2013 NMC Summer Conference

To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the NMC at the 2013 Summer Conference, NMCers participated in a digital storytelling workshop led by Joe Lambert, founder of the Center for Digital Storytelling. The videos they produced reflect the rich history of the NMC.

To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the NMC at the 2013 Summer Conference, NMCers participated in a digital storytelling workshop led by Joe Lambert, founder of the Center for Digital Storytelling. The videos they produced reflect the rich history of the NMC.

To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the NMC at the 2013 Summer Conference, NMCers participated in a digital storytelling workshop led by Joe Lambert, founder of the Center for Digital Storytelling. The videos they produced reflect the rich history of the NMC.

To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the NMC at the 2013 Summer Conference, NMCers participated in a digital storytelling workshop led by Joe Lambert, founder of the Center for Digital Storytelling. The videos they produced reflect the rich history of the NMC.

To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the NMC at the 2013 Summer Conference, NMCers participated in a digital storytelling workshop led by Joe Lambert, founder of the Center for Digital Storytelling. The videos they produced reflect the rich history of the NMC.

To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the NMC at the 2013 Summer Conference, NMCers participated in a digital storytelling workshop led by Joe Lambert, founder of the Center for Digital Storytelling. The videos they produced reflect the rich history of the NMC.

To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the NMC at the 2013 Summer Conference, NMCers participated in a digital storytelling workshop led by Joe Lambert, founder of the Center for Digital Storytelling. The videos they produced reflect the rich history of the NMC.

Throughout the week of the conference, a valuable backchannel dialogue was taking place on Twitter via the hashtag #NMC13. You can follow us at @NMCorg year-round to continue the conversation.

This closing panel brings together integral figures in the NMC’s history to reflect upon our past and explore the possibilities for the journey ahead. Join education innovators Lev Gonick, Larry Johnson, Scott Sayre, and Kristina Woolsey as they share their visions for the next 20 years.

Carol Stensrud discusses projects and apprenticeships that are helping students with disabilities engage their creativity and use technologies to make videos and other media. Carol Stensrud is an artist, educator, advocate, innovator and academic.

Gregory Fortner discusses Network Labs, an early stage startup company offering remote laboratories, working to lessen the resource burden for high school students. Gregory was a terrible science student. His passion for the topic developed later in life thanks in part to his Network Labs partners, Dr. Kemi Jona and Andrew Watchorn. Since the three co-founded Network Labs, Gregory has acted as president, leading the development of the business plan and fundraising efforts as well as project managing new lab development.

José Ignacio Fernández Cofré discusses how teachers are creating education programs for students but students are not influencing how these are developed. Students are doing a large portion of learning outside of school and often end up learning technologies more quickly than their teachers. José is an informatics engineer and obtained a Master in Logistics and Operation Systems from Universidad Andrés Bello, Santiago, Chile. In addition, he has received the Young Education Leaders Award in 2012 from Microsoft and British Council, and Woodie Flowers Finalist Award from FIRST California the same year. Since 2005, José has been involved in the development of a robotics championship, a program for high school students across Chile. The first event saw 330 student competitors.

Michael Furdyk discusses the disconnect between what students want to know about the world and global issues, and what they are actually learning in school. He explains how TakingItGlobal is working to create virtual online learning experiences that create intercultural dialogue, exchange, and understanding. Michael Furdyk is the Co-founder of TakingITGlobal (www. tigweb.org), which provides innovative global education programs that empower youth to understand and act on the world’s greatest challenges.

Nico Carver discusses the importance of analyzing experiential data in assessment and how he is leveraging this for learning analytics through MACAW (Mouse Analytics for Computer Assisted Workshops). Nico is a filmmaker turned librarian, and is currently the coordinator of Student Multimedia Design Center services at the University of Delaware Library.

Matthew Worwood and Sarah Schauss describe project-based learning and how to encourage students to go beyond expectations by engaging their creativity. Worwood is an Apple Distinguished Educator with a B.A. in Drama and M.S. in Educational Studies, specializing in Creativity. He currently works at EDUCATION CONNECTION’s Center for 21st Century Skills and is a faculty member at the University of Connecticut’s Digital Media and Design Department. Sarah Schauss works at EDUCATION CONNECTION’s Center for 21st Century Skills, managing curriculum and planning experiential events for the Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.

