Students in the Game Design class have created 9 original videogames. They need play testers to help them find any last minute bugs and give feedback to improve the games.
When: Thursday, 12/10/9, 1:30 to 3:00
Where: Park 273
Come play some games, give some feedback
Archive for the ‘Conferences &Events’ Category
Gamers wanted
Posted in Communications Management &Design, Conferences &Events, Culture and Communications, Gaming, Indymedia, InfoTech, Integrated Marketing Communications, Journalism, Legal Studies, Library News, Media Literacy, Public Relations, Television on December 9, 2009 | Comments Off
The White House: Promoting Transparency in Government
Posted in Communications Management &Design, Conferences &Events, Culture and Communications, InfoTech, Library News, Media Literacy, Public Relations on December 8, 2009 | Comments Off
Today I watched a WH discussion online called, “Promoting Transparency in Government.” Here are the documents / resources:
Open Government Initiative
Open Government Directive (pdf)
Open Government Progress Report to the American People (pdf)
Data.gov
more about “Promoting Transparency in Government …“, posted with vodpod
MacArthur Foundation: The Power of Youth Voice: What Kids Learn When They Create with Digital Media
Posted in Communications Management &Design, Conferences &Events, Culture and Communications, InfoTech, Media Literacy on November 24, 2009 | Comments Off
From the website: “This video was taken from a simulcast of a public forum designed to open discussion in the Philadelphia area to educators, parents, researchers, students, and community members about the potential of learning through engagement with digital media. To bring this conversation to a larger audience, the event was also broadcast in the [...]
paidContent: Arianna Huffington And Mathias Dopfner At The Monaco Media Forum
Posted in Conferences &Events, Culture and Communications, Indymedia, Journalism, Radio, Television on November 13, 2009 | Comments Off
Rafat Ali of paidContent posted this video from the Monaco Media Forum with some of his tweets. He has deemed it “Video of the Year”. The debate was between Arianna Huffington and Mathias Dopfner (German media outlet Axel Springer). The debate was moderated by Christine Ockrent (France 24 TV). A
more about “paidContent: Arianna Huffington [...]
MBC: Museum.TV event – tonight, 6 pm Central Time
Posted in Conferences &Events, Culture and Communications, Public Relations, Television on November 11, 2009 | Comments Off
From the Museum of Broadcast Communication:
“You’re invited to join the Museum of Broadcast Communications at Museum.TV TONIGHT! at 6 PM Central for a live online roundtable with viewer participation – Conan @ 100 – America’s Late Night Evolution!”
WHAT: A live video streaming event with online participation
WHEN: TONIGHT!, November 10, 2009 – 6 p.m. (CT)
WHO:
Mike Niederman, [...]
USC LA: Arts journalism summit – live or virtual
Posted in Conferences &Events, Journalism, Radio, Television on September 14, 2009 | Comments Off
This is “primarily a virtual event” but if there are any Parkies out there interested perhaps they can be there live. Here is the FIR (slightly reformatted & highlighted by me):
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Arianna Sikorski, USC / 213-740-1899
For questions: summitinfo@najp.org
Web site: www.najp.org/summit
The USC Annenberg School for Communication and the National Arts Journalism Program, with [...]
Poynter: live chat with Koppel
Posted in Conferences &Events, Indymedia, Journalism on September 11, 2009 | Comments Off
Mallery Jean Tenore just posted this live Poynter event:
Join us Monday, Sept. 14, at 7 p.m. for live coverage of the conversation, “Journalism in Crisis: Who’s to Blame?” with Ted Koppel. He’ll talk about the state of media, what got us here and how we can preserve the integrity of news.
As part of the live [...]
Educause: Digitally Literate Storytellers
Posted in Communications Management &Design, Conferences &Events on September 10, 2009 | Comments Off
I just received an alert of a free upcoming Educause Live! webinar with Joan Getman, Cornell University (& Ithaca College grad):
Joan Getman
Senior Strategist for Learning Technologies
Cornell University
Topic: Digitally Literate Storytellers
Date: September 16, 2009
Time: 1:00 p.m. EDT (12:00 p.m. CDT, 11:00 a.m. MDT, 10:00 a.m. PDT).
International participants: You may wish to visit this external time-conversion website to [...]
Katrina Documentary Filmmakers To Give Screenings And Talks At Ithaca College
Posted in Conferences &Events, Culture and Communications, Indymedia, Journalism, Public Relations, Radio on September 4, 2009 | Comments Off
From Ithaca College / Office of Media Relations 9/2/09:
ITHACA, NY — The producers and directors of “Trouble the Water,” the Oscar-nominated documentary about Hurricane Katrina, will screen their film and talk about their work in two appearances at Ithaca College. The presentations by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal — who were also producers on Michael [...]
USC: Beyond Broadcast 2009
Posted in Communications Management &Design, Conferences &Events, Culture and Communications, Journalism, Public Relations, Television on June 17, 2009 | Comments Off
Just noticed that some videos from the Beyond Broadcast conference at the University of Southern California have been posted.
