Check-in and Registration | 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Registrants may check in at this time to receive your festival badges and programs. Stations will be open for those who plan to register on-site. Coffee provided for festival participants.
Campus Y
Please bring your printed event registration confirmation page with your confirmation number and your University ID, if applicable, to receive the discounted admission rate

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Interactive Project Exhibitions | 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Enjoy student, faculty and community interactive projects and art.
Venues:

• Faculty Projects: Wilson Library, The Pleasants Family Assembly Room, Wilson Library
• Electro-Acoustic Music Exhibition: FedEx Global Education Center, Peacock Atrium
• Student Projects: The James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence at Graham Memorial, Kresge Foundation Common Room
• Art of Gaming: Hanes Art Center, The John and June Alcott Gallery
  

This event is free and open to the public


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Hands-On Workshop: Create Wikis Using PB Works | 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.
During this hands-on session, participants will create a wiki (Web site) using PBworks.com. Sites for adding multimedia content will also be explored.
Peabody Hall, Mercer Reynolds Computer Lab (Room 02)
Lee Adcock, doctoral student, UNC School of Education, and former secondary social studies teacher
Festival badge required for entry

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Hands-On Workshop: Create Simple Web Sites | 10:00 to 11:30 a.m.
Create an interactive and professional Web site on your own, and learn how to easily put documents, photos, videos and other media online.
Howell Hall, OASIS “Sandbox” (Room 05)
Jeff VanDrimmelen, OASIS Instructional Technologist
Festival badge required for entry
 
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Soundbyte: The Future of Learning in a Digital Age | 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
The Internet brings about a way of learning that is not new or revolutionary but is now the norm for today’s graduating high school and college classes. Davidson and McGowan discuss potential new models of digital learning and propose what tomorrow’s classrooms may look like.
Hyde Hall, University Room
Cathy Davidson, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Ruth F. Devarney Professor of English
in conversation with
John McGowan, Ruel W. Tyson Jr. Distinguished Professor of the Humanities and director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities
Festival badge required for entry

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K-12 Teacher Translational Session | 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.
Educators will “translate” festival discussions into practical approaches and ideas K-12 teachers can implement in their own classrooms.
Peabody Hall, Room 206
Facilitators:

• Cheryl Goldstein, UNC School of Education coordinator of Instructional Technology
• Julie Keane, UNC School of Education doctoral candidate with experience as a researcher, designer and curriculum developer in educational technology
• Jamie Lathan, UNC School of Education doctoral student and former social studies/humanities teacher

Festival badge required for entry, *entry restricted to K-12 guests*

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Soundbyte: Storytelling in Multimedia | 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.
Technology, particularly through multimedia storytelling tools, has had a profound effect on how journalists conceive of and tell stories, redefining their traditional roles. Experts from UNC's School of Journalism and Mass Communication share how their students are telling stories in new and innovative ways.
Hyde Hall, University Room
Laura Ruel, UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication assistant professor of visual communication and multimedia journalism,
in conversation with
Patrick Davison, UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication associate professor of visual communication and director of documentary projects
Festival badge required for entry

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Hands-On Workshop: VoiceThread: Multimedia Projects Made Simple | 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
Explore VoiceThread's applications as a teaching and learning tool and learn how to create a VoiceThread of your own.
Howell Hall, OASIS “Sandbox” (Room 05)
Suzanne Cadwell, UNC Center for Faculty Excellence Instructional Technology Consultant and ITS Liaison
Festival badge required for entry

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Hands-On Workshop: Digital Video | 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
Pick up a few tips and tricks to incorporate multimedia into your classes through the use of video, including collecting video clips, using YouTube and adding video to PowerPoint presentation.
R.B. House Undergraduate Library, Media Resource Center (Room 008)
Greg Klaiber, UNC Media Resource Center Media Lab Manager
Festival badge required for entry

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Panel: Serious Teaching and Learning in Serious Games | 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
Gaming has taken a serious turn in many classrooms as educators discover the effectiveness of games as teaching tools. In this discussion, experts in K-12, higher education and industry discuss how pedagogy is embedded in serious games.
Hill Hall, Auditorium
Panelists:

• Len Annetta (moderator), N.C. State associate professor of science education
• Phaedra Boinodiris, IBM Serious Games program manager and founder of the award-winning INNOV8 program
• Rene Daughtry, Cisco systems technical project manager, leader of Cisco’s Black Employees Network (CBEN), which inspires N.C. students to pursue careers in science and technology
• Jerry Henegan, founder and CEO of Virtual Heroes, Inc., and an executive producer for the America’s Army Game Project

Festival badge required for entry

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Keynote: From Knowledge to Knowledge-able | 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.
Michael Wesch, cultural anthropologist and YouTube.com celebrity from Kansas State University
In a world of instant and infinite information, today’s students need skills to find, sort, analyze, share, discuss, critique and create information and knowledge, moving from being simply knowledgeable to being knowledge-able. “Knowledge-ability” is a way of being-in-the-world in which people recognize and actively examine, question and even re-create the (increasingly digital) structures that shape our world.
Hill Hall, Auditorium
Festival badge required for entry

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The Bathysphere: Motion Capture as Art | 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.
Interactive Project Exhibition: Experience an underwater opera with motion-capture technology.
Project Leaders: Francesca Talenti, UNC communication studies, and Greg Welch, UNC computer science
Gerrard Hall
This event is free and open to the public

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Festival on the Hill: An Electro-Acoustic Concert Featuring Student Compositions | 5:00 to 6:30 pm
Electro-acoustic performance and composition featuring student composers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Northern Illinois University, University of Oregon and University at Buffalo
Person Hall
Coordinated by and featuring Stephen Anderson, UNC music faculty, composer and pianist
This event is free and open to the public

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Interactive Project Exhibition | 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Enjoy faculty interactive projects from Carolina and Duke University researchers. The program’s Festival Components section describes which projects show at each venue.
ITS-Manning, The Renaissance Computing Institute
This event is free and open to the public

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Festival on the Hill/Process Series: Open Charanga Carolina Rehearsal | 7:30 to 9:00 p.m.
In this open rehearsal, part of the UNC Process Series, Charanga Carolina offers the world premiere performance of Circulo, a work for turntables and Latin ensemble.  Mark Katz, Festival on the Hill coordinator, commissioned composer Raúl Yañez and turntablist DJ Radar of Phoenix, to write the work. The composers and musicians will explain their work and take questions and feedback from the audience.
Gerrard Hall
This event is free and open to the public

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The Virtual Performance Factory | 8:00 to 10:00 p.m.
Interactive Project Exhibition: Experience a performance environment existing in the borderlands of real and virtual space in this live simulation of a video game
Project Leader: Joseph Megel, UNC communication studies, in conjunction with Icarus Studios, a gaming company in Cary, NC
Swain Hall, Studio 6
Festival badge required for entry

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DJ/VJ Dance Party| 9:30 p.m. to 2:00 a.m.
Student, local and visiting DJs will perform from the balconies in this historic building while VJs, or video jockeys, project videos on screens around dancers on the main floor. The Bathysphere, a project described in the program’s Exhibition information, runs during the party, allowing participants the chance to interact with motion capture technology during the evening.
Gerrard Hall
This event is free and open to the public