Teaching with Minecraft - Creative Writing

                Teaching with Minecraft -- Creative writing

How many people have children who BURST with ideas but who fight bitterly at the thought of writing those ideas down? Maybe you are one of those people --- you have ideas but when you are faced with a blank page, be it paper or a computer screen, you find yourself panicking. It is very difficult, then, to encourage your children to do what you yourself cannot.

But children who are stymied at the thought of writing down their ideas can be energized to do so when those ideas are connected and developed through the mechanism of Minecraft. 

One of the most 'exciting' aspects of Minecraft for many players is the possibility of creating their own personal 'adventure' map. An 
 'adventure map' is similar to a Minecraft World but more closely, to more clearly defined. It is a world with a story to it, a world through which the player moves with purpose.  

Now HERE is where the creative writing part comes in. This link will take you to directions for creating an adventure map. As you see, the directions are quite clear -- you must WRITE out the back story. And then you must DRAW out the map so that you have a clear idea of what you are going to build in Minecraft. 

Once you have built your Map and had it tested by friends, worked through the bugs that always seem to show up, you are ready to publish your map on Planet Minecraft.