The document discusses the Institute for Multimedia Literacy at USC and its programs related to multimedia scholarship. It describes an honors program in multimedia scholarship for students, efforts to incorporate multimedia into core courses and across the college, a journal on culture and technology, and use of spaces in Second Life for learning. It also discusses how students' media skills and needs are changing and the need for new teaching models to address these changes.

1. Institute for Multimedia Literacy

6. IML Backchannel

7. IML Backchannel

14. The Third Wheel: The Relationship Between Radio, Record Companies and Government: Web-based game Toxin-Antitoxin Pairs in Escherichia coli: a Flash-based version of a written essay Everyday Decisions and Happiness: an interactive, Web-based diagnostic tool Walden III: Digital Utopianism and the Virtual World: a Second Life-based event series Roundtable ’Rithmatic: Expressing Engineering in a New Light: a Rube Goldberg-like machine, online HONORS IN MULTIMEDIA SCHOLARSHIP // Thesis Projects

16. MULTIMEDIA IN THE CORE // Core Literacies digital literacy network literacy design literacy argumentation research and information literacy

17. MULTIMEDIA IN THE CORE // Faculty Workshops social software in the classroom genres of scholarly multimedia media ripping and issues of fair use incorporating media into lectures YouTube in the classroom hands-on production for faculty

18. MULTIMEDIA IN THE CORE // Linguistics

19. MULTIMEDIA IN THE CORE // Earth Sciences

20. MULTIMEDIA IN THE CORE // African-American Pop Culture

21. MULTIMEDIA IN THE CORE // Using Sophie Institute for the Future of the Book futureofthebook.org

23. MULTIMEDIA ACROSS THE COLLEGE support for all College faculty to transform teaching course redesign to include media using wikis and blogs incorporating video

24. MULTIMEDIA ACROSS THE COLLEGE English 620: “The Scholarly Interface” (Alice Gambrel) – use of Flash for “designed” writing Writing 340: “Writing in the Community” (Stephanie Bower + John Maberry) – using audio, video and Web design Chemistry 201: “Organic Chemistry” (Jim Haw) – advanced Powerpoint, using animation Art History 128G: “Arts of Latin America” (Daniella Bleichmar – Web site development; wiki use for students COLT 303: Globalization: Culture, Change, Resistance (Karen Pinkus) – video documentaries

28. “ Slavery’s Ephemera,” Judith Jackson Fossett and Erik Loyer

30. SECOND LIFE // Other Spaces Harvard’s Berkman Center

31. SECOND LIFE // Other Spaces Princeton’s SL Campus

32. SECOND LIFE // The IML’s Space the panopticon as visual metaphor (IMD 505)

33. SECOND LIFE // The IML’s Space

34. SECOND LIFE // The IML’s Space the Tufte Tunnel

35. SECOND LIFE // The IML’s Space artist’s space: “Gone Gitmo,” virtual Guantanamo project, Peggy Weil + Nonny de la Pe ña

36. SECOND LIFE // The IML’s Space Collaborative event with Seton Hall School of Law on Constitution Day included a webcast of a discussion of detention practices at Guantanamo Bay

37. why?

38. 90% of incoming American freshmen this year have cell phones…

39. 90% of incoming freshman use Facebook

40. myspace boasts 160 million members; 200,000 new accounts daily

41. 17.1 million students (of 18 million) will use the Internet for more than an hour daily

42. there are 120,000 new blogs daily = 1.4 new blogs per second

43. YouTube hosted two presidential debates

44. Second Life has been home to some campaigning…

48. Holly Willis [email_address] http://iml.usc.edu 213-743-2937