 anyone ever created their own machinima for language teaching I mean some of you said they had but others okay so Greta such it only made a display right no idea or not working for me so I have no clue how the stream this is going to work somebody wrote not for language but this place I had created in second life and in real life home that's so far the responses my avatar comes to my real life home hi nice okay so we actually assumed that not everybody had actually is familiar with or has used machinima so we summarized the essentials of what machinima is and why film in virtual worlds on this slide here so machinima is a technique for making videos or films from 3d worlds or 3d virtual spaces using screen capture programs and video editing software and in machinima the virtual world its inhabitants and all their actions are captured on film machinima allow people to document their activities and experiences in virtual worlds so why teach in 3d worlds I've often found that people in the real world have no idea what teaching in virtual worlds would be like what the benefit what what kind of benefits it has compared to real life teaching and how virtual worlds can enhance real life teaching I therefore devoted my first machinima I ever created which was earlier this year to the subject matter why teach in 3d worlds this machinima combines real life footage an interview with gehilde meisel Eckert who is also presenting at this conference here on Skype and then interviews and discussions in world as well as little teaching scenarios in a boutique buying clothes and selling so let's just watch the machinima bearing in mind how this machinima could help to promote teaching in virtual worlds and I see that Carol has just posted the link in the chat and please have a look in your browser put it in your browser and have a look at the film it's about 11 minutes long so the question we would like to ask now is would you agree on the advantages of learning in virtual worlds highlighted by gehilde Carol and others or anything you would like to add to the statements as quite a bad background humming I don't know if you can hear it if the sound is okay at your ends it's not too bad for me okay so Alina absolutely agrees and greater obviously reacts to the sound which is fine but do you agree also to watch gehilde Carol and others said I mean you didn't hear you have no chance to hear Carol's voice but you could hear it in the chat you can now ah then it's you with a big humming sound in the background okay okay switch switch me off then it's okay now it's okay now suppose it's it's better now yeah so the second question Carol would you like to read it would you agree with gehilde and that the virtual environment should be standard in in real life classes and if so why you're if not why not in the web this is what Alfonso says so if I understand Alfonso correctly he thinks that it should be used on the web and okay I did them I did paste it once but let me paste it again so it's what you agree with gehilde that virtual environment should be standard in real life in the real life class and why or why not you are hearing from the web page you haven't finished watching it is that right there's a bit of delay okay have you got the question okay greater scribe says virtual world experience is great for language learning and April James says I think many instructors use video but for some reason might be uncomfortable with machinima and why would they be uncomfortable with machinima James could you explore that a little okay James says especially making it okay and great says I speak French also for example I love participating to haiku poetry writing oh that's lovely hmm and also second life reinforced my learning Italian said greater okay okay anything else so I guess we could move on you made lots of friends yeah that sounds great greater right I think Carol we should skip we should finish that part now and skip the next the next video with and go on you know the vex next video actually was one and you could always still look it up it was it's never too late to learn something new and this was a promotional video 90 90 seconds video that was part created for a competition at TechSoup 2013 digital storytelling and it's even one on a what yeah and it was created to encourage especially older people or people with disabilities who are not able to go to places or travel around and are bound to stay in the home to you know to to get involved in virtual worlds and maybe learn a language or visit other places in world and meet people to talk to like Retta just said you know you make lots of friends and in virtual worlds your avatar does not show unless you wish to do so age or impairments and I think the video captures some basic ideas of machinima and virtual worlds but we don't need to watch it right now you can do it at your leisure the next part what has become very and very interesting important part of our machinima productions Carol and my machinima production that was that we have developed a great selection of machinima for language learning of which we will share a few samples in a minute we categorize the machinima we produced under specific genres I hope I didn't mispronounce it this time perfect the first one is informative yeah it took me a long time but Carol is a good teacher so the first one is informative like the one we show you why teach in 3D worlds then narratives we heard this mentioned in the previous presentation so