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MacArthur Foundation Press Conference Webcast to Campus

CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) : Oct 19, 2006 01:56pm

This morning, the MacArthur Foundation held a press conference in New York City to announce their $50 million investments to support programs in digital media– see Building the Field of Digital Media and Learning as well as the press release.

These events were video streamed into the Gonick Ampitheater of NMC Campus, where up to 65 avatars listened in and generated a lot of back channel discussion.

MacArthur Foundation Press Conference

Audience gathered for MacArthur Foundation video streamed press conference

Second Life view of the MacArthur panel discussion

And we within SL were connected to the event– a number of times, the New York audience saw on screen the view that was going in within our gathering. So this made it interesting when this was streamed back to Second Life as we saw ourselves!

From NMC Campus, Lyr Lobo asks a question to the panel in New York, all of wish is streamed back to NMC Campus

Getting a better view of Henry Jenkins

danah boyd discusses the process of blogging from a conference meeting

We do have an audio recording (95 minutes long) captured from the press conference (see below for links) and you can view see a flickr slide show with much of the action.

And this is just the beginning of many great things for the field of new media.

More coverage:

The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning (Beth’s Blog)
MacArthur Foundation $50m Announced Watched on Global Kids Island
Liveblogging from MacArthur Press Conference on Digital Learning (The Click Heard Round the World)
Teen Grid Photos from Global Kids
danah boyd: coverage from MacArthur’s launch of the Digital Media and Learning Initiative (MacArthur Foundation Spotlight Blog)

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3 Comments Add your own

1. Using Wiki in Education &&hellip | October 19th, 2006 at 7:18 pm

[...] Coverage of the New York press briefing was streamed to the NMC Campus on Second Life, back-channel discussion took place on the NMC wiki, and there’s great coverage on the NMC Campus Observer blog. Save & share this post with your favorite social bookmarking site:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]
2. InWorld Conference at WRT&hellip | October 19th, 2006 at 10:29 pm

[...] Apologies for the late notice, but there has been an amazing week of events happening in Second Life. The New Media Consortium has been holding a 12 day Impact of Digital Media Symposium. The pic you see is an event I attended last night for the MacArthur Foundation press conference in to announce their $50 million investments to support programs in digital media (Building the Field of Digital Media and Learning). What was great is that they televised us in SL to the screens in the press conference as well, and took questions from us. Here is a post at NMC on the event. There are lots of pics of the event here, including many of Anya (the blonde) and a few with me in them (the black-haired chick with pink bows). hehe. Anyway, on Oct 20th at 7am (US time) Slate Night Magazine (the SL arts and entertainment magazine I write for) is having a special session. Here is the run-down from i-Anya’s blog: [...]
3. Learning resources for th&hellip | October 26th, 2006 at 11:16 am

[...] Visit MacArthur’s web overview of the Digital Media and Learning Initiative from which you can view a webcast of the event; social media researcher, Danah Boyd provides summary coverage of the launch; and because nearly 50 avatars from Second Life were in attendance, there is also coverage from a Second Life perspective which comes to us from the New Media Consortium. [...]

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