Digital_Nation/PBS Frontline

PBS Frontline last week aired Digital_Nation, a 90-minute program (plus plenty of supplementary material) examining the digital revolution via the following topics: Living Faster; Relationships; Waging War; Virtual Worlds; Learning.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/

Here’s a link to one of the extended interviews, this one with Sherry Turkle, who directs MIT’s Initative on Technology and the Self, and is the author of Simulation and its Discontents, Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet, and The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/interviews/turkle.html

Helen De Michiel, National Alliance for Media Arts & Culture, 2/12 noon

Helen De Michiel, co-director of the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture will give a lecture on “Creativity & Connection: Changing Arts Participation in the 21st Century”  on February 12 at noon in 249 Lawrence Hall. Helen will report on the changing landscape of new media technologies and discuss how artists, arts and media organizations, community practitioners, and citizens are finding new ways to connect, collaborate, and co-create across disciplines and borders.

My Foray into Filmaking – Video of Horizon Report from ELI 2010 at EdTechPost

This comes from Scott Leslie, an educational technologist who works as a “manager of Client Services in Open Education for BCcampus, a province-wide post-secondary agency in British Columbia, Canada.” I think it is a good summation of this year’s NMC Horizon Report, specifically the emerging technology portion.

My Foray into Filmaking – Video of Horizon Report from ELI 2010 at EdTechPost.

Winter Workshops in Ed Tech

To register for any of these workshops, contact Robert Voelker-Morris, rmorris1@uoregon.edu, 346-1934.

RSS Basics

Wednesday, February 10, 2010
3:00-4:00pm Collaboration Center, 175 McKenzie Hall

Brian Westra

Sean Sharp, Research & Instructional Tech, Information Services

Brian Westra, Lokey Science Data Services Librarian

What is an RSS Feed? Who uses it and how? RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and is a technology that enables you to have information sent to you seamlessly and in an easy to use form that can help manage the dailyflow of information that you receive. Examples include subscribing to newspaper headline feeds and podcasts. Sean will address how instructors, graduate students and students use RSS to gather relevant information in their field of research.

Screen Capture Recording  Hands-on Session

Friday, February 12, 2010
2:00-3:30pm Pacific 113, Yamada Language Center Computer Lab

Robert Voelker-Morris, Teaching Effectiveness Program
Nargas Oskui, Center for Media and Educational Technologies Consulting

In this session we will present on screen recording applications and the benefits of using the technology. Participants will take part in exercises in recording their own computer tutorials.

NERCOMP workshop on “digital scholarship”

Encountered this post on the Academic Commons blog today, and thought it might be of interest to some here. The workshop will be held on Feb. 1, and aims to cover the following questions:

How do campuses support the production needs for student and faculty whose work draws increasingly on the use of multiple forms of media? What strategies are faculty using to assess multimedia-based research projects? How are media projects disseminated? What pedagogical and production frameworks do librarians and instructional technologists need to understand?

Go here for more info/registration.

UODS Work-in-Progress: Mondloch/Kivarkis 1/15/10

UO Digital Scholars Works-in-Progress, January 2010

Reflections on the Society of the Screen
Kate Mondloch, Assistant Professor of Art History

Kate Mondloch in the Collaboration Center

Jewelry Appropriating Jewelry: From Dutch Portraiture to the Internet Archive
Anya Kivarkis, Assistant Professor of Jewelry & Metalsmithing, Department of Art

Anya Kivarkis takes a question

John Willinsky: Open Access@UO

John Willinsky, visionary leader  in digital scholarship and open access, talked about  “Open Access to Knowledge and the Intellectual Properties of Learning” December 4 at 3 p.m. in Knight Library’s Browsing Room.

John Willinsky

With faculty appointments at the Stanford School of Education and the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia, Willinsky is an Open Access pioneer. As founder of the Public Knowledge Project, he developed the Open Journal Systems for serials publishing, and, more recently, the Open Monograph Press for book-length works. He was instrumental in convincing the Stanford School of Education to adopt an open access deposit mandate for all  faculty members.

UM Press/HASTAC Prize for Work in Digital Humanities

University of Michigan Press/HASTAC Publication Prize for Notable Work in the Digital Humanities

In conjunction with the launch of the UM Series in Digital Humanities, the University of Michigan and the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC) are pleased to announce the UM Press/HASTAC Digital Humanities Publication Prize. The prize will be awarded for an innovative and important project that displays a critical and rigorous engagement in the field of Digital Humanities.

Deadline Extended for HASTAC 2010

HASTAC 2010: Grand Challenges & Global Innovations Conference

Submissions will now be accepted through MIDNIGHT, January 4, 2010. For more information, see the description of the conference at http://www.hastac.org/events/hastac-2010-grand-challenges-and-global-innovations-conference and http://www.chass.illinois.edu/Index/Index.html.

Campus Leaders Advisory Board for New Media Consortium

Congratulations (and thanks) to the following UO folks who volunteered to serve on UO’s New Media Consortium Campus Leaders Advisory Board (CLAB): Doug Blandy (Arts & Administration), Allison Carruth (English), Helen Chu (Information Services), Deborah Morrison (Journalism), Jeffrey Stolet (Music), and Stephanie Wood (Wired Humanities Project).