storytelling and humor including riddles and jokes he is specifically created for children then grammar is always a popular important point dealing with specific areas like phrasal verbs or present tense and idioms and others and Carol has produced a whole set of idioms like cat idioms dog idioms horse idioms and others of which we will share the dog idioms with you then the other one is instructions like how to get started with second life and so on we haven't included sample of this but there are resources where you can find them and yeah and then role plays such as the shopping you saw in the first video and a few others that we will show you later and documentaries which would include a recording of the session for example yeah of course we will not be able to share all the examples of our productions but you'll find good good overview of the rainbow Schneider productions on the CSI train website if you are interested thank you Carol or under the YouTube channels under Carol rainbow or crystal Schneider and you also find a collection of German videos that can be viewed on my German website now it's been said elsewhere how important characters avatars is and of course specifically when you create machinima depending on the roles and avatars required for different scenarios you choose your avatar accordingly the little boy with a bottle of juice and the sandwich was used for a circus scene waiting outside to get in and then in another role in the circus juggling with balls and riding a one-wheel bike as the slide shows you can also animate made your avatar so that you can give somebody a piggyback or change your avatar according to the place period or requirements if you wish to visit Berlin in the 20s you can only enter it if you wear appropriate clothing so of that period you can see that in the picture on the bottom right okay so the picture on the top right is a funny one that was taken in Paris of 1900 and a funny addition in this scene is the dog which is animated to pee against a lamppost it looks pretty realistic when you are in world and the picture in the middle with it yeah the picture in the middle with a doughnut seeds was taken at a friend's house where we tried out different avatars to set up a new scene and one can be seen in the background it's actually Carol playing a fairy okay yeah any any comment so far everything clear so far okay okay so meeting an old friend I mean here you this is a typical sample for the choice of characters that can be found in the following sketch where Carol and I used the avatars shown on the slide and the sketch is about two old ladies who meet in the library thinking they know each other exchanging private details only to find out in the end that they actually have never met so when you watch this video you don't have to watch the whole video but when you watch it bear in mind for which level you would use such a video and it would be suitable and which language functions could be practiced with the sketches with a sketch before or after okay so this is a link and I will add the questions yeah I'll do it I've got them here you will do it thank you Carol so for which level would such videos be suitable and which language functions should be practiced with a sketch before or after so I think we could stop it here watching this video because I think you have a general idea right so the question Carol posted for which level would such video be suitable do you think I mean it can be transferred into any language we have produced in German could be done in French Spanish Chinese I suppose are you still with us they're watching the film okay they too yes I agree Alfonso intermediate gosh you could use it with intermediate but it probably is a little bit easy for intermediate students I would think so what about a to level be one level I mean if you look at it they are very very simple questions that it's all simple questions and about what you do what your job is who your husband is yes sorry I was just going to say I might use it for be one students that were lacking in confidence because it should be easy enough for them to cope with fairly easily and so it should build confidence so yes there's a confidence builder for more advanced students but I think it's ideally placed at a to isn't it I totally agree mm-hmm okay and the language functions any ideas Carol you're always full of brilliant ideas functions somebody must know the language functions how to we've got greetings yes greetings asking questions socializing we've got past tense haven't we lots of past tense work in there yeah and the past of be the past tense of be yeah yeah okay happy with that okay then shall we move on move on yes so we found that learning grammar can be motivating and enjoyable when shown in a film and in context and in this previous film it was asking questions and the use of simple past with a verb to be phrasal verbs always seem a bit tricky to translate into another language and so we started with phrasal with a phrasal verb run where we put different meanings of the phrasal verb into context and created little scenarios like with the verb run we we could start with Carol could you you have already put it in there thank you so we have a look at how funny phrasal verbs can be but just at the beginning don't please don't look at the whole film and call everybody back okay okay you got an idea about it we also as I said produced a video with the phrasal verb get and then produced another one with a