NMC News
What's In the News?
Posted February 5th, 2007 by NMCHere you will find a wide array of regularly updated news on NMC projects, events, and initiatives. As we build this area out, we hope to include announcements and stories as well from our members.
NMC Asia Connections
Posted October 5th, 2008 by Alan LevineFor the last three weeks I have been touring in China, Hong Kong, and Japan, and taking advantage of my time here, took the opportunity to visit with some of our NMC colleagues in the region. The last leg of this trip was in Japan, when I visited with Tatsuya Umezakii with NMC Member Hitachi Information Academy.
The Hitachi Information Academy provides training and eLearning for Hitachi, which is an international organization with more than 300,000 employees. They make more than computer parts; I saw all kinds of mechanical devices in Japan with the Hitachi name, including things like escalators.
CFP Opens for Rock the Academy, the 12th in the Series of NMC Virtual Symposia
Posted September 16th, 2008 by NMCRock the Academy: Radical Teaching, Unbounded Learning
The 12th in the NMC Series of Virtual Symposia
November 4-6, 2008 via the Internet
Proposals for presentations for Rock the Academy: Radical Teaching, Unbounded Learning, a special 2-day, live online event to be held November 4-6, 2008, are being solicited through October 6.
NMC Awarded $955,000 National Leadership Grant from IMLS
Posted September 10th, 2008 by NMCThe New Media Consortium has been awarded a three-year National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) in the amount of $955,000. The grant will fund Steve in Action: Social Tagging Tools and Methods Applied, a project to further develop the Steve tagging application, a tool that simplifies the navigation of online museum collections by allowing viewers to tag an image with descriptive terms.
Webinar Software Used at NMC Organizations
Posted September 9th, 2008 by Alan LevineAs another example of gathering data from our NMCTAB listserv without an avalanche of emails, we recently set up another Google Form to collect information in response to a question from Cheryl Schaffer from Emerson College, who has asked:
I would like to get a general sense of what technology other schools are using for Webinars. I am seeing interest in this from Faculty and Staff and would like to offer some solutions to them.
Within four days almost 30 people had responded- see below for the results, but from these individuals reported institutional use of the following webinar technologies (quite a few places have multiple systems in place):
University of Texas Austin Invites You to Second Life for “An Evening With The Honorable Madeleine K. Albright”
Posted September 8th, 2008 by Alan Levine
The LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin will welcome former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright to help launch the School’s new Master of Global Policy Studies (MGPS) degree on Wednesday evening, September 10 at the Lyndon B. Johnson Library in Austin, Texas.
Invitation to visit University of Pacific in Second Life
Posted September 5th, 2008 by Alan LevineOne of the NMC Virtual Worlds projects this year was construction of the virtual campus for the University of the Pacific which included a mixture of replication of campus structures, such as Burns Tower, and creation of new spaces which only exist on the virtual campus.
Since the ribbons were cut May 7, 2008, faculty and staff at the University have been busy using the space and developing new applications for therr virtual learning space.
They are inviting you to learn more about their Second Life campus and how it has already been put to use in this new machinima video:
Ball State Digital Artists Showcased in Second Life on NMC’s Ars Simulacra
Posted August 21st, 2008 by Larry JohnsonImagine flying over a pyramid shaped boat as a variety of tones from the engine combine to create a melody. That is just what visitors will get when they interact with the new virtual art collection created by Ball State University faculty in Second Life.
John Fillwalk, Ball State associate professor of art, and director of the Institute for Digital Intermedia Arts and Animation (IDIAA), is the lead artist on a project that will be showcased in Second Life beginning Sunday, Aug. 24 2008, and run through September.
The NMC offered Fillwalk and the IDIAA the chance to transform an entire Second Life island with interactive virtual art. The collection, which will be up for a month, is part of a series of installations hosted by NMC throughout the year.
Announcing the NMC Jam Pack!
Posted August 20th, 2008 by Larry Johnson
As many of you know, as past of the NMC's 15th anniversary celebration going on all year, participants at the NMC 2008 Summer Conference had a special opportunity to visit the John Lennon Bus - a world class audio/video studio on wheels-- and spend 15 minutes laying down a lick, a groove, a vocal, or other gem that was then processed by bus staff as Apple Sound Loops. The loop files are designed to be used in audio editing software to mix and match in tracks to generate new songs.
The loops are now ready at http://www.nmc.org/jampack, and we're are issuing a call for musical compositions using them as part of NMC@15-- it's time to put your jam on!
Third Annual Pachyderm Conference - Registration is Now Open!
Posted August 8th, 2008 by Nancy ReevesRegistration is now open for the Third Annual Pachyderm Conference scheduled for September 22-24, 2008 in San Antonio, Texas!
