Minecraft School Days, The Middle Years, is a Minecraft Roleplay...

Minecraft School Days, The Middle Years, is a Minecraft Roleplay that starts this new Youtube video series.  Insane Ninja Zombie is off to his first day of school after moving to a new city because his mom wants to move closer to her friend.  Things don’t start off the right way.What will happen in the rest of the series?
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Minecraft School Days Roleplay

Minecraft School Days, The Middle Years, is a Minecraft Roleplay that starts this new Youtube video series.  Insane Ninja Zombie is off to his first day of school after moving to a new city because his mom wants to move closer to her friend.  Things don't start off the right way.
What will happen in the rest of the series?

MARK CUBAN plays Minecraft with his kids. Why don't you?

As an investor on the ABC hit show SHARK TANK, Mark Cuban knows a good thing when it enters his life.  The guy is far from stupid and being the first professional sports team owner to jump onto the Minecraft wagon, he shows his true intelligence and brilliance.  With the introduction of Dallas Mavericks World on server Mineplex, he will make a ton of cash. 

Having stated that he plays the game with his kids, Cuban knows that Minecraft is intellectually engaging and played by millions of kids throughout the world.  Really, what adult, having played the game, is not aware of these two key facts?  You might think that his Minecraft relationship focuses on thing two main elements.  Think again.

According to Insane Ninja Zombie Minecraft Videos, Cuban is in a financial win fall.  “With millions of kids playing Minecraft and having those same kids associate the Dallas Mavericks with the game, is it not feasible that Cuban will make millions through merchandise sales?  Won’t these same kids choose the Mavericks T-shirts over other teams because of their prior association with the Dallas Mavericks World?  How long before the Mavericks have a Minecraft themed clothing line available exclusively through their team stores?” 

It really does go to show that Cuban truly is that much more intelligent than his professional owner colleagues.  What do you think?  Is he ahead of the other owners in the business side of pro sports? 

Dallas Maverick World will launch later this summer.

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Minecraft To Launch In China

Chinese software publisher NetEase, has been awarded a five year contract by Microsoft / Mojang to begin selling the Minecraft game in China on both PC computers and smartphones.  Details have not been announced and the financial details have not been confirmed.

The questions created from this news is simple:  Will the parents of Chinese children allow their kids to play the Western game?  If so, will they be looking at the North American YouTube video market to help learn and understand the game and all its features?

YouTube channels like Insane Ninja Zombie Minecraft Videos could become a focal for these kids.  As a FAMILY FRIENDLY channel, parents will begin to understand the enormous impact that the game of Minecraft has on the youth throughout the world.

As a school teacher, Insane Ninja Zombie sees the benefits that Minecraft has on kids each and every day.  North American parents just don’t understand the game and try to limit their child to less play rather create a regular use model.  Typically, a child will benefit from 30 minutes of play two or three times a week. “It’s different than most games.” says Insane Ninja Zombie.  “Not only do they learn the technological side of social media like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram, they also learn problem solving, role playing, and goal setting, just to name a few.  In fact, Minecraft challenges the higher levels of thinking found in Bloom’s Taxonomy.  Not many games with a global impact do that.”

With the introduction of Minecraft in China, parents can be assured that Minecraft is here to stay.

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Insane Ninja Zombie Minecraft Video Lets PlayHave you ever...

Insane Ninja Zombie Minecraft Video Lets PlayHave you ever wanted to learn Minecraft basics using videos?  I was challenged by me 7 year old son to a game of Minecraft Egg Wars on the Cubecraft server and he beat me very easily.  That made me more determined than ever to learn how to play Minecraft.  
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Why Your Kid Should Play Minecraft

The Insane Ninja Zombie Minecraft YouTube Channel started one warm, sunny, day when a dad, Insane Ninja Zombie, age unknown, and his two sons, 13 year old Skullhead 1022 and 7 year old Crazy Legs Zombie decided it would be fun to make YouTube videos about Minecraft.  It was the kids way of tricking dad into letting them play Minecraft for an unlimited amount of time each day.  Their plan was simple:  play the game as they taught dad all about Minecraft.  However, dad had different ideas for his kids.

