Making a movie in Second Life - 2 views

• 
  #1 Leslie Thompson on 29 Apr 10

   

  Global Kids Online Leadership Program offers students from all over the opportunity to connect with each other to participate in various projects. This part of their site http://www.olpglobalkids.org/virtual_worlds/ was very interesting to me because it showed an example of a movie on human trafficing produced in Second Life. Every year in the 9th Grade Computer Literacy class I assign a movie project. Although the students enjoy the assignment and some of the films are pretty impressive, we are always limited by the technology available to us in terms of cameras and sound equipment. It occurs to me that giving students the opportunity to make a movie in SL might allow them to overcome the limits of the technology in the expression of their sophisticated ideas. They will still be learning about storyboarding, scripting, and plot development, but they won't have to worry about how to get a bird's eye view shot in a locale unavailable in Saudi Arabia! This movie would be a great exemplar to show them.

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Global Kids Online Leadership Program offers students from all over the opportunity to connect with each other to participate in various projects. This part of their site <a href="http://www.olpglobalkids.org/virtual_worlds/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.olpglobalkids.org/virtual_worlds/</a> was very interesting to me because it showed an example of a movie on human trafficing produced in Second Life. Every year in the 9th Grade Computer Literacy class I assign a movie project. Although the students enjoy the assignment and some of the films are pretty impressive, we are always limited by the technology available to us in terms of cameras and sound equipment. It occurs to me that giving students the opportunity to make a movie in SL might allow them to overcome the limits of the technology in the expression of their sophisticated ideas. They will still be learning about storyboarding, scripting, and plot development, but they won't have to worry about how to get a bird's eye view shot in a locale unavailable in Saudi Arabia! This movie would be a great exemplar to show them.</div>

  ...

  Cancel

To Top