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 video
2. What‘s the EVO in MachinEVO?
Teachers of English to Speakers of Others Languages
TESOL Convention 28-31 March 2012 Philadelphia, USA
www.tesolconvention.org
3. • 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
4. 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
5. Film viewing „My Avatar and Me“
having met Film Director Bente Milton and Camera Man
Rob Gould inworld
6. What a team effort!
7 moderators
10 group leaders
4 expert advisors
7. 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
13. Winner of 6 MachinEVO Awards
Wynshel 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“
14. Winner of 4 MachinEVO Awards
Jens Nerido‘s Group
„Moon (International)“
„A truly inspiring
intercultural and
collaborative
video“
15. Winner of 2 MachinEVO Awards
RosaVioletta‘ Italian Group
„Stunning
Fellini
Production“
16. Winner of 1 MachinEVO Awards
Alfonso Pfefferle‘s Spanish Group
„What a
heartwarming
Spanish
welcome“
17. Winner of 1 MachinEVO Award
Barbara Novelli‘s Group
„The untimely death of Peter Profit“
„Gripping,
challenging
breath-
taking“
18. Winner of 0 MachinEVO Awards
Karelia Kondor‘s French videos
„French
Charme“
19. Winner of 0 MachinEVO Awards
Livestreaming Group