<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/2024/1212-minecraft.php" dsn="blogs"><featured/><feature_title>Featured News</feature_title><title>Making Minecraft all their own</title><author>Angela Valden</author><author_email>info@skidmore.edu</author_email><pubDate>12/13/2024 01:15:08 PM</pubDate><display>display</display><description>Classics Professor Amy Oh uses the popular video game to help her students learn about ancient Romans through world-building.</description><category>News</category><image_listing><img src="/news/2024/images/1212-minecraft-thumbnail.jpg" alt="Students in the classics course The Romans in Their Environment"/></image_listing><image><img src="/news/2024/images/1212-minecraft-feature.jpg" alt="Assistant Professor of Classics Amy Oh teaches students in her course The Romans in Their Environment"/></image><caption>Assistant Professor of Classics Amy Oh discusses ancient Rome with students in her course The Romans in Their Environment before jumping into the video game Minecraft.</caption></item>