NMC Symposium on New Media & Learning – Online
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!
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Thanks for the post! I think it’ll be really interesting to attend the symposium. If you get a room, do let us know. Did you know it will be held in Second Life? The NMC site states that there will be “alternatives for those who do not wish to participate via Second Life” as well. (Marni and I are hoping to present the Penn LPS Commons project at this event, and as a poster session at the summer conference in Monterey. In my next blog post, I’ll describe the project for those who haven’t yet seen it.)