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David Ng describes Phylo, a cool trading card game to teach biodiversity. A study showed that children could easily identify and describe a large number of Pokemon characters, yet knew very little about the real world of plants and animals all around them. Inspired by the success of Pokemon, David Ng's group at UBC has successfully leveraged a web community to rapidly develop Phylo, and to draw attention to 2010 as the International Year of Biodiversity. Check out the video after the jump.
[Cross posted from Bruce Sharpe's blog]
With a fun combination of wit and wisdom, Monica Hamburg advises the budding blogger on how to develop an authentic online "voice". Check out the video after the jump.
[Cross posted from Bruce Sharpe's blog]
Agriculture students are passionate about saving the planet, but not so practiced at communicating. In this talk, a panel of four from UBC's Faculty of Land and Food Systems describe how equipping these students with basic journalism skills and podcasting technology is helping them to articulate their enthusiasm. Check out the video after the jump.
[Cross posted from Bruce Sharpe's blog]
A big thank-you to all who recorded and streamed video for Northern Voice 2010, including our great video volunteers and those who did it without our knowledge (which is perfectly OK; it's a blogging conference after all :-) !)
After the jump, find out how the best editors using Sony Vegas Pro and Singular Software's Presto can win a free copy of both (an $800 value!) as well as links to the archived video streams.
Thanks again for coming to our little conference.
If you've blogged about the conference, comment here and we'll add you to the bottom of this post.
If you want to see pictures, check out this Flickr search.
If you'd like to give us feedback directly, send an email to "info" @ northernvoice.ca -- remember it's .CA.
We will be sending out a survey to all attendees as well. Please help us by filling that out.
And finally: start thinking about next year: We're very proud of the diversity and range of this year's speakers, and it comes from attendees and the people attendees suggest. There's something interesting in you, and Northern Voice is the perfect place to share that.
Now, here's the full list of blog posts and media mentions...
On Saturday, during Chris Messina's keynote, one of the organizers (me) asked one of the attendees (Ianiv) to take his baby (Aiden) out of the auditorium because Aiden was making noise. On Twitter, this has been called "Northern Voice Babygeddon," among other things.
Well, 140 characters isn't a lot of space to have a reasoned debate, so we thought we'd write about it here, to give our perspective on the wider issues as well as the specific situation.
I know, I know. You may have found a Kindle in one of the meeting rooms and thought it was one of the Northern Voice Giveaway packs. Sadly, this is not the case.
If you have found a Kindle laying around, it would be awesome of you to bring it by the registration desk.
For your troubles, you will get a Northern Voice Giveaway prize!
Just a quick note! There has been a minor change to the schedule,
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to run on by the registration desk.
Thanks!
Take a moment to head into the atrium. You'll see the sponsors table with a variety of free things: cute buttons, handy pens, wonderful posters, postcards, pencils and who knows what else!
There's also a contest going on from the good NV sponsors TravelMasters to win a $250 travel voucher -- just retweet their contest tweet! (Link)
Like last year, thanks to amazing technical coordination from Bruce Sharpe of Singular Software and volunteer coordination from Laurie Cooper, we will be recording most of the sessions (except the 101 track) in glorious HD with 2 cameras per room. Volunteers, murphy and editing software willing we will have most of the sessions online a week or two after the conference.
Finally, new for 2010, we will also be streaming the keynotes live at our ustream chanel, Northern Voice.
