Posted: November 6, 2015
Last Spring, students at Harcourt School
received a Skype call from Mark Cheverton. He is the author of the Minecraft
Series books. You can find out more about his books at http://markcheverton.com/
That afternoon students at Harcourt
listened and talked to Mr. Cheverton. He addressed different issues including
cyberbullying. Students also took turns asking Mr. Cheverton questions about
his books, his Minecraft servers, etc.
Since then, Principal Kevin Scully
has been in contact with Mr. Cheverton. Mr. Cheverton has sent us signed copies
of his books with a personal message to Harcourt School. He has sent us bookmarks, autographed
posters and lesson plans for the teacher to use to make best use of his
books. He has also allowed one of our students to join his personal server to
play Minecraft with Mr. Cheverton and his son Gameknight999, which is the main
character of his books.
There are children from all around
the world that Mr. Cheverton invites to play on his personal server, where
he teaches the value of building on Minecraft and not destroying the work of others. Mr.
Cheverton is an advocate for cyber safety and requires the parents of the
children with whom he invited to play on his personal server, to contact him directly for permission for to join the
activities.
He is interested in expanding his
contacts with other elementary schools in Anglophone North. For more information about this please contact Kevin Scully.