Event Media

As tradition, the closing of one NMC Summer conference ends with an invitation to the next!

From the stage of Alexander Hall at Princeton, John Ittelson and Arlene Krebs from CSU Monterey Bay provided a video overview and glorious sunset embossed invitation to entice people to come west in 2009 for the next NMC Summer Conference.

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Closing Keynote, 2008 NMC Summer Conference, Princeton University
Henry Jenkins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

New media technologies make it easy for us to circulate, appropriate, transform, and recirculate media content on an unprecedented scale. It is part of the mythology of MIT that young people learn to become engineers by taking apart household gadgets and putting them back together again. Can we say the same thing about contemporary artists and humanists — that they learn by breaking down and remixing elements of their own culture? We falsify the creative process when we teach young people that great art comes from single and isolated intellects rather than emerging from the creative engagement with and appropriation from older cultural traditions.

The John Lennon Bus was special feature at the 2008 NMC Summer Conference, where conference participants had opportunities to tour the bus and even get their own 15 minute session to record a sound loop. A special one day workship was made available for conference participants who signed up on our wiki; 7 participants were chosen to spend a full day experience where they recorded a song and created a video.

At the closing session, everyone at the conference got to see the video Where do We Go created by the group known as the "Digital Philosophers"

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The Digital Philosophers include:

In celebration of the 15th anniversary of the NMC, we asked our members to share via flickr a collection of creative photos that somehow represented the number 15 and we also solicited their photos of NMC memories. Combining these with ones from the NMC's own vast archive, we commissioned this video that was shared at the opening of the conference.

The soundtrack was from the performance of NMC members who participate in the Rock Hall Jam at the 2006 NMC Summer Conference in Cleveland-- sit back and enjoy the show!

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Five Minutes of Fame is a trademarked event allowing NMC academic members to show off their latest new media projects. At every Five Minutes of Fame demonstration, selected New Media Centers are given five minutes each to highlight innovations of all sorts, from multimedia and web-based projects, to course modules and newly invented or adapted tools, to student portfolios and collaborations with off-campus groups. In each fast-paced session, you’ll see numerous examples of the exciting work your NMC colleagues are doing.

Presenters this year included:

The NMC Center of Excellence Award distinguishes NMC member institutions that have demonstrated an exceptional record of success in the integration of technology with teaching, learning, or creative expression. The success of the institution is evidenced by the quality of faculty or student work that is in some way connected to the efforts of the institution; by the effectiveness of the institution in advancing the integration of technology with teaching, learning or creative expression; by the impact of this work on students and learning within the institution; or by its influence on practitioners across the academy.

Recognized at the 2008 NMC Summer Conference were:

RIT Online Learning at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) was recognized at the 2008 NMC Summer conference with a Center of Excellence Award. RIT was recognized for their support of emerging technologies, faculty innovation, and online learning

RIT produced this video shown at the conference that demonstrates just some of the reasons they have earned this award.

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The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) New Media Studio was recognized at the 2008 NMC Summer conference with a Center of Excellence Award. UMBC was recognized for their leadership in capturing and disseminating digital stories across their communities.

UMBC produced this video shown at the conference that demonstrates just some of the reasons they have earned this award.

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