To start the “PLAN” and to set dad up, Crazy Legs Zombie challenged Insane Ninja Zombie to a friendly game of Egg Wars in the Cubecraft server.  Within seconds, it was obvious that dad would need some serious Minecraft tutorials to learn how to play this game.  He was absolutely no help to his multiplayer team member, didn't know what the object of the game was, and last but not least, lost the game to his 7 year old son in a matter of seconds.

The kids sensed something that day that would change the way gaming was played in the Zombie household.  Hating to lose, they knew Insane Ninja Zombie would become more determined than ever to learn Minecraft so he could one day, play on other servers like Mineplex, and beat 7 year old Crazy Legs Zombie.  They just had to magically, and secretly, entice their dad into wanting to learn Minecraft and someday “WIN.”  There was a little insult here (Dad, can you believe a 7 year old beat you?), a little insult there (You sure didn’t last long?  We thought you could do better!) . . . two kids had begun to play cat and mouse with their dad.  The war had begun. . . . kind of.  Did the kids actually outsmart old Insane Ninja Zombie? Not so fast. 

In the past, Insane Ninja Zombie realized the amount of time his own kids spent watching new Minecraft videos instead of interacting with their mom and dad. As a teacher, Insane Ninja Zombie knew the benefits of kids playing video games as well as the enjoyment students get from learning the technological side of Social Media like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram.  That's not saying unlimited gaming is beneficial, but a regular daily routine playing specific games is a good idea.    

Insane Ninja Zombie understood the benefits of his own kids being part of a family friendly YouTube channel that would have no bad words and focused on fun.  It was also an opportunity for Insane Ninja Zombie to test the educational benefits that Minecraft had to offer. Could this game be used to help teach concepts like goal setting, problem solving, role playing, just to name a few?  With a little thinking, planning, and playing, Insane Ninja Zombie came to realize the higher levels of learning that are incorporated into a single Minecraft game played by people of all ages.  It was the curriculum he taught his students in Grade 5 all the time.  Believe it or not, Minecraft basics and gaming taught the cognitive skills that teachers set as learning objectives throughout their entire career.  Every teacher knows about Bloom’s Taxonomy and Minecraft seemed to be a good fit.

Bloom's Taxonomy is a model used to classify learning objectives into domains that focus on cognitive (knowledge), affective (emotional), and psychomotor (movement) development.  Kids playing Minecraft are learning how to remember, understand, and apply during their play.  More importantly, the higher levels of cognitive development like analyzing, evaluating, and creating, are the very basics of Minecraft.  If you don't do these things, and do them well, you will not be good at the game of Minecraft.  Kids are good at Minecraft, some extremely good.  As adults, we just don’t know enough about Minecraft.  The kids aren’t going to say, “Hey mom, I just developed plans for a new building in my head and then applied those plans into a complex creation that looks exactly like the building that is down the street in our neighborhood” or “I had to analyze 15 different possible outcomes for the decisions I was about to make while trying to survive while reviewing my complete inventory as I followed the map to the extension of the world that I made last week.”  Did you know your kid was even capable of this, never mind doing it on a regular basis?  Here’s the trick and the challenge.  How can we transfer these Minecraft game skills into everyday skills that can be used throughout the lifelong learning of these gamers?

At the age of 7, Crazy Legs Zombie destroyed me in seconds and hung me out to dry.  Why?  His knowledge of the game is good but his ability to analyze, evaluate, and create are much better than I was ever expecting.  His brain has been trained.  How do I know?  Try playing a game of Tic Stac Toe (3D game of X’s and O’s) with him.  He will beat you in minutes.  His cousins, one a PhD biologist that lectures around the world, and the other, a civil engineer, are routinely at the losing end of his Tic Stac Toe play.  It was once a joke to lose to a 7 year old, now, it’s become serious.

Check back as I continue to use Minecraft to teach students in my class and relate it to common curriculum.

My First Game of Minecraft

Have you ever wanted to learn Minecraft basics using videos?  I was challenged by my 7 year old son to a game of Minecraft Egg Wars on the Cubecraft server and he beat me very easily.  That made me more determined than ever to learn how to play Minecraft.