EFL Professor in SL

  Roleplay, Emoting, and Fanfiction for Storytelling   The world has changed because of COVID and one of the most important changes is that more educators and students have started exploring different digital tools that allow them to keep on learning. One way to do this is to use immersive worlds, people can use avatars to socially interact in immersive settings for fun, work, or learning. Traditionally most people have used them to play games. Roleplaying in Avilion. Molero (2020) One of the most popular digital and creative linguistic practices in Virtual worlds like  Second Life  (Links to an external site.)  or  OpenSim  (Links to an external site.)  is Roleplaying. More than a game roleplaying is an excellent opportunity for students and educators to meet other people, belong to a community, learn about different cultures, and develop their digital literacy and English language skills. Role-playing and Emoting for Language learning in Virtual...

  Transmedia Storytelling was part of the UniVirtual Experience. A panel hosted by Amany Alkhayat and supported by  Heike Philp, Dr. Doris Molero, and Helena Galani had the opportunity to present to an audience in AltSpaceVR. Immersive Storytelling: from Virtual Worlds to Virtual Reality According to research, Virtual Reality is informed by the use of virtual worlds for education. We present the main challenges addressed and the outcomes produced during a five weeks workshop earlier this year with 8 moderators and 110 participant English teachers, an EVO session organized by TESOL International. The workshop "Immersive Storytelling In Virtual Worlds" focused on the skills, methods, and techniques required for promoting the use of VWs for Transmedia Storytelling in the new classroom and it touched upon the use, methods, and techniques of VR in storytelling . AltspaceVR is a platform that today the platform is considered a place for live virtual events. In addition to a wide va...

This world tour in OpenSim will showcase how you might use OpenSim for English language learning and immersive storytelling.

Storytelling is a wonderful means of getting our students excited. Recreating such a story in a virtual world would provide a great setting for roleplay and fanfiction. Yet, how difficult is it to recreate scenes of Alice in Wonderland, Harry Potter, or King Arthur and his Round Table in OpenSim? What about character creation? Changing avatar outfits, clothes and accessories? When creating the scene, what building skills are required, and when it comes to storytelling, what skills are required to come up with a captivating story? These main three challenges will be addressed in this EVO session and we hope to recreate a story in OpenSim. Dr. Randall Sadler; Heike Philp; Dennis Newson; Alicja Bomirska; Helena Galani; Dr. Doris Molero; Helen Myers; Amany Alkhayat