camelot and the mists of avalon
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This is the presentation for my keynote at Virtual World Best Practise in Education, Friday, 26 July 2013. At this occasion I was able to announce for the first time that we received EU funding. A mere 7% of all of the proposals were approved. CAMELOT stands for 'CreAting Machinima Empowers Live Online language Teaching and learning', due to start in December 2013. Over a period of 2 years 9 project partners will develop machinimas for language learners and develop a teacher training course on how to create machinima.TRANSCRIPT
and the Mists of
let‘s talk online started as live online language school
EU funded LANCELOT, 23 EU partners to develop a teacher-training course for language teaching in virtual classrooms
Training center LANCELOT School GmbH
EU funded AVALON 26 EU partners to explore Second Life for language learning
Virtual Round Table Web Conference
EduNation Islands, 30 residents incl. 6 Universities
DaFWEBKON (for teachers of German)
SLanguages Annual Symposium
let‘s talk online sprl registered in Brussels
EU funded CAMELOT
2003 Jan
2005 Sept
2007 Sept
2008 Jan
2009 Nov
2010 Dec
2011 May
2013 Dec
CreAting Machinima Empowers Live Online language Teaching and learning(2013-2015)
Project Consortium• University of Central Lancashire UClan, Dr. Michael
Thomas BA (Hons) M.Ed. MBA Ph.D. FHEA, UK (Project Coordinator), UK
• Istanbul University, TR• University of Western Bohemia,CZ• Polish ADL Partnership lab of National Defense
University,PL• ICC The International Language Association, DE• let’s talk online sprl, BE• LinguaTV, DE • EduActive, PL• TELL Consult, NL
• Language learning in authentic virtual environments / Authentic Learning
• Machinima production in virtual environments• Social Media/ Youtube Community Building• User generated content• Teacher training course• Pilot test of teacher training course• Evaluation, Dissemination, Exploitation,
Project management
Workpackages
• Autonomy of teachers and learners• Lean productions• Need for digital material, especially moving pictures• LIVE VIDEO
Benefits
What is machinima?
The use of real-time computer graphics rendering engines to create a cinematic production
MachinEVO 2012/2013
What‘s the EVO in MachinEVO?
Teachers of English to Speakers of Others LanguagesTESOL Convention 20-23 March 2013 Dallas, Texas, USA
www.tesolconvention.org
Expert advisor Gromit Mayo, Executive Producer
Expert advisor Charlie Navarathna, Video producer
Pooky Media, Draxtor Despres, Fluffee
Film viewing „My Avatar and Me“having met Film Director Bente Milton and Camera Man Rob Gould inworld
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 6 MachinEVO 2013 AwardsCarol Rainbow‘s „Dogs, cats and now even horse idioms“
•Best Director•Best Visual Effects•Best Machinima as a Whole•Best Language Learning Video•Best Best Film Editing•People‘s Choice Award
„Creative vocabulary visualizing“
Winner of 4 MachinEVO AwardsJens Nerido‘s Group
„Moon (International)“
„A truly inspiring
intercultural and
collaborative video“
Winner of 4 MachinEVO AwardsChristel Schneider „Why Second Life“
„A unique and
informativeblend of RL + SL
Interviews “
Winner of 2 MachinEVO AwardsPat and Otti
„Heart warming
storytelling“
Winner of 2 MachinEVO AwardsRosaVioletta‘ Italian Group
„StunningFellini
Production“
Winner of 2 MachinEVO AwardsHotel Check-in in China
„Languagelearning atits best“
Winner of 2 MachinEVO Awards„Te Toca“
„Spanish Video Tapas“
Opan Languagelabhttp://youtu.be/Yige6CiOKbw
The mists of
Access to Virtual and Action Learning Live Online (2009-2010)
www.avalonlearning.eu
• University of Manchester, UK• University of Vienna, AT• Talkademy, AT• Verein Grenzenlos, AT• ICC Europe International, DE• LANCELOT School GmbH, DE• The British Council, ES• University of Pisa, IT• Molde University College, NO • Mid Sweden University, SE
LANguage Learning with CErtified Live Online Teachers (2005-2007)
www.lancelot.at
The Gartner Hype Cycle
The Gartner Hypecycle
Peak of Inflated Expectations
The Gartner Hypecycle
Peak of Inflated Expectations
Trough of Disillusionment
The Gartner Hypecycle
Peak of Inflated Expectations
Trough of Disillusionment
Slope of Englightenment
The Gartner Hypecycle
Peak of Inflated Expectations
Trough of Disillusionment
Slope of Englightenment
Plateau of Productivity
7th SLanguage Annual Symposium
27-29 September
2013
EduNation in Second Life