Anyone can follow a mooc on P2PU. Participating is the next level of engagement. The sign-up is a space where interested individuals can express their interest and background in the topic and commit to working with the rest of the participants. Please answer the following set(s) of questions if you want to become a participant or organizer.
Standard Set
This set of signup questions is common to all study groups, courses, ... in P2PU. The answers to these questions will be public once you get accepted.
- What made you interested in this topic?
- What do you hope to achieve by participating?
- Are you interested in helping with the mooc organization?
Public Custom Set
This set of signup questions is particular to this mooc. The answers to these questions will be public once you get accepted.
Have you ever been involved in the making of a Machinima? If so, please elaborate.
What is your favorite Machinima?
Please let us know your interest in Machinima.
Thank you!
Between Participants Custom Set
This set of signup questions is particular to this mooc. The answers to these questions will be visible to all participants once you get accepted.
Let's see wherever everyone is.
Have you ever used Machinima in your classroom or course? If so how?
Please let us know which worlds or MMORPGs you are in regularly?
What other worlds or MMORPGs have you explored?
Have you ever used Second Life for a meeting?
Have you ever used Google + for a meeting?
Answers
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Bio:
Profession
Information & Communications Technologies (ICT) professional since 1978
Consultant, Contractor, Solutions Architect
Second Life
Meta Starostin
https://my.secondlife.com/meta.starostin
Word of Warcraft
Vyurevlyk
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/khazgoroth/Vyurevlyk/simple
Location: Sydney, Australia
Standard Set Answer:
What made you interested in this topic?
Noticed a tweet from VWBPE announcing the Machinima Open Online Course and wish to combine Machinima skills with my existing audio production skills
What do you hope to achieve by participating?
To learn about Machinima production in virtual worlds and MMORPGs and exchanging ideas.
Are you interested in helping with the mooc organization?
Possible, depending on schedule
Have you ever been involved in the making of a Machinima? If so, please elaborate.
No
What is your favorite Machinima?
The movie Beowulf
MMO game trailers eg. EA Crysis 3: http://www.crysis.com/us/media/all/video
Public education videos about climate change, global warming and renewable energy
Tutorials
Please let us know your interest in Machinima.
Interested in 3D modeling and rendering
Modelled and rendered with Lightwave 3D http://www.flickr.com/photos/metamorphic2009/
Interested in beat mixing, sampling, midi editing and create mixes for DJ work.
I use a PhotoLife Studio 3 for Second Life photography
I dance and act at Moulin Rouge for Second Life, roleplay on a medieval sim and have no shortage of subjects and actors.
A short time ago evaluated
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ex-IT Consultant, Scientific Methodist, Nature Boy, Closet Misanthrope.
About Me
Poor Richard's Almanack 2010
Location: Undisclosed location near Huntsville Alabama USA
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What made you interested in this topic?
I have been interested in the use of virtual worlds and machinima for education since I realized that interactive virtual reality might be a very powerful educational and/or therapeutic tool.
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What do you hope to achieve by participating?
I hope to get some skills for creating machinima.
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Are you interested in helping with the mooc organization?
Perhaps In the future if I develop the appropriate skills.
> Have you ever been involved in the making of a Machinima?
No.
> What is your favorite Machinima?
I have seen several, but not recently enough to recall the details.
> Please let us know your interest in Machinima.
I want to understand the process of animating fictional characters to deliver educational demonstrations. I also want to understand the process for creating interactive role-playing scenarios. If I can't aquire enough of these skills myself, at least I can better understand how to organize such projects.
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Location:
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Participar de una plataforma de aprendizaje compartido y abierto.
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Location: malaysia
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new media manager at Mediafin, the publisher of the business newspapers De Tijd and L'Echo.
interested in virtual worlds, finance, philosophy, digital culture.
Location: Antwerp, Belgium
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I'd like to produce simple machinima-stuff, exploring whether I could use it to illustrate news stories.
I never was involved in making Machinima. I just like to genre, having watched it at Second Life gatherings.
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PhD in Educational Technology 2011
Topic: Digital educational game designed to promote scientific literacy.
Location: Alberta, Canada
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I have conducted research in virtual worlds and have captured video for research purposes but would also like to create Machinima to act as promotion for virtual environments and games that i create.
Learn more about software that can be used to create machinima, network with other designers/creators.
Not sure how I can help but will contribute if skills align with needs and I have time to do so.
No, I have not been involved in the making of machinima
N/A
As promotional tool for games I develop.
