Presentation for Lingue nella Rette course of the Italian University Online per la scuola che cambia nei corsi perfezionamenti. http://www.iuline.it/ambiente/index.php?pag=info_iul&cms_id=72&id_corso=9&f_1=9&f_2=9_72&f_3=0 *************************************** List of links *************************************** Language Schools in Second Life http://www.languagelab.com http://call-slingua.blogspot.de/ http://institutoespanolsecondlife.blogspot.de/2012_04_01_archive.html http://www.facebook.com/CibolaUofA http://teleportnovela.blogspot.com http://avalon-project.ning.com/profiles/blogs/chinese-island-tour http://www.monash.edu *************************************** Other virtual worlds Google Earth (runs in browser) MMORGs Massively multiplayer online role-playing game Minecraft http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume15/ej60/ej60m1/ World of Warcraft http://www.worldofwarcraft.com ************************************** Steve Thorne (research on the use of language in World of Warcraft - keynote at IATEFL Glasgow online) http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2012/sessions/2012-03-22/plenary-session-steven-l-thorne ************************************** MachinEVO (free 5-week workshop on how to create machinima 14 Jan 2013 - 13 Feb 2013) http://machinevo.pbworks.com http://machinevo.ning.com

1. How to learn a
language in a
virtual world

2. 2003 Jan let‘s talk online started as Germany‘s first live online
language school
2005 Sept EU funded LANCELOT, 23 EU partners (2005-2007)
2006 Mar Training center LANCELOT School GmbH
2007 Sept
EU funded AVALON, 26 EU partners (2009-2010)
2009 Nov 1st Virtual Round Table Web Conference
2010 Sept EduNation Islands, community in Second Life
1st SLanguages Annual Symposium
2012 May 1st DaFWEBKON (for teachers of German)
let‘s talk online sprl registered in Brussels
2012
EU funded CAMELOT (proposal)

3. English

4. Spanish
Cibola in SL

5. Learn Italian
Italian

6. Deutsch

7. Monash University, Australia
Chinese

8. Monash University, Australia
Arabic

9. Deutsc
h

10. English

11. MMORG Minecraft
4,5 Mill sold
copies, 20
Mill users

12. World of Warcraft
10 Mill
subscribers

13. Steven L. Thorne
http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2012/sessions/2012-03-22/plenary-session-steven-l-thorne

14. Slanguages Annual Symposium

15. MachinEVO 2012

16. What is machinima?
Machinima is the use of real-time 3D computer
graphics rendering engines to create a cinematic
production.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machinima

17. youtube.com/machinima

18. Machinima Mashup

19. What‘s the EVO in MachinEVO?
Teachers of English to Speakers of Others Languages
TESOL Convention 20-23 March 2013 Dallas, Texas, USA
www.tesolconvention.org

20. MachinEVO Wiki

21. Expert advisor
Gromit Mayo, Executive Producer

22. Expert advisor
Languagelab.com

23. Expert advisor
Howdy Colter, treet.tv

24. Expert advisor
Charlie Navarathna, Video producer

25. Film viewing „My Avatar and Me“
having met Film Director Bente Milton and Camera Man
Rob Gould inworld

26. CreAting Machinima Equips
Live Online Teachers
• University of Central Lancashire UClan, Dr. Michael Thomas BA
(Hons) M.Ed. MBA Ph.D. FHEA, UK (Project Coordinator)
• Istanbul University, Tuncer Can Phd, TR
• University of Western Bohemia, Mgr. Jana Čepičková, M.A., CZ
• ICC The International Language Association, Elleanor Haase, DE
• let’s talk online sprl, Heike Philp, BE
• LinguaTV, Philip Gienandt, DE
• Languagelab, Shiv Rajendran, UK
• EduActive, Mateusz Czepielewski, Poland
• TELL Consult, Ton Koenraad, NL
• (Pending) Dublin City University

27. Workpackages
• Language learning in authentic virtual environments /
Authentic Learning (Real-time Video)
• 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

28. User generated content
http://youtu.be/Yige6CiOKbw

29. let‘s talk online sprl
Brussels
CEO Heike Philp
Twitter @heikephilp
heike.philp@letstalkonline.com