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Join the Friends of NMC Flickr Group!

Alan Levine — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:35:26 -0700

Photography and photo sharing has long been an activity NMC people have actively engaged in-- attendees at the 2009 Summer Conference shared nearly 2500 photos tagged nmc 2009 in Flickr. We use Flickr very extensively to power many of the NMC web sites, but we had overlooked something that seems like an obvious thing to do.

It was via twitter that Alan Wolf of the University of Wisconsin, Madison suggested

...getting around to putting my photos into groups, and looked for an appropriate NMC Flickr group. Would NMC make a general one?

We had created one for celebrating the NMC's 15th anniversary, but had not created a place for the NMC community to share photos from NMC events and activities. So we now have a Friends off the NMC Flickr group where anyone (NMC Members, people who attend our events, or just people who we connect with in our travels, both real and virtual) can share their favorite NMC related photographs.

You can find our group and join us in Flickr at
http://www.flickr.com/groups/nmcfriends/

2010 NMC Summer Conference - Save the Dates!

Nancy Reeves — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:44:02 -0700

Save-the-Dates now for the 2010 NMC Summer Conference to be held June 8 - 12 in Anaheim, California. The host of the 2010 conference will be the University of Southern California.

Watch the USC invitation preview of what is to come!

Travel and lodging information is available now with more to come!

Interested in exhibiting or sponsorship?

The Call for Proposals will open in December 2009.

Conference registration will open in April 2010.

Check back often for more details!

Twitter Tools (in more than 140 characters)...

Keene Haywood — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:38:27 -0700

How many ways can one write something in 140 characters or less? It seems more and more these days. As Twitter flits into the lives of just about everyone online, the challenge has been how to manage, organize and keep track of all the short attention span chatter. Initially, there was really just your plain vanilla browser and the Twitter.com website. You created an account, you logged in and you began posting snippets about whatever you could in 140 characters or less. People followed and you followed others. It all quickly became something like managing your email InBox without a lot of order. But this has changed and now Twitter users have many options to manage the micro-blogging tool. These tools give you the ability to better visualize the tweets, search, flag favorites, retweet something, send direct tweets etc.

So here is a brief rundown of a few Twitter applications that you might want to check out. Many of them are Mac apps but this is the platform I compute on so there is a bias here. Still, there are a few cross platform options. Please let me know if there are others I have missed or more options on Windows.

TweetDeck (Mac/PC) - This is the poster child Twitter app that was created with Adobe Air so its a cross platform offering. This app offers configurable multi-pane view of Twitter activity which you can see your friends, create and see groups, see search results, see twitter trends and even load up 12 second videos via 12seconds.tv. It also integrates into your Facebook page for status update monitoring.

TweetDeck for the iPhone - Quickly becoming the favorite Twitter app on the iPhone. Its unique in that it brings the multi column feature to the hand held device which is a nice touch (sorry for the pun).

Seesmic Desktop (Mac/PC) - Another Adobe Air app that is cross platform. Seesmic used to be a poster child for video sharing and posting but it is moving away from this to focus on its Twitter application which as become a favorite. It supports multiple twitter accounts and can hook into Facebook updates. It also supports multiple columns. Still, I find the Adobe Air app interface a little sterile but it works.

Twhirl (Mac/PC) - Another Adobe AIR app that can support multiple Twitter accounts and taps into other social networking sites. I have not experimented too much with Twhirl but it does support multiple accounts and supports various other social networking services. It appears Twhril is also developed by Seesmic.

Tweetie - This was the de facto standard on the iPhone but its losing some ground to the excellent TweetDeck iphone version. In addition, there is a desktop version of Tweetie which is nice, but it can't display multiple columns of data the way some of the other apps can but it has a slick, modern interface.

Twitterific (Mac) - This was one of the first Mac Twitter apps and its still very good. There is a desktop and iPhone version. Its very minimal (sort of like Twitter!) but people like it because it got a minimal interface and does not distract you (as much).

Nambu (Mac) - This is a nice desktop app that lets you access your multiple Twitter accounts and configure things in one view with multiple columns, including popular posts, Favorites, etc. Nicely done. Early versions had bad memory leaks, but the developer seems to be actively patching these and issuing regular updates.

