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Digitial Media and Learning Competition

Posted November 25th, 2009 by lisagatesphd@gm...
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The third-annual Digital Media and Learning Competition will award $2 million in support of participatory learning experiences that incorporate STEM principles. The competition launches Dec. 14 and winners will be announced in spring 2010. For more information about the competition, visit dmlcompetition.net.

NERCOMP workshop: Geo-everything: Map Mash-ups, Geotagging, and Interactive Learning

Posted November 22nd, 2009 by lisagatesphd@gm...
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Registration is now open for NERCOMP's January 22nd workshop "Geo-everything: Map Mash-ups, Geotagging, and Interactive Learning." For a full schedule and registration information, go to:
http://www.nercomp.org/events/event_single.aspx?id=5889

New VRA White Paper: Advocating for Visual Resources Management in Educational and Cultural Institutions

Posted October 28th, 2009 by David Green, Knowledge Culture
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The Visual Resources Association (VRA) has just released a White Paper on the management and use of image resources: Advocating for Visual Resources Management in Educational and Cultural Institutions.

The paper encourages "holistic thinking" about meeting institutional and individual image user needs in educational/cultural institutions. It identifies six strategic areas for future planning: multiple image sources; integrating personal and institutional collections; social computing and collaborative projects; life-cycle continuum of image assets and their description; rights and copyright compliance; and visual literacy.

GIS in the Humanities: A questionnaire and free workshop on Spatial Literacy in Research and Teaching

Posted October 27th, 2009 by David Green, Knowledge Culture
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 In preparation for a free Dec 16th workshop on Spatial Literacy in Research and Teaching to be held in the UK, the University of Leicester has a brief survey it is asking the GIS constituency to complete at http://www.hgis.org.uk/splint/. For more info on the workshop, see http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/heahistory/events/gis_workshop/gis

Springer Launches Innovative Publisher-Based Image Collection

Posted October 13th, 2009 by David Green, Knowledge Culture
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Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com), an international scholarly publisher based in Germany but operating in 20 countries, has launched SpringerImageshttp://www.springerimages.com/ .

New NERCOMP Workshop "Personal Learning Environments Within the Institution"

Posted September 29th, 2009 by lisagatesphd@gm...
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Registration is now open for NERCOMP's November 9th workshop:  "Personal Learning Environments Within the Institution." For a full schedule and registration information, please go to: http://www.nercomp.org/events/event_single.aspx?id=5865

From Narrative to Database: Multimedia Inquiry in a Cross-Classroom Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Study

Posted March 5th, 2009 by Michael Coventry and Matthias Oppermann
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Michael Coventry and Matthias Oppermann draw on their work with student-produced digital stories to explore how the protocols surrounding particular new media technologies shape the ways we think about, practice, and represent work in the scholarship of teaching and learning. The authors describe the Digital Storytelling Multimedia Archive, an innovative grid they designed to represent their findings, after considering how the technology of delivery could impact practice and interpretation. This project represents an intriguing synthesis of digital humanities and the scholarship of teaching and learning, raising important questions about the possibilities for analyzing and representing student learning in Web 2.0 environments.
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