Since re-locating to Brisbane for his new appointment at the University of Queensland, NMC Board Member Phil Long remains active in NMC programs. In this NMC Conversation, recorded on a visit Phil is currently making in the US (something he does every 2 months), he talks to us about learning to work “bi-hemispherically”.
He also shares some of the differences and similarities he has observed having been at UQ since August, 2008, notably the way Australians have to deal with metered broadband network connectivity (and some hopes for the new Rudd broadband plan). Phil also describes some of the new projects that are underway at his new department, the Centre for Educational Innovation and Technology (CEIT).
We close with some discussion about the ways to foster the growing NMC Australian Community, which now includes 8 organizations (and likely more soon) and the impact of the 2008 Horizon Report Australia-New Zealand Edition.
In this NMC Conversation we are transglobal! Larry (in Texas), Rachel (in California), and Alan (temporarily in Iceland) talk with Angela Thomas in Sydney, Australia. Angela, a senior lecturer in English Arts and New Media Literacies at the University of Sydney. The NMC and Angela have collaborated numerous times since first meeting her in Second Life back in 2006, and she has presented several times at our Second Life conferences as well as being a featured speaker at the 2006 NMC Summer Conference.
We invited Angela to talk about her recent work on Virtual Macbeth, a deeply immersive Second Life experience designed to create a feeling for the visitor of the influences on and psychology of being “inside” Macbeth’s head. The NMC Virtual Worlds team built the entire project and brought her ideas to life.
Angela shares with us some interesting information on the design aspects of the project, the success in working with a large number of colleagues in its production, and its potential for teaching and learning. If you have not taken the time to visit Virtual Macbeth, carve out some time and enter Macbeth’s head via http://slurl.com/secondlife/Macbeth/44/54/54.
In bringing the Steve project to NMC we are excited to introduce Susan Chun as a new staff member of NMC to direct the project. We recently met in person at the NMC office in Austin, and took the face to face opportunity to welcome Susan and have her engage us in a conversation about Steve. Continue reading ‘Welcome Susan Chun and Steve: NMC Conversation #9′
The 2008 NMC Summer Conference, hosted at Princeton University, is coming up soon, so we thought it was a good time to have an NMC conversation with conference host, David Hopkins, Manager of the New Media Center at Princeton.
In our conversation, David has shared what this experience means for Princeton and an overview of what the “Conference Task Force” has been up to. If you missed it, check out the “24′ themed video they showed at Indianapolis last year: Conference Task Force video (16.7 Mb Quicktime
Our newest conversation is a celebration and reflection for the Pachyderm Project as we talke about the NMC’s announcement for Pachyderm Services. Now the NMC offers hosted subscriptions allowing individual and organizational to create accounts and create Pachyderm published content. The full details are on the new Pachyderm Services web site.
In today’s conversation, we welcome special guests Peter Samis, Associate Curator of the Education and Program Manager for Interactive Educational Technologies at SFMOMA, where Pachyderm was “born” ans Scott Sayre, from Sandbox Studios, who is currently the chair of the Pachyderm Council guiding the future of Pachyderm.
So we cover in this session both the past, present, and future of Pachyderm.
Just back from New Orleans, Larry, Rachel, and Alan share their reflections on the 2007 New Orleans Regional NMC Conference at Tulane including reviews of the keynote sessions, their highlights from the program sessions, and memories of the special events, especially the Second Line parade. Mostly, this conference wove together cohesive themes of the power of digital storytelling, music, creativity, community, the capacity of human potential especially in face of events such as the post Katrina flooding of the city.
