MachinEVO in Second Life Kicks off today

[Marisa Constantinides]

 TESOL's Electronic Village Online (EVO) 2012 has already started 

 Here is the summary but you can read more about it on the MachiEVO Course wiki: http://machinevo.pbworks.com/w/page/47494320/MachinEVO

MachinEVO  Video Productions of Language Learning Conversations   Sponsored by TESOL VDMIS and EFL IS

Randall Sadler Doris Molero  Heike Philp Edith Paillat Marius Madrigal Dennis Newson Carol Rainbow Marisa Constantinides

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 Berlin of the 20s 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.