Brown Bag Lunch

Please join us this Thursday for a seminar presented by Alan Levine, Vice President Community and CTO for the New Media Consortium.

Where: MacMillan Building Room 350 (2357 Main Mall)

When: Thursday, February 28th, 2008, from noon to 1pm

It was not long ago that producing multimedia digital content required expensive equipment and technical expertise; we are at the point now where we can do some very compelling content creation with nothing more complex than a web browser. In this workshop you will:

• Design a basic story concept that can be created in a web 2.0 tool using images, audio, and/or video.
• And then create it quickly using one of 50+ different web tools that are free to use.
• Plus, you will share in this wiki site your example and observations on the value of the tool

We are using the word “story” in a general sense; it may be a deeply personal one of the digital storytelling variety, or it may be a tale of a travel trip, or a simple multimedia presentation.

Alan Levine is the Vice President Community and CTO for the New Media Consortium. In this role, he explores and evangelizes new technologies to the NMC and other educational communities, with current interests in anything “cool” on the web (no matter the decimal point), virtual worlds, blogs, wikis, digital media, and anything that allows creative expression. Although he tends to say “ummm” a lot and never uses a script, Alan has presented at the League for Innovation, EDUCAUSE, and Syllabus conferences, as well as invited presentations for institutions in Oklahoma, Florida, Oregon, Ohio, Iceland, New Zealand, and Australia.

Refreshments will be served. Feel free to forward this email to any interested parties.

The Brown Bag lunch series is a series of discussions, presentations and hands-on workshops about technology use for teaching, learning, research, everyday use and (hopefully) fun. The sessions are open to all.