Beak (Mac) - Beak is fairly new to the Twitter app arena. It has some promise. I have not played around with it too much. The interface is very Mac modern, but it seems to lack some features of the other apps (but it looks nice!).

Twittelator Pro - This is a full featured iphone/ipod Touch only Twitter app that is well polished. If find it a little slower than other Twitter clients, but its got a lot of nice features. Its developed by Stone Design, an experienced and long developer who began developing for the NeXT platform.

Eventbox - EventBox is a great app for managing several different social networking applications such as FaceBook, RSS feeds, Reddit news, Diig, Flickr feeds and more. I like this app and use it fairly often. Its got good potential. The downfall again is that because it taps into multiple services, it does not really shine for any particular one. But if you use multiple services in addition to Twitter, it might work for you.

If I had to go and choose one app for Twitter, I would go with Nambu because its got a Mac like interface, supports multi-column views and multiple accounts. A close second is TweetDeck, but I am still getting used to the Adobe Air interface. I also like Tweetie and it might be included to use it more if it supported multi-column views.

Honorable Mention - Monitter is not a Twitter app but it is a great way to monitor (get it?) multiple Twitter searches. This is a great tool for researching trends on Twitter and covering breaking news or other time sensitive topics. Check it out. Its pretty interesting.

Double Honorable Mention- Twitter is not the only 140 character micro-blogging solution out there. Identi.ca is rapidly gaining some traction and many of the apps above support Identi.ca accounts now. You can go to their website for more info, but its basically similar to Twitter, with one big exception. Its open source unlike Twitter. Also, there is Yammer, a micro-blogging service like Twitter but aimed at the corporate business world.

This should be more than enough to get one Twittering away. And now back to old school blogging... ahh that oh so early 21st century technology equivalent of the chalkboard.

Keene

social_web, software, software, technology

Exhibition and Sponsorship

Nancy Reeves — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:14:30 -0700

The NMC Summer Conference offers many opportunities for NMC partners to showcase their products and services that enhance programs and initiatives for teaching and leadership to a variety of colleges and universities. NMC partners are eligible to participate in the Corporate Partner Showcase as part of their membership. In addition, there are many sponsorship opportunities available for partners to participate in.

2010 NMC Corporate Partner Showcase

The Corporate Partner Showcase will be held in conjunction with the Opening Reception on Wednesday, June 9 from 5:00 - 7:00 pm. The fee for participation at the Corporate Partner Showcase as an exhibitor for the Summer Conference is dependent upon your level of membership. Please refer to the corporate partner benefits in order to determine your fees.

For companies that are not currently NMC Corporate Partners, you will need to join the NMC at a minimum of the Sustaining Partner level, and for which you will receive the membership benefits for the remainder of the year. See more information about NMC Corporate Partnership.

With participation in the 2010 NMC Corporate Partner Showcase you will:

Be assigned one tabletop display (skirted table, two chairs, one electrical outlet)
Receive special recognition on the conference website
Receive special recognition in the conference program
Receive special recognition at the conference
Be eligible to participate in scheduled vendor prize drawings

2010 NMC Summer Conference Sponsorship

2010 NMC Summer Conference Sponsorship opportunities were available as follows and offered additional recognition for partner participation:

Wednesday Opening Reception & Corporate Partner Showcase - $12,000
Includes: right to display signage or banner with company logo at the event; special recognition in the conference program; special recognition on the conference website; special recognition at the conference.

Thursday Evening Special Event - $12,000
Includes: right to display signage or banner with company logo at the event; special recognition in the conference program; special recognition on the conference website; special recognition at the conference.

Box Lunch - $5,000
Includes: right to display signage or banner with company logo; special recognition in the conference program; special recognition on the conference website; special recognition at the conference.

Conference T-shirts - $5,000
Includes: special recognition in the conference program; special recognition on the conference website; special recognition at the conference; funds will go to purchase high quality t-shirts with your logo and NMC logo.

