machinevo presentation at vwbpe 2012
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Presentation at Virtual World Best Practices in Education Conference 2012 www.vwbpe.org. MachinEVO was a 5-week workshop in Second Life on how to produce videoTRANSCRIPT
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best practices in educationConference 2012
What‘s the EVO in MachinEVO?
Teachers of English to Speakers of Others LanguagesTESOL Convention 28-31 March 2012 Philadelphia, USA
www.tesolconvention.org
• EVO is attended by about 2000 language educator• 5 week online workshop•MachinEVO = 1 of 14 sessions• run by 7 moderators• aimed at language educators only• Second Life experience required
... we expected about 20 sign-ups
128 (!) registered on the NING site, 71 of whom we saw inworld and during the 5 week workshop...
• they wrote 44 blogs• posted 120 photos• uploaded or shared 86 videos• 221 forum posts• produced 17 (!) machinimas
Film viewing „My Avatar and Me“having met Film Director Bente Milton and Camera Man Rob Gould inworld
What a team effort!
7 moderators10 group leaders4 expert advisors
10 Groups
•MAC group•Spanish group•Italian group•International MOON group•Barbara‘s CRIME group •French group•Livestreaming group•Travel group•German group•Giovanni‘s group
Expert advisor Languagelab.com
Expert advisor Gromit Mayo, Executive Producer
Expert advisor Howdy Colter, treet.tv
Expert advisor Charlie Navarathna, Video producer
MachinEVO AWARD Ceremony
Winner of 6 MachinEVO AwardsWynshel Heir „If I could fly...“
•Best Video•Best Art Direction•Best Digital Story Telling•Best Machinimatography•Best Soundtrack•Best Second Life Animation
„A linguistic masterpiece“
Winner of 4 MachinEVO AwardsJens Nerido‘s Group
„Moon (International)“
„A truly inspiring
intercultural and
collaborative video“
Winner of 2 MachinEVO AwardsRosaVioletta‘ Italian Group
„StunningFellini
Production“
Winner of 1 MachinEVO AwardsAlfonso Pfefferle‘s Spanish Group
„What a heartwarming
Spanish welcome“
Winner of 1 MachinEVO AwardBarbara Novelli‘s Group
„The untimely death of Peter Profit“
„Gripping, challenging
breath-taking“
Winner of 0 MachinEVO AwardsKarelia Kondor‘s French videos
„French Charme“
Winner of 0 MachinEVO AwardsLivestreaming Group
let‘s talk online Heike Philp @heikephilp