Stay tuned for news from NECC 2009

Walkabout bloggers will be at NECC in Washington, DC June 28 – July 1. We wait to hear what they have to say. In the meantime, check out the feeds at NECC, NECC09, NECC2009. (Alas, folks are not all using the same tags.)

 

Stay tuned for happenings at the 2009 Computers & Writing Conference

The 2009 Computers & Writing Conference, held at UC-Davis this year, promises to be another thoughtful, edgy, wacky gathering of folks interested in, well, computers and writing. Writing project colleagues from Area 3, which is based at UC-Davis, as well as Tar River, Georgia Southern, Great Valley, and University of Illinois-Urbana are here. (Maybe more.) We hope to have some of them blog their experiences in what is sure to be another great conference. Check back here, and follow the hashtag #cw09 on twitter.

 

Stay tuned for news from the Mobile Learning Institute Leadership Summit May 14

Stay tuned as Walkabout bloggers be sharing news and notes from The Mobile Learning Institute Leadership Summit, Go Mobile! Using Mobile Learning to Teach 21st Century Skills, hosted by the Pearson Foundation, Nokia and the Mobile Learning Institute on May 14, 2009. The workshop brings  Cathleen Norris and Elliot Soloway, international leaders in mobile learning, to the Bay Area to work hands-on with a group of San Francisco Unified School District teachers.

 

Stay tuned for news from the Learning in a Participatory Culture Conference on May 2nd

Stay tuned as colleagues Tina Browne, from the Western Massachusetts Writing Project, and Dave Boardman, from the Maine Writing Project, share some news and notes from the Learning in a Participatory Culture Conference at MIT on May 2nd. This conference is being hosted by Project New Media Literacies, a research initiative based within MIT’s Comparative Media Studies program that explores how we might best equip young people with the social skills and cultural competencies required to become full participants in an emergent media landscape and raise public understanding about what it means to be literate in a globally interconnected, multicultural world. Project New Media Literacies is a grantee of the MacArthur Foundation’s Digital Media and Learning Initiative.

 

Stay Tuned for News from the HASTAC Showcase

April 16-17: Walkabout bloggers will soon be checking out the showcase of HASTAC projects at an upcoming event at the University of Illinois- Urbana.

Supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, HASTAC will be celebrating the winners of the current Digital Media and Learning Competition with two events.

An Evening with the Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk) at the Newberry Library
A Digital Media and Learning Competition winner, PLOrk is a visionary musical ensemble of laptopists that in its short lifetime has performed at Carnegie Hall and inspired similar orchestras from Oslo toBangkok.  (Free and open to the public, limited seating available)

The First Annual Digital Media and Learning Competition Winners’ Showcase at the Palmer House
Winners of the first Digital Media and Learning Competition will showcase their work through panel discussions, interactive demonstrations, and exhibits.

For more information on the Digital Media and Learning Competition visit www.dmlcompetition.net.   For more information on MacArthur’s $50 million digital media and learning initiative visit www.macfound.org.