Conference Tote Bags - $5,000
Includes: special recognition in the conference program; special recognition on the conference website; special recognition at the conference; funds will go to purchase high quality tote bags with yours and NMC logo.

Center of Excellence Awards - $3,500
Includes: special recognition in the conference program; special recognition on the conference website; special recognition at the conference.

Fellows Award - $3,000
Includes: special recognition in the conference program; special recognition on the conference website; special recognition at the conference.

Continental Breakfast - 3 of these at $3,000 each
Includes: right to display signage or banner with company logo; special recognition in the conference program; special recognition on the conference website; special recognition at the conference.

Refreshment Breaks - 4 of these at $2,500 each
Includes: right to display signage or banner with company logo; special recognition in the conference program; special recognition on the conference website; special recognition at the conference

Conference Badges/Laynards - $1,000
Includes: special recognition in the conference program; special recognition on the conference website; special recognition at the conference; funds will go to purchase high quality badge holders and lanyards with your logo.

Conference Computer Kiosks for Attendees - Call for more information
Includes: special recognition in the conference program; special recognition on the conference website; special recognition at the conference.

Sponsorship is on a first-come, first-serve basis. If you are interested in participating as a sponsor, please call Nancy Reeves at (512) 445-4200 or email nancy@nmc.org.

Adobe First Mondays: Adobe Curriculum and Associate Certification Program

Alan Levine — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:51:41 -0700

In an increasingly competitive work world, students need to be more than familiar users of digital communications technology to be successful—they need to be proficient users. With certification, hiring managers will know that work similar to the excellent portfolio they just reviewed can be accomplished efficiently. Learn how Adobe provides curriculum resources for teachers to utilize in preparing students for careers as well as the Adobe Certified Associate Program that helps educators that teach with technology and students to build communications skills essential to their future.

Speaker: Anuja Dharkar is the World Wide Group Manager for Education Curriculum and Professional Development Solutions at Adobe.

Because of the Fourth of July holiday, this month's First Monday is on Tuesday! Plan to join us Tuesday, July 7, at 11:00 am Pacific Time (check for local time) in our Adobe Connect Seminar Room. The audio for this event will be via telephone conference bridge (no cost to you for the call).

Conference Preview

Alan Levine — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:19:10 -0700

As the tradition goes, the last activity of the 2009 NMC Summer Conference was the showing of a video 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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Travel and Lodging

Nancy Reeves — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:09:06 -0700

Conference Host

University of Southern California

City of Anaheim Information

Disneyland Information

Lodging Information

Attendees at the 2010 NMC Summer Conference will stay at the orignal Disneyland® Hotel. The Disneyland Hotel is located within a few steps of the orignal Disneyland® Park and the newer Disney's® California Adventure Park, and right outside the door of Downtown Disney® that offers restaurants, entertainment, shopping and more - no entrance fee required!

All conference events will take place at the Disneyland ® Hotel.

Disneyland® Hotel
1150 Magic Way
Anaheim, CA 92802
Disneyland Hotel Website
(714) 956-6425 general hotel
(714) 520-5005 reservations

Special room rates of $189 for single/quad, plus a $12 per day resort fee have been secured for 2010 NMC Conference attendees. The resort fee entitles the guests of each room to the following amenities:

Unlimited access to the high speed and wireless Internet in the guest room;
Overnight self-parking of two vehicles with in/out privileges;
Unlimited local telephone service;
Free access telephone connections (ie "800" numbers);
Unlimited use of the fitness center.

All guests at the Disneyland® Hotel may enjoy the following amenities:

Numerous restaurants of all types and costs to choose from;
Numerous recreational activities ;
High speed internet access;
Room service;
Phones with voicemail;
Irons, ironing boards, refrigerators, hairdryers, make-up mirrors and safes in each room;
Three Diamond Deluxe Hotel;
King-size bed or two queen-size beds;
Cribs and roll-away beds available upon request;
Disney Channel and ESPN;
Non-smoking Hotel;
Disabled-accessible rooms available.

Make your hotel reservation online for your convenience (coming soon....) or by calling reservations at (714) 520-5005.

