Video Archive from NMC

http://www.nmc.org/2009-summer-conference/videos

includes:

• Keynote presentations by Kathy Sierra and Marco Torres
• Point Lobos Photo Shoot- a slide show of the best photos from the pre-conference digital photography workshop
• The Five Minutes of Fame session (10 great presentations in less than an hour! with a gong!)
• The entire Centers of Excellence Awards ceremony plus the individual videos created by winners Abilene Christian University, the Center for Digital Storytelling, and La Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
• The special tribute video created to honor Doug Engelbart
• Lev Gonick and Kristina Woolsey's Conversation with Doug and presenting him with the NMC Fellows Award
• The fun invitation video created by hosts USC for the 2010 NMC Summer Conference in Anaheim

NMC Sessions Attended

eTEACH: Creating Dynamic and Engaging Multimedia (Lead by: Blaire and Josh)

This workshop was a spectacular opportunity for us to try out eTEACH on a broader audience and see how they would react to it. Overall, the reactions were extremely positive.

http://www.nmc.org/2009-summer-conference/videos

The format of the workshop broke down into Blaire doing a general overview of some eTEACH features and discussing why it is important for media accessiblity during the first half. The second half was a hands-on portion lead mostly by Josh where the participants were able to "get their hands dirty" with eTEACH.

Because this is a public page, I will not list the participants by name, but I would like to discuss some of their reactions. One of the participants has a career focused on media accessibility and was extremely passionate about the possiblities of what eTEACH could bring to this community. She provided us with many connections to the accessibility community and offered to have one of her students video recorded using accessibility features within eTEACH.

Another of our participants was more tech-savvy and as a result asked more technical questions regarding how eTEACH connects to a server hosted at UW-Madison to do the conversion of PowerPoint into JPGs and accessible text....

Faculty, Students, Community: Digital Stories for Deeper Learning (Lead by: Cheryl Diermyer, Joe Lambert and Liv Gjestvang

Opening Plenary --- Creating Passionate Learners

Telling Stories in Land and Food Systems; Future Advocates and Citizen Journalists

It's not About Clicking and Dragging! It's not About Blogging, Podcasting, Web 2.0'in!

Building Community Around Tools for Automated Video Transcription(Blaire, Alan, Josh)

Designing the Learning System: Building Efficient Linkages between Pedagogy and Institutional Resources(Alan and Josh)

Beyond the Talking Head: Helping Faculty Create Videos to Aid Instruction

More Than Meets The Eye: Using Google Earth and Geospatial Apps for Storytelling, Teaching and Finding Your Way (Cheryl)

Negotiating Culture through Digital Stories (Cheryl)

Beyond Fear 2.0: Social Media, Literacies and the World Beyond the Walls (Cheryl)

Five Minutes of Fame