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Session A31Streaming New Media The first speaker was Bonnie Kyburz of Utah Valley University. Her presentation did not have a title. She screened a film she is making (she said it was “in progress”) about some issues connected with new media such as a new way of telling stories: YouTube videos the speaker had seen by a filmmaker called M.Dot Strange led to Strange’s debuting a film at the Sundance Festival. The speaker’s film was offered as a parallel to some ways she said teachers can encourage students to experiment in new media. This presentation drew much spontaneous applause. Speaker #2, Cheryl Ball of Illinois State U., discussed issues involved in presenting a tenure portfolio that is entirely electronic, which the speaker is working on doing. For instance, she has a blog for her tenure portfolio, and she showed a 7-minute video aimed at a tenure committee. She called this a draft and asked for audience feedback. There remain, she said, unanswered questions about using multimodal means to present the traditional genre of the tenure portfolio, but assuming that the portfolio should represent one’s work and if one’s work is in new media then … The third speaker, Michael Salvo of Purdue, showed student work done by interns under his direction to “emplace” new media projects in community contexts. These projects resembled service-learning experiences except that they were new media creations such as podcasts, Websites, and online documents. Overall, this session was highly informative about some of the new media work that is being done across the country, the speakers being from three different institutions. |