When making your hotel reservation please be sure to mention that you are with the "NMC" or "The New Media Consortium" group to receive the special rate.

To ensure the special rates and room availability, please make your hotel reservation no later than Friday, May 14, 2010.

Airlines, Travel and Transportation

Parking
If you are a non-registered Disneyland® Hotel guest, mention that you are with "NMC" or "The New Media Consortium" and you will receive a discounted rate of $14 per car, per day for self-parking with no in/out priviledges.

The rate for non-registered guests is currently $6 per hour, per car up to a maximum of $30 per day. Valet parking for all guests shall be an additional $17. These rates are for once in, once out privileges and not for in/out privileges.

Driving Directions
For driving directions to the Disneyland® Hotel, please click the link and choose your departure and arrival location within the Disney® Resort.

Airports
John Wayne Airport is located approximately 10 miles from the Disneyland® Hotel.

Los Angeles International Airport is located approximately 30 miles from the Disneyland® Hotel.

Herz Rental Car
Coming soon......

2010 NMC Summer Conference, hosted by the University of Southern California

Nancy Reeves — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:25:50 -0700

2009 Horizon Report Now Available in German

NMC — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:38:10 -0700

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).

Established in 2002, MMKH is a center of expertise in eLearning and eCampus activities. The center provides support services for the IT-based modernization of campus administration and education for Hamburg's public universities. Multimedia Kontor provides strategic consulting services, including coordination, consulting and support services, for its partner institutions.

Download the 2009 Horizon Report: German Edition (German) (840 k, 38 pp)
Download ホライズン・レポート 2009 年版 (Japanese) (640 k, 32 pp)
Download El Informe Horizon 2009 (Spanish) (401 k, 32 pp)
Download L'Informe Horizon 2009 (Catalan) (395 k, 32 pp)

The NMC is very interested in working with other international partners to translate the Horizon Report into additional languages; if you or your organization is interested in working on a translation, please contact us at horizon@nmc.org.

Entry-level multimedia competencies survey

Bill_Sugar — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:37:54 -0700

New Media Consortium members,

Please assist me and my colleagues in identifying multimedia production competencies and skills needed by Instructional Design and Technology professionals. The goal of this survey is to determine the specific competencies that new graduate students need to possess.

You can complete this short survey (~5-10 minutes) at https://survey.ecu.edu/perseus/se.ashx?s=0B87A656774066D0 We are more than happy to share our results. If interested in viewing these results, please contact me at sugarw@coe.ecu.edu

--Bill Sugar

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William Sugar, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Program Coordinator, MS in Instructional Technology program
East Carolina University
Mathematics, Science and Instructional Technology Education
161 Umstead
Greenville, NC 27858
252.328.1546 (office)
252.328.9371 (fax)
sugarw@coe.ecu.edu
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Conference Bloggers

Alan Levine — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:06:14 -0700

cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog

We have three NMC members for reserved "blogging" seats in the main sessions at the 2009 NMC Summer Conference so they had good vantage points for writing regular updates on the conference experience. Their blog coverage exceeded our wildest expectations! Our thanks go to Chris Lott (http://chrislott.org/), Leslie-Madsen Brooks (http://cluttermuseum.blogspot.com/), and Gardner Campbell (http://www.gardnercampbell.net/blog1) for the live blogging, including the following stories:

Kathy Sierra Keynote

Marco Torres Keynote

Five Minutes of Fame

Center of Excellence Awards

NMC Fellows Award to Doug Engelbart

cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog

NMC Announces 2009 Center of Excellence Award Recipients

Nancy Reeves — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:36:51 -0700

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.

Symbolized by a specially struck medallion suspended in a translucent obelisk, the Center of Excellence Award has been designed purposefully to make it distinct from other award or recognition programs. Colleges do not compete for the award, nor is it granted within predefined categories. The selection process is based on the MacArthur Awards, and like that program, the nominators and others involved in the selection process remain anonymous as a core principle of the program. They are chosen from organizations both within and outside the NMC, and represent a considerable diversity of knowledge.