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I' writing a thesis on SL and higher education for the Universidad de Lima and i'm a member of grupo Avatar from the Pontifica Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP).
blog: http://hazlorealteletransportandonos.blogspot.com/
flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/zet667/
Location: Lima
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My thesis and i love visual art in general and now digital art !!
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Begin to do Machinimas, yayy!!
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After finish my thesis yes! Why not?
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No
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The Daughter of Gears (1st. version by Bryn Oh with Radiohead music)... i have many!!
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All about machinima, but the use in education is interesting!
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Wisdom d’Avi, is a Nome De Plume
Location: Caribbean
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1. I am following a link from a notice received about this course from the group Mamachinima in Second Life.
2. Learn the basics of MaChinima
3. Well I am interested in participating in anything educational, but to be honest don't have enough knowledge of mooc organization to aswer this question.
1. No I have never been involved in making a MaChinima.
2. I do not have a favorite, at this time this whole genre is new to me.
3. My interest in MaChinima is to learn more about it., and become skilled at it.
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Location: Lisbon
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What made you interested in this topic?
We never know all, after almost 6 years of Second Life and other platform experience and more than 4 years on Machinima production, yes I need even more.
What do you hope to achieve by participating?
Sharing some ideas and learn even more further.
Are you interested in helping with the mooc organization?
I would love but I have no time durring other emerging tasks in development.
What is your favorite Machinima?
Clockwork Machinima "The interface emerged in a embraced moment of dream Simulation, it was a reference to duo existence. The pointer was unexpected and lead me to engage in more in-depth inquires. And so, of course, my first stop was time itself and the machinime, the surreal computer talk, protocols etc. The Mechanics were pre-composed to add a new vision of the platform. A flood of provocative thinking." .
Machinima for me isn't at all only the real time capture, not even closer, neither flying cam videos.... Machinima in my vision can and it is more, it represents a numerous kinds of applications, from the advertising stream to the storytelling, documentary, Journalism(format), etc. Doing this kind of works request fom the producer more and more aknoledgment about "how to deal with..." many tools available to emerge into a deep and well done production. I've been teaching some classes on SL some weeks ago, in portuguese, my native language to increase more inspiration to the emergent new Machinima producers. The market need more "new faces" to become more and more competitive 
. Bringing in this way more and more relevant artworks.
My main goal, turn Machinima artistry so World Wide viral as the Gamming machinima (from the machinima.com @youtube). Is it possible? I really don't know, and I want to find that answer.
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I used to teach special education students until 3 years ago. I'm currently a graduate student in Instructional Technology.
Location: NYC
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I want to learn the how to create a good machinima.
I haven't done any machinima yet nor have been involved in creating one. My favorite machinima is
http://youtu.be/qOFU9oUF2HA
I wish there is an updated version of this machinima though.
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Location:
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I like creating machinima to communicate, play with images and sound. I like collaboration.
I made a short Machinima and have attended some Machinima classes in Second life. I attend Machinima Mondays sometimes
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EFL professor, passionated about learning and teaching. Edupunk at heart.
Location: Maracaibo, Zulia - Venezuela
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I love virtual worlds and have some theoric experience on how to produce a machinima.. i just need a better computer. But I love exchanging ideas. If I am of any help. I 'd love to offer it.
I have been involved in the MachinEVo sessions of the Tesol online village sessions and have taught some classes for the Universitat de Valencia in Spain. I'd would like to work with short stories for EFL students. I'd like to have my students create their own machinimas.
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I teach multimedia graphic design, so I know Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver and so on. I have some experience with modeling in 3D and building in Second Life. I am interested in continuing to learn more about various virtual worlds and technologies for education.
Location:
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What made you interested in this topic?
I'm a Multimedia instructor! Taking on more projects than feasible is something we do!
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What do you hope to achieve by participating?
I'd like to get a better idea of how other educators are using machinima in their classrooms.
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Are you interested in helping with the mooc organization?
I'm pretty sure I already am...if only a little. :D
Have you ever been involved in the making of a Machinima? If so, please elaborate.
Yes, I have. Mostly it was to help some of my most favorite educational people in Second Life, Center4edupunx!
What is your favorite Machinima?
I'm partial to several. My favorite in terms of humor is Leeroy Jenkins. I don't care if it was staged, it was still funny!
Please let us know your interest in Machinima.
I'm interested in integrating it more in my classroom.
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Im an e-Learning researcher in SL.
Location: Brazil
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making machinimas can help me to register my research in Second Life
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basic knowledge in machinima
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interested in helping with the mooc organization in a near future, now i cant
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Just some short ones using captivate
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Dont know enought to have a favourite
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I want to learn to create machinimas as learning objects
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Location: Second Life
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I just got my first position in IST and will be making web and other courses. Learning Machinima gives me a skill my co-workers don't have.
