TWO SEPTEMBER WORKSHOPS AND A FALL COURSE

Friday, September 5, 2008

Media X is pleased to announce two September workshops and to call your attention to a Fall quarter course.

The course, “The Secret Sauce of Innovation,” will be taught by Chuck House and Martha Russell and is offered through Stanford Continuing Studies. It will run from September 24 to December 3.

The International Conference on Distributed Camera Systems, organized by Media X researcher, Dr. Hamid Aghajan, will take place September 7-11. flier

The Workshop on Workgroup Processes for Teams, led by Media X Visiting Scholar, Dr. Stanley Rosenschein, will take place on September 26th. Registration is now open.

We look forward to seeing you.

THE SUMMER INSTITUTE AT WALLENBERG HALL 2008

Thursday, July 31, 2008

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Three exciting workshops opened the Wallenberg Summer Institute today, hosted by Media X at Stanford University. Each workshop, led by a key Stanford research person, is designed for maximum hands-on learning in the Wallenberg Learning Theatre and supporting classrooms. Four more classes open to the public at large will launch next week, and one course three weeks away has been opened for public registration.

Underway this week are:

• Howard Rheingold’s Social Media Classroom features an intimate learning experience centered around his newly developed toolkit designed with a competitive MacArthur Foundation grant.
  
• Roy Pea’s Mobile Video Stories and Narration workshop, by invitation only, was oversubscribed, as many scholars are trying to understand how best to participate in the new Facebook and YouTube world, especially with the great new mobile devices and ubiquitous 3G connectivity.
  
• Pamela Hinds’ thoughtful dissection of the deep issues of distance, time, and cultural interface, with a great selection of national and international collaborators and industry researchers for global teams, Engaging Global Teams Across Distance, Time and Culture, will provide an important guidepost for companies with outsourcing and offshoring activities.
  

Next week, four more workshops launch. One is oversubscribed, with a waiting list, led by Renate Fruchter on the tools, techniques and processes most effective for global collaboration today. This unit includes equipment demonstrations by leading teleimmersion vendors, and case studies of user communities.

A few registration openings are still available for:

• Martha Russell’s Monetizing Audience Engagement in New Media, which will feature important new findings about measuring awareness, impact, and action from new modalities of attention seeking, and how to extract value. Kate Niederhoffer of BuzzMetrics and Nielson Online is co-host. To register, see http://mediax.stanford.edu/WSI/mae.html
  
• Howard Rheingold offers a second course, this one in how to construct an attractive Social Media Collaboratory for your business or personal activities. Very hands-on, very instructive! See http://mediax.stanford.edu/WSI/smco.html
  
• Henry Lowood is hosting an engaging workshop on the permanence or transient nature of Virtual Worlds – how do we keep something terrific if it gets constructed; what are the roles and value of artifacts and history in human knowledge, and how is that being affected, denigrated, or even made impossible to retain in these new exploratory worlds? Co-hosted by Cindy Pickering of Intel Corporation, see http://mediax.stanford.edu/WSI/kmvw.html for more details on Preserving Knowledge in Virtual Worlds.

A final workshop, Workgroup Protocols for Networked Teams led by Gloria Mark, U.C. Irvine research faculty and Stan Rosenschein, a Media X Distinguished Visiting Scholar, will be hosted on August 18th. This workshop will consider findings from a study of new proposed methodologies for teams, with a goal of enhancing productivity for teams whether collocated or distributed. The findings are suggestive – most employees have learned well how to operate independently, but few know and use very effective team skills. This workshop establishes some new metaphors for employee behavior and process, ideas you can take home and use. See http://mediax.stanford.edu/WSI/wpnt.html for more details.

Workshop findings, video archives, and reports will be available for attendees and Media X members. This is the sixth year for the Wallenberg Summer Institute at Stanford University. The website at http://mediax.stanford.edu/WSI/workshops.html describes the Summer Institute.

If you are not already signed up, these short intensives are a great way to come on campus for a stimulating couple of days to refresh your enthusiasm for the positive changes happening all around us. We hope to see you there!

Cost

Discounts are available for Media X affiliate members, academic staff and faculty attendees, and for students. See workshop descriptions for details. Stanford participants can use STAP funds.

More Information

Enquiries welcome. Please contact Amy Atkinson at amy.atkinson (at) stanford.edu or Adelaide Dawes at adelaide (at) stanford.edu.

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