A popular staple of the annual NMC conference, "Five Minutes of Fame" offers NMC members a chance to showcase selected projects. At the 2003 conference, Sonic Foundry encoded the Five Minutes of Fame presentations as "mini-webcasts" of about 5 minutes each, using their Mediasite Live platform to capture and encode the sessions on the fly.

These webcasts are optimized for a PC running Windows XP, but can also be viewed on Macintosh computers with the appropriate software installed. In either case, you will need the Windows Media Player and Internet Explorer to view these webcasts.

The URLs for for each mini-webcast follows the descriptions below :

A Victorian Treasure House: Adventures in Cyberland
Treasures found in this 3rd year mixed-mode (hybrid) course include literature, visual representation, music, social and cultural history and their interconnection, all served up through dynamically generated content, using e.g. Flash presentation objects and standards based XML manifests, a re-usable dynamic timeline and audio/video resources manageable with an online WYSIWYG editor. Warren Scott, University of British Columbia
http://mslive.sonicfoundry.com/fame1

Art and Technology Highlights
We will present a video with highlights of this year’s art-technology student projects at the Hopkins Digital Media Center including: -“Landscapes”, an Internet2 collaboration with the UMBC New Media Center blending dance, poetry, video, and sound; “Coming to Life”, a lap-top soloist manipulates projected animations in real time during a performance of Beethoven’s Third Symphony; and “Maniakil”, a streamed text-to-speech interaction between an animated mannequin and unaware bystanders. Joan Freedman, Johns Hopkins University
http://digitalmedia.jhu.edu/Gallery/Gallery.cfm
http://mslive.sonicfoundry.com/fame2

UMBC New Media Studio: A Center for Interdisciplinary Collaboration
UMBC’s New Media Studio serves as a collaborative environment, bringing together faculty from various disciplines to work on technology-intensive projects. UMBC's participation in Internet2 allows faculty working with the Studio to explore broadband video as a medium for working with colleagues world-wide. This presentation will highlight a few such projects including the streaming umbrella group. SUG is made up of faculty, staff, and students from the UMBC departments of Visual Arts, Dance, and Music. Bill Shewbridge, UMBC
http://www.umbc.edu/studio
http://mslive.sonicfoundry.com/fame3

Developing Learning Objects for Reusability in Flash MX
A developer and instructional multimedia consultant, the presenter has been developing customizable learning objects for faculty that are easily replicated and customized for their own uses. Working from a definition of learning object that emphasizes reusability, attendees will learn how the object-oriented nature of Flash MX makes it possible for developers to make a variety of tools available to people with only rudimentary knowledge of Flash that allow them to add interactive elements to their course Websites. Examples will be shown that are currently stored on the Merlot repository. Kurtis Scaletta, University of Minnesota
http://dmc.umn.edu/objects
http://mslive.sonicfoundry.com/fame4

Maricopa Learning eXchange
The Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX) is an electronic warehouse of ideas, examples, and resources (represented as "packages") that support student learning at the Maricopa Community Colleges. Alan Levine, Maricopa Community Colleges
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/mlx/index.php http://mslive.sonicfoundry.com/fame5

Masters of Gravity: Soap Box Derby CD-ROM
This CD-Rom will be used to teach math and science to 5-6 grade students using the Soap Box Derby as a vehicle. CD-Rom will consist of interactive exercises, teacher resources, WWW resources, video interviews and Soap Box Derby history videos. David B Cunningham, Kevin Glavin, Brian Yuhnke, Kent State University http://mslive.sonicfoundry.com/fame6

Pharm*Sim
Pharm*Sim is a new pharmacology simulation which allows learners to experiment with various patients, conditions, drug regimens, and compliance levels and see the effects on infection levels in the blood.
Lou Zweier, California State University Center for Distributed Learning http://mslive.sonicfoundry.com/fame7

Ten Years of the NMC: The Bennington College CD-ROM Viewbook, In Retrospect
The first large-scale project that the Bennington College NMC embarked upon after its founding was the creation of a CD-ROM viewbook, to be sent to applicants to the college. Join us as we recall the project itself, its results, and a "where are they now" for the students who participated in the project. Ruben R. Pentedura, Bennington College
http://nmc.bennington.edu/faculty/rpuentedura/five_minutes_2003/ http://mslive.sonicfoundry.com/fame8

Virtual Health Professions Advisor
The Virtual Health Professions Advisor sprang from a grant funded project, and includes a website and videoconferencing components.
Sherry Andrews, Medical College of Ohio
http://www.virtualadvisor.org
http://mslive.sonicfoundry.com/fame9

VR Panoramas and Objects on Handhelds
QuickTime VR is one of the most exciting forms of New Media that exists today. VR Panoramas offer 360 degree (cylindrical or cubic) views of a place while VR Objects allows you to study an object from all sides. Regretfully, there currently is no QuickTime VR viewer for handhelds. This presentation will demonstrate a Flash workaround that will allows viewers to get effectively the same experience with a handheld device.
Jared Bendis, Case Western Reserve University
http://vr.cwru.edu/qtvr.html
http://mslive.sonicfoundry.com/fame10

Many thanks to Sonic Foundry for sponsoring the streaming of these sessions. Follow this link to learn more about the MediaSite Live platform used to capture and encode these sessions.