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MachinEVO2012

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MachinEVO

Video productions of language learning conversations

 

 

 

Proposal 

 

 

Abstract

 

MachinEVO is all about producing films of language learning conversations undertaken in Second Life. A film of Second Life (SL) is called a machinima and it is derived from a combination of machine and cinema. Essentially it means recording the screen of the application Second Life.

A major advantage of creating films in Second Life is that they are lean productions and these recordings of real live conversations go way beyond creating podcasts, because the avatarians may be located in culturally rich environments such as the Berlin of the 20s sim or 1900 Paris and they may be able to personify actors who live a life in SL.

In this EVO session we will learn how to create machinimas and the technical skills of film productions as well as post-production until the video has been uploaded onto youtube or other video hosting sites.

Furthermore, the pedagogical aspects of creating language learning resources for the learners will be explored and we will learn how to create conversations within the context of situated learning, use emoting and body language and add culturally rich environments to the learning content. Wherever possible we will use digital story telling to connect several videos to what would be called a tele(port)novela.

 

Target Audience

This session is aimed at experienced language educators, language course designers and webheads. Experience in Second Life is a pre-requisite.

 

Interest Section Sponsors

TESOL CALL IS , TESOL Video and Digital Multimedia IS and TESOL EFL IS


 

Syllabus 

 

Weekly Outline

By the end of this session you should:

  • Understand basic film production techniques
  • Be able to design and create short machinimas of people conversing in the target language.
  • Be able to edit and upload the video clips onto video hosting sites, such as youtube,vimeo and others.
  • Use emoting, gestures, animations and culturally rich context to create videos for language learning
  • Learn digital story telling techniques to connect several videos together in a tele(port)novela setting.

 

Week 1  (Jan 9 - 15, 2012)

 

  • Introductions to basic film productions technicques
  • Basics of learning how to design and record a machinima and how to create a digital storyline.

 

 

Week 2  (Jan 16 - 22, 2012)

 

During this week, participants will

  • how to create machinimas and this includes the basic skills of film productions such as camera angles, audio and the appropriate tools to do the recordings.
  • look at designing videos and determininig a digital storyline.

 

 

Week 3    (Jan 23 - Jan 29, 2012)

 

During this week, participants will

  • learn the poesie and humour of emoting used in roleplay,
  • learn how to use gestures and animations 
  • learn how to provide the backdrop with a culturally rich environment  so as to enrich the video production.

 

Week 4     (Jan 30- Feb 05, 2012)

 

The technical aspects will also include post-production. That means participants will

  • learn to edit the recordings, cut, lip synch with the audio (if needed), file size reduce them
  • learn how to upload them on any of the video platform available.

 

 

Week 5     (Feb 06 -12, 2012)

 

During the wrap up time, there will be a film festival when we invite other in SL to watch the video productions together in cinema type settings and as in real life.

There will be an award for the best film.

 

 


Join this session

 

Sign up for the session starts on Jan 2nd, 2012 .

 

The action starts on Jan 9, 2012.

 

To join this group:

 

From January 2 to 8:

 

  1. Go to: http://machinevo.ning.com 
  2. Request to join the Group
  3. Wait for approval 

 

 

 

Note:

When you register for the group, you will have to be approved by the moderator in order to reduce the possibility of "unwanted" members (such as spammers).

 

 

 


Moderators

 

 

 

 

Dr. Randall Sadler, Randall Sadler is associate professor at the Illinois University, head of the Virtual Worlds SIG of CALICO and book author on language learning in virtual worlds and telecollaboration. He is a TESOL member

 

Dr. Doris Molero [Pionia Destiny]

Dr. Doris Molero, aka Pionia Destiny is an EFL Professor from Rafael Belloso Chacin University (URBE) in Maracaibo, Venezuela. She is a doctor on Sciences of Education specializing in curriculum and instruction. Her doctoral research was based on the use of Web 2.0 tools as multiliterate agents in the EFL Class at university level. She holds a master degree on Educational Informatics.

 

 

 

 

Heike Philp,Heike Philp is CEO of let's talk online, a language teacher training center in new media and co-initiator both EU funded LANCELOT (virtual classroom) and AVALON (virtual world). Founder of the Virtual Round Table Conference.

 

 

 

Edith Paillat [Cyber Placebo]  is a Language Technology Specialist at Victoria University of Wellington. She provides CALL solutions and computer training sessions for in-service language lecturers and teaches a short introductory CALL course to pre-service teachers at secondary level.

 

 

 

 

 

Marius Madrigal is a French-German bilingual teacher based in Paris. Marius had been the conference reporter of 2010 and of 2011 and has lengthy experience on how to record interviews.


 

Communication Media

 

  • Second Life (experiece in SL is required).

 

  • Screen recording software such as fraps, Camtasia and others.

 

  • Video hosting sites such as youtube, vimeo and others

 

  • Animations, gestures, huds.

 


The Electronic Village Online is a project of TESOL's CALL Interest Section

 

 

Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, an international education association

 

 


 

 


 

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