2020 #VWEDU: #DTA: La Fiesta de los Muertos. A video made in a virtual world, with dancing skeletons. And how a DTA could use a video

La Fiesta de los Muertos.  
A video made in a virtual world, 
with dancing skeletons. 
And how a DTA could use a video. 

La Fiesta de los Muertos.  A celebration popular in the Spanish-speaking countries of the Americas. Reasonable content for a class in Spanish.  Such a video could have a voice over in Spanish.  A DTA could check comprehension by asking questions about the video

• Watch on YouTube
• A Nowak channel

Contents:

• NonPlayer Characters 
• Make videos in virtual worlds
• Virtual worlds for another language
• The DTA could work with a video like this.
• Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA)

• Update 7/2/2020 60 Days till Opensim Fest 2020 YouTube Channels CVL Education Network

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NonPlayer Characters

• How to make dancing cows and other tales of the NPCs
• Video capture with NPCs
• Pandora, an NPC learning lab. An NPC is a body double for an avatar
• NPCS and Holoscenes in OpenSim. Report from the HG Safari
• The Bird Cage, Mzfelicia, and the Boy Toys (NPCs)
• LetsDance - OpenSimulator NPCs and animations
• NPCs (Non-Player Characters): for video and stage productions. AMP notes
• The WIP show special, Fred Buckhusen tells about and demos his NPC controller
• Private dancer. Non-player Character (NPC) No avateers were used in this video

Virtual worlds for another language

• Learn English Network Academy: Kitely, Second Life. Free
• Language learning in virtual worlds. What the Digital Teaching Assistant could do
• Spanish Language Learning Island. Situated learning, immersive learning
• Language learning: What could a virtual (online) campus offer?
• Web-world use case: Conversational spoken English! Or any other language
• Putting language back into the language arts
• Escape to a New Way to Learn Spanish, invited post by James T. Abraham, Ph.D.
• EduNation: Virtual Worlds for language education
• Language learning in an immersive world. Maybe this is the way to do it.
• Language learning in the new century: Reports: a collection of efforts
• English as a second Language. Virtlantis and the holodeck
• The CAMELOT-GUINEVERE project: Learning language in virtual worlds
• English as a second Language: ESOL, EFLTreasure hunt. The game of learning!!
• Learn English Network Academy: Kitely, Second Life. Free

The DTA could work with a video like this

• It would give instruction with a voice-over narrative--in the target language.
• The way to measure comprehension is to ask questions about the content.  
• In the target language, of course.
• And you don't have to score right or wrong.  You can use a time score.  
• Skilled comprehension is fast. 
• If the objective is conversational fluency, there should be little delay in answering.
• Multiple choice questions should be adequate to motivate attention.
• And for formative assessment.
• Just-In-Time (JIT) learning in virtual schools, maybe with DTA coaching. Language as an example

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