HavardBusiness: 3 ways to improve conferences
Posted in Communications Management &Design, Conferences &Events, Culture and Communications on June 4, 2009 | Comments Off
Source: HarvardBusiness.org, “Three ways to make conferences better,” by Nick Morgan, 6/2/09.
For those of use gearing up to travel to the American Library Association’s conference in Chicago this July, here is food for thought.
FreePress: Changing Media summit docs available
Posted in Conferences &Events, Indymedia, Journalism, Legal Studies on June 3, 2009 | Comments Off
FreePress has made available transcripts, audio and video their Changing Media Summit.
FAIR: NYC Grassroots Media Conference
Posted in Conferences &Events, Culture and Communications, Journalism, Legal Studies, Radio, Television on May 27, 2009 | Comments Off
Details on the conference from the alert:
Join FAIR at the NYC Grassroots Media Conference
The 6th Annual NYC Grassroots Media Conference
Hope to Action
Saturday May 30th 2009
9 am-6 pm
Hunter College, North Building 69th Street and Lexington Ave
Since 2004, the annual NYC Grassroots Media Conferences feature workshops, skills-sharing, dialogue, debate and strategizing sessions about media making, media policy [...]
Variety: Onion wins Peabody Award
Posted in Conferences &Events, Indymedia, Journalism on May 19, 2009 | Comments Off
Source: Variety.com, “The Onion wins Peabody Award: Fake news site among those honored,” by Sam Thielman, 5/18/09.
It is about time we took fake news seriously (news that is intended to be fake, not the fake news that is intended to be truth, to be sure).
To Infinity &Beyond: Congrats to our Grads
Posted in Conferences &Events on May 18, 2009 | Comments Off
Ground Control to IC Grads: Congratulations
I attended the graduation ceremony yesterday to cheer on our graduating class of 2009 (Brrr, il fait froid!). They’ve proven to be a creative, compassionate, and intelligent group and will surely brighten the future of our spaceship earth. What a pleasure it was to hear astronaut Jim Lovell remind us [...]
PRNewser: Edelman, Ketchum Win CLIO Gold
Posted in Conferences &Events, Integrated Marketing Communications, Public Relations on May 14, 2009 | Comments Off
Source:PRNewser, 5/13: “Day one of Nielsen’s CLIO festival in Vegas is in the books, and the first ever awards for PR were given to nine campaigns in crisis, corporate and consumer categories.”
[To illustrate the plight of the honey bee, Haagen-Dazs killed off a few on the dance floor, via HelptheHoneyBees YouTube channel]
more about “PRNewser: [...]
Paley Center: Cyberbullying & the 1st Amendment etc.
Posted in Communications Management &Design, Conferences &Events, Culture and Communications, InfoTech, Journalism, Legal Studies, Radio, Television on May 7, 2009 | Comments Off
Source: email from news@paleycenter.ccsend.com
Subject: Cyberbullying and More New Events
Date: 5/6/09
Here are just two fantastic events from the Paley Center:
CYBERBULLYING AND THE FIRST AMENDMENT
Monday, May 11, 2009
6:00 to 7:30 pm
A free-for-the-public event held in partnership with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Cyberbullying has reached epidemic proportions. Schoolyard fights have turned into MySpace taunts and [...]
MacArthur Island in 2nd Life to Open
Posted in Conferences &Events, Culture and Communications, Gaming on May 7, 2009 | Comments Off
Source: email from publicaffairs@macfound.org
Subject: MacArthur Island in Virtual World to Open with Public Forum on May 18
Here is the posting about the Second Life forum:
MacArthur Island in Virtual World to Open with Public Forum on May 18
On May 18, to mark the launch of MacArthur Island in the virtual world of Second Life, the Foundation [...]
CSM: Events, Future of Public Media, Copyright, Docs, etc.
Posted in Communications Management &Design, Conferences &Events, Culture and Communications, Gaming, Indymedia, Integrated Marketing Communications, Journalism, Legal Studies, Media Literacy, Public Relations, Radio, Television on May 4, 2009 | Comments Off
The Center for Social Media just sent out its newsletter. I did not see an HTML version so linked to key bits from the T.O.C. For more info, visit the CSM site.
Upcoming Events
Reel Journalism – beginning May 18th w/ the Newseum
Beyond Broadcast – June 3-6 U of Sth Cal Annenberg “Public Service Media from Local [...]
Salon.com / Greenwald: Izzy Award speeches
Posted in Conferences &Events, Indymedia, Journalism on April 29, 2009 | Comments Off
Source: Salon.com / Glenn Greenwald, 4/19/09. Just found the videos of the Izzy Awards on Glenn Greenwald’s blog. They’re posted in segments: Glenn Greenwald’s speech (in 2 parts); Jeff Cohen’s intro; Amy Goodman’s speech (in 4 parts). Just one appears, below. Took a minute to roll the footage for me, so [...]