EDUCAUSE | Multimedia

E08 Podcast: Social Media and Education: The Conflict Between Technology and Institutional Education, and the Future

gbayne — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:47:46 -0600

This fifty minute podcast features a session recorded at the EDUCAUSE 2008 Annual Conference. The presentation, "Social Media and Education: The Conflict Between Technology and Institutional Education, and the Future," is by Sarah Robbins-Bell, PhD Candidate at Ball State University. Streaming video for this session is also available.

Today's technology enables users to form and join communities of common interest to learn and share information. In opposition to the privileged learning spaces of higher education, social media encourage learners to seek out their own answers and construct knowledge as a community rather than as individuals. Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, and Second Life offer new learning spaces, but how do they fit into the learning expectations of institutions?

E08 Podcast: An Interview with Sandra Miller, Director of Instruction & Research Technology at William Paterson University

gbayne — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:03:31 -0600

This fourteen-minute podcast features an interview with Sandra L. Miller, Director of Instruction & Research Technology at William Paterson University of New Jersey. The conversation was recorded at the EDUCAUSE 2008 Annual Conference, and centers on Sandra Miller's session, "NJVid: A Collaborative Portal for Statewide Video Access." She also talks about attitudes towards the use of multimedia in learning. The conversation host is Linda A. Cabot, Vice President of Information Technology at Cardinal Stritch University.

NJVid is a collection and service-driven portal that technically consists of six component parts: Collections, Networking and Access, Authentication and Authorization, Services, Repository, and Mass Storage. Initially funded by IMLS (Institute of Museum and Library Services), NJVid provides New Jersey's K–20 institutions, museums, and libraries state-of-the-art video access.

E08 Podcast: An Interview with Stephen Toback, Senior Manager of Interactive Technology Services at Duke University

gbayne — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:37:19 -0600

This seven-minute podcast features an interview with Stephen Toback, Senior Manager of Interactive Technology Services for the Office Of Information Technology at Duke University. The conversation was recorded at the EDUCAUSE 2008 Annual Conference, and centers on his session, "Evolution of iTunesU and Its Role in the Duke ExperienceThe Evolution of iTunes U and Its Role in the Duke Experience." He also discusses past, present, and future plans for iTunes U at Duke. The conversation host is Linda A. Cabot, Vice President of Information Technology at Cardinal Stritch University.

As one of the pilot schools developing iTunes U, Duke University has seen an evolution of the tool over the past three years on its campus. The repository of content in iTunes U reaches faculty, staff, students, alumni, prospective students/parents, and the world at large. In this interview, Stephen

E07 Podcast: Implementation of Rich Media in a Measured Feedback Model

gbayne — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:02:56 -0500

This forty-two minute podcast features a session from the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference. The session, "Implementation of Rich Media in a Measured Feedback Model," presents how UCLA used student feedback and control group studies to inform an ongoing course Webcasting pilot project.

Session presenters include:

Kumiko Haas, Associate Director, UCLA
Rob Rodgers, Associate Director, Office of Instructional Development, UCLA
Session convener: Dianna Sadlouskos, Principal, Sadlouskos Consulting Services

CNI Podcast: Expanding the Scholarly Imagination: Vectors and Multimodal Publishing - An Interview with Tara McPherson

gbayne — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:08:22 -0500

This 31 minute podcast, recorded at the CNI 2008 Spring Task Force Meeting, features an interview with Tara McPherson, Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Critical Studies at the University of Southern California, and Editor of Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular.

Tara McPherson teaches courses in new media, television, and popular culture in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California (USC). Her Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Gender and Nostalgia in the Imagined South (Duke UP: 2003) received the 2004 John G. Cawelti Award for the outstanding book published on American Culture and was a finalist for the Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. She is co-editor of the anthology Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture (Duke UP: 2003) and editor of Digital Youth, Innovation and the Unexpected, part of the MacArthur Foundation series on Digital Media and Learning (MIT Press, 2008). She is currently co-editing an anthology on digital narrative and politics and working on a book manuscript on the racial epistemologies of new media. Her new media research focuses on issues of convergence, gender, race, and representation, as well as upon the development of new tools and paradigms for digital publishing, learning, and authorship.

She is the founding editor of Vectors, the multimedia peer-reviewed journal sponsored by the Institute for Multimedia Literacy at the University of Southern California. Vectors pushes far beyond the "text with pictures" format of much online scholarly publishing, encouraging work that takes full advantage of the multimodal and networked capacities of computing technologies. She was recently selected as one of three editors for the new MacArthur-supported International Journal of Learning and Media (forthcoming from MIT Press in 2009), a hybrid online/print journal that will also explore new forms of online publishing.

