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There are so many great speakers to hear at the EdUI Conference Sept. 21-22 in Charlottesville VA. You can find our full program at http://eduiconf.org/program , but we thought we'd take this opportunity to highlight two, Molly Holzschlag and Michael Wesch. Read on to learn more about these remarkable individuals you'll find at EdUI. If this is the first you've heard of EdUI, learn all about it at http://eduiconf.org . In short, EdUI (the name is a marriage of "Edu" and "UI") is a conference for web professionals, particularly those in higher ed, that offers full-day workshops and peer presentations on user experience and user interface issues like usability, accessibility, design, coding, rich media, and social media. We know training and travel budgets are tight right now, but we guarantee this is one of the best values you'll find for professional development! Other events featuring similar speaker line-ups often cost $1000+ and require travel to expensive cities. EdUI is held in beautiful, historic, and affordable Charlottesville VA, home of Thomas Jefferson and a popular tourist destination http://tinyurl.com/lfmpn3 . === REGISTER NOW (DISCOUNT UNTIL AUG. 7) === If EdUI sounds right for you, register now at http://edui.eventbrite.com . We're offering a $75 registration discount until midnight August 7 when you use the promotion code "early_bird" (without the quotes). So be sure to register before then! === MOLLY HOLZSCHLAG === Presents "New Insights in Web Standards" about HTML5 and CSS3 http://www.eduiconf.org/session/web-standards-holzschlag/ Molly 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 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, 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 === Presents "Mediated Culture" about Social Media http://www.eduiconf.org/session/mediated-culture-wesch/ Dubbed "the explainer" by 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 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: The Machine is Using Us - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g A Vision of Students Today - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o Using examples from anthropological fieldwork in Papua New Guinea, YouTube, university classrooms, and "the future", Michael's plenary presentation, Mediated Culture, will demonstrate the profound yet often unnoticed ways in which media “mediate” our culture. ------ EdUI is made possible by The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities <http://www.VirginiaFoundation.org>, in partnership with the University of Virginia <http://www.Virginia.edu> and an array of corporate sponsors. ----- Best wishes, EdUI Conference Organizers