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Ball State's Emerging Media Initiative (EMI) is a planned $17.7 million investment in focusing the university's historic strengths in this area, accelerating benefits to the state of Indiana with media-savvy human capital. Our students will have access to innovative and entrepreneurial opportunities in emerging media across the curriculum. Our growing emphasis on new ideas, technology transfer, and commercialization will provide the support faculty need to bring their ideas to market.

Twitter is not a tool for people who are new to social media and the use of social media for personal learning and work.

Mapping potential processes of informal learning through social media

Student-Generated Content for Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and YouTube: Leveraging Institutional and Third-Party Efficiencies for New Media Literacy - Jude Higdon / Karen Howell

Baylor University welcomed to its campus yesterday the CogDog himself, Alan Levine, for conversation, tours, and an afternoon presentation titled "NMC 101, An Introduction to the New Media Consortium."

The NYC Plane Crash story on Twitter, and how the media made someone famous in just minutes.

Instead, what I see happening is being done on smaller scales. It's individual concept workers reaching out to other people (known or not known), through networks or social media, to get help with their particular needs.

Welcome to the workspace for the Horizon Project. This space is a place for the members of the Horizon Project Advisory Board to manage the process of selecting the topics for the 2009 Horizon Report, which will be co-published by the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) and will be released publicly January, 2009.

Yes, if you're not concerned about editing your work, but just getting it out there, then that's right. YouTube is wonderfully simple and I have pined for a decent audio podcasting site, one that will store your media rather than just allow you to link to it (like Blogger).

Most people dabble in many social networks but eventually settle into only one or two that they keep up with on anything resembling a long-term basis. To narrow it down, though, I'd find out which social networks your friends frequent and sign up for them.

This weeks topic was UGC and instead of asking questions and staring at blank, tired faces I challenged the students. I brought along my flip video camera and asked them to make a video during the discussion section on two topics: Define UGC & Give examples of UGCs.

Apparently Baby Boomers aren't exactly the technology Luddites that people think they are. In fact, more than 60 percent of those in this generational group actively consume socially created content like blogs, videos, podcasts, and forums.

Finally, an easy way to tell your story. Just drag and drop your favorite stuff into Freepath's playlist - no need to convert files, upload videos or embed links. Just like that, your digital life became bigger and better! Best of all, it's FREE.