story I think that was the most important thing we learned wasn't it that the phrasal verbs were not as good on their own as when we put them into a story context so I lost I lost voice have you got voice I think so can you hear me yes I'm here okay okay great I can hear you okay cool okay so very good this is a survival strategy has worked well so it's a whole whole thing of Sara's life from morning to night and the students really the feedback we got from students was that they liked the verbs and context best because they could follow this whole story and you know they were not episodes and they learned the phrasal verbs just on the way and there's a lot of activities that can follow such such a film in the classroom okay any any questions no okay so this was the grammar part and then there is the fun part we had great fun in producing riddles and jokes for children and created four videos and four short jokes each let's just share this one and look the four four first ones okay the question is when and where you show the videos great I just asked two students just watch videos or also you engage them for in world experience I mean there are many possibilities to use them the students might first watch a scene and then play the same scene themselves and I think we have a very good example of that one which I think Carol if you don't mind we could switch over to because of time management reasons what do you think the role play at the airport okay I can post that now yes this is one that term we used for for students to actually create yes this was actually created at the last conference of virtual world's best practice in education and there we created an airport scene have you got this airport scene Carol yeah it's there yes that's the one it's very short so you can have a look at the full airport scene there that's like 13 okay so it's very short and I've come to the conclusion to produce more and more such short videos because students usually feel very inspired so what we did then was we had students listen to the whole big luggage to the whole scene or not listen we showed it with speech bubbles the next step would then be to have the students perform and then make a new machinima of what the students sentences where okay shall we read the second part so that yeah no problem okay so in this scenario is a checking in and we had two passengers and an airline steward so I'll start by reading the stewards part good morning ladies may I see your tickets please somebody has disappeared can you hear me Carol I can I can hear you let's see anyway if Carol cannot hear me it's the scenario is that the steward says hello ladies how can I help you and the passengers says hello we would like to buy tickets and we hope that you can help us so where would you like to travel to somewhere where this is a nice beach and sunshine would you prefer Asia or European country Europe would be better yeah okay what about Greece where they have lovely beaches and good wine ah yeah that sounds good so when do you want to travel today okay we have seats left on a flight leaving at 6 p.m. would you like to take them yeah that would be great I mean this is fantastic and that that was a real-life class students from Carol's class so I think that was really good okay another way of using machinima is very powerful in giving students the opportunity to keep evidence of their creations or activities in a role play and provide food for thought and discussion afterwards let's see are you there can anyone hear me yes I can hear you but I can't hear lady okay oh wow okay well here's a film that this is crystal this is lettuce German class and they all did a video and crystal let he responded to the students telling them what they'd done well and what they hadn't done so well and talked about how things could be improved it's the avatar she's back the positive effect is that through machinima students can monitor their avatar progress and hence their own taken from my virtual online court so the steps are no letter oh dear and can you show the film Carol and can you go on this is a bit distracting if people can hear you I'm talking about the five steps and then show the film okay are you okay Carol okay yes the five steps everybody the steps as follows so step one students receive a note card with a scenario and different roles and they familiarize themselves with the roles they can either learn the rules by heart or they can read the text out loud whichever is best for them the second step is students perform and their performance is recorded so in this bit this is a typical language lesson isn't it role play in a class the recording though is edited and let he usually integrates the dialogues in speech bubbles afterwards as you can see in the video and then add some explanations about new words and a correction of intonation at the end of the video the step four is the analysis of students performance by students so peer assessment and step five possibly a new recording of the scene with different roles to reinforce the learning and then the video is here so that you can actually watch it and while you're watching it think about these two questions how do you think students in a real-life classroom with benefit from machinima performed by non-native speakers and in which way could machinima produced by students serve as a model in your classroom okay so Lear writes she thinks it's a good idea because it reinforces the activity and learning and she likes