Conference Program

2008 NMC Summer Conference - Final Program

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2008 NMC Summer Conference Program

The 2008 NMC Summer Conference offers attendees an extensive range of sessions and activities from which to choose, including keynote addresses from three outstanding speakers - Diana Oblinger, President, EDUCAUSE, Henry Jenkins, the Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program and the Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities and Wole Soboyejo, Director of the U.S./Africa Materials Institute, and the Director of the Undergraduate Research Program at The Princeton Institute of Science and Technology Materials; the annual Center of Excellence Awards; Five Minutes of Fame; Poster Sessions judged by peers; Preconference Workshops; and more than 80 informative sessions highlighting the innovative work of colleagues from around the world.

Immersive Studio Workshop

A special two-day extended-length Immersive Studio Workshop will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday, June 10 - 11 on Digital Stories from Comics to Film: A Hands-on Production Workshop by Ruben Puentedura, Hippasus. This workshop will provide attendees the chance to explore a topic in depth and participate in hands-on training in a variety of new software programs. Immersive Studio Workshops require advance registration and payment of a special fee in addition to the normal Summer Conference registration fees.

Preconference Workshops

This year the Preconfernce workshops hold seven great sessions to chose from! These extended-length workshops provide attendees the chance to explore a topic in depth or participate in hands-on training in a variety of new software programs. Preconference Workshops require advance registration and payment of a special fee in addition to the normal Summer Conference registration fees. All preconference sessions will be held Wednesday, June 11, 2008.

Breakout Sessions

the 2008 NMC Summer Conference offers 79 breakout sessions which are 75 minute presentations in a dedicated room. Time is allowed for a 15 - 20 minute question and answer period at the end of a breakout session. Sessions include presentations, panel discussions, and hands-on labs. View the program at-a-glance to see the many sessions that will be offered.

Conference Tracks

This year's program focuses on four key tracks:

Five Minutes of Fame and Center of Excellence Awards

The Five Minutes of Fame and Center of Excellence Awards ceremony will be held in a general session on Friday, June 13, 2008. The session begins by recognizing the extraordinary contributions of NMC member institutions with the Center of Excellence Awards and continues by celebrating the achievements of eleven NMC member campuses in the fast-paced Five Minutes of Fame showcase. In this trademark NMC event, presenters have only five minutes to tell their remarkable stories -- and if they run out of time, a gong will signal that their Five Minutes of Fame are up! This unusual session is fast, fun, and a great overview of some of the outstanding work taking place on NMC member campuses.

Poster Sessions

For the third time, the NMC will feature Poster Sessions. This year there will be 21 poster presentations that offer an opportunity to showcase a campus or museum project. For the second time at the Poster Session event this year, all posters will be judged by a group of your peers, with the winners being announced during the Poster Session event held on Thursday, June 12.

Interactives

This year, for the first time, the NMC Summer Conference will include Interactives: eleven new sessions designed to showcase online materials, including software, tools, research, and more. The Interactives will be held during the Evening at Princeton event to be held Thursday, June 12. The session will provide attendees with an opportunity to meet the developers of some very creative applications, interact with the tools, and ask questions as projects are demonstrated. Don't miss this extraordinary showcase of some of the best work being done by your peers today.

Keynote Presenters

Diana OblingerOpening Keynote Presentation
Diana Oblinger
CEO & President, EDUCAUSE

Diana Oblinger is the President and CEO of EDUCAUSE, a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education through the use of information technology. The current membership comprises over 2,200 colleges, universities, and education organizations, including 200 corporations. Previously, Oblinger served as EDUCAUSE vice president responsible for the association’s teaching and learning activities and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative. She is also an Adjunct Professor of Adult and Higher Education at North Carolina State University.

Prior to joining EDUCAUSE, Oblinger held positions in academia and business: Vice President for Information Resources and the Chief Information Officer for the 17-campus University of North Carolina system, Executive Director of Higher Education for Microsoft , and IBM Director of the Institute for Academic Technology. She was on the faculty at the University of Missouri-Columbia and at Michigan State University and an associate dean at the University of Missouri.

Oblinger serves on a variety of boards including the National Science Foundation ’s Advisory Committee on Cyberinfrastructure and chairs the National Visiting Committee for NSF’s National Science Digital Library project. Dr. Oblinger has testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Employment, Safety, and Training and the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Technology.

A frequent keynote speaker, Oblinger is also the co-author the award winning What Business Wants from Higher Education. She is co-editor of seven books: The Learning Revolution , The Future Compatible Campus, Renewing Administration, E is for Everything, Best Practices in Student Services, Educating the Net Generation, and Learning Spaces . She is the author or co-author of dozens of monographs and articles on higher education and technology.

Dr. Oblinger has received several awards for teaching, research and distinguished service. She holds three degrees from Iowa State University and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, and Sigma Xi.

Closing Keynote Presentation
Henry Jenkins
Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program and the Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities

Henry Jenkins is the Co-Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program and the Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities. He is the author and/or editor of twelve books on various aspects of media and popular culture, including Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide, Fans, Bloggers and Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture, The Wow Climax: Tracing the Emotional Impact of Popular Culture, Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture, Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture, and From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games.

Jenkins writes regularly about media and cultural change at his blog, henryjenkins.org. He is one of the principal investigators for The Education Arcade, a consortium of educators and business leaders working to promote the educational use of computer and video games and of the Knight Center for Future Civic Media, a joint effort with the MIT Media Lab to use new media to enhance how people live in local communities. He is one of the principle investigators for GAMBIT, a lab focused on promoting experimentation through game design, and of Project nml, a MacArthur Foundation funded project that develops curricular materials focused on promoting the social skills and cultural competencies needed to become a full participant in the new media era.

