Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Feb 03, 2009, 08:01 PM
Well, we could not be more excited about (or working harder on) the upcoming HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Winners' Showcase to be held in Chicago April 16-17, starting with an avant garde New Music electronic concert performed by PLOrk (Princeton Laptop Orchestra) on Thursday night (April 16) at Newberry Library, followed by an exciting interactive day of demos, games, environmental treasure hunts, multimedia learning in every size, shape, sound, and even smell (oh, those cute Black Cloud sensors!) . . . and all in Chicago's most historic hotel, the gloriously renovated Palmer House. O. Right. The Palmer House. Not the Bean in Millennial Park. The Palmer House. Stop. Take that in. The Mixed Reality Sets In.

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Jan 02, 2009, 10:39 AM
This is a continuation of ?Digital Media and Learning and Twitter at MLA? (http://www.hastac.org/node/1866 and http://www.hastac.org/node/1867). In the first two postings, I wrote about the Twitter/Microblogging session and my presentation on HASTAC and on the MacArthur Foundation?s Digital Media and Learning Initiative at the session entitled ?Humanities 2.0: Participatory Learning in an Age of Technology? that featured three winners of the MacArthur Foundation Competition in Digital Media and Learning. The session was chaired by Zita Nunes and featured Howard Rheingold (Social Media Classroom), Todd Presner (Hypercities), Greg Niemeyer and Antero Garcia (Black Cloud). You can chart the progress of these and all of the Digital Media and Learning Competition projects on the Winners Hub at http://hub.dmlcompetition.net/.

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Jun 14, 2008, 10:57 AM
At another MacArthur meeting, I realized yet again how these Digital Media and Learning Initiative meetings are never "just another meeting."

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Dec 15, 2007, 01:50 PM
Here's a reblog of danah boyd's apophenia posting on the exciting publication of the MacArthur Series on Digital Media and Learning and the new journal, the International Journal of Learning and Media. Follow the links, buy the books or download the essays free.

 

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Jun 14, 2007, 07:32 AM
On 22 June, 9am PST (noon EST), MacArthur Foundation President Jonathan Fanton and Second Life CEO Philip Rosedale will be chatting about the role of philathropic foundations in Second Life. Or, more accurately, their avatars will be there . . . and we're all invited too! All kinds of businesses are setting up shop in Second Life, but this is the first time a major foundation has sent its presidential avatar there. For details, go to http://spotlight.macfound.org/

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on May 18, 2007, 09:17 AM
At the last MacArthur-sponsored forum on "The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age," we talked about historian Pat Seed's digital projects that began in 1991 (the official birthyear of the internet). Her most recent on early Arabic maps of Africa made me rethink the religious-basis for early intraAfrican slavery . . . and that made me think about the religious persecutions in Europe. A new paradigm always generates new paradigms. The Inquisition as "tribal warfare."