OSCC13 - Heike Philp - CAMELOT and the Mists of AVALON
Channel: AvaCon Inc
Date: 29/09/2013

Moving pictures, sound and stories are the most powerful way of communicating learning content, and CAMELOT (an EU funded project proposal) takes up the challenge of video as a new language of learning and purposes to train and equip language teachers to produce visually appealing authentic conversations. In this presentation, Heike Philp, co-initiator of EU-funded LANCELOT, AVALON and CAMELOT projects illustrates how language teaching and learning meets new challenges in virtual environments and how language educators mastering those challenges are empowered to create machinima.

About the Speaker:  Heike Philp, is CEO of let's talk online sprl, which is a live online technology provider specialised in the field of language learning in real-time in virtual classrooms and virtual worlds.  She is the co-initiator of EU funded LANCELOT, AVALON and CAMELOT and runs her own online conference and co-owns EduNation island in Second Life.

About the OpenSimulator Community Conference 2013:  The OpenSimulator Community Conference is an annual conference that focuses on the community around the OpenSimulator software.  The conference features two days of presentations, workshops, keynote sessions, and social events across diverse sectors of the OpenSimulator user base.  Organized as a joint production by the Overte Foundation and AvaCon, Inc., the first annual conference was hosted on an OpenSimulator grid specifically designed for the conference, and had 369 attendees.  

For more information see http://conference.opensimulator.org.