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San Diego, California
November 09-11, 2006
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CONFERENCE INFO>>>

The fourth international iDMAa Conference, Digital Media: Works in Progress, will be held at National University in San Diego, CA. We invite you to join us as we meet, discuss and shape the many emerging formations of Digital Media.

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Conference Address

National University

Spectrum Campus
9388 Lightwave Avenue
San Diego, CA 92123-1426

 

 

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE >>>

Thursday, November 9

8:30-11:30 iDMAa Board Mtg. Library
9:00-1:00 Conference Registration Spectrum Atrium
     
1:00-2:00 Opening Session: David Jaffee (SONY Entertainment America), John Katzman (Third Screen), Tim Langdell (National University) Spectrum Atrium
     
2:00-4:00 Virtual Solitaire Performance: Dawson Nichols  
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2:00-3:00 Creative DVD Navigation Workshop: John Dailey  
     
3:00-4:00 Teaching Digital Technologies in the University Creative Studio:
- Cool as Concept: A New Media Monster, Paul Bruski
- Traditional to Digital: Teaching Technologies Through Studio-Inspired Techniques, Carol Faber
 
     
4:00-5:00 Game Track Papers/Presentations:
- Split Narrative Film, Nitzan Ben Shaul
- Taking a Walk in a Virtual World: the Value of a Second Life, Jonathan Stern
- Generating Ideas Beyond Media, Richard Pratt

Education Track Papers/Presentations:
- Confronting Newland Archer: Digital Media and the Creative Writing Classroom, Leslie Kreiner Wilson
- Are We There Yet? The Past and Future of Interdisciplinary Programs, Joel Kline

Education Track Papers/Presentations:
- Student-Controlled Learning and Self Assessment, Philip Parisi
- Digital Asset Management in Academia, Michael Moshell
- Project Management through Experiential Learning, Peter Hriso

iDEAs - The State of the Arts of Digital, Dena Eber, John C. Dailey, Christopher Cassidy, Rafael Fajardo, Robert Lawrence
 
     
5:00-6:00 iDEAs Reception Library
     
6:15 Buses leave for Beach Picnic and Bonfire  
9:00 Buses return to hotel  
     
     

Friday, November 10

 
  Animation Screenings Ongoing  
8:15-9:00 Coffee Spectrum Atrium
     
9:00-10:15 Marc Prensky, Rate of Change Implications for Innovators and Artists Spectrum Large Room
     
10:15-10:30 Break  
     
10:30-12:00 Curriculum Development:
- Curriculum and Course Development for Interdisciplinary Digital Media Programs, Jennifer Burg
- Teaching the Business of Digital Media, Ed Jones and Kristen Smith
 
     
12:00-1:30 Lunch - Avid Presentation Spectrum Atrium
     
1:30-2:30 - Game Curriculum Review, Joe Cancellaro
- Cooking Reality - Redefining Multi-tasking, Michael Niederman
- Survey: The State of Digital Education, Ray Steele
 
     
2:30-3:45 Game Track Papers/Presentations:
- What does "Computer Animation" Mean? Lien Fan Shen
- The Suitability of Using Digital Video Over a Campus Network, Michel DuPagne
- Mixing as Epistemology: The Implications of the Meta Medium, Digital Media, Jamie O'Neil

Education Track Papers/Presentations:
- Teaching Creative Collaboration Through Teams: a Pilot Approach, Ben Dunkle
- Collaborative Assessment in a Digital Media Classroom, Philip Parisi
- The Core Principles of Digital Media, Michael Moshell

Education Track Papers/Presentations:
- Digital Scholarship and the Saber-Tooth University, Jonathan Adams
- San Diego 6 - Educational Technology - iPods in 3rd Grade, Michaela Monahan and James Jaurez
 
     
3:45-4:45 New Visual Vocabulary
- Visual Literacy in the Vertical Age, Brigid Maher
- Ed Pashke Interpreted and Drawing by Satellite, John Manning and John Banks
 
     
5 p.m. Bus to hotel  
5:30 Bus leaves hotel for Torrey Pines North  
6:00-6:45 Reception hosted by iDMAa Board  
     
7:00-9:00 iDMAa Dinner and Awards Ceremony Torrey Pines North
     
9:30 Bus returns to hotel  
     
     

Saturday, November 11

 
     
8:15-9:00 Coffee Spectrum Atrium
     
9:00-10:00 Change in Digital Cinema, Paul Churchill (ILM-Lucas Arts) and Jeff Heusser (Effects Artist) Spectrum
     
10:00-11:00 - Digital Storytelling, Tim Langdell and James Jaurez
- The New Politics of the Digital World: Tracked, Blogged, Chatted, and IM'ed, Joan Van Tassel
- Web Journalism: From the Inverted Pyramid to the Tumbled Pyramid, Joao Canavilhas
 
     
11:00-12:00 Game Track Papers/Presentations:
- Directing Made Easy: Gaming Interfaces that Simplify the Making of Machinima, Robert Jones
- Blackless Fantasy: Disappearing Race in Fantasy MMORPGs, Tanner Higgin

Education Track Papers/Presentations:
- Digital Imaging: Capturing Nature's Essence, Carol Faber
- Getting Past the 1's and 0's, John Forrest

Art/Design Papers/Presentations:
- Abstract - Art/Design Category, Rachel Egenhoefer
- New Grotesques: New-Media Processes With Old-Media Product, Seth Ellis
- Humanizing the Machine: Women Artists and the Shifting Praxis and Criticism in Computer Art, Grant Taylor
 
     
12:00-12:15 - Conference Close
- iDEAs Exhibition Close
Spectrum Atrium