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Machinima for Learning
Using games (e.g., The Sims 2, World of Warcraft) and virtual environments (e.g. Second Life) to create animated movies. The course covers machinima as a tool for self-expression for middle and high school students, as a method for creating short instructional cartoons, and as a way to prototype a video production. Software purchase required.
Meets 4/12 & 4/26 Schedule
# 10765.
Overview
This course is designed to be practical, current, interesting, empowering and thought-provoking. It is built around active participation and collaboration. When we're done, you'll have created an educational machinima and developed insights that will enable you to design additional films appropriate to your work.
Audience
This course is targeted at teachers at the K-12 and college levels as well as others involved in the training of adults. Some prior experience with Second Life and basic video editing is assumed.
Learning Outcomes
In this course you will learn how to
- Describe the origins of machinima and the tools used to create it;
- Analyze machinima and explain the design decisions required to use the medium effectively;
- Choose an appropriate educational application of machinima;
- Script and produce a short machinima film.
Resources
A growing list of course-related links is available and will be maintained after the course is over.
Course Outline
Session 1: April 12, 2008
- Overview & Introductions
- What is Machinima?
- Exercise 1: Exploring Machinima
- Discussion: Lessons Learned
- Discussion: Educational Uses
- Exercise 2: A 30-second film
- Team and project selection
- celtx for screenplays: Download | Manual | Features
- celtx Project Central (to study other scripts)
Weeks-In-Between
- Explore links on the resources page
- Post your project proposal to the course wiki
- Work on your script
Session 2: April 26, 2008
- Production session
- Post-production work
- Showcase
