Some Machinimas Filmed in Second Life

This video is about exploring language instruction in Second Life  - it  can be found at my Youtube site http://www.youtube.com/user/bird6536/featured 

Here's a shorter video - this one is a quick remake of the story of The Gilgamesh Epic done as a Second Life narrative:

Kiski Presentation at SITE conference - Austin, Texas

 

              


                             In beautiful downtown Austin . . .

 Here's a link to the paper from the conference proceedings  http://www.editlib.org/p/39973

Virtual World's Paper Published

My paper titled The Risks and Rewards of Language Instruction in Virtual Worlds was recently published in "Selected Papers from the 22nd International Conference on Teaching and Learning"

Here's a link to the website:  http://www.teachlearn.org/22SelectedPapers.pdf

PRESENTATION AT VWBPE

This week I presented at the Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education conference, held at Machinima East of the conference center in Second Life.

I presented my paper "Language Instruction in Virtual Worlds: Literature and Praxis",

The talk went pretty well  -  as part of the presentation I also had showed our machinima from Dr. Partridge's Games and Simulations Class

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPW9wfLyhUM

This was well received by the group of roughly twenty educators/participants that attended...

Machinima of Second Life - An Animated Short Video

Here's a Fun video that shows off our historical learning Sim in Second Life:

http://inclinemedia.tv/comm    If you play it, allow time to fully load!



In case your looking for me as an actor, I look like this:

And ...

My Avatar's Done a Bunk!

My Avatar Escaped

In my last post I talked about the idea that when Virtual Worlds go into true 3-D, one presenter said "The Avatar will escape from the box!"  

Apparently, my avatar was listening, because the next day he became invisible - first all that was visible was some clothes, hair, and shoes.  As I tried to fix him, more of him disappeared, until sometimes he was completely invisible - other times just hair floating around, other times two eyeballs were swiveling about (creepy, no?)  Kind of a new twist on "the smile without the cat" as in Alice in Wonderland.

About four hours of fiddling with controls and looking at web pages for advice did no good.  This morning . . .

Slanguages 2010 Virtual Conference

SL LANGUAGES 2010:

Having written a short paper for partial completion of Dr. Partridge’  “Research River” project on the topic of language instruction in Virtual Worlds, I decided to do additional work exploring the topic.  One opportunity to find out more came about when an internet search produced a link to the SLanguages 2010 Second Life Conference being held Oct.15-17 2010.  With the encouragement of Dr. Lenze