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nmc The New Media Consortium
is an international 501(c)3 not-for-profit consortium of more than 280 learning-focused organizations dedicated to the exploration and use of new media and new technologies. (more...)

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The New Media Consortium’s Series of Online Symposia is designed to explore emerging topics in education and technology, using emerging communication and collaboration technologies to bring people together online in ways that offer many of the same affordances as face-to-face conferences.

Of particular importance are opportunities for the kinds of social interactions that make in-person conferences so valuable: hallway conversations, end-of-the-day informal gatherings, opportunities to speak with presenters in between sessions, and highly interactive breakout sessions that invite participation from the audience.

As part of a recent addition to how we design our online conferences, a topical paper will be released in advance of each symposium, and this document is a comment draft of the one for the upcoming NMC Symposium on Mashups. The hope is that this series of whitepapers will spark discussion, discourse, and especially critical thinking on the topic. The Symposium itself, to be held April 1-3, 2008, will take place in the virtual world of Second Life as well as the web.