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September 20th, 2010

Registration is Open for the 2010 New Media Consortium Symposium for the Future!

Registration is open for the 2010 NMC Symposium for the Future, a special 3-day, live online event to be held October 19 – 21, 2010 via the Internet.
http://www.nmc.org/2010-future-symposium/register

For full details, see http://www.nmc.org/2010-future-symposium

Program details can be found online at http://www.nmc.org/2010-future-symposium/program

About the Symposium
The Symposium grows from the NMC’s Emerging Technologies Initiative, which seeks to answer the question of how to keep abreast of emerging technologies that may be important to our collective work as educators. At the core of this initiative is a focus on emerging technologies and the ways they can be applied in the service of teaching, learning, research, and creative inquiry. A major goal is to stimulate systematic thinking and discussion of the real challenges that face our world and our society, and in particular, how emerging technologies might be applied to solve them.

To set the stage for the intensive discussions this symposium will foster, Case Western Reserve University Vice President of Information Technology and CIO Lev Gonick will describe a vision for a digital city that is being built, bit by bit, right now in Cleveland. His keynote address, “From Digital Campus to Connected Community,” will illustrate some of the ways emerging technology can be applied to the larger challenges faced by a thriving, diverse community like Cleveland.
http://www.nmc.org/2010-future-symposium/gonick-keynote

Symposium Themes
As its name suggests, the Symposium looks toward the future: what might the world look like in five years? Ten? Further out? Technologies and practices that are just beginning to show promise in an educational or social context may well be commonplace in that time frame. The applicability of technology — whether established or emerging — to the social, environmental, and educational challenges we face today is a central theme of the Symposium. Projects that test the applicability of new ideas, research into new solutions for global problems, and demonstrations of cutting-edge tools are all part of this exploration of the future.
Sessions will include how emerging technologies might be applied to any of the following themes:

Sustainability (physical and natural resources; economic resources; educational resources)
Renewable energy; clean energy
Global warming and its impacts
Ethics in the digital age
Politics in a globally connected World
Social issues

The NMC Symposium for the Future is intended to be an ongoing conversation, focused the applications of new technologies to global concerns and issues, and how they will shape the future of education.

Symposium Venue
The NMC Series of Virtual Symposia, now in its eighth year, is an exploration of online communication tools. Each of the 15 Symposia held to date has taken advantage of the state of the art for online gatherings. The 16th Symposium will be convened in the NMC’s Conference Center in Second Life™. While the events take place in a virtual world, the Symposium is not about virtual worlds.

To register for the conference, or for more information including the preliminary schedule of events, please see
http://www.nmc.org/2010-future-symposium

Please circulate this announcement to any and all areas on campus that may be interested in participating.

Nancy Reeves
NMC

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