I have my hands full with the new job - sorry!
I was a model in a machinima once. I mostly watch Machinima that teach SL topics.
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I pursue Art/Music/Beauty/Education and have worn many guises chasing them: 70’s punk rock record store clerk; 80’s hairdresser on fire; 90’s stern German instructor; now an avid academic librarian whose heels click on academia’s echoing halls in both SL & RL.
Currently I am helping develop an SL private island for my university workplace and need all the help I can get!
Location: Western Maryland, USA
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I am interested in this topic, thanks to my participation in the 2012 VWBPE Conference and joining the VWBPE Group in SL with updates and notices!
By participating in this MOOC, I hope to advance the skills I need to fully function and develop content to engage students in SL at my university workplace's new private island!
As an active online educator since 2006, who teaches a course to hundreds of students worldwide each year at a not-for-profit online university, I see the real potential for MOOCs when it comes to ongoing, life-long learning, and want to help if I can!
I have experimented with Machinima in the last few months capturing the SL screen action using FRAPS, but I am still very wobbly and trying to perfect camera moves via keyboard! I have also played around with a few cheap video editors for output, using the free, effective, but very basic Windows Live Movie Maker in my PC environment, as well as the more advanced AVS Video Editor (which I don't like much - I may try CyberLink PowerDirector in the future or something better I have yet to learn about in this course!). I have uploaded Machinima output - once with an added music track - successfully to YouTube, Screencast, and Vimeo, but I wouldn't call it very artistic!
Most of my favorite Machinima releases seem to come from Pooky Amsterdam at PookyMedia! Pooky won a couple of Machinima awards at VWBPE 2012 in March, like for this video, but I was already a big fan. I want to emulate her by capturing an educational slice of life with a robust, well-planned storyboard in SL without getting too much into very abstract things or RP contexts.
There is so much more I want to learn about Machinima: My academic university workplace just invested in a private island, and as the island’s librarian, I want to offer interactive and visual media to engage students and users. I already know how to put URLs up on a screen, but this course may offer the icing on my Machinima cake!
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What made you interested in this topic?
I am interested in how to bring immersive worlds to a wider audience
What do you hope to achieve by participating?
Increase my machinima skills; learn best practices for machinima use in education
Are you interested in helping with the mooc organization
Interested but busy
Have you ever been involved in the making of a Machinima? If so, please elaborate.
I have created some very short, beginner level machinimas for use in presentations
What is your favorite Machinima?
N/A
Please let us know your interest in Machinima.
I am interested in the use of machinimas to bring immersive worlds to a wider audience
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ESL teacher/ Researcher @DCU.
Location: Dublin
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I am about to start a PhD which will focus mostly on using 3D MUVEs in language teaching. I am interested in learning how to make my own Machinima.
I have never been involved in the making of a Machinima but as mentioned above I am interested in learning to make one.
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I'm Director of Educational Technology, and an amateur naturalist.
Location: Newberg, OR
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I played an iPad machinema game, and I am interested in gaming in education.
I hope to learn how to make a basic machinema.
Depending on the time involved, yes.
No, I'm new to this.
So far, I am only familiar with the iPad game Machinema.
I am interested in the possibilities for machinemas in education.
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Greetings fellow lifelong learners.
At the University of Central Florida I serve as the Director of Course Development in the Center for Distributed Learning. I helped found Online@UCF and have seen the institution more than double in the 15 years I've been in my role.
I am also a doctoral student researching simulation games, virtual worlds, game-based and informal learning, and complex systems. My program is mostly online offered through Colorado Technical University in Computer Science, Emerging Media. My participation in virtual worlds originated with the New Media Consortium in 2006. In 2011, I was a participant in Gardner Campbell's New Media Faculty Development Seminar via Virginia Tech.
I also participate as I can in the US Army's Military Open Simulation Enterprise Strategy (MOSES) located in UCF's Research Park. UCF is very active in EDUCAUSE and the Sloan Consortium in the United States. UCF's Institute for Simulation and Training is often involved in research for advanced learning technologies.
Location: Orlando, Florida, USA
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Someday (when I finish my doctorate degree) I am going to be a director of machinima and I will have Gridjumper and the awesome folks at VWBPE to thank.
Since I will be lurking, perhaps I can make camio appearances :-)
I participated in the VWBPE MOOC that gave us a dazzling week of machinima orientation. We were left wanting More More More!
My favorite machinima is Watch the World http://youtu.be/vV1YbWBSXS8
Digital storytelling can be a universal language. I have so much to learn!
