This is the presentation for my keynote at Virtual World Best Practise in Education, Friday, 26 July 2013. At this occasion I was able to announce for the first time that we received EU funding. A mere 7% of all of the proposals were approved. CAMELOT stands for 'CreAting Machinima Empowers Live Online language Teaching and learning', due to start in December 2013. Over a period of 2 years 9 project partners will develop machinimas for language learners and develop a teacher training course on how to create machinima.

1. and the Mists of

2. let‘s talk online started as live online language school
EU funded LANCELOT, 23 EU partners to develop a
teacher-training course for language teaching in
virtual classrooms
Training center LANCELOT School GmbH
EU funded AVALON 26 EU partners to explore Second
Life for language learning
Virtual Round Table Web Conference
EduNation Islands, 30 residents incl. 6 Universities
DaFWEBKON (for teachers of German)
SLanguages Annual Symposium
let‘s talk online sprl registered in Brussels
EU funded CAMELOT
2003 Jan
2005 Sept
2007 Sept
2008 Jan
2009 Nov
2010 Dec
2011 May
2013 Dec

3. CreAting Machinima
Empowers
Live Online language
Teaching
and learning
(2013-2015)

4. Project Consortium
• University of Central Lancashire UClan, Dr. Michael Thomas BA
(Hons) M.Ed. MBA Ph.D. FHEA, UK (Project Coordinator), UK
• Istanbul University, TR
• University of Western Bohemia,CZ
• Polish ADL Partnership lab of National Defense University,PL
• ICC The International Language Association, DE
• let’s talk online sprl, BE
• LinguaTV, DE
• EduActive, PL
• TELL Consult, NL

5. • Language learning in authentic virtual environments /
Authentic Learning
• 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
Workpackages

6. • Autonomy of teachers and learners
• Lean productions
• Need for digital material, especially moving
pictures
• LIVE VIDEO
Benefits

7. What is machinima?
The use of real-time computer
graphics rendering engines to create a
cinematic production

8. MachinEVO 2012/2013

9. 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

10. Expert advisor
Gromit Mayo, Executive Producer

11. Expert advisor
Charlie Navarathna, Video producer

12. Pooky Media, Draxtor Despres, Fluffee

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

14. MachinEVO AWARD Ceremony

15. 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“

16. Winner of 6 MachinEVO 2013 Awards
Carol Rainbow‘s „Dogs, cats and now
even horse idioms“
•Best Director
•Best Visual Effects
•Best Machinima as a Whole
•Best Language Learning Video
•Best Best Film Editing
•People‘s Choice Award
„Creative vocabulary visualizing“

17. Winner of 4 MachinEVO Awards
Jens Nerido‘s Group
„Moon (International)“
„A truly
inspiring
intercultural
and
collaborative
video“

18. Winner of 4 MachinEVO Awards
Christel Schneider
„Why Second Life“
„A unique and
informative
blend of
RL + SL
Interviews “

19. Winner of 2 MachinEVO Awards
Pat and Otti
„Heart
warming
story
telling“

20. Winner of 2 MachinEVO Awards
RosaVioletta‘ Italian Group
„Stunning
Fellini
Production“

21. Winner of 2 MachinEVO Awards
Hotel Check-in in China
„Language
learning at
its best“

22. Winner of 2 MachinEVO Awards
„Te Toca“
„Spanish
Video
Tapas“

23. Opan Languagelab
http://youtu.be/Yige6CiOKbw

24. The mists of
Access to Virtual and Action
Learning Live Online
(2009-2010)
www.avalonlearning.eu

25. • University of Manchester, UK
• University of Vienna, AT
• Talkademy, AT
• Verein Grenzenlos, AT
• ICC Europe International, DE
• LANCELOT School GmbH, DE
• The British Council, ES
• University of Pisa, IT
• Molde University College, NO
• Mid Sweden University, SE

26. LANguage Learning with
CErtified Live Online
Teachers
(2005-2007)
www.lancelot.at

27. The Gartner Hype Cycle

28. The Gartner Hypecycle
Peak of Inflated Expectations

29. The Gartner Hypecycle
Peak of Inflated Expectations
Trough of Disillusionment

30. The Gartner Hypecycle
Peak of Inflated Expectations
Trough of Disillusionment
Slope of Englightenment

31. The Gartner Hypecycle
Peak of Inflated Expectations
Trough of Disillusionment
Slope of Englightenment
Plateau of Productivity

32. 7th SLanguage Annual Symposium
27-29
September 2013
EduNation in
Second Life

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