In this keynote presentation, Bill Frakes reveals the influences behind his own creative process by recounting stories from his life that have been critical to his way of thinking, creating, and working. Bill Frakes is a Sports Illustrated Staff Photographer based in Florida who has worked in all 50 states and in more than 135 countries for a wide variety of editorial and advertising clients. His advertising clients include Apple, Nike, Manfrotto, CocaCola, Champion, Isleworth, Stryker, IBM, Nikon, Canon, Kodak, and Reebok. He directs music videos and television ads. Editorially his work has appeared in virtually every major general interest publication in the world. His still photographs and short documentary films have been featured on hundreds of Web sites as well as on most major television networks. His production company Straw Hat Visuals excels at using a full digital tool kit to build stories quickly for distribution across a wide platform of viewing mediums. He won the coveted Newspaper Photographer of the Year award in the prestigious Pictures of the Year competition. He was a member of the Miami Herald staff that won the Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of Hurricane Andrew. He was awarded the Gold Medal by World Press Photo. He has also been honored by the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards for reporting on the disadvantaged and by the Overseas Press club for distinguished foreign reporting. He has received hundreds of national and international awards for his work. He has taught at the University of Miami, the University of Florida and the University of Kansas as an adjunct professor and lecturer. During the last decade he has lectured at more than 100 universities discussing multimedia and photojournalism. In 2010 and 2013 he served on the jury of World Press Photo.

Holly Witchey defines intergenerosity, and how to bring this into your institution by fostering habits of reaching out, making connections with others and creating a culture of inclusivity for all employees. Holly is an art historian and museum consultant with nearly three decades experience working in museums. In the dark ages before the advent of new media, she began her museum career as Associate Curator of European Art at the San Diego Museum. In the early days of multi-media in museums and the Internet, she was a pioneer (complete with poke-bonnet) in the production of content-rich interactives and collections online. From 2000-2009, she directed the New Media Initiatives Department at the Cleveland Museum of Art, and today she teaches courses in technology, ethics, and LAM convergence online for Johns Hopkins, as well as traditional art history and museum studies in the bricks and mortar classrooms at CWRU. She is editor and Co-PI of the NMC Horizon Report > Museum Edition and has just finished her first mystery — set of course, in a museum.

Stephen Apkon highlights how storytelling is an underlying influence of new media and technology. Images are powerful because of the physiology of our brains that make the act of seeing a constant creative experience. Stephen Apkon is the Founder and Executive Director of The Jacob Burns Film Center, a non-profit film and education organization located in Pleasantville, N.Y. The JBFC presents a wide array of documentary, independent and foreign film programs in a three theater state-of-the-art film complex, and has developed educational programs focused on 21st century literacy.

The NMC Summer Conference: 2014 will take place in Portland, Oregon.

Gavin Dykes dissects memorable learning experiences, the value of learning by surprise, and discusses how we can create uncertainty in the classroom, so that learning is a more interesting experience that engages the learner's curiosity. Gavin Dykes is the Program Director for the Education World Forum and has led development of its program each year since it began in 2004.

The Adventures of Backpack Citizen Science Journalism: Sherry Nichols shows ebook examples of how Backpack Citizen Science Journalism has enabled learners to rethink “science!” She shares a continuum of citizen science project ideas, followed by tips and examples of journalistic approaches used to inspire ebook designs created by citizen scientists — celebrating their science doings!

Karen Cator, President and CEO of Digital Promise discusses participatory learning- powered By technology. The future of learning is personal and participatory, and technology enables new strategies and systems for meeting students, and administrators where they are. This keynote presents the barriers and the necessary innovations for ensuring the future is bright. Karen Cator is the President and CEO of Digital Promise, and the former Director of the Office of Educational Technology at the U.S. Department of Education from 2009-2013. During her tenure she led the development and broad dissemination of the 2010 National Education Technology Plan.She focused the office’s efforts on teacher and leader support through online community building, developing evidence of learning and of persistence based on new sources of data and analytics and supported innovation, entrepreneurship, and smart investment in the education sector. She has devoted her career to creating the best possible opportunity to learn for people of all ages.

