Digital Academy
- About the DA
- The DA Team
- Media Integration Studies Minor
- Digital Soup and Sandwich
- Digital Idea Center
- Annual Digital Content Consortium
- Related Links
- Creative Projects, Podcasts and Blogs
- Contact Us
Digital Academy
PO Box 1510
Pembroke, NC 28372
about the da
FOCUS
The Digital Academy recognizes the reality of the rapidly changing and expanding technological landscape. As a fundamental concern, the Digital Academy promotes, establishes, activates and focuses on acquiring digital knowledge, disseminating digital knowledge and modeling professional digital practice.
CUTTING EDGE
The Digital Academy was the first UNC school to become a member of the prestigious New Media Consortium, an international collaboration of universities and technology companies.
SCHOLARSHIP THROUGH CREATIVE PROJECTS
The Digital Academy benefits its partners through focusing digital technologies and those who use them upon valuable causes and agendas related to university education, research and service. Through Creative Projects the Digital Academy brings together, under a single umbrella, those persons linked by a common interest in the creative and scholarly uses of digital technologies, regardless of their department, school, or college affiliation.
TEACHING, COLLABORATION, SUPPORT
The UNCP Digital Academy was founded originally as the Media Integration Project. Now Media Integrations Studies is a campus-wide minor. Founding faculty and departments are: John Antoine Labadie, Art Department; George Johnson, Mass Communication; and Larry Arnold, Music Department. Collaborators: Departments offering courses in the MIS minor are: English,Theater & Languages; Philosphy & Religion; and Sociology & Criminal Justice. All are in the College of Arts & Sciences. Additional UNCP collaborators include the Livermore Library and the Division of Information Technology. Supporters of the Digital Academy are the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs.
ACTIVITIES
The Digital Academy hosts various campus activities including:
Digital Soup and Sandwich which is an informal monthly presentation series; The Digital Content Consortium which is the annual "Brick and Mortar" conference; and the UNCP MAC Users Group and Listserv.
Updated: Wednesday, April 27, 2011
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