Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education 2018 conference starts on Thursday 15th March 2018 in Secondlife , where...

Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education 2018 conference starts on Thursday 15th March 2018 in Secondlife , where most of the sessions this year take place.. I would like to invite you to attend the conference or at least some of the sessions that may be of interest to you (there is a discussion session about Minecraft). Here is the Calendar where all the activities including pre and post conference ones are listed https://vwbpe.org/conference/vwbpe-calendar . If you've never been to Secondlife or have tried it once and found it a bit of a challenge on your own, I'm offering to help you get comfortable enough to be able to attend. While I'm in world very often these days, I suggest that you tell me when you'd like to have a session, which can also be a group session, so that I make sure I'm logged in and waiting for you at the right place. I'll add a post about the main steps you need to take to be ready to log into Secondlife.
https://vwbpe.org/conference/vwbpe-calendar

Jane and I are also "getting our ducks in a row" for an additional MC research project looking at vocabulary...

Jane and I are also "getting our ducks in a row" for an additional MC research project looking at vocabulary frequency in YouTube MC videos. Jane taught me the basic steps of how to get the transcripts and then how to plug them into the online frequency analysis app. Now we need to decided on which videos we should analyze.

Regarding the auto-transcriptions generated by YouTube, there are obvious errors in the transcription. But my feeling is that these errors should not significantly effect the outcome of the vocabulary analysis.

What do you think?

Baby steps being made with our MC research.

Baby steps being made with our MC research. Today I experimented with combining the three separate recordings into one .mov video using Quicktime 7 Pro so that they are all visible and play simultaneously.

The QT steps are simple, but getting the three recordings cropped so that they all start at exactly the same precise moment is difficult. I think I may have been a few frames off so I am getting some echoing. Or maybe it's a problem with the audio settings.

I was up at 5 this morning getting ready for work and had just started my second cup of coffee when I remembered...

I was up at 5 this morning getting ready for work and had just started my second cup of coffee when I remembered that I had been invited to a VSTE event in Minecraft by Kim Harrison, aka K4sons which had started about the time I was brushing my teeth (more on VSTE at http://vste.org/). So I popped by and caught her and EVOMC MOOCer Mary O'Brien (hope I tagged the right one, a.k.a. Maincakes :-) in an area far far away from any development, in a place where pigs could fly. We were in creative, so for me it was just a fly-by, but I took some snaps of what they were up to, and here they are :-)

I found my old file of how to use COCA and Lextutor that I created for my class.

I found my old file of how to use COCA and Lextutor that I created for my class. I used vocabulary profile on lextutor to do the analysis. I selected BNC-COCA25 for the analysis.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/v3lwm00er4dbnv3/corpus%202013%20December.pptx?dl=0

Don Carroll Here's how to get subtitles.

Don Carroll Here's how to get subtitles. 1. Click on the ellipsis to open transcript. 2. Then on the upper right corner of the transcript click on the vertical ellipsis to toggle timestamps. 3. Copy and scroll down and past it on word. Save it as .txt file. =)

So what do you all think of the language learning potential of these video of people doing "online commentary" as...

So what do you all think of the language learning potential of these video of people doing "online commentary" as they play Minecraft? They certainly put you squarely in the learner's seat when confronted by such materials.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz5mnohamv8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz5mnohamv8