“The Center of Excellence Awards celebrate the innovation and creativity that is part of the fabric of every member institution,” said NMC CEO Larry Johnson. “The NMC organizations recognized this year represent the best of our field, and each has had a tremendous history of accomplishment.”

The 2009 NMC Center of Excellence Award recipients 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)

“The 2009 class of recipients represents the very best of the community of innovators that is the NMC, and each exemplifies the vision that brings us all together,” noted Joan Getman, chair of the NMC Board of Directors. “Individually and together, these three institutions exemplify the highest values of the NMC, and each has compiled a history of accomplishment that has helped set the standards in the application of new media forms to teaching, learning, research, and creative expression.”

“The selection committee had a tremendous task and did their job well,” Johnson stated at the Center of Excellence Awards ceremony at the 2009 NMC Summer Conference today. “The 2009 recipients are all acknowledged leaders in the application of technology by any standard. The institutions recognized with the Center of Excellence Award are a group that includes schools large and small, the well-endowed and the not-so-well endowed, they represent the best of the NMC. Together and individually they exemplify the state of the art. Today’s recipients are worthy additions to that list.”

Frequently Asked Questions

Q How are the selections made?
A Once an institution is nominated, a set of information is put together to help the selection committee make its decisions. This information may be gleaned from the institution’s website, from conversations with knowledgeable persons, through interviews, or by other means. The information collected is reviewed by a selection committee that is charged with identifying from among the nominees the institutions most deserving of this recognition.

Q Who are the nominators?
A The nominators are drawn from both academe and industry, and are not required to be NMC members. Each is a leader in his or her field. By prior agreement, the identity of the nominators is held in confidence.

Q What are the categories in which honorees are chosen?
A Like other awards upon which this program is modeled, such as the MacArthur Awards, there are no predefined categories for selection.

Previous Center of Excellence Award Recipients

California State University, Chico
California State University System
Carleton College
Case Western Reserve University
Carleton College
City College of New York
Johns Hopkins University
Kent State University
Maricopa Community Colleges
Medical College of Ohio
Northeastern University
Otis College of Art and Design
Pasadena City College
Rochester Institute of Technology
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
University of British Columbia
University of Calgary
University of California, Berkeley
The University of Maryland, Baltimore County
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
The University of Texas at Austin
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Wesleyan University

Doug Engelbart: 2009 NMC Fellows Award

Alan Levine — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 17:19:28 -0700

Doug Engelbart, Ph.D.

NMC Fellow Awarded June 2009 at NMC Summer Conference

Doug Engelbart is best known for inventing the computer mouse, and is a pioneer of human-computer interaction, including GUIs, hypertext, and groupware, as well as strategic organizing principles for continuous improvement and innovation.

Engelbart received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Oregon State University in 1948, an M.S. degree from UC Berkeley in 1953, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley in 1955.

As a World War II radio technician based in the Philippines, Engelbart was inspired by Vannevar Bush’s article As We May Think. After the war, he was moved to carve out a career that would make a significant difference to humanity and the planet. He envisioned outfitting the people working on solutions to important problems with interactive computers, enabling them to fly through their information spaces to optimize their collective problem-solving capabilities.

Following his inspiration, Engelbart quit his comfortable job as an engineer at NASA, and studied at UC Berkeley, where he earned a PhD in 1955. Engelbart was the primary force behind the design of the Stanford Research Institute ’s On-Line System, or NLS. Throughout the 1960s and ’70s he and his team at the Augmentation Research Center developed human-computer interface elements such as the mouse, multiple windows, hypermedia, online publishing, online communities, groupware, and the graphical user interface. He developed many of his user interface ideas before 1968, long before the personal computer revolution, captured for posterity in what is now known as The Mother of All Demos.

Learn more about Doug's history...

In December 2008, the 40th anniversary of the Mother of All Demos, Doug and his visionary work was recognized at two major events: the Program for the Future and the Dawn of Interactive Computing. Join the NMC at the closing of the 2009 NMC Summer Conference as we award Doug the NMC’s highest recognition as an NMC Fellow.

This tribute video was compiled from interviews with Doug in 2002:

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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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