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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Workshop Seminar: Using Vodcasts and Podcasts in the Math Classroom | 9:00 to 9:50 a.m.
K-12 teachers and instructional technologists will discuss ways to incorporate video and audio recordings into math lessons
Peabody Hall, Room 216
Helen Crompton, Visiting International Faculty from Manchester, UK, and doctoral student of education at UNC
Festival badge required for entry

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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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Hands-On Workshop: Digital Video | 10:00 to 11:30 a.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 presentations.
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: User Driven: Does Size Matter? | 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Audience expectations are driving trends in technology, and size is one area feeling the impact: What is the ideal screen size for a device, for content, for literature, and more?
Memorial Hall
Panelists:

• Paolo Mangiafico (moderator), director of digital information strategy at Duke University
  
• Paul Jones, founder iBiblio and UNC faculty in the School of Information and Library Science and the School of Journalism and Mass Communication
• Russ Pitts, editor-in-chief The Escapist online gaming magazine
• William Shaw, technical editor of the William Blake Archive and doctoral student in Digital Humanities and 19th Century British Literature at UNC
• Ross White, editor of Inch, a magazine of short poems and microfiction, and the publisher of Bull City Press

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:

• Janice Anderson, UNC School of Education assistant professor of science education
• Cheryl Mason Bolick, UNC School of Education associate professor, coordinator of the Elementary Education program and director of the Research Triangle Schools Partnerships
• Helen Crompton, Visiting International Faculty from Manchester, UK, and doctoral student of education at UNC
• Kevin Oliver, N.C. State assistant professor, program coordinator of Instructional Technology and co-coordinator of the new Certificate in E-Learning
• Carl Young, N.C. State associate professor of English and middle grades education in the department of Curriculum and Instruction

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

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Soundbyte: The Ubiquity of Games | 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.
Gaming is everywhere. Is it just a fad, or have games become a fixture of our society? And is the rise of gaming a good thing, or bad? We’ll discuss the cause, meaning and future of ubiquitous gaming in 21st century culture.
Hyde Hall, Incubator
Chad Dezern, studio director Insomniac Games,
in conversation with
Alex Macris, co-founder, president and CEO of Themis Group and co-founder and president of Triangle Game Initiative
Festival badge required for entry

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Panel: Wired!  New Representation Technologies for Historical Materials | 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.
Hyde Hall, University Room
The Duke University teaching team, "Wired!", will talk about how they explored digital visualization technologies for art historians in research projects and in the classroom and how they are moving this project forward into new initiatives.
Panelists:

• Caroline Bruzelius, Duke University Anne M. Cogan Professor of art history
• Sheila Dillon, Duke University professor in the department of art, art history and visual studies
• Mark Olson, Duke University visiting assistant professor of visual studies in the department of art, art history and visual studies
• Raquel Salvatella de Prada, computer artist and Duke University visiting assistant professor of the practice in the department of art, art history and visual studies

Festival badge required for entry

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Festival on the Hill: Seminar with Electro-Acoustic Composers | 12:15 to 1:45 p.m.
Dine and converse with electro-acoustic composers in this intimate lunch. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis and a limited number of lunches are provided.
Kenan Music Building, Room 3029
Coordinated by Stephen Anderson, UNC music faculty, composer and pianist
This event is free and open to the public

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Keynote Conversation: Collaborative Authorship: Writing Zombies into Austen | 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.
Explore Jane Austen’s world with zombies and sea monsters written in through this discussion of collaborative authorship and mash-up between the creative director and the author behind Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and the forthcoming prequel.
Hyde Hall, University Room
Steven Hockensmith, author of the forthcoming Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls,
in conversation with
Jason Rekulak, associate publisher and creative director at Quirk Books, publisher of hit mash-ups Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
Festival badge required for entry

