M2O livestreaming the Masters of Digital Media Open House from the Centre for Digital Media tonight
Into digital media? Like pushing the boundaries beyond what is now into what could be? Cool, then you should be checking out the Masters of Digital Media Program’s open house tonight at the Centre for Digital Media on Great Northern Way tonight.
Oh, can’t make it in person? No problem, M2O has you covered because we’re livestreaming the whole thing via Adobe Connect (in partnership with BCIT):
You are invited to attend the Masters of Digital Media (MDM) Program Open House on March 19th hosted by the Centre for Digital Media (CDM) at the Great Northern Way Campus. This is the final Open House before the March 31st application deadline. It is an event not to be missed for students with a passion for digital media and considering graduate school.
Come mix and mingle with current faculty, students and soon-to-be graduates at the Open House. There will be samples of student work, facility tours and informaiton about the program, scholarships and program admission requirements.
Event Details:
Date: Thursday, March 19th
Time: 6:00 – 7:30pm Pacific Standard Time (sign-in begins @ 5:30pm)
Registration is required.
Can’t make it in person? Join us for this event Live Online!
If you want to attend in person or virtually, you need to register for the event (there is still time) and if that isn’t cool enough Joanna Robinson, Research Assoc. Virtual Worlds, is going to stream it into Second Life as well (fitting as William Gibson’s birthday was Tuesday).
For the past two months M2O and BCIT have been doing virtual seminars to small businesses throughout the province using the same platform and technology. We’re making this huge province a little smaller using some great technology. Imagine you’re in Kelowna or Prince George and you’d like to listen to the best and the brightest in business, entrepreneurship, technology, or social media. Yes, you could come to Vancouver or Victoria for a conference or meeting or invite a speaker to you, but that isn’t very cost effective.
The solution we’ve found is pretty elegant. We patch our standard setup for taping Connected Life episodes and rig it to pass into a dedicated machine which pumps it into Adobe Connect. Because we’re using our regular recording set up, this isn’t webcam quality picture or sound, this is the real deal. Two cameras, live switching between close and wide, audio piped right into the stream from real mics.
This would be cool enough, but we push to the next level by also recording to DV tape so we can reproduce the talk in nearly any format we wish.
It’s a slick setup that we’ve now made mobile, so this is just the beginning.
Watch tonight and see what it’s like.
See you there! Virtually at the Virtual Centre for Digital Media (in Second Life) and in person at the Centre for Digital Media in Vancouver.
PS: Here's a direct link to join us virtually in Second Life this evening http://slurl.com/secondlife/University%20Project/...