NMC Podcasts

Reflections on the Horizon.au Project Meeting

Alan Levine — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:37:07 -0700

After a full day of brainstorming and discussion to generate the first short list of topics for the first Horizon.au report, participants gathered at the University of Melbourne for an evening reception. We took the opportunity to ask several participants what they thought were highlights of the day, which you can hear in this podcast.

We also hade made a version of this as an enhanced podcast with pictures of the participants who spoke to us - you can watch/listen in iTune:
http://media.nmc.org/2008/07/horizon-au-reflections.m4a

Horizon.au in Photos

Alan Levine — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:37:22 -0700

As a sample of the activity for the July 10-11, 2008 Horizon.au meeting in Melbourne, Australia, here is a short video slide show of pictures from the meeting combined with an ambient mix of the discussions.

At this meeting, 37 gathered members of the Horizon.au advisory board met and processed the initial list of topics to be included in this new report, and distilled the voting down to a soon to be announced short list of 12 items to be contenders for the final report.

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Look for more pictures tagged hzau08 in flickr.

Invitation to NMC 2009- Come to Monterey

Alan Levine — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:35:26 -0700

As tradition, the closing of one NMC Summer conference ends with an invitation to the next!

From the stage of Alexander Hall at Princeton, John Ittelson and Arlene Krebs from CSU Monterey Bay provided a video overview and glorious sunset embossed invitation to entice people to come west in 2009 for the next NMC Summer Conference.

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What Would Herman Melville Say to Soulja Boy?: Remix Culture and the New Media

Alan Levine — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:25:55 -0700

Closing Keynote, 2008 NMC Summer Conference, Princeton University
Henry Jenkins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

New media technologies make it easy for us to circulate, appropriate, transform, and recirculate media content on an unprecedented scale. It is part of the mythology of MIT that young people learn to become engineers by taking apart household gadgets and putting them back together again. Can we say the same thing about contemporary artists and humanists — that they learn by breaking down and remixing elements of their own culture? We falsify the creative process when we teach young people that great art comes from single and isolated intellects rather than emerging from the creative engagement with and appropriation from older cultural traditions.

In this presentation, Jenkins will address the ways that contemporary remix culture — whether embodied in music, You Tube videos, or fan fiction — forces us to reconsider older forms of cultural appropriation. Drawing on materials being developed by MIT’s Project NML, this presentation will explore the concept of “new media literacies” and explain why we see appropriation as a core cultural competency for the 21st century. Jenkins will explore how this concept might shake up how we teach traditional literary texts like Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, how we respond to contemporary youth culture, and how we talk to young people about the ethical dimensions of their relationship to media content.

Presentation available as:

Sonic Foundry Mediasite video and slides (available through July 30, 2008)
Mediasite archive on nmc web (Windows only)
Quicktime video on nmc web (129 Mb Mb, 1:04:11)
MP3 audio on nmc web (58.8 Mb, 1:04:11)

Where Do We Go? - Lennon Bus Video

Alan Levine — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:31:10 -0700

The John Lennon Bus was special feature at the 2008 NMC Summer Conference, where conference participants had opportunities to tour the bus and even get their own 15 minute session to record a sound loop. A special one day workship was made available for conference participants who signed up on our wiki; 7 participants were chosen to spend a full day experience where they recorded a song and created a video.

At the closing session, everyone at the conference got to see the video Where do We Go created by the group known as the "Digital Philosophers"

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The Digital Philosophers include:

Neil Gomes (vocals)
Nita Paul (vocals)
Grover Saunders (drums)
Susan Fou (keyboard)
Andy Curran (guitar)
Jay Field (guitar)
Randy J. Malta (bass)

If you like the video, it is also available in ipod format (25.3 Mb .m4v, 2:38)

NMC@15

Alan Levine — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:56:12 -0700

In celebration of the 15th anniversary of the NMC, we asked our members to share via flickr a collection of creative photos that somehow represented the number 15 and we also solicited their photos of NMC memories. Combining these with ones from the NMC's own vast archive, we commissioned this video that was shared at the opening of the conference.

The soundtrack was from the performance of NMC members who participate in the Rock Hall Jam at the 2006 NMC Summer Conference in Cleveland-- sit back and enjoy the show!

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NMC 2008 Five Minutes of Fame

Alan Levine — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:50:39 -0700

Five Minutes of Fame is a trademarked event allowing NMC academic members to show off their latest new media projects. At every Five Minutes of Fame demonstration, selected New Media Centers are given five minutes each to highlight innovations of all sorts, from multimedia and web-based projects, to course modules and newly invented or adapted tools, to student portfolios and collaborations with off-campus groups. In each fast-paced session, you’ll see numerous examples of the exciting work your NMC colleagues are doing.

Presenters this year included:

Dancing in The Virtual World
Information Design: Web Based Mineral Identification Using QTVR and the Petrographic Microscope
Just a Blog? I Don’t Think So!
Multimedia Against All Odds
Reading First – Enriching Online Training
Scholarship 3.0: Collaborative Digital Compilations
The Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk)
Vietnam Remembered: A Lecture/Lab Course
Weigle Information Commons
What WE Can Do with the Wii

Archive available (contains both Centers of Excellence and Five Minutes if Fame) as:

* Sonic Foundry Mediasite video and slides (available through July 30, 2008)
* Mediasite archive on nmc web (Windows only)

2008 Centers of Excellence Awards

Alan Levine — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:42:39 -0700

The NMC Center of Excellence Award distinguishes NMC member institutions that have demonstrated an exceptional record of success in the integration of technology with teaching, learning, or creative expression. The success of the institution is evidenced by the quality of faculty or student work that is in some way connected to the efforts of the institution; by the effectiveness of the institution in advancing the integration of technology with teaching, learning or creative expression; by the impact of this work on students and learning within the institution; or by its influence on practitioners across the academy.

Recognized at the 2008 NMC Summer Conference were:

University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) New Media Studio
Rochester Institute of Technology, RIT Online Learning

Archive available (contains both Centers of Excellence and Five Minutes if Fame) as:

* Sonic Foundry Mediasite video and slides (available through July 30, 2008)
* Mediasite archive on nmc web (Windows only)

RIT 2008 NMC Center of Excellence Video

Alan Levine — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:28:48 -0700

RIT Online Learning at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) was recognized at the 2008 NMC Summer conference with a Center of Excellence Award. RIT was recognized for their support of emerging technologies, faculty innovation, and online learning

RIT produced this video shown at the conference that demonstrates just some of the reasons they have earned this award.

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UMBC 2008 NMC Center of Excellence Video

Alan Levine — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:23:09 -0700

The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) New Media Studio was recognized at the 2008 NMC Summer conference with a Center of Excellence Award. UMBC was recognized for their leadership in capturing and disseminating digital stories across their communities.

UMBC produced this video shown at the conference that demonstrates just some of the reasons they have earned this award.

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