Jenkins has a MA in Communication Studies from the University of Iowa and a PhD in Communication Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

 

Thursday Noontime Keynote Presentation

Bill Frakes
Staff Photographer
Sports Illustrated

Bill Frakes is a Sports Illustrated Staff Photographer based in Florida. He has worked in more than 100 countries for a wide variety of editorial and advertising clients. His advertising clients include Apple . Nike , CocaCola , Champion , Isleworth , Stryker , IBM , Nikon , Kodak , and Reebok . Editorially his work has appeared in virtually every major general interest publication in the world. Bill won the coveted Newspaper Photographer of the Year award in the prestigious Pictures of the Year competition. He was a member of the Miami Herald staff that won the Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of Hurricane Andrew . He has also been honored by the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards for reporting on the disadvantaged and by the Overseas Press club for distinguished foreign reporting. He was awarded the Gold Medal by World Press Photo. He has received hundreds of national and international awards for his work.

 

Friday Noontime Keynote Presentation

Winston Soboyejo
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Princeton University

Winston (Wole) Soboyejo was educated at King's College London, and The University of Cambridge before coming to the United States in 1988 to become a research scientist at The McDonnell Douglas Research Labs in St. Louis , MO. In 1992, he worked briefly as a Principal Research Engineer at the Edison Welding Institute before joining the engineering faculty of The Ohio State University in Columbus , OH . From 1997 to 1998, he was a Visiting Professor in the departments of mechanical engineering and materials science and engineering at MIT. In 1999 he was appointed as a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University.

 

Preconference Workshops

Two kinds of special sessions - Immersive Studio Workshops and Preconference Workshops are included in the 2008 Summer Conference. These are special extended-length workshops and require pre-registration, special fees and a ticket for admittance.

Download this schedule with descriptions for the 2008 NMC Summer Conference Immersive Studio and Preconference Workshops here.

Register now!

Immersive Studio Workshop
Tuesday & Wednesday June 10-11; 8:30am - 4:00pm

Registration Fee: $495

  • Digital Stories from Comics to Film: A Hands-on Production Workshop
    Ruben Puentedura, Hippasus

Morning Preconference Workshops
Wednesday, June 11; 8:30am - 11:30am

Registration fee: $125

  • QuickTime: More Than Just a Mere Player
    Raymond Riley, Alma College
  • Storytelling With Still and Moving Images
    Apple Professional Training Staff
  • Virtual Worlds Beginners Workshop
    Heidi Trotta, Seton Hall University; Beth Ritter-Guth, Lehigh Carbon Community College

Afternoon Preconference Workshops
Wednesday, June 11; 1:00 - 4:00pm

Registration Fee: $125

  • Digital Photography: Making Better Pictures - Storytelling in a Click
    Don Henderson, Apple, Inc.; Phillip Long, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Final Cut Studio Tips and Tricks
    Apple Professional Training Staff
  • Project Wonderland
    Kevin Roebuck, Sun Microsystems, Inc.; Jonathan Kaplan, Sun Microsystems, Inc.; Jordan Slott, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
  • Teaching with Images: Tools and Resources
    Beth Harris, Fashion Institute of Technology
  • Virtual Worlds Advanced Preconference Workshop
    Christopher Holden, The New Media Consortium; Beth Sachtjen, The New Media Consortium

Hands-on Breakout Sessions

Hands-on sessions are a central focus of NMC conferences and attendees will have the opportunity to learn a wide range of new skills and software in these special sessions. Seating for hands-on sessions is limited and as in the past, admittance requires pre-registration and a ticket.

Please note, that you should register for the hands-on session tickets now! We have changed the structure of issuing tickets and the early bird gets the worm this year!

Download the schedule with descriptions and presenters for the 2008 NMC Summer Conference Hands-on Breakout Sessions here.

Register now!

Thursday, June 12, 10:15am - 11:30am

  • Fair Ripping: Media in the Classroom
  • Integrate Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium into Curriculum
  • Video Editing with Final Cut Pro

Thursday, June 12, 1:00pm - 2:15pm

  • An Introduction to Aperture 2.0
  • Dive into Digital Storytelling!
  • Enhance Teaching, Learning and Administrative Workflows with Adobe Acrobat

Thursday, June 12, 2:45pm - 4:00pm

  • Adobe® Creative Suite® 3 Production Premium
  • I Remix, Therefore I Learn: Educational Applications of Online Video Editing
  • Publishing Mixed Media to the Web Using iWeb

Friday, June 13, 8:30am - 9:45am

  • Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Lightroom: The Complete Photography Workflow Solution for Digital Imaging
  • Rez High the Virtual Rooftops: Breathing Life into Literature Using Virtual Worlds and Web 2.0
  • Video Editing with Final Cut Pro

Friday, June 13, 10:15am - 11:30am

  • Adding Motion 3 Content to Final Cut Pro
  • Engage Learners Anytime with Adobe Acrobat, Acrobat Connect™ and Captivate™
  • The Digital Lyceum Project: Integrating Backchannels into the Classroom and Live Event

Friday, June 13, 1:00pm - 2:15pm

  • Introduction to Maya 2008 Modeling and Animation
  • Podcast Creation in SoundTrack Pro and iWeb