A few teachers are using it in their classrooms, but so far, it's each kid using his own copy locally on his own machine, and there's no in-world collaboration going on at all. This is a decent start, but we'd like to have communal, collaborative worlds.
So, we've set up a Minecraft server on our Virtual Reality system. Right now, it's not open to the outside world; it's only accessible from within the school network. We installed both versions 1.6.4 and 1.7.2 of the server application (.exe), and we're finding that 1.6.4 works better. Clients have to make sure to set their preferences to act as 1.6.4 to connect. This is working fine.
Chelsey has gotten us started by laying out a grid of streets around which we'll build our community. Each block is 25x25 in Minecraft blocks. We're hoping this is big enough to do some building on. If not, we'll adjust somehow.
There's a center block that will be the spawn point, where the user will be presented with instructions and rules for the world. We haven't drawn those up yet, but we're thinking of things like "don't destroy anything outside your own block," "no profanity or harassment," etc.
The first ring of eight blocks around the center "park" will be "public" buildings: places controlled by the Tech Team, and used for communal meeting spaces, etc.
The rings of blocks further out will be "private" blocks, where users will be able to claim an unclaimed block, put up a sign, and start building.
The first thing we noticed was that it got pretty dark as night fell, so our first project was to install street lights. Matt and Brady did this by putting up some poles on the streets with Glowstone at the tops. Andrew is currently working on the central "park" area.
More soon...

Wed, September 25, 2013
At the Tech team meeting we have talked and showed about our projects on blender. The YouTube videos that I have been used are created by Andrew Price. His link for his YouTube channel is : http://www.youtube.com/user/AndrewPPrice/videos.
How to make a mincraft server:
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1373160-how-to-create-a-minecraft-server-easy-guide-detailed-vanillabukkit-how-to-manage-your-server-up-to-date/

Today Wyatt came down and hung out, what we got done is posted in his link.
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Wed, September 25, 2013
At the Tech team meeting we have talked and showed about our projects on blender. The YouTube videos that I have been used are created by Andrew Price. His link for his YouTube channel is : http://www.youtube.com/user/AndrewPPrice/videos.

September 10, 2013
Wyatt, Kevin and I got the nVidia 3D Vision system working with the VR system today. It seems like we're constantly having to reinstall drivers to keep this system working. Once the driver is installed you have to remember to put the TV into 3D mode, then run the Enable 3D program in the nVidia/3D Vision folder. Then, to make it work with MS Flight Sim X, you have to use a lower resolution (1024x768x32 bit works well), so it's not full screen.
September 24, 2013
The VR system is working pretty well. Matt and Chelsey are getting pretty far along with Blender projects.
Brady has been helping me with some PC repair tasks, and we've been trying to get a Linux distribution installed and running on a couple of older PCs.
Wyatt has been dabbling in Blender a bit, and helping me with repair and troubleshooting.
Kevin has been helping with troubleshooting and support, and is looking forward to running the sound system for our first music department performance. I'm hoping to get his help with installing and deploying the SmartMusic software for this year.
I've scheduled a Tech Tribe meeting for tomorrow afternoon to compare notes on projects (Blender, particularly) and discuss the spring NASA competition.

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Tuesday, September 10,2013
Today Wyatt came down and hung out, what we got done is posted in his link.
{Screen Shot 2013-09-11 at 11.43.16 AM.png} This is what I am working on since Sep. 4, 2013.

I just found videos on blender basics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcNukwr3b5w&list=PL7Z1KKHB1pIFyPS4M_LautLOgISrDQ2HE
September 10
Today Kevin Taylor, Mr limbert and I activated the 3D part of the 3D TV.
3D glass's
Later
Later when I Kevin's period. Mr Limbert explained to me and Kevin that the glass's shutter 200 times per second and that they sync up with the TV. Kevin and to the flyflight simulator but on the driverdrivers web site.site that we had installed. He then what to adjustadjust, but Kevin that the glglass's didn't work but when I went and stood back farther I found that the glass's were working. so we readjusted the frame to a smaller size and miraculously it worked we then relaunched the flight simulator and it was in perfect 3D. So after a total of a hour and a half it worked.

Tuesday, September 9, 2013
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Tuesday, September 9, 2013
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