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Institute for Multimedia Literacy

USC’s Institute for Multimedia Literacy

HONORS IN MULTIMEDIA SCHOLARSHIPMULTIMEDIA IN THE COREMULTIMEDIA ACROSS THE COLLEGEVECTORS: JOURNAL OF CULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY IN A

DYNAMIC VERNACULARSECOND LIFE LEARNING SPACE

HONORS IN MULTIMEDIA SCHOLARSHIP

HONORS IN MULTIMEDIA SCHOLARSHIP // backchannel

IML Backchannel

HONORS IN MULTIMEDIA SCHOLARSHIP // blogging

HONORS IN MULTIMEDIA SCHOLARSHIP // video blogging

HONORS IN MULTIMEDIA SCHOLARSHIP // iTunes

HONORS IN MULTIMEDIA SCHOLARSHIP // Social Bookmarking

HONORS IN MULTIMEDIA SCHOLARSHIP // Flickr

HONORS IN MULTIMEDIA SCHOLARSHIP // Critical Participation

The Third Wheel: The Relationship Between Radio, Record Companies and Government: Web-based game

Toxin-Antitoxin Pairs in Escherichia coli: a Flash-based version of a written essay

Everyday Decisions and Happiness: an interactive, Web-based diagnostic tool

Walden III: Digital Utopianism and the Virtual World:a Second Life-based event series

Roundtable ’Rithmatic: Expressing Engineering in a New Light:a Rube Goldberg-like machine, online

HONORS IN MULTIMEDIA SCHOLARSHIP // Thesis Projects

MULTIMEDIA IN THE CORE // Core Literacies

digital literacynetwork literacydesign literacyargumentationresearch and information literacy

recommended literacies:presentation; visual and sonic literacy; interpretiveliteracy; annotation; collaboration; code; interactivty…

MULTIMEDIA IN THE CORE // Faculty Workshops

social software in the classroom

genres of scholarly multimedia

integration of course content with lab experience

integration of faculty research and teaching

strategies for assessment of student work

designing collaborative and group assignments

incorporating media into lectures

hands-on production for faculty

MULTIMEDIA IN THE CORE // Linguistics

MULTIMEDIA IN THE CORE // Earth Sciences

MULTIMEDIA IN THE CORE // African-American Pop Culture

MULTIMEDIA IN THE CORE // Using Sophie

Institute for the Future of the Bookfutureofthebook.org



DYNAMIC VERNACULARSECOND LIFE SPACE

MULTIMEDIA ACROSS THE COLLEGE

support for all College faculty to transform teaching

course redesign

new pedagogical models for 21st century learners

assignment development; grading rubrics

rethinking the large-scale lecture class

designing open learning objects

developing hybrid learning spaces

emphasis on open educational initiatives

MULTIMEDIA ACROSS THE COLLEGE

participating courses include:

English 620: “The Scholarly Interface”– use of Flash for “designed” writing

Writing 340: “Writing in the Community”– using audio, video and Web design

Chemistry 201– advanced PowerPoint, using animation

Art History 128G: “Arts of Latin America”– Web site development; wiki use for students

Psyc 201Lxg: “The Science of Happiness”– Blogging, Web site and Powerpoint

“Public Secrets,” Sharon Daniel and Erik Loyer

“Slavery’s Ephemera,” Judith Jackson Fossett and Erik Loyer


HONORS IN MULTIMEDIA SCHOLARSHIPMULTIMEDIA IN THE COREVECTORS: JOURNAL OF CULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY IN A


SECOND LIFE // Other Spaces

Harvard’s Berkman Center

SECOND LIFE // Other Spaces

Princeton’s SL Campus

SECOND LIFE // The IML’s Space

the panopticon as visual metaphor (IMD 505)


an immersive syllabus (IML 101)


the Tufte tunnel


artist’s space: “Gone Gitmo,” virtual Guantanamo project,Peggy Weil + Nonny de la Peña


Collaborative event with Seton Hall School of Law onConstitution Day included a webcast of a discussion of detention

practices at Guantanamo Bay

SECOND LIFE // Why?

as subject matter: the metaverse?as a literacy: what does it mean to interact academically

in a virtual space?as exploration of new learning objectsas experience of conceptual blending

(John Seely Brown + Doug Thomas)

Collision of Educators, Literacies and Teaching Practices


what we need:media and design across the curriculumnew teaching practices


what we need:media and design across the curriculumnew teaching practices

why?


Our students have new skills and new needs:

Play JudgmentPerformance Collective IntelligenceSimulation Transmedia NavigationAppropriation NetworkingMultitasking Negotiation

Distributed Cognition

“Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture:Media Education for the 21st Century”Henry Jenkins


Studies indicate a very different future for education:

User Created ContentSocial NetworkingMobile PhonesVirtual WorldsNew Forms of Scholarship and PublicationMassively Multiplayer Educational Gaming

“Six areas of emerging technology that will impact higher education within the next one to five years.”Horizon Report 2007, New Media Consortium and EDUCAUSE


We need to move away from outmoded teaching models:

Formal –> InformalCompetitive –> CollaborativeAcquisition –> ProcessGeneralized –> PersonalizedInside –> OutsideStudent –> LearnerClosed –> Open


We need to work together.We need to share resources.And we need to do it now!

Holly WillisDirector of Academic ProgramsInstitute for Multimedia [email protected] iml.usc.edu

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