CogBlogged from ‘June, 2005’

Do the same aesthetics that apply to traditional motion media (fil, tv) apply to web video? Video for New Media: Developing the Aesthetic and Managing the Workflow Pacific Ballroom, Salon G Tools & Techniques Intermediate Video production for the multi-media project is the art of adapting the decades old technology and aesthetic of television to the needs and sensibility of new media. This adaptation involves, among other things, the reassessment of issues of dimensionality, continuity, spatial logic and workflow. Attendees to this session will learn strategies of video production and post-production for the new media environment, including methods for subverting the established limitations of traditional motion media. Issues and solutions of postproduction workflow for multiple, simultaneous editors will be particularly stressed. Derek W. Toten, Tulane University The Continuity System creates narrative continuity relies on editing and mise-en-scene anyone working in narrative filmmaking is expexted to be familiar with Example http://www.405themovie.com/ [...]

The NMC – NLII Horizon Report in Practice: Five Snapshots from the Future All The Horizon Project Virtual Community of Practice takes emerging technologies and identifies — and experiments with — symbiotic educational practices. How do these new tools and techniques fit into educational institutions? Can they make a difference in student learning? What is the best way to evaluate them? Can they harmonize with existing IT infrastructure? How do they transform how we think? What are some obstacles in considering emerging technologies? Join us as we share samples and explore these themes. Cyprien Lomas, University of British Columbia/Educause; Ruben Puentedura, Hippasus; Nick Noakes, Honk Kong University of Science and Technology; Wayne Brent, University of Arizona NMC publishes the Horizon Report as a roadmap of emerging technologies. EDUCAUSE is coordinating a virtual community of practice to engage more participation and activity in these areas. Narrowcasting at the intersection of Social [...]

The morning session for Friday at the 2005 NMC Summer Conference was a combination of the Center for Excellence awards and the NMC special Five Minutes of Fame session. The Center for Excellence are awarded to three institutions as a recognition for their efforts (we were fortunate to get on one 2003)- this year recognizing UC Chico, University of Texas, and Wesleyan University. Each center gets their unique lucite statue, and during the ceremony each shows a 5 minute video providing more information about what they day. The stuff in the videos is just outstanding, and many of them have a lot of fun in creating the videos (the best were the “ribs” scenes from University of Texas, as well as the outakes of their provost yelling in surprise, “you’re going to HAWAII! No one told me you were going to HAWAII!”). The projects from UC Chico were impressive- a [...]

Friday session at NMC Summer Conference: How can you have an impact on your campus? How do you know if you are succeeding? What strategies are other NMCs using to make an impact? At the 2005 NMC Directors’ Meeting in February, these questions were raised in a stimulating conversation about maximizing campus impact. This session continues that discussion, examining the themes that emerged at the Directors’ Meeting. Participants will be encouraged to share case study-type stories from their own experiences. The results of these discussions will inform an NMC whitepaper on the topic that will be released this fall. Larry Johnson, NMC: The New Media Consortium; Alicia Russell, Northeastern University; Rachel Smith, NMC: The New Media Consortium Started with ideas at NMC Directors meeting- if it were to be a white paper, what would be the table of contents. Large paper with sketched notes on this, plus another wall covered [...]

This morning at the NMC Summer conference was my presentation on More Than Cat Diaries: Publishing With Weblogs… maybe it was the small room, but it was pretty full. I threw a whole lot of kitchen sinck at them. The gist of this was to address the dissmissive commonly uttered description of blogs as “online diaries”. The session was billed as: Blogs are “in” but often viewed as just for “online diaries.” However, once the templates are harnessed, weblog software can publish sophisticated web sites. See how the Low Threshold Applications site was converted from a tedious manual editing job to a more coherent and automated site using MovableType. Other examples include project sites and eportfolios, all published via blogware. Learn some of the secrets that have been extracted for doing more than what comes in the box. I recently found and used this most excellent Corante Strange Attractor article [...]

Start with a demo! Good move. Pachyderm project site Wendy Shapiro (Case Western) showed a Pachyderm created “Exploring Soul Music” done with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Soul Music timeline done via Phone dial screen with screens by year. Gives world events for context, examples of music from Ray Charles and Chubby Checker. Checker is not in the Hall of Fame, but the zoom screen uses a letter written by him campaigning to be inducted. Second project from Case Western in Dental School. The school is moving to problem based learning. Pachyderm used to create scenarios, presented as video clips. The main screen presents “Questions to Answer”, a mini lecture, other media that contain clues to answer questions. ANother screen presents a menu of resources with links to web sites, Word documents, PowerPoints. Next up is Peter Samis, SFMOMA where Pachyderm 1.0 was created.

flickr foto Hanauma Bayavailable on my flickr This awesome beach is the result of a volcanic crater blowing out a coral reef, and the ocean reclaiming it’s loss by breaching the wall of the crater, leaving this magnificent crescent beach– and a new coral reef. No, this is not the conference location for the New Media Consortium 2005 Summer Conference, but pretty darn close. Yesterday was pre-conference workshops, and for me it was my own workshop on exploring Oahu. I enjoy visting new places via public transportation, so I started outside the hotel to get the local bus, otherwise known as TheBus. I rode it to Diamond Head, a prominent point looming at the end of Waikiki beach. This is like everything else here, a volcanic landform, relatively young, and provides a hike up to its rim for a commanding view of Oahu. Being on foot, I walked up the [...]

flickr foto Obligatory WIki Photoavailable on my flickr Having landed at the Honolulu airport, I paid the computer technogeek’s homage to Ward Cunningham by taking the obligatory photo of the "Wiki Wiki" bus. Wow, is Hawaii heavenly on what? And I get the honor of shuttling between airport terminals on the legendary Wiki Wiki busses, crammed full of fellow touristimos, driven by a feisty woman who barked out orders into the microphone. I rode the wiki! Woo hoo!

Call me fickle, but despite some recent barking about the new social bookmark site Jots, I am romping back to del.icio.us for my primary bookmarking. Ttecnically, I am using my multi-bookmark tool to post to del.icio.us, Furl, and our Bag of URLs site… Furl since I have a big pile there not elsewhere, the “Bag” since I use it to send links to a list within our system. But I am back to del.icio.us for its ease of tagging via the bookmark tool- not only does it nicely auto complete tags when typed in, it also makes using my previous tags a one clikc suggestio, and it offers a decent set of suggested tags perhaps used by others. So for example, I just dumped in the Google Sightseeing site, a fun place that catalogs interesting things that have been found in the Satellite views of Google Maps…

flickr foto Over Thereavailable on my flickr Look Sani, there goes a cat! Get it! Hanging out a few days in San Diego- here is my stepsom’s 130 pound lapdog, ‘Sani’, a sweeter than sugar Great Dane puppy.