Pocket Landmarks- Bringing History to Life with a Digital Storytelling App: This session describes a collaborative project between Baltimore Heritage, Inc. and UMBC. Digital stories featuring historic buildings were created for a smartphone application as part of a self-guided walking tour of downtown Baltimore. Those working in digital humanities will be inspired by this interactive use of new media.

Maya Georgieva, New York University: Will It Fly and Are They Going to Fly It? Students are best in identifying their learning needs and the solutions for them. This presentation builds on the concept of design thinking applied in the development of a personalized learning app environment with the involvement of graduate students. Mapping the student experiences to the app feature presents a powerful blend that makes learning in the apps happen.

Phantom and GoPro - Taking Video to a Whole New Height: Traditional shots are great when creating video and digital stories, but what about different views and angles? This presentation will take video to a new level, using Phantom and GoPro.

Building Engagement Through Digital Storytelling with Glogster: This presentation shows how modules from the “Intel Teach” can be incorporated into action-oriented professional development courses, resulting in ready-to-use unit plans based on innovative teaching methods. All attendees will be offered Glogster EDU Premium licenses.

RISE and Shine: This Pecha Kucha-style presentation (20 slides, 15 seconds each) introduces the four tiers of the RISE Model for Meaningful Peer Feedback, which prompts learners to reflect, then build a constructive analysis through inquiry, providing suggestions to help elevate each others’ work.

Billy Bear's Honey Chase: This presentation shines the spotlight on Billy Bear’s Honey Chase, an iPad game designed by Lemming Labs Ltd for University Hospitals Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital’s Pediatric Pain Management Center with coordination by Mike Kenney and artwork by Amanda Almon.

NMC K-12 Ambassadors: This presentation showcases the brand new NMC K-12 Ambassador program and lynda.com partnership, and provide a look at what is happening in these Ambassadors’ learning environments.

Crafting a New Campus Identity > Merging IT, Marketing: CSU Channel Islands combined its Marketing and IT departments under shared leadership to create a Division of Marketing and Communications. Michael Berman presents the opportunities this has created, enabling a small university to make dramatic progress in crafting a new paradigm for digital communication in a mobile/social world.

Exploring Multi-Touch Widgets in iBooks Author: This presentation/demo explores the design and application of interactive learning objects (widgets) for iBooks Author. Widgets are what make iBooks sizzle. Anyone interested in iBooks and publishing for the iPad will learn to apply new methods and workflows for developing engaging and dynamic widgets.

David Boxer promotes challenge-based learning as an important way to shift education and pedagogy to a more hands-on, doing, creative approach based on his own experiences from teaching at The Blake School. He secondly calls for more professional development opportunities where teachers learn from one another's experiences as connected educators.

Jonathan Nalder discusses a framework of incorporating new technologies, that does not just focus on lessons and assignments, but on using these tools lifelong for learning. Jonathan Nalder is a longtime advocate for ubiquitous learning. Having no access to desktop PCs as a Learning Support teacher, Jonathan chose to innovate rather than complain and began using mobile voice recorders, Palm PDAs, and then iPod touches with students to enhance their learning.

Sue Bedard of Full Sail University discusses historical edtech landmarks and how education has been affected. She highlights how students begin school with curiosity and optimism, but lose this passion the more their creativity is stifled. She proposes that teachers use Kingergarten as an example to become a facilitator of knowledge, creating personal learning environments for each student, and serving as a leader and role-model. She proposes that students must re-learn school, so that they are not just following along a set structure they know day in and day out, but are problem-solving, thinking, creating, and taking control of their learning. Sue Bedard was selected as an Apple Distinguished Educator in 2013. She is also a Google Teacher Educator and an NMC Ambassador for K-12.

Troy Bagwell discusses how many new tools focus on independent, self-directed learners, though there is a large population of students that are not able to learn that way because we do not teach them how. Bagwell serves the students of Decatur ISD as Director of Technology.

This program describes the keynotes and sessions from the 2013 NMC Summer Conference hosted in Hilton Head, South Carolina.