I had the great pleasure of attending and speaking at the terrific Are You Connect.ed? conference yesterday at the University of Maryland, Baltimore’s Health Sciences and Human Services Library.
I returned all hot and bothered about Qik, and finally got on the Twitter bandwagon. Yeah, I know. But hearing Andy Carvin from NPR say that he [...]
Another guest post, this one from David Salisbury, editor of Exploration, Vanderbilt’s groovy online research magazine.
Over spring break more than 100 college journalists from 40 different
universities came to campus for a workshop on new media put on by the Center
for Innovation in College Media workshop. It was a hands-on workshop and the
attendees produced 35 media [...]
Over 100 college journalists from approximately 40 universities are swarming the Vanderbilt campus today through Saturday to learn the ins and outs of capturing audio and video for the Web. The event is being organized by The Center for Innovation in College Media, which happens to have its headquarters right here at Vanderbilt. If you’re [...]
Vanderbilt Student Communications earned some very nice and well-deserved kudos from Duke’s Next Newsroom project. The article features an in-depth, interesting Q&A with VSC director Chris Carroll, and offers insights into how the very slick and wildly successful InsideVandy got its start, spiced up with some excellent metaphors.
“We were talking of creating this mothership [...]
Jim Parker, aka university webmaster, has authored a chapter in what looks to be an interesting new book, “Electronic Tribes: The Virtual Worlds of Geeks, Gamers, Shamans, and Scammers,” coming out in May ‘08 from University of Texas Press. Take a look at Jim’s chapter, “Where is the Shaman?”, if for no other reason [...]
My compadres at the Vanderbilt Medical Center have also been loading exciting Vanderbilt videos into YouTube - take a look, and watch the video below, a moving testament to LifeFlight.
With the help of our friends at ITS, video of the entire 2007 Holocaust lecture series (absent the one film that will be shown) will be streamed live on VUCast. The series, which marks its 30th year this year and is the longest running Holocaust lecture series at an American university, begins Oct. 14. Get [...]
Classes start today and we enter another academic year at Vanderbilt University. I was hoping to wax poetic today about loving the ebb and flow of activity at a university, the different seasons each marked with their own joys and challenges, the excitement that comes to campus as the students return and the new freshmen [...]
No Vanderbilt connection to this item - yet - but I still wanted to share. Harry Potter fans out there will be familiar with the moving pictures that grace the wizarding world’s newspaper. Sony has revealed that such technology is no fantasy with their new flexible e-paper video display. Video, moving and bending, on “paper.” [...]
