New Media & Learning Initiative
How has the growth and acceptance of new media opened new opportunities for learning, scholarship, and creative expression?
At the core of this initiative is a focus on how communication, art, learning, and technology are converging. A major goal is to stimulate ideas about how to use emerging media forms more effectively. Activities have included an international summit of thought leaders in this arena, conferences on visual literacy and other topics related to new media and learning, alliances with groups like the Marcus Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation, and publications such as A Global Imperative.
- Focus on: how learning, art, communication and technology are converging
- Stimulate: ideas about how to use new media more effectively at the intersection of these areas
Convene
people around ideas
- Pachyderm Users Conference (Dec 2006)
- Online Conference on Digital Media (Oct 2006)
- Online Conference on Personal Broadcasting (Apr 2006)
- Online Conference on Visual Literacy (Apr 2005)
- Online Conference on the Convergence of Web Culture and Video (Mar 2006)
- 21st Century Literacy Summit (Apr 2005)
- Impact of Digital Media Symposium (Oct 2006)
Catalyze
dialog and new ideas
- MacArthur Project on Digital Media and Learning
- Marcus Digital Arts Education Project
- Storymining trainings (2006-07)
- Pachyderm Users Conference
- A Global Imperative crafting new language for new media literacy
- 21st Century Literacy Summit: clarifying role of new media literacy
Build Community
engage people
- Alliances with MacArthur Foundation and Marcus Foundation
- MacArthur Project on Digital Media and Learning author groups
- Marcus Digital Arts Education Project participants
- Pachyderm Project (team and user community)
- Linkage to Global Kids
Contribute
produce things
- A Global Imperative
- Visual Literacy Readings
- NMC Series of Online Conferences (Archives)
- NMC Conversations podcast series
- Pachyderm Showcase
- Hosted Pachyderm accounts
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 Media & Learning Initiative
Connect@NMC: Michael Wesch and Digital Ethnography
Posted April 23rd, 2009 by Alan Levine
We have lined up Dr Michael Wesch of Kansas State University for a Connect@NMC session scheduled for April 23, 2009 at 12:45PM Pacific Time (check your local time).
You may be familiar with Michael's wildly popular YouTube videos, but he will join us along with the students who are in his current research class to share their latest bits of social media research and to share their approach for creating these projects. The working title for this year's Digital Ethnography project is “The Fight for Significance in the Age of the Microcelebrity: Anonymity, Anonymous, Smart Mobs, Mad Mobs, Bot Mobs and the Great American Poets” (learn more...)
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Closing Remarks: 2009 New Media and Learning Symposium
Posted March 27th, 2009 by Larry Johnson
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Connect@NMC: Howard Rheingold and the Social Media Classroom
Posted February 2nd, 2009 by Alan Levine
Join us for a very special and exciting Connect@NMC session when Howard Rheingold visits us to share about his newest project, the Social Media Classroom. Author of SmartMobs, speaker on participatory media, and long time educator, Howard likely needs no introduction for NMC followers.
In his last connection with NMC, in a keynote presented in Second Life for the 2007 NMC Symposium on the Evolution of Communication, Howard presented an early glimpse into his concept of a Social Media Classroom (see it again at Co-Evolution of Technology, Media and Collective Action).
Collaboration in the Cloud with Acrobat and Acrobat.com
Posted October 26th, 2008 by Alan Levinea free online seminar from NMC!
Seminar Host: Robert McDaniels, Adobe Systems, Inc
When: November 19, 2008 11:00am-1:00pm PT (check for local time)
Where: NMC Connect Seminar Room (URL provided after registering below)
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Into the Breach
Posted September 22nd, 2008 by NMC
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.
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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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Howard Rheingold's Technosocial Koan
Posted July 21st, 2008 by Alan LevineHoward Rheingold continues to explore new forms of media expression in his new Vlog site including this new video, Rheingoldian mashup: A Technosocial Koan, 1977-2008
An experiment: This brief video mashes up remarks I made in previous episodes to convey a meta-message: From The Martian Report (1977) to The WELL(1989) to TED (2005) to the New Media Consortium (2007) to Jim Lehrer’s 2008 Newshour documentary, By The People, to my recent remarks to the Korean people.
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What Would Herman Melville Say to Soulja Boy?: Remix Culture and the New Media
Posted June 23rd, 2008 by Alan Levine
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.
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Where Do We Go? - Lennon Bus Video
Posted June 23rd, 2008 by Alan Levine
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:
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Virtual Citations: Defining and Creating Ethical Content in Virtual Worlds
Posted January 16th, 2008 by Alan Levine
Presentation from the 2007 NMC Symposium on Evolution of Communication
As the landscape of technology changes daily and new information is created, distributed, mashed up, and distributed again and again...the nature of how we communicate citations is becoming confused. While the Creative Commons license and the trend of public domain publishing exists, there are no intuitive ways to cite within virtual worlds, and governing bodies like the MLA and the APA have not provided directions to cite from virtual world documents (notecards, text chat, object text, and scripts). This lack of communication is frustrating to academics and students using virtual worlds for education and research.
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Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz: Commitment to New Orleans
Posted December 17th, 2007 by NMC
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