CINEMA TIME!

Week 1 

CINEMA TIME!

Creating machinima is really exciting, and last year when we did MachinEVO the first time, we got soooo excited about it that 17 beautiful machinimas were produced.  Hence, we proudly present the productions of last year's machinimas during the first week of MachinEVO 2013.

Let's meet, let's watch, and let's talk about what we would like to do and how to collaborate.

MachinEVO Kick-off:  Sunday 13 January 2013, 7pm GMT / 11am SLT

Storyboarding and Roleplay
 

Week 2 

Storyboarding and Roleplay

During this week we will learn the poesie and humour of emoting, how to use gestures and animations, how to provide culturally rich backdrops/sets, and how to build scripts and storyboards.

Basic Filming and Editing

Week 3 

 
Basic Filming and Editing

Here we will double-check our progress on last week's tasks and ease into some of the technical aspects of film production with exercises using still photos and live footage.

Advanced Filming and Editing

Week 4     

Advanced Filming and Editing

Now we will build on the basics we have been exploring by working on more advanced editing, including lip synching narration if necessary and cutting or lengthening clips.

Final Editing and Uploading and Film Festival

Week 5  

Final Editing & Uploading and Film Festival

Any editing issues that have come up will be resolved, file sizes will be reduced, and finished products will be uploaded to online video platforms.  Then at the end of the week, there will be a film festival where we will invite others in SL to watch the video productions with us in a cinema type setting.

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

Carol Rainbow [Carolrb Roux] holds a B phil Ed (hons) and has taught in the UK for many years but is now an ICT Consultant for Oxfordshire LA working with teachers to make sure ICT plays a key role in enhancing pupil education in Oxfordshire schools. Her main interests currently are using Second Life as a teaching platform and e-safety.    

Dennis Newson, M.A. (Cantab), P.D.E.S.L (Leeds), taught EFL in Africa, Arabia, Norway, and Germany in middle schools, secondary schools, teacher training colleges, a technical university, and an arts university. He was consultant for short periods in Bosnia and Kosovo, and conferences have taken him to Poland, Hungary, Las Palmas, Russia, and England. He has developed his interest in SL since his alleged retirement.

In Second Life he is known as Osnacantab Nesterov.

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 of Sciences in Education, specializing in curriculum and instruction. Her doctoral research was based on the use of Web 2.0 tools as multiliterate agents in EFL classes at  the university level. She holds a masters degree in Educational Informatics.

Heike Philp:  Heike Philp is CEO of Let's Talk Online, a language teacher training center in new media, and co-initiator of both the EU-funded LANCELOT (virtual classroom) and AVALON (virtual world) projects and founder of the Virtual Round Table Conference.

Marisa Constantinides [Marisolde Orellana] is a teacher educator/trainer from Athens, Greece. She runs CELT Athens, a centre offering a variety of TEFL training programmes, from TEFL and CELTA certificates to Cambridge DELTA courses. She also is a moderator/co-founder of the ELTon nominated #ELTChat full of resources.

Barbara McQueen (aka Barbara Novelli in SL):
Barbara McQueen has decades of experience mentoring fellow teachers one-on-one, through in-services, as an ESL teacher trainer for Oxford Seminars, and as a conference presenter for TESOL and the VWBPE.   She is currently developing and delivering online ESL courses that make use of situational role-playing, games, mysteries, and machinimas, and has won multiple machinima awards, most notably the 2012 MachinEVO award for Best Second Life Animation and the ISTE Awards for Best Film by College Students and Best Acting.  For examples of her work, go to: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL02C042E023737F19&feature=mh_lolz .

Shelwyn Corrigan (aka Wynshel Heir/English Easily) has a Master's in Linguistics, a Master's in Digital Media & Learning, and certification in Multimedia Studies. She has worked in digital design since 1994. In addition, she has taught ESL and EFL in Europe and South America and at universities in California and New York. Her interests are in teaching pronunciation, academic oral skills, and the integration of new media in the classroom. She is working on machinima development for language learners and teachers. She is a media consultant and web designer and has taught ESL at the University of San Francisco (USF) since 2001. She also works in Second Life as a teacher in English City. Shelwyn teaches graduate courses in the Digital Media and Learning Program and is currently devoting most of her time to course development for the new online MA TESOL Program at USF. (For informal sandbox/working file samples: 

https://www.youtube.com/user/englisheasily?feature=mhee)

Jens Kjaer Olsen aka Jens Nerido (SL) - I am a Danish Teacher  (Bachelor's of Education and B.Ed./ICT-adviser).

I have been in the teaching profession for more than 20 years.

Currently  I work as an ICT Consultant, WEB-Portal Editor, ESL Teacher, and Filmmaking Teacher.

In 2011 I took part in the EU-Avatar project and experienced virtual teaching in SL for the first time - wow! 

Here is a link to the handouts from my presentation in Burgas in Bulgaria in 2011 - Case study: "Learning English as a Foreign Language in SL". After the Avatar project  I stayed on in SL networking at EduNation.  I transferred my love for filmmaking in RL to machinima making in SL!