[http://www.virginiafoundation.org/enewsletter/edui/aug0906.html] Don't See The Images? Click Here [http://www.eduiconf.org] Headliner Highlights! There are so many [http://www.eduiconf.org/speakers/] great speakers you can see at EdUi Sept. 21-22 in Charlottesville VA. We thought we'd take this opportunity to hightlight two of them for you. We know economic times are tight and travel budgets are scarce, but we guarantee you won't find a better value for professional development than EdUI! [http://edui.eventbrite.com/] Register Now! Molly Holzschlag Molly E. Holzschlag is a well-known Web standards advocate, instructor, and author. She is the former Group Lead for the Web Standards Project (WaSP) and an invited expert to the HTML and CSS working groups at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Via each of these roles, Molly works to educate designers and developers on using Web technologies in practical ways to create highly sustainable, maintainable, accessible, interactive and beautiful Web sites for the global community. Among her thirty-plus books is the The Zen of CSS Design, co-authored with Dave Shea. The book artfully showcases the most progressive [http://www.csszengarden.com] csszengarden.com designs. A popular and colorful individual, Molly has a particular passion for people, blogs, and the use of technology for social progress. Join Molly for an all day, six hour session, [http://www.eduiconf.org/session/web-standards-holzschlag/] New Insights in Web Standards, where she'll discuss how HTML5 and CSS3 will help us integrate modern, multimodal techniques in the web-based content we develop and design. Michael Wesch Dubbed “the explainer” by [http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/multimedia/2007/04/ss_raves?slide=14] Wired magazine, Michael Wesch is a cultural anthropologist exploring the impact of new media on society and culture. After two years studying the impact of writing on a remote indigenous culture in the rain forest of Papua New Guinea, he has turned his attention to the effects of social media and digital technology on global society. His [http://www.youtube.com/user/mwesch] videos on culture, technology, education, and information have been viewed by millions, translated in over 15 languages, and are frequently featured at international film festivals and major academic conferences worldwide. Wesch has won several major awards for his work, including a Wired Magazine Rave Award, the John Culkin Award for Outstanding Praxis in Media Ecology, and he was recently named an Emerging Explorer by National Geographic. He has also won several teaching awards, including the 2008 CASE/Carnegie U.S. Professor of the Year for Doctoral and Research Universities. Some of Michael’s most circulated YouTube Videos include: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g] The Machine is Using Us [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o] A Vision of Students Today Using examples from anthropological fieldwork in Papua New Guinea, YouTube, university classrooms, and “the future,” Michael's plenary presentation, [http://www.eduiconf.org/session/mediated-culture-wesch/] Mediated Culture, will demonstrate the profound yet often unnoticed ways in which media “mediate” our culture. EdUI Partners Virginia Foundation for the Humanities - [http://www.VirginiaFoundation.org] http://www.VirginiaFoundation.org University of Virginia - [http://www.Virginia.edu] http://www.Virginia.edu [http://www.eduiconf.org/] www.eduiconf.org This message was sent by: Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, 145 Ednam Drive, Charlottesville, VA 22903 Email Marketing by iContact: http://freetrial.icontact.com Manage your subscription: http://app.icontact.com/icp/mmail-mprofile.pl?r=1050599734&l=2328&s=1VC7&m=5373354&c=37488 Forward to a friend: http://app.icontact.com/icp/sub/forward?m=5373354&s=1050599734&c=1VC7&cid=37488