{"id":41,"date":"2007-06-10T10:26:10","date_gmt":"2007-06-10T15:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fleeep.net\/blog\/?p=41"},"modified":"2007-06-10T10:26:10","modified_gmt":"2007-06-10T15:26:10","slug":"nmc-summer-conference-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fleeptuque.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/nmc-summer-conference-2\/","title":{"rendered":"NMC Summer Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Holy cow I can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s been this long since I posted!<\/p>\n<p>Trying to get caught up, and in the meantime, here are some pics from the <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.nmc.org\/events\/2007summerconf\/\">NMC Summer Conference 2007<\/a> in Indianapolis:<\/p>\n<p>Fleep, JoannaTrail Blazer, and Intellagirl, taken at the reception at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eiteljorg.org\/\">Eiteljorg Museum<\/a>, wherein Fleep had at least one too many glasses of wine:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/211\/535557517_20256115e0.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fleep, CDB Barkley, and JoannaTrail Blazer, also at the museum reception, also too much wine:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/212\/535557355_9720197003.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fleep attending an <a href=\"http:\/\/sl.nmc.org\/2007\/06\/07\/pleasure-play\/\">excellent session<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/angelaathomas.com\/\">Angela Thomas<\/a> from Sydney, Australia.  I&#8217;ll have her book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Youth-Online-Identity-Literacy-Digital\/dp\/0820478547\/ref=sr_1_1\/002-4603470-1108036?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1181487318&amp;sr=8-1\">Youth Online: Identity &#038; Literacy in the Digital Age<\/a> at the top of my reading list when it comes out.  Oh yeah, that&#8217;s Larry Johnson behind me, the CEO of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmc.org\/\">New Media Consortium<\/a>, and he is as fantastic in person as he is in SL (Larry Pixel) &#8211; I was VERY impressed with all of the NMC staff:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/201\/535592832_a9a7b4fc61.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Angela also talked about future research she plans to do with the &#8220;Silver Surfer&#8221; generation of older adults who are exploring digital media tools, and showed this fantastic video about the the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/pages\/live\/articles\/news\/news.html?in_article_id=459353&amp;in_page_id=1770\">Zimmers Band project<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><lj -embed id=\"2\"><br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/zqfFrCUrEbY\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/zqfFrCUrEbY\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<\/lj><\/p>\n<p>Me on the right in pink, drawing cards for winning a prize at the opening reception:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1156\/534108992_864029e92b.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Funny story, there is a guy named Chris Collins from U of Akron, who I met maybe three years ago at an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oln.org\/conferences\/ODCE2007\/ODCE2007.php\">ODCE conference<\/a> when they got us mixed up.  We haven&#8217;t seen or talked to each other since, but he was at the conference in Indy and when they drew names for a prize, they called Chris Collins and we both came up.  It was like OH HEY I KNOW YOU and we had some good laughs:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1301\/534108964_2dcf9675f4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for now, off to unpack and get some laundry done before I tackle the email inbox.<\/p>\n<p>XOXO,<\/p>\n<p>Fleep<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holy cow I can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s been this long since I posted! Trying to get caught up, and in the meantime, here are some pics from the NMC Summer Conference 2007 in Indianapolis: Fleep, JoannaTrail Blazer, and Intellagirl, taken at the reception at the Eiteljorg Museum, wherein Fleep had at least one too many glasses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deep-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleeptuque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleeptuque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleeptuque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleeptuque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleeptuque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleeptuque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleeptuque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleeptuque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleeptuque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}