NMC Events Archive

This event, the eleventh in the NMC Series of Online Symposia, will be held April 1 - 3, 2008 online.

The 2008 NMC Directors' Meeting will be held March 12 - 13. 2008, in Austin, Texas, and will include a NMC Business Meeting and focused discussions.

The Symposium will explore the premise that technology has not only mediated communication in countless ways, but that the very ways we communicate—and even the ways we talk and think about communication—are changing as a result. It will be held at the NMC Conference Center in Second Life. Online registration opens Nov. 6.

The 2007 NMC Regional Conference will be hosted by Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. Online registration opens the week of Oct 15.

Join us in Dallas, Texas for the second annual Pachyderm Conference.

This August, NMC will host a one-of-a-kind event: a week-long online symposium on the topic of creativity, held entirely inside the virtual world of Second Life.

The 2007 NMC Summer Conference will be held June 6-9, 2007, in Indianapolis, Indiana. This years host will be the School of Informatics at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis.

Video as we know it, produced by experts and consumed by viewers, is metamorphosing into a different genre altogether, blurring the lines between producers and audiences. New video-based forms of self-expression are emerging, with notable examples like video mashups, jumpcuts, and video blogging.  Nonlinear narratives abound in this format, in which stories unfold across a series of 1 to 3-minute clips and web viewers are drawn into mysteries such as the story of Lonelygirl15.  Brand-new forms like machinima are emerging that bridge virtual worlds, gaming, and storytelling, all through the medium of the small video.

The singular focus of this gathering is to consider how these developments are impacting our lives, and how they are affecting the ways we work, learn, collaborate, and even socialize.  The conference is designed to spark an examination that explores both the positive and negative aspects of this phenomenon on learning, social interaction, self-expression, and more.

Keynoters Henry Jenkins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Angela Thomas, University of Sydney, and Cynthia Calongne, Colorado Technical University, joined us for this 2-day examination of the convergence of web culture and video.

The 2007 NMC Directors' Meeting will be held March 7 - 8, 2007, in Denver, Colorado at the Grand Hyatt Denver Hotel. This year's meeting focused on discussions around three themes: an NMC Business Meeting; the 2007 Horizon Report; and the New Scholarship Initiative.

The first annual Pachyderm Users’ Conference was held Dec. 12-14, 2006, in Austin, Texas. This groundbreaking meeting brought together museum and campus leaders, trustees, and educators for a series of dialogs with Pachyderm authors, developers, members of the open source community, students, museum experts, and the Marcus Foundation Board to discuss the outreach and programmatic use of Pachyderm in museums and institutions of higher education. While examples from many disciplines were featured, a special emphasis was placed this year on examples from the arts and arts education.

Keynoters Peter Samis (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) and Holly Witchey (Cleveland Museum of Art) provided stimulating conversations on the impact of digital media in museums and higher education.

NMC Regional Conferences are one-of-a-kind events, each very much a reflection of the host institution. In fall 2006, the NMC came to Texas for a very special regional event that was held on the campus of Trinity University and hosted by the Center for Learning and Technology.

Befitting the rich traditions of Trinity and its sister institutions across the southwest, the conference brought together scholars & technologists from across the region to explore new ideas, discuss the issues which surround them, and share stories of successful efforts. Attendees stayed at an historic Spanish hotel located downtown on the famous River Walk, an area steeped in the traditions of Old San Antonio.

This online conference was informed by the MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning, a two-year project in which the NMC is helping to explore the impact of digital media on our lives in a variety of ways, and encouraging dialog among experts, visionaries, and thought leaders from around the globe. This unique event expanded that dialog beyond the project and reached out to an international audience.

The conference was designed to extend the examination of this phenomenon now underway among leading writers and researchers in the MacArthur-sponsored project to a broader audience, and further explore both the positive and negative aspects of technology on learning, social interaction, self-expression, and more.

Keynoters Howard Rheingold, author of Smart Mobs, among many other books and articles, and danah boyd, noted researcher and speaker on social networking, were present for this 2-day examination of the impact of digital media on all aspects of our daily lives.

The 2006 NMC Summer Conference was held June 7-10, 2006, in Cleveland, Ohio. Hosts were Case Western Reserve University, the Cleveland Institute of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

See the Conference Video!
This is the video of the 2006 NMC Summer Conference in Cleveland, that appears on the NMC Summer Conference DVD.

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At the leading edge of a wave that will last for the next several years and beyond, personal broadcasting, which uses informally produced personal audio and video content as a form of personal expression and as a means of information delivery, is rapidly expanding into academe as small, easy-to-use devices increasingly allow people to capture and share personal experiences, information, and events.

From podcasting to video blogging (vlogging), personal broadcasting has clearly begun to impact campuses and museum audiences significantly. With roots in text-based media (personal websites and blogs), personal broadcasting of audio and video material is a natural outgrowth of a popular trend made possible by increasingly more capable portable tools.

The 2006 NMC Directors' Meeting was held February 23 - 24, 2006, in Austin, Texas. This year, the event was at the Capitol Place Hotel (formerly Crowne Plaza). Our task was to conduct a business meeting, strengthen connections between NMC campus liaisons and institutions, spend time thinking about how to maximize the benefits of the NMC, and learn from each other. We focused our discussions Friday around three themes: Maximizing Campus Impact; the 2006 Horizon Report; and New Media Literacy and Learning.