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NMC Welcomes New Members - Joined in April 2008!
Posted May 1st, 2008 by Nancy ReevesNMC welcomes the following new members who joined in April 2008!
- Ningxia Polytechnic and TV University (China)
http://www.nxtvu.edu.cn/ - Savannah College of Art and Design
http://www.nmc.org/organization/savannah-college-art-and-design - University of Maryland
http://www.nmc.org/organization/university-maryland
NMC Celebrates 15th Anniversary!
Posted April 25th, 2008 by Nancy Reeves
Founded in 1993, this year marks the 15th anniversary of The New Media Consortium! Celebration activities are already taking place as we prepare for the 2008 NMC Summer Conference and we are asking you to contribute any photos or images of the number 15 to our Flickr group!
Panel in Storytelling in Virtual Environments | Location: Second Life
Posted April 22nd, 2008 by anaventuraThe Center for Digital Storytelling (CDS) and the Museum of the Person are celebrating the International Day for Sharing Life Stories on May 16. The following day – May 17 – the CDS is proposing a reflection on storytelling in virtual environments in the form of a panel in Second Life. The approaches to this theme will be very different as a result of the panelists’ distinct academic backgrounds. Please read abstracts and bios on attached PDF.
NMC CEO Johnson testifies to Congress on Virtual Worlds
Posted April 9th, 2008 by NMCNMC CEO Larry Johnson was asked to present testimony on the nature and state of virtual worlds on Tuesday, April 1, before the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet. Also presenting at the same hearing was Philip Rosedale, founder of Linden Lab and the inventor of Second Life.
Members of the NMC community are invited to comment on the text of Johnson’s remarks in a special CommentPress version of the report that can be reached at http://wp.nmc.org/mrpixel/
The hearing was webcast live, and an archive is available:
http://energycommerce.house.gov/cmte_mtgs/110-ti-hrg.040108.VirtualWorld...
For more, including a pdf of Johnson's comments, please see the Committee on Energy and Commerce website:
http://energycommerce.house.gov/
NMC Welcomes New Members Who Joined in March 2008!
Posted March 31st, 2008 by Nancy ReevesNMC would like to welcome the following institutions who have joined the NMC in March 2008!
- Hitachi Information Academy, Co., Ltd. (Japan)
http://www.hitachi-ia.co.jp/ - Laramie County Community College
http://www.lccc.cc.wy.us/ - University of Ottawa
http://www.saea.uottawa.ca/ - University of Calgary
http://www.ucalgary.ca/ - Brigham Young University
www.byu.edu
NMC Welcomes New Members
Posted February 28th, 2008 by Nancy ReevesNMC would like to welcome the following institutions who have joined the NMC since December 2007 through February 2008!
More Ways to Engage with the 2008 Horizon Report
Posted February 4th, 2008 by Alan LevineFollowing up on our press release on the announcement of the 2008 Horizon Report, we have many more Horizon resources and ways for you to actively engage with the process of the Horizon Project.
We have tracked a steady flow of downloads of the report in PDF format and continuing our exploration of web publishing, today we are excited to share a new web version for the 2008 Horizon Report using the CommentPress format. Developed by the Institute for the Future of the Book, CommentPress is a template for the WordPress platform that provides a functionality for readers to post comments at the paragraph level. You can read and add to the report by commenting at http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2008.
About The Symposium
Posted July 2nd, 2007 by NMC
In August 2007, the NMC held a very special, one-of-a-kind event -- a week-long online symposium on the topic of creativity called the Symposium on Creativity in Second Life. The first in a series of conferences and events exploring virtual worlds of all kinds, the symposium was intended to redefine the way we think about online conferences.
As such, the Symposium on Creativity was held entirely inside the virtual world of Second Life, and made full use of the wide range of affordances offered within this virtual world.
NMC Conversations
Posted April 25th, 2007 by Alan LevinePodcasting has been a technology and practice we've been tracking for a while, and thus it was time we launched our own series here. Our new site, NMC Conversations features the voices of NMC CEO Larry Johnson and Vice Presidents Rachel Smith and Alan Levine.
About every two weeks, Larry, Alan, and Rachel will record a new segment, each no more than 15-20 minutes, and highlighting NMC initiatives, projects, member activities, or other topics on new media. We will eventually invite our NMC members and collaborators into the mix. You can find the NMC Conversations at:
http://web.nmc.org/conversations
