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New Collaborations Initiative

How can we leverage the work of learning organizations outside our usual spheres to inform and enhance our own work and reach new audiences?

This initiative encourages cross-sector idea sharing as a way to stimulate new projects, new partnerships, and new ways of thinking within the NMC and its partners and affiliates. As part of this initiative, the NMC looks for "fellow traveler" organizations and ways to leverage the work of such organizations with ours, using a broad frame in that analysis. Among the impacts of this approach have been new member categories and programs for museums, research centers, and foundations, as well as formal linkages with organizations like ECAR, ELI, CNI, MERLOT, CATS, the Digital Storytelling Institute, and Global Kids. Projects like Pachyderm, the Marcus Arts Education Project, and the MacArthur Series on Digital Media and Learning are all part of this initiative.


  • Focus on: cross-sector idea sharing
  • Stimulate: ideas about new projects, partners, ways of thinking

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  • Pachyderm account hosting
  • Pachyderm content
  • Storymining concepts and curriculum
 

The content below is related to this initiative and comes from various places across the NMC web site. Items are listed in reverse chronological order.

New Collaborations Initiative

2009 Horizon Report Now Available in German

Posted June 24th, 2009 by NMC
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2009 Horizon Report covers in German, Spanish, Catalan, and Japanese The NMC is pleased to announce the release of the German translation of the 2009 Horizon Report. Thanks to the continuing efforts of the NMC's international colleagues, the report is now available in four languages other than English; this version joins the previously released Spanish, Catalan, and Japanese editions. The translation was generously provided by Multimedia Kontor Hamburg (MMKH).

New Translations Available for 2009 Horizon Report

Posted April 23rd, 2009 by Alan Levine
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2009 horizon covers in Spanish, Catalan, Japanes With each year, the Horizon Project broadens its global reach. The 2009 Horizon Report is now available in three altenate-language editions, thanks to the efforts of NMC colleagues. Since 2007, the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya has translated each annual edition of the Horizon Report into Spanish and Catalan. This year, a new collaboration with the Center of ICT and Distance Education (CODE) at The Open University of Japan brings us our first Japanese version of the Horizon Report.

What's on Your Horizon? TCC2009: Free global panel discussion on educational technology

Posted March 18th, 2009 by Alan Levine
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We are participating in a free, online webcast discussion of the Horizon Report, as a preconference event for this year's TCC 2009 Online Conference -- the 14th annual TCC (Technology, Colleges and Community), is a worldwide online conference designed for university and college practitioners including faculty, academic support staff, counselors, student services personnel, students, and administrators.

Free global panel discussion on educational technology in teaching and learning

Horizon K12 Project in Pictures

Posted January 30th, 2009 by Alan Levine
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Horizon.K12 Meeting, Dallas
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For a flavor of the activity for the January 27-28 , 2009 Horizon.K12 meeting in Dallas, Texas, here is a short video slide show of pictures from the meeting combined with an ambient mix of the discussions. This was the kickoff meeting to launch te very first Horizon Report focused on K-12 education.

At this meeting, gathered members of the Horizon.K12 advisory board met and processed the initial list of topics to be included in this new report, and distilled the voting down to a short list of 12 items to be contenders for the final report. The final report will be released at the March 2009 CoSN meeting in Austin

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Look for more pictures tagged horizonk12 in flickr.

See Also: http://horizon.nmc.org/k12

Angela Thomas and Virtual Macbeth NMC Conversation #10

Posted December 10th, 2008 by Alan Levine
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In this NMC Conversation we are transglobal! Larry (in Texas), Rachel (in California), and Alan (temporarily in Iceland) talk with Angela Thomas in Sydney, Australia. Angela, a senior lecturer in English Arts and New Media Literacies at the University of Sydney. The NMC and Angela have collaborated numerous times since first meeting her in Second Life back in 2006, and she has presented several times at our Second Life conferences as well as being a featured speaker at the 2006 NMC Summer Conference.

See Also: http://web.nmc.org/conversations/2008/12/10/number-10/

NMC partners with Economist Magazine, Apple in global study of CIO perceptions

Posted October 27th, 2008 by Larry Johnson
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cover of white paperToday the NMC announces the release of its newest white paper, produced in conjunction with the Economist Magazine and in collaboration with Apple, Inc.  The paper, entitled "The Future of Higher Education:  How Technology will Shape Learning " reports the results of a study of nearly 300 CIOs and technology leaders inside and outside of education.

Welcome Susan Chun and Steve: NMC Conversation #9

Posted October 22nd, 2008 by NMC
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Recently the NMC shared the news that we was awarded a a three-year $955,000 National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) that provides another opportunity to partner with museums on an innovative software development project. For the grant, Steve in Action: Social Tagging Tools and Methods Applied, NMC will coordinate 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.

Susan Chun
See Also: http://web.nmc.org/conversations/2008/10/22/number-9/

Into the Breach

Posted September 22nd, 2008 by NMC
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Cover of Into the Breach This paper, produced as part of the NMC's Digital Education Project for Texas Art Museums, documents the sad state in which arts education finds itself; shines a light of hope on that picture; and makes recommendations that arts-focused institutions and their donor communities can use to help make a difference in keeping a love for the arts alive across the state.

Download Into the Breach (384k, 20 pp) Creative Commons license; some rights reserved
858 downloads as of May 10 2009

That partnership, which falls under the umbrella of the NMC's Digital Media and Learning Initiative, has help us to continue to support the Pachyderm Project, to strengthen our longstanding collaborations with the Digital Storytelling Institute, Hippasus, and other organizations, and to better understand the pedagogy and power of story when coupled with digital media.

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NMC Meetings at University of Melbourne

Posted July 8th, 2008 by Alan Levine
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Today NMC leadership Larry Johnson, Rachel Smith, and Alan Levine visited with University of Melbourne Vice Principal, Information and CIO Linda O'Brien and staff. Enjoying a lovely lunch at the University House, NMC shared initiatives and led a discusson of the Horizon.au project that brought them to Australia.

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Our hosts shared a wide range of interesting projects and uses of emerging technology at the university, including a new forward looking strategic plan.

NMC Down Under in July!

Posted July 2nd, 2008 by Alan Levine
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From July 5-20, 2008, the NMC leadership team of CEO Larry Johnson and Vice Presidents Rachel Smith and Alan Levine will be in Australia establishing a new phase of the Horizon Project and meeting with colleagues at our five Australian NMC member organizations. Look for a string of news stories and podcasts from this tour.

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