CogBlogged Tagged ‘nmc’

Ugh, will this one ever end? I decided to create an audio narrated slidecast of my 50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story, using the audio I recorded when I did the presentation at the 2007 NMC Regional Conference at Tulane. It took a bit more time, as I had to grab screenshots, stuff them into a PowerPoint, add the links, upload to slideshare, and THEN do the synchronization. There are a few places I missed the screens so I am talking about some things you cannot see, but worse! What a major “umm” fest this was! Ca I plead fatigue? I think it might be “49,000 Ummm Web 2.o Ways…” But here it is for your viewing torture. Man, do I like Slideshare! | View | Upload your own Okay, if you use my materials (and I hope you do)- please go to http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/50+Ways but please, please, do [...]

Closing keynote for the NMC Regional Conference at Tulane is Not Since the Great Depression: The Post Katrina Documentary Impulse and New Media by Michael Mizell-Nelson, University of New Orleans, Hurricane Digital Memory Bank (Collecting, Preserving, and Presenting the stories and digital record of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita). Assembling content for an online database project regarding hurricanes Katrina and Rita provides daily opportunities to assess personal and community losses throughout the Gulf Coast. It also puts one into contact with the vast array of documentation efforts flourishing along the coast, particularly New Orleans, which serves as this catastrophe’s “Ground Zero.” Each individual’s story constitutes one invaluable piece in the immense debris field stretching from Texas to Alabama. New Media drives the documentation of the tragedies and ongoing recoveries; similarly, New Media must assist in making these invaluable materials accessible to both web surfers and scholars. Collecting what has already been [...]

Digital in the Wild: Community Using Technology in Post-Katrina New Orleans NOLA Blogger panel session at NMC Regional Conference at Tulane. A panel of five community activists (Ted Cash, Bart Everson, Alan Gutierrez, Sandy Rosenthal) will present their perspectives on how the levee catastrophe in New Orleans catapulted the need for digital information and communication in the community. In various ways, the panelists have each been involved in using technology since the storm to assist in the transformation of the city. They will share their perspectives on why technology has been critical to the lives of New Orleanians since Katrina, and how. Moderated by Chris Reade – never expected to be involved in rebuilding or recovery. “Digital in the Wild” coined by Alan Gutierrez not about “cool new tech”- technology was not even the pivotal role. After the storm, you would ave thought a Treo would be useful, but it [...]

presentation by Joe Lambert at NMC Regional Conference at Tulane. This session will discuss a range of approaches from the field of media arts in capturing stories, from creative writing prompts, to interview techniques, to place-based recordings, and talking into images and film. Come learn what works, what doesn’t, and what might be best suited to your project. Short writing exercise… storytelling is mainly about desire, an arc of reaching what you want. Write 10 things that you really love. Flip side, write 10 things that make you furious. One word each. Read the list of likes in normal voice, but read the second list slowly with feeling. Asks them to ask for which ones were surprising that they wrote down. Asks each of us to pick the one word on either of our lists and describe the moment when we felt that emotion. Joe shows digital story about New [...]

Not the Sunday Funnies: Lessons from Webcomics presentation by Ruben Puentadora at NMC Regional Conference at Tulane. It all began in 1993 with a one-panel comic called “Doctor Fun,” published on the University of Chicago Library website. Others soon followed, and today the webcomic is a flourishing medium, with thousands of authors uploading their creations worldwide. Webcomics have evolved rapidly over time, generating new and unique narrative approaches to digital storytelling. We will examine the history of the medium, the new languages it has created, and its uses in learning environments. Ruben was nfluenced to digital storytelling by session (following a really bad day at a conference) with a Dana Atchley session on digital storytelling – Ruben sees potential for expression in web comics. History of genre – “it would take 5 days to do it all– and there are grey areas, who did what, etc.” Doctor Fun by David [...]

Opening keynote for the NMC Regional Conference at Tulane is Words and Music, Crafts and Costumes, Ritual and… Radio: The Power of Old Media in New Orleans by Nick Spitzer, of American Routes “the radio program from New Orleans devoted to the sources and symbols of blues and jazz, country and gospel, roots rock and soul, as well as related ethnic, regional, popular and classical styles of the music and musicians that define the landscape of American vernacular culture.” Spitzer presenting in image and music- In a conference devoted to the wide and dazzling array of new media in relationship to intimate community life in New Orleans and elsewhere, much of what may be extended in the classroom, broadcast or global networks comes from original human forms of expression. The implications of which are: pre-modern forms of artistic communication still speak to us, old modern forms like radio offer time-tested [...]

Hands Off My Beignets! posted 6 Nov ’07, 10.27pm MST PST on flickr Cafe du Monde, the famous spot in New Orleans for coffee and sugar piled on dough fried in fat! As the resident diabetic, I could only photograph the carnage. It’s the night before another great NMC event- the New Orleans Regional Conference at Tulane.

Evening on Bourbon Street posted 4 Oct ’05, 9.51pm MDT PST on flickr I really like New Orleans. And I miss it. I’m off tomorrow early early for a flight to New Orleans- this week is the 2007 NMC Regional Conference hosted by Tulane University. C’mon down to the Quarter! (also trying desperately to see if there is any chance that technorati actually picks up a *#&^ing tag)

It’s the day before I board the Big Old Jet Airliner to the NMC Summer Conference and I am piling on the Web 2.0 Tagging goodness, or zaniness. This recap is as much to document as to thanks those I lean on. Last year, at the 2006 Summer conference in Cleveland, being my first one in the fold of NMC employment, I rolled out a Tag This Conference page, mixing up del.icio.us, flickr, and hopefully technorati content all tagged with nmc2006, the page doing so with some help from a local version of feed2js. Repeated this tagging for the 2006 Regional Conference in San Antonio. So without too much extension, the Web 1.0ish page is up for next week’s conference spiffed up a bit by bringing it also up as a Tumblog, which presents the feeds from the same 3 sources a bit more stylishly. Okay, that is good, but…

I leave in a few days for the 2007 NMC Summer Conference in Indianapolis. This is actually a minor test of blogging into the wind to see if Technorati picks up the conference tag of nmc2007 (I still am never 100% sure if it will pick up tagged blog posts). But yay! it looks like the simple WP plugin I used, then broke, Bunny’s Technorati Tags, is functional in WordPress 2.x — I like its simplicity of just tagging when I feel like it; my categories are not all that coherent to warrant an Ultimate Tag Warrior approach (call me a tag wimp rather than warrior). So for those bloggers, flickerites, and del.icio.us markers, remember to tag a whole boat load of stuff with nmc2007. I have the duct tape and bailing wire Tag This Conference page set up to receive tagged stuff, and am also testing a tumblr site [...]