SUMMER INSTITUTE IN DIGITAL MEDIA 2009 (Porto e Lisboa)

Estão de volta os workshops mais fantásticos do Mundo!!!!! (pelo menos como participante na edição de 2008 é o que penso).

A prestigiada Universidade do Texas-Austin traz a Portugal alguns dos seus docentes para dar formações nas mais variadas áreas ligadas aos media digitais. São praticamente de borla e mesmo muito muito bons, e decorrem este ano na Universidade do Porto e na  Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova, em Lisboa.

Eu nunca mais fui o mesmo depois de ter feito o meu, fiquei melhor!  As minhas impressões do ano passado podem ser lidas  aqui , aqui, aqui, aqui, aqui e aqui.  Já vos disse que achei o workshop fantástico?

Inscrevam-se e aproveitem esta oportunidade única. Vão por mim, vale mesmo a pena. Inscrições até 15 de Maio e mais info no site do colab e em  www.utaustinportugal.org.

APPLICATIONS START ON MAY 1^st

DEADLINE – MAY 15

Date: May 25^th to July 17^th 2009

Locations: University of Porto (UPorto) and New University of Lisbon (FCSH/UNL)

Overview

The Summer Institute 2009 is a unique event organized by the UT Austin|Portugal Program comprising several intensive courses that cover different areas of the Digital Media Program such as cinema, music and sound, animation and journalism, among others. The courses will be taught at the graduate level.

The Summer Institute’s activities will be taught by renowned UT Austin Professors and aim to increase our understanding of and abilities to work with digital media technologies.  More detail about the professors and the course content is available at http://colab.ic2.utexas.edu/dm/courses/2009-summer-institute/ or at www.utaustinportugal.org.

PROGRAM

Location: University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

Courses (by application only):

Online Journalism Workshop – Rosental Alves – June 1^st to June 5^th (Time to be announced)

Advanced Animation Workshop – Geoff Marslett – June 15^th to June 30^th/10am to 5pm

Film Preservation and Historiography Workshop – Caroline Frick – June 15^th to June 30^th/2:30pm to 5:30pm

Collaborative Documentary Workshop – Karen Kocher – June 15^th to June 26^th/10am to 6pm

Sound for Picture: Production and Post Workshop– Andy Garrison – June 22^nd to July 7^th/5pm to 8pm

Screenwriting for New Media Workshop – Stuart Kelban – June 29^th to July 10^th/4pm to 8pm

Creating Music and Designing Interactive Music Workshop – Bruce Pennycook – July 6^th to July 17^th/3pm to 6pm

Location: Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the New University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

Courses (by application only):

Convergent Hollywood – Bryan Sebok – May 25^th to June 5^th/2pm to 6pm

Online Journalism – Rosental Alves – May 25^th to May 29^th /2pm to 6pm (Time to be confirmed)

Screenwriting – Richard Lewis – May 25^th to June 5^th/9am to 1pm

Technology and Culture – Craig Watkins – June 8^th to June 19^th/2pm to 6pm

Intro to Digital Documentary Production – Nancy Schiesari – June 8^th to June 19^th/9am to 1pm

How to apply for the Courses (Lisbon and Porto):

Interested prospective applicants should send an application letter, to up to a 350 words, and CV (all in English) for each Course to which they wish to apply. The name of the Course should be written on the subject of the email (one email per Course). Please also state your full name, address, age, highest degree achieved and a contact.

Email your applications to utaustinportugal@fct.mctes.pt.

Fee per Course: 30€ (paid only by the selected applicants to the universities where the Courses will take place).

Note: The FCSH/UNL Film and Television Master students may attend the Courses taking place at the university for free with permission from their program coordinator.

Additional Information and Course Descriptions after the jump | Mais informações e descrições do curso depois do salto

Summer Institute 2008 : Fui seleccionado | I’ve been selected

Eu falei disto há umas semanas, e aproveitei a oportunidade e inscrevi-me também. Acabei por ser um dos escolhidos para participar no workshop de Jornalismo Online (descrição abaixo). Isto significa que vou estar em Lisboa no próximo mês de Junho, a partir do dia 16 até dia 26. Se quiserem combinar alguma coisa digam. Acima de tudo é uma oportunidade excelente de enriquecer a minha formação, num programa prestigiado. Ainda por cima é gratuito. Se foram também seleccionados ou conhecem alguém que foi, digam qualquer coisa.

I talked about this a couple of weeks ago and i applied for a placement too. I was one of the selected applicants to the Online Journalism workshop (description below). This means i’ll be in Lisbon next month from the 16th to the 26th. If you want to meet me there let me know. Above all this is an excellent opportunity to learn more, in such a prestiged program. And it’s for free. If you were selected too or if you know someone who did, let me know.

Online Journalism Workshop

Through practical assignments, analysis of successful cases and specialized literature, this workshop will examine the transformations journalism currently faces in order to meet the Digital Revolution, particularly in what concerns the search for a multimedia language.

Rosental Alves

Alves began his academic career in the United States in March 1996, after 27 years as a professional journalist, including seven years as a journalism professor in Brazil. He moved to Austin from Rio de Janeiro, where he was the managing editor and member of the board of directors of Jornal do Brasil, one of the most important Brazilian newspapers. Alves worked for that paper for 23 years.

He was chosen in 1995 from approximately 200 candidates to be the first holder of the Knight Chair in International Journalism, created by a $1.5 million endowment from the James L. and John S. Knight Foundation. In 2002, Alves received a $2 million grant from the Knight Foundation to create the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, a four-year project to work in training programs with journalists from Latin America and the Caribbean. The Knight Center is based at the School of Journalism in Austin, but reaches thousands of journalists throughout the hemisphere.

For more than a decade, Alves was a foreign correspondent based in Spain, Argentina, Mexico and the United States, working for Jornal do Brasil. In 1991, he created the first online, real-time finance news service, the first of its kind in Brazil. And in 1994, Alves managed the launching of Jornal do Brasil’s online edition, making it the first Brazilian newspaper available on the Internet.

At the University of Texas at Austin, Alves has three basic areas for teaching and research: international reporting (emphasizing the work of foreign correspondents), journalism in Latin America (especially the struggle for a free press in the hemisphere), and Internet journalism (the creation of a new genre of journalism for the digital medium). He created the first class on online journalism at UT in the 1997-98 academic year. Alves has been a frequent speaker in conferences and has conducted numerous workshops in several countries to train journalists and journalism professors on the use of the new medium.

Summer Institute 2008