NMC Corporate Partner Spotlights

Pathable provides on-line community and social networking services for conferences and events.

Give attendees the tools to network professionally and personally. Pathable makes events dramatically more successful by improving attendees' ability to network. It's a private, on-line community and directory just for your event paired with a unique badging system and mobile networking tools that ensure attendees make the connections they want.

The Digital Media Academy, along with companies like Apple, Adobe and Sun Microsystems, is a Corporate Sponsor of the  New Media Consortium. Given the relevance to our own mission of providing effective and relevant digital media training, we are pleased to support a leading organization dedicated to researching and promoting best uses of digital media in teaching and learning. One of major ways DMA participates in the New Media Consortium is at their annual conference.

The Adobe® Design Achievement Awards celebrate student achievement reflecting the powerful convergence of technology and the creative arts. The competition — which showcases individual and group projects created with industry-leading Adobe creative software — honors the most talented and promising student graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, animators, digital filmmakers, developers, and computer artists from the world's top institutions of higher education in more than 30 countries!

The award winners are announced today- see them and more at
http://www.adaaentry.com/adaalive.html

The University of Cincinnati and Apple are hosting Vision 2020 the first week of August. The theme for the event is "Digital Ubiquity & University Transformation".

The conference will provide the opportunity for institutional leaders and faculty from around the country to share ideas and best practices about digital ubiquity in higher education. For anyone interested in integrating notebooks, iPhones or iPod touch devices into their campus environment, this is the conference to attend.

Featured speakers include former Maine Governor Angus King, the University of Cincinnati President Nancy Zimpher, dean and CIO leadership panels, NMC CEO Larry Johnson and KnowledgeWorks CEO Chad Wick addressing "Emerging Technology Trends: Shaping the Future of HIgher Education", and over 25 other college and university presentations. University and college are encouraged to bring teams of 3 or more.

The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is teaming up with Apple, to provide college students across the United States with the opportunity to share how they define freedom. Teams of college students can create and submit a short video (3 minutes or less) expressing the qualities, importance, and impact of freedom in their lives, today.

Through their submissions, students will connect with people around the world to share their ideas about Freedom and become facilitators in a very important, global dialogue concerning some of society’s most critical issues. Creating Freedom Awareness—at a time when we need it most—is, perhaps, the 21st Century’s greatest challenge.

So what do you want to do with your life?

The Roadtrip Nation (RTN) Movement was born from this question, and the idea that hitting the road to meet with inspirational leaders from all walks of life could help people discover their own paths in life. Started by a group of recent college grads whose life-changing roadtrip set this all in motion, Roadtrip Nation has evolved into a National PBS Series, student roadtrip movement on over 400 colleges, three books and a growing online network at roadtripnation.com. Whatever the medium, our goal is to help people discover their own roads in life based on individuality, passion and exploration.

Adobe Labs provides you with the opportunity to experience and evaluate new and emerging innovations, technologies, and products from Adobe.

Labs fosters a collaborative software development process. This allows customers to become productive with new products and technologies faster and the Adobe development teams to respond and react to early feedback in order to shape the software in a way that meets the needs and expectations of the community.

At Adobe Labs, you'll have access to resources such as:

• Prerelease software and technologies
• Code samples and best practices to help accelerate your learning curve
• Early versions of product and technical documentation
• Forums, wiki-based content and other collaborative resources to help you interact with like-minded developers and Macromedia

If you are forward-thinking and enjoy the challenge of working with the most current technology and products—despite a few rough edges—we're looking forward to working with you in Adobe Labs!

Visit the lab at http://labs.adobe.com/ 

If you're excited and serious about enhancing your work in a higher education design or film program, you're in the right place. The Adobe Design and Film School Connection is a site where students and faculty members can find free resources for using Adobe software products in coursework, projects, and career preparation; use tips and tutorials; receive and give helpful advice; and read about new trends and upcoming design events. It's all here.

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