the feedback via chat bubbles and the peer assessment so they could identify and correct mistakes James Abraham says until ear says the students created content rich and vibrant points out natural behavior and reinforces learning adds humor to the experience perfect points wonderful and yet says no native speakers it gives them a way to listen to others that's an interesting point Jens mm-hmm that's actually that's a very very important one in my job because I teach mostly airline pilots or air traffic controllers and very often their word perfect in English but very often they can't understand each other because of Vietnamese air traffic controller might be speaking to a Spanish pilot a Spanish pilot might be speaking to a Chinese medical person if they need some support and by the time you've got the interplay with very very strong accents and different cultural ways of speaking for example when the Vietnamese leave off all the endings of words it's very very hard to understand the English so I find my students understand me perfectly because I'm a native speaker and if I'm teaching I speak very slowly and clearly not gobbling like I am now but they do have real problems understanding each other yeah that's a good point also it gives away of of here it's a community thinking yeah and I think we have kind of run out of time time yes but it doesn't matter because you can always come back to the films on our YouTube channels and on our website so we hope to have given you some ideas and would like to share a last question or with you what what you think would be or was missing or what you love to have as an extra a category which we haven't covered in the list of machinima to be produced so you and say students love making real life films and here in virtual environments gives them a new media they are less shy I find in in virtual environments than they often are in real life at least when you work with adults it also gives them the the environment doesn't it you book into a hotel but you go to a real hotel and book in in a virtual world of course or you go to an L you fly an airplane in a virtual world or you go to a restaurant and order food go to the bar and buy a drink I mean it gives you the situation the environment and Lear posted a very interesting question and she asked the for activity and content or for technology use for making producing machinima I mean neither Carol or I would say that we are experts in making machinima from the technical side there are others much better I reckon for my machinimas than we are but or I am but I think for us it's the most important is the content the fun and the teaching bit yes yes definitely that's the big thing isn't it it's not the person making mistakes or doing silly things it's it's an avatar yes Lear writes here separation of self and freedom of expression that is absolutely right and that's what's so empowering right you do need a little technology you do need something like perhaps Camtasia or Windows Movie Maker something that'll them well perhaps or Jing or one of the screencast programs that'll take the video and then a bit of editing software like Camtasia or Windows Movie Maker but there's lots of things that are free loads of things that are free yes of course Jens that's right we should use all technical techniques and technical resources that are possible and that are free but that don't kill or overwhelm people they are just a tool to make something work yes that's in Camtasia but you can also do that oops spot it wrong sorry about that another another very good thing in Camtasia's which could you just put the link in Carol that's the last link people could have a look at if they want to that is that people can that you can put quizzes in and that is fantastic I think that's a real fantastic thing that is quizzes that's a quiz yes yeah that's on screencast it does not upload to YouTube you have to use the Camtasia screencast with it but I think it's a fantastic tool and you can learn German yeah if you want to that was the dog idioms that we were going to look at and then we were doing the narrative and the owl and the pussycat it just take a copy of them folks and then we were going to look at materials teaching resources that we'd made to go with just ah you can put questions on top of YouTube in the quiz format James is that or is that just literally a question and then this has feedback the questions and answers that you get a list of feedbacks in there and can you do that on YouTube as well we'll investigate we will investigate that one thank you very much thank you James thank you okay I think our time is up isn't that time is well and truly up we've run over it's almost time for the next presentation so we had better clothes and thank you for a great audience you were wonderful bearing with all day so much sorry about our yes no sound too much sound double sound echoed sound sorry about all days yes thank you living Carol thank you very much for their presentation I just remind our audience here you can see what's coming up in the conference schedule at conference dot open simulator dot org so in this room the next session won't be until 12 30 streaming and content creation for the 3d environment which I mean Scarborough thank you again to our speakers and the audience we've been out taking a break for lunch followed by the afternoon keynote speakers thank you I'm taking a break to tip my dogs a walk okay shall we meet again later on after the base