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Podcast title NMC Summer Confernence 2006 Podcasts
Website URL http://www.nmc.org/events/2006...
Description Cpaturing the experience of the 2006 New Media Consortium Summer COnference in Cleveland, June 7-10, 2006. Cleveland Rocks!
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Category Education
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Episodes

1. NMC 2006 Conference Video
http://media.nmc.org/2006/06/n... download (video/quicktime, 28.63Mb)

Description: If you missed the conference, check out the highlights in te words of the participants we interviewed.

2. Conference Closing
http://www.nmc.org/events/2006... download (audio/mpeg, 6.69Mb)

Description: Closing remarks, thanks, and a look to next year's summer conference at IUPUI.

3. Understanding the New Dynamic: Art, Technology, and the Mind
http://www.nmc.org/events/2006... download (audio/mpeg, 27.90Mb)

Description: The closing plenary by Merlin Donald, founding chair of the Department of Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University. "Can our ancient brain handle the challenges of managing a social-cognitive system dominated by modern media? This lecture will outline the trajectory of human cognitive evolution, and its interaction with cultural and technological evolution."

4. The NMC Second Life Campus: From Dream to Virtual Reality
http://www.nmc.org/events/2006... download (audio/mpeg, 25.48Mb)

Description: Join the participants at the NMC Summer Conference session participating in a live panel discussion with the designers and builders of the NMC Campus via a live video stream from the session taking place in a unique high-tech amphitheatre in the Intercontinental Hotel in Cleveland, Ohio. Lead designer Giff Constable (Forseti Svarog) provided a live tour of the NMC Campus on the main screen for the Cleveland audience. A panel session with other members of the design team, including Sara van Gorden (Cory Edo), followed the virtual tour.

5. NMC Campus: Pushing the Edge of the NMC Experience
http://media.nmc.org/sl/video/... download (video/quicktime, 31.91Mb)

Description: This video, produced by the Electric Sheep Company, was shown during the Friday night session on "From Dream to Virtual Reality" where the NMC Campus in Second Life was revealed.

6. Five Minutes of Fame
http://media.nmc.org/2006/06/f... download (audio/mpeg, 23.50Mb)

Description: Five Minutes of Fame is a fast-paced and fun way for NMC Members to highlight innovations of all sorts. In each fast-paced session, attendees will see numerous examples of the exciting work your NMC colleagues are doing.

7. NMC Fellow Recognition
http://media.nmc.org/2006/06/n... download (audio/mpeg, 4.82Mb)

Description: A special recognition for Carl Berger, named as an NMC Fellow. A huge standing ovation was provided.

8. Centers of Excellence Awards
http://media.nmc.org/2006/06/c... download (audio/mpeg, 16.31Mb)

Description: Each year at the annual conference, the NMC recognizes the work of a small number of truly outstanding member institutions with its highest honor, the Center of Excellence Award, symbolized by a specially designed translucent obelisk. Three new awards were handed out today.

9. How Were Thursday's sessions?
http://media.nmc.org/2006/06/t... download (audio/mpeg, 2.49Mb)

Description: Hear what participants in today's sessions had to say about what they saw, learned, and who they met. And listen to the excitement from one of our winning poster sessions.

10. New Media in Education: Students Looking Forward
http://media.nmc.org/2006/06/b... download (audio/mpeg, 24.91Mb)

Description: Opening plenary by Brenda Laurel, Sun Microsystems Lab and Art Center College of Design.

11. Official Conference Welcome
http://media.nmc.org/2006/06/n... download (audio/mpeg, 7.00Mb)

Description: The NMC Conference is launched with this welcome by hosts Wendy Shapiro and Lev Gonick from Case Western Reserve University.

12. Brenda Wins an iPod at the NMC Conference Opening Reception
http://media.nmc.org/2006/06/i... download (audio/mpeg, 0.31Mb)

Description: Brenda was the lucky winner in tonight's NMC Conference oening session, sponsored by Apple Computer. By participating in the Birds of a Feather activity, she walked upstairs with a brand new 30 Gb video iPod.

13. Words from the Preconference Pachyderm Session
http://media.nmc.org/2006/06/p... download (audio/mpeg, 1.26Mb)

Description: Participants from the Wedsneday, June 7 pre-conference workshop "Putting Your Hands on the Elephant: Pachyderm 2.0" share their thoughts on the session. Pachyderm developer Joshua Archer describes new developments in the software.

14. Welcome to the 2006 Summer Conference Podcast Extravaganza
http://media.nmc.org/2006/06/a... download (audio/mpeg, 0.53Mb)

Description: Well hello, and welcome to the podcast arena for the 2006 Summer Conference. We are hoping to capture much of the sessions, reactions, and anything else we can manage to record, all in the hopes of trying to preserve the essence of the conference esxperience.