NMC News

The NMC is pleased to announce the release of the German translation of the 2009 Horizon Report. Thanks to the continuing efforts of the NMC's international colleagues, the report is now available in four languages other than English; this version joins the previously released Spanish, Catalan, and Japanese editions. The translation was generously provided by Multimedia Kontor Hamburg (MMKH).

The New Media Consortium (NMC), an international consortium of colleges, universities, and museums, today announced the recipients of the 2009 NMC Center of Excellence Award. The award, the highest honor bestowed by the NMC, recognizes demonstrated excellence and outstanding achievement in the application of technology to learning or creative expression.

Today we are opening another Two Minute Survey.  On most higher education campuses, the budgeting for the 2009-10 academic year is complete with many having faced hard decisions due to the global financial crisis.

This survey is aimed at highlighting both the impacts of the economy on campus budgets, and the strategies being employed to manage those impacts. You can take the online survey now at http://go.nmc.org/2min-jun09.

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Since I work for NMC, my bias may be showing when I suggest that the NMC Summer Conference is one of the best conferences anywhere-- but I have been saying so since my first one back in 2002, years before I joined the NMC. But don't take my word, listen to how people describe their experience last year at Princeton.

In that spirit, I offer the following ten reasons (actually not in strict top 10 order) why you should do what you can to attend this year's conference in Monterey. After getting through all ten, make your way over to our online registration to sign up today.

All NMC web sites will be offline for approximately an hour starting Monday at 10:00 PM Pacific Time for hardware updates.

UPDATE 10:30 pm PDT:  All maintenance is now completed.  Thank you for your patience.

The New Media Consortium (NMC) is pleased to announce new partnerships with i>Clicker and Pathable. Each company has joined the NMC as a Sustaining Partner.

Both i>Clicker and Pathable share the NMC’s deep commitment to furthering the exploration and use of new media and new technologies. Since 2004, the audience response system developed by i>Clicker has been adopted by hundreds of higher education institutions and K-12 schools. Designed to be easy to use for both teachers and students, the system is lightweight and portable, making it possible to design teaching activities that engage students in even the largest classes on a personal level.

All NMC Directors  have been invited to complete the annual survey of our member organizations in which we use to both benchmark the types of organizations in NMC but also collect data on their use and development of new media, plus provide broader results for the field of New Media.

The survey will run through the end of May 2009 and preliminary results will be shared with the NMC Community. The public results should be published to our web site by the end of June, 2009.

Our survey instrument, Zoomerang, provides some new features for open surveys to dynamically display current results via web widgets, so below is a peek into the current data (at this time, 18 organizations have completed their surveys). This information will automatically update as surveys are completed.