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Soundbyte: Scientific Method and Narrative Form | 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.
Hyde Hall, Incubator
What happens when you combine an electronic literature expert with a computer scientist who uses algorithms to generate narrative? This conversation will explore the intersections and the opportunities.
Katherine Hayles, professor and director of graduate studies in the program in literature Duke University,
in conversation with
Michael Young, associate professor computer science N.C. State University, director Liquid Narrative research group and co-director Center for Digital Entertainment
Festival badge required for entry

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Hands-on Workshop: Introduction to VoiceThread |1:30 to 2:30 p.m.
Learn ways in which VoiceThread can be used by K-12 teachers, in particular, to develop a classroom community centered around engagement, collaboration and critical inquiry.
Peabody Hall, Mercer Reynolds Computer Lab (Room 02)
Lee Adcock, former secondary social studies teacher and doctoral student of education at UNC
Festival badge required for entry

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Hands-On Workshop: VoiceThread: Multimedia Projects Made Simple | 2:00 to 3:30 pm
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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Panel: Music & New Media | 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
This unique combination of industry leaders and intellectual property experts will explore the legal and cultural challenges that pervade the use of music in new media.  The varied expertise of the panel demonstrates how these issues affect the creative process in advertising, education, the arts and entertainment. 
Memorial Hall
Panelists:

• Deborah Gerhardt (moderator), UNC School of Law director of the intellectual property initiative
• Adam Blumenthal, founder of Curious Sense, an interactive digital media studio located in the Research Triangle Park, NC
• Jennifer Jenkins, Duke University director of Center for the Study of the Public Domain
• Larisa Mann (aka DJ Ripley), DJ artist and scholar University of California, Berkeley
• Ken Weiss, entrepreneur, musician, producer and music supervisor

Festival badge required for entry

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Hands-on Workshop: Introduction to VoiceThread |2:45 to 3:45 p.m.
Learn ways in which VoiceThread can be used by K-12 teachers, in particular, to develop a classroom community centered around engagement, collaboration and critical inquiry.
Peabody Hall, Mercer Reynolds Computer Lab (Room 02)
Lee Adcock, former secondary social studies teacher and doctoral student of education at UNC
Festival badge required for entry

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The Bathysphere: Motion Capture as Art | 3:00 to 4:00 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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Panel: Games & Storytelling | 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.
What makes a game a game? This group of writers and game developers will discuss storytelling in games, in theory and practice, approaching games as an emerging narrative genre with its own conventions and effects.
Memorial Hall
Panelists:

• Victoria Szabo (moderator), assistant research professor of visual studies and new media and program director Information Science + Information Studies Duke University
• Richard Dansky, Central Clancy Writer for Ubisoft and manager of design for Red Storm Entertainment
• David Ellis, game designer, Vicious Cycle
• Jon Paquette, writer, Insomniac Games (Burbank, Calif.)
• Todd Fixman, writer, Insomniac Games (Burbank, Calif.)
• Steven Hockensmith, author (Bay Area, Calif.)

Festival badge required for entry

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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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The Bathysphere: Motion Capture as Art | 7:00 to 9:00 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 Art Walk | 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
For one night only, participants will enjoy special access to the artists and scholars behind the festival, who will be on hand to discuss their work. Each exhibition venue will offer beverages and light snacks to ease your journey as you hit the different locales on campus. Visit the Exhibitions section of the program for the detailed schedule.
Venues:

• Faculty Projects: Wilson Library, The Pleasants Family Assembly Room
• Faculty Projects: ITS-Manning, RENCI Engagement Center
• Student Projects: Graham Memorial, The Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence
• Community/Gaming Art: Hanes Art Center, The John and June Alcott Gallery
• Computer Science Demos: J. Carlyle Sitterson Hall
• Dome Fest Clips: Morehead Planetarium and Science Center, GlaxoSmithKline Fulldome Theater
• Escapist Theater:  Morehead Planetarium and Science Center, NASA Digital Theater

**FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Please note that this is a change from previously published information