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2008 Spring Task Force Meeting. The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity. You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

ELI In Conversation: Gardner Campbell on Innovation and New Media at the Academy

gbayne — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:36:38 -0600

In this 17 minute podcast we feature a conversation with Gardner Campbell, Professor of English at the University of Mary Washington. He is joined later in the conversation by one of his students, Serena Epstein. They co-presented a session at the ELI 2008 Annual Meeting entitled, "Information Fluency as Curricular Innovation: New Media Studies in General Education". Our conversation addresses questions about institutional change in the new media environment and how instructors and administrators might innovate within the traditional university system.

W. Gardner Campbell is Professor of English at the University of Mary Washington, where from 2003-2006 he also served as Assistant Vice-President for Teaching and Learning Technologies. He has been involved in teaching and learning technologies for nearly two decades, including work at the University and San Diego and the University of Richmond, where in the fall of 2006 he was Director of the Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology. Gardner received his B.A. in English from Wake Forest University; and his M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia. He is a Fellow of the Frye Leadership Institute (2005), was chair of the Electronic Campus of Virginia from 2006 to 2008, and has served on program committees for both EDUCAUSE and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative. He currently serves on the ELI Advisory Board (2007-2010).

ELI Podcast: What Wikipedia Can Teach Us About the New Media Literacies

gbayne — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:19:11 -0600

This 73 minute podcast features the 4th Annual Robert C. Heterick Jr. Lecture, given by Henry Jenkins, Director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT. The lecture is entitled, "What Wikipedia Can Teach Us About the New Media Literacies".

Emblematic of the new participatory cultures and the emerging practices of collective intelligence, Wikipedia has drawn fire from academic institutions and traditional gatekeepers. Using segments from a forthcoming documentary about the Wikipedia movement produced by MIT's Project NML, this session will discuss how educators might use Wikipedia to introduce students to the ways that new forms of cultural production and knowledge sharing are reshaping the research process.

EDUCAUSE LIVE! PODCAST: Challenges of Film, Video, and New Media Preservation

gbayne — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:55:20 -0600

In this EDUCAUSE Live! podcast, join host, Steve Worona, for the topic "Challenges of Film, Video, and New Media Preservation". Steve's guest is Howard Besser, Director of the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Master’s Degree Program at New York University.

A PowerPoint version of the slides from this presentation can be found here.

Increasingly, moving images are part of students' daily lives. Students record scenes they witness on their pocket digital movie cameras, download clips from free movie sites, and create remixes and mashups. Students recognize something that many libraries don't—that moving images are one of the richest ways of capturing events and that they tell us an immense amount about the history of their time, as well as current culture and styles.

Many academic libraries have collections of film and video that have been a low priority to organize, catalog, and preserve. One reason for the backlog is that this type of material requires different ways of thinking about handling, preservation, and browsing. In this talk, Howard Besser discusses why moving image material is important and why it must be treated differently than paper or still photography. He also discusses why traditional conservation approaches will not be effective for video or new media works and suggest that we adopt new conservation paradigms for dealing with them. Besser also points to more recent projects and studies that will likely help academic libraries better deal with the older material in their collections and collect the rich set of material being created today.

EDUCAUSE Live! theme music by Steven Host.

Podcast: Mapping the Fault Lines in Telecomm, Media, and Tech Lobbying

gbayne — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:33:42 -0500

In this 35 minute podcast, we feature a speech from the 2007 EDUCAUSE Policy Conference. The speaker is Drew Clark, Senior Fellow and Project Manager for The Center for Public Integrity. The title for this general session is "Mapping the Fault Lines in Telecomm, Media, and Tech Lobbying".

The digital convergence of telecommunications, media, and technology is changing the landscape for policy makers and the industries that lobby them, as well as the users of computers, telephones, entertainment and knowledge. The Center for Public Integrity's Well Connected project tracks each of the major telecom, broadcast, cable, news, entertainment, wireless, and computer companies. Americans can access this free database to see who owns the media and communications networks in their city by typing in their ZIP code. The project is also responsible for a freedom of information lawsuit to obtain data about local broadband deployment from the FCC. This session will address the need for the educational users of computing and communication to be attuned to the lobbying fault lines that affect all of these sectors, with a particular focus on recent developments in telecommunications and intellectual property.

This podcast was edited and hosted by Carie Windham.

Digital Storytelling Spotlighted in Latest ELI Brief

ecoghlan — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:21:42 -0600

In the new 7 Things You Should Know About Digital Storytelling brief from the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), you'll learn about the practice of combining narrative with digital content and its potential value for a variety of teaching and learning settings. Browse the other briefs in the 7 Things You Should Know About... series and the many other ELI resources on teaching, learning, and technology.