ATMI Conference Information
ATMI 2008 Conference - Atlanta, GA, September 25-28
TMI announces its call for papers and presentations for the national conference in Atlanta, Georgia, September 25-28, 2008. The conference will be held in conjunction with the 2008 National Conference for the College Music Society in the Atlanta Marriott Marquis Hotel in downtown Atlanta. The call for papers and presentations is available here on our website and also as a downloadable pdf. Further information about the conference is available at the CMS conference home page.
Information about past conferences is available on the ATMI Conference page.
Last Year's Conference in Salt Lake City:
ATMI Keynote Speaker for 2007
TMI was pleased to host Dr. Gil Weinberg as keynote speaker for the 2007 meeting in Salt Lake City. Dr. Weinberg's address was entitled "Extending
the Musical Experience--From the Physical to the Digital and Back." Dr. Weinberg is the Director of Music Technology at Georgia Institute of Technology, where he founded the Master of Science in Music Technology program and is
currently in the process of establishing a new research center in this field. He holds professorship positions both in the Music Department and the College of
Computation. Dr. Weinberg received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Media Arts and Sciences from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, after co-founding and holding
a number of positions in music and media software industry in his home country of Israel. Dr. Weinberg's bio and an abstract of his address are available online.
Pre-Conference Workshop in 2007:
ollowing a successful inaugural pre-conference 'technology workshop' in San Antonio (2006) on the topic of "Internet2 and videoconferencing," another pre-conference workshop was carried out in Salt Lake City. The theme for this workshop focused on the use of learning management systems (LMS) in music and the use of social computer tools. Some well-known examples of LMS include: Blackboard, WebCT, D2L, Angel, Sakai and Moodle.
he pre-conference boot camp emphasized innovative instructional strategies for online music teaching and creative uses of media (music files, images, video, and animation) within learning management systems. Additionally, social computing tools like podcasting, blogs, Second Life and the like will be featured as alternative LMS delivery systems. The keynote speaker for the pre-conference was Dr. Jonathon Richter, a key member of the University of Oregon research staff developing a virtual campus in Second Life. The title of his talk was "Twenty-first Century Learning Management: Breathing 'Second Life' into Music Education." With generous support from vendors, the registration fee, which included dinner, was greatly reduced from last year's pre-conference.