Editor’s note: This blog entry was written by Lisa Minetti, Curriculum Design and Assessment Specialist at the College of Liberal and Professional Studies.
In a New Media Consortium web conference tomorrow entitled The Future of Video in Education, Dr. Marni Baker Stein, Director of Program Development at the College of Liberal and Professional Studies, will be speaking about our innovative use of open source video on the Penn LPS Commons using Kaltura.
Our “revolutionary video project” involved the delivery of over 30 hours of broadcast-quality lectures in a fully-online non-credit course to more than 1000 participants in 62 countries on 6 continents. Course participants watched the video lectures and discussed them using tools of the social web. Come hear a bit more about this and other exciting video projects:
Connect@NMC: Kaltura Inspire: The Future of Video in Education
This Webinar will explore how video and new forms of multi-media enabled learning are revolutionizing education across the country. Video in Education now goes beyond simple publishing and includes internal university ‘YouTubes’, deep learning management system integrations, collaborative video editing assignments, video for distance education and libraries, and media-powered blogs and social networks. Kaltura has developed an open source alternative to proprietary video platforms that is flexible, easy to integrate and includes custom tools specifically for education.
Join us for a showcase of revolutionary video projects. Penn State’s Chris Millet, Penn’s Marni Baker Stein, 2Tor’s James Kenigsberg, and Kaltura’s Leah Belsky.
Note you will have to pre-register to attend via http://www.kaltura.org/education-webinar-registration?ref=NMC
Over the next few months we’ll publish here descriptions of other video projects we’re working on with Penn faculty. In the meantime, why not share some information about a project that you’re involved with?
Friday, Sept. 25, 2009, 10:30 am to 3 pm
9/25 Symposium
It’s not a coincidence that our symposium has the same name as this blog! Several regular bloggers here are involved and we hope all of you will join us.
Explore teaching with new media through faculty insights, hands-on exploration of four technologies and an overview of new media trends. Open to Penn faculty, instructors and graduate students. Details and Registration
The symposium begins with a faculty panel in Claudia Cohen Hall, and continues in the Weigle Information Commons with an informal lunch and Tech Tasting sessions for hands-on, small-group exploration. Faculty presenters include Linda Chance, Ann Greene, Alain Plante, Paul Rozin and Herb Smith from the School of Arts and Sciences and Amy Hillier from the School of Design. Each faculty presenter will discuss how and why they choose to use a specific technology in their teaching.
The Tech Tasting sessions include popular technologies such as Facebook, blogs, wikis, graphic design, video, web design, clickers and PowerPoint. Twelve topics are offered by presenters from several Penn organizations.
Categories: Classroom Activities, New Technologies, Pedagogy, Penn Resources, Services, Software, Student Projects, Uncategorized, Weigle Information Commons
Tags: blogs, clickers, Facebook, new media, poster design, PowerPoint, web design, wikis
Stanford Cell Phone Quintet
Weigle Information Commons has just announced the 2009 Seltzer Awards competition. We expect to award $1,000 worth of equipment to five Penn undergraduates for one year for a new media project.
The announcement reminded me of the six ambitious and creative projects funded last year. One, by Nick Salvatore, introduced me to 3Dvideo – something I am eager to experience firsthand. Another, by Shawn Wang, proposed Second Life for international student-to-student exchanges. Kristin Hall proposed a video documentary about Botswana, Jody Pollock proposed a video documentary about Guatemala and Jean Lee proposed a video documentary set here in Philadelphia. And George Karandinos proposed an audio recording database. We hope to announce this year’s winners and showcase last year’s projects in mid-April.
In just a year, the technology has certainly sped up. I expect more applications for mobile, handheld projects – maybe one on cellphone music like this recent exploration at Stanford. And Second Life is getting more attention at Penn lately, especially from language lecturers.
The New Media Consortium (NMC) is hosting an online symposium March 24-26, 2009 that looks like it will be very good:
The 2009 NMC Symposium on New Media and Learning, the thirteenth in the NMC’s Series of Virtual Symposia, will explore the impact of new media on teaching, learning, research, and creative expression, especially in higher education.
New media, for this event, is interpreted broadly as anything from creative uses of digital media and new forms of communication to alternative publishing methods and media-rich tools. The Symposium seeks to explore new media in the context of a current social phenomenon and not simply as a means of content delivery.
I’m particularly interested in this symposium because it will address “new literacies; and any technology or practice that shows promise for engaging students and supporting teaching and learning using new media”. NMC events are always very interesting and helpful, and this one is online so you don’t have to travel or disrupt your schedule to attend. The registration isn’t free, but it’s a lot less expensive than most in-person conferences.
Check it out at http://www.nmc.org/2009-nml-symposium
Once the session topics are listed, if you’d like to attend one of them by looking over my shoulder, just let me know and I’ll reserve a room with a large screen and speakers where we can watch together.
Hope to “see” you there!
