NMC Podcasts

Invitation to NMC 2010

Alan Levine — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:50:00 -0700

As the tradition goes the last act of the 2009 NMC Summer Conference was the showing of a video as to promote the following year's conference.

Playing off of the pop culture themes of Southern California and the conference (the Disney hotel in Anahem), USC hosts Susan Metros and Holly Willis provided some compelling and fun reasons for conference attendees to look ahead to the 2010 NMC Summer Conference.

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NMC Fellows Award Ceremony Doug Engelbart

Alan Levine — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:00:00 -0700

At the 2009 NMC Summer Conference, the lifetime work of Doug Engelbart was recognized in the presentation to him of his NMC Fellows Award, the New Media Consortium's highest individual honor.

For this event, long time colleagues Lev Gonick and Kristina Woolsey engaged in a conversation that highlighted the impacts of Doug's work on the field of New Media. Doug and his family were present for this special moment. He was joined by the three previous NMC Fellows Award Winners-- Ted Kahn , Krsitina Woolsey, and Carl Berger.

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Tribute to Doug Engelbart

Alan Levine — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 10:30:00 -0700

As part of the NMC Fellows Award presented to Doug Engelbart at the 2009 NMC Summer Conference, we unveiled this tribute video to honor the visionary and innovative ideas of a life time of work in the field of New Media.

In addition to clips from the historic 1968 Mother of All Demos, the video features interviews conducted with Doug in 2002 where he outlines his ideas for augmenting the human intellect and how organizations can operate in a pattern of collective intelligence.

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flickr photo by Don Henderson

Doug's comments on receiving the NMC Fellows Award were:

Well this is, you know, a trite thing to say, “I’m overwhelmed,” but I sit here just feeling overwhelmed. You know, I wasn’t doing all of those things in order to sit here and get something like this. It’s been so many years … and I still have dreams about how the world could be … anyway, I appreciate this very much, so thank you, thank you.

La Universitat Oberta de Catalunya 2009 Center of Excellence Award

Alan Levine — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 10:20:00 -0700

La Universitat Oberta de Catalunya was recognized with a Center of Excellence Award at the 2009 NMC Summer Conference in Monterey, California. UOC was recognized for their leadership in the areas of open educational resources and technology.

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

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The Center for Digital Storytelling 2009 Center of Excellence Award

Alan Levine — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 10:10:00 -0700

The Center for Digital Storytelling was recognized with a Center of Excellence Award at the 2009 NMC Summer Conference in Monterey, California. The Center was recognized for their global role and leadership in the advancing the art and practice of digital storytelling.

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

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Abilene Christian University 2009 Center of Excellence Award

Alan Levine — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 10:00:00 -0700

Abilene Christian University was recognized with a Center of Excellence Award at the 2009 NMC Summer Conference in Monterey, California. ACU was recognized for their leadership in the use of mobile technologies across the institution.

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

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2009 Centers of Excellence Awards

Alan Levine — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 08:00:00 -0700

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.

The 2009 NMC Center of Excellence Award winners are:

Abilene Christian University
Recognized for their leadership in the use of mobile technologies across the institution (see ACU Center of Excellence video)

The Center for Digital Storytelling
Recognized for their global role and leadership in the advancing the art and practice of digital storytelling (see CDS Center of Excellence video)

La Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Recognized for their leadership in the areas of open educational resources and technology (see UOC Center of Excellence video)

Watch the entire ceremony:

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2009 NMC Five Minutes of Fame

Alan Levine — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:00:00 -0700

Five Minutes of Fame is a trademarked event allowing NMC academic members to show off their latest new media projects.

For this Five Minutes of Fame demonstration at the 2009 NMC Summer Conference in Monterey, California, selected NMC member organizations were 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, the audience saw numerous examples of the exciting work their NMC colleagues are doing.

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It's Not About IT, it's About What to Do With It

Alan Levine — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:00:00 -0700

Marco Torres provided the Friday keynote for the 2009 NMC Summer Conference in Monterey, California. Marco Torres has been recognized locally and internationally for his accomplishments in the classroom, creative program building, administering complex budgets, and for the use of technology to empower minority students. He has received honors and awards from the government, educational leadership organizations, the creative arts community, business groups, and also from his students.

As a teacher and media professional artist, Marco Torres is involved with many professional organizations where he is an advocate for more collaboration between the media arts world and education. For example, Marco was recruited to serve as a board member for the George Lucas Educational Foundation --a foundation created by filmmaker George Lucas to promote digital technology, change, community, and learning everywhere. Marco also is an Apple Distinguished Educator -- a program, sponsored by Apple that recognizes innovators in today's classrooms.

Once referred to as "Jaime Escalante.com" by Mr. Escalante himself, Torres is empowering students, teaches them how to celebrate their culture, build communities, and how (and why) to use multimedia tools to share their very special stories and ideas with the world.

Marco's talk was on It's Not About IT, it's About What to Do With It

It’s about teaching and learning. Or, learning and teaching. In this "flattening" world, we are required to be more creative, more flexible, more community based. However, teachers -- the world still needs GOOD, empathetic, ingenuous educators, a teacher, a Yoda! Yeah, you! The kids, more than ever, need us! Multimedia is a language to our students. If we're smart and ready, we can use it to be very academic and very rigorous (and have fun along the way, too). If we use multimedia right, we can empower in ways that we never imagined. Turn your classroom into a stage, a studio, and a community and HURRY! The kids are waiting for you to catch up!

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Captions from this session are available below as attachments

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cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog

NMC 2009 Point Lobos Photo Shoot

Alan Levine — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:20:00 -0700

This slideshow represents the best work from participants in the Pre-Conference Digital Photography workshop at the 2009 NMC Summer Conference.

Led by Sports Illustrated photographer Bill Frakes and Apple's Don Henderson, workshop attendees spent a full day shooting digital photos at PT Lobos and the following day learned how to process photos in Aperture.

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See the full sized QuickTime version (192 Mb) at
http://media.nmc.org/2009/06/point-lobos-photo-shoot.mov

Participants have been expressing their appreciation to Bill and Don in this Voicethread