Family Weekend 2009

Join us for a showing of student created "mashup" films and a discussion of how video creation is becoming the assignment of choice for many undergraduate courses. We will show clips from winning entries of annual mashup contests from the past three years.

• Preview Clip of five faculty discussing video assignments
• ELIXR module on Jacqui Sadashige's freshman writing seminar
• Mashup Contest 2007 Third Prize winner: James Stanford's Sixth Sense
• Mashup Contest 2008 Winner: Emilie Froh's video and its inspiration video from 1964
• Sparky Awards at Penn 2009
• Success Stories page
• Weigle Information Commons Music Video made by three Penn sophomores.
• Documentaries and the Law

Explore technology available to students for videoconferencing via the Internet and playful exploration of photographs. Hands-on demos will provide a glimpse into new media technologies.

• Virtual Tours of Penn Libraries
• Cool Iris exploration of VCAT
• Comic Contest 2009 winners
• Student Work Showcase
• Student Research Posters
• Success Stories
• WIC Online Tutorials include PhotoShop and Poster Design with PowerPoint