Centennial College Students Blog ideaCity

This year, Centennial College students will be at Moses Znaimer’s ideaCity Conference, powering a student blog offering a uniquely student perspective on the event.

The blog will feature real-time coverage, presentation highlights and references links, exclusive presenter interviews and photos designed to capture the event and extend the ideaCity experience. ideaCity a high profile conference in Canada which in the past has featured presenters such as Justin Trudeau, Preston Manning, Robert Kennedy Jr, Peter Jennings, Ali Velshi, Margaret Atwood, Douglas Coupland, Gord Downie (Tragically Hip), Tomson Highway, Romeo Dallairre, Deepa Mehta, Robert Bateman, and Michael Ignatieff, among others.

http://ideacity.wordpress.com

2010
06/09
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Centennial College launches new Centre for Children’s Media

Toronto, May 18, 2010 – Toronto could soon be the newest and most important hub for children’s entertainment production in the world. Centennial College is launching its Centre for Children’s Entertainment and Media in support of the growing, multi-billion-dollar children’s entertainment industry. Designed to respond to the changing buyers’ market, the new centre will be academic-based, cross-platform and industry-driven, with an emphasis on research and innovation. Industry players will have a new resource for creating content, finding new applications for existing content, and working with teams of students who will be the next leaders in children’s media.

“Toronto is ideally situated to be a global leader in this area, and our new centre will play a pivotal role. We will lead an industry mindset shift towards research and development,” says Nate Horowitz, Dean of the Centre for Creative Communications, Centennial College.

http://www.centennialcollege.ca/thecentre/cec

2010
05/22
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Conestoga Journalism Gives Away More Than $38,000 Dollars at its Awards Gala

Conestoga College students got a big jump start to their broadcast journalism careers as the students took home a record number of scholarships and bursaries at the School of Media and Design’s annual Journalism Gala on March 25th. There were 33 different awards for students in the videography and journalism programs at Conestoga. Donations from local newspapers, broadcasters, online publications, and generous private citizens made it possible to give away over $38 thousand dollars in total.

http://blogs1.conestogac.on.ca/news/2010/04/conestoga_journalism_gives_awa.php

2010
05/22
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New Applied Research $15M Funding for Ontario Colleges

OAKVILLE, ONTARIO–(Marketwire – April 19, 2010) – A new pilot initiative for southern Ontario colleges and universities will provide up to $15 million to help small- and medium-sized businesses move promising products, practices and processes from the research and development stage to the marketplace. Speaking at Sheridan College in Oakville, the Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario, launched FedDev Ontario’s Applied Research and Commercialization Initiative.

“Our government’s Applied Research and Commercialization Initiative will create new jobs and strengthen the economy of southern Ontario,” said Minister Goodyear. “By giving businesses greater access to the research capacity of Ontario’s colleges and universities, our government is committed to supporting the people, communities and businesses of southern Ontario.”

2010
05/03
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Sheridan Students Showcase New Game at Olympics

Sheridan College, a leader in digital media, has created the first ever real-time auto-stereoscopic 3D game that does not require 3D glasses. The game, called “IC3D”, is a showpiece at the Ontario House Pavilion at the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games, and will be used to introduce some of Ontario’s most well-known tourist attractions to the world-wide audience in Vancouver. Developed in collaboration with Toronto-based company Spatial View, the Sheridan IC3D Game is an interactive real-time application where players use BlackBerry® smartphones as game controllers to assemble puzzles featuring some of Ontario’s most popular tourist attractions.audience in Vancouver.
Developed in collaboration with Toronto-based company Spatial View, the Sheridan IC3D Game is an interactive real-time application where players use BlackBerry® smartphones as game controllers to assemble puzzles featuring some of Ontario’s most popular tourist attractions.

2010
04/29
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WATERLIFE Filmmaker at Centennial College

WATERLIFE is a feature-length documentary that tells the story of the last huge supply (20 per cent) of fresh water on Earth. The source of drinking water, fish and emotional sustenance for 35 million people, the Great Lakes are under assault by toxins, sewage, invasive species, dropping water levels and profound apathy. Some scientists believe the lakes are on the verge of ecological collapse.

“After 30 years of making documentaries, what now matters most to me is finding ways to depict the structures that form the environments we live within and which, thus, govern our lives.But figuring out how to do that is not easy.” – Kevin McMahon. Sat. Apr 24. Learn MORE.

2010
04/13
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ABOUT HOMAD

The Heads of Media Arts and Design is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the training of learners in the area of media art and design. The members recognize the value that the community college system brings to this area of instruction and work to improve this in a ever-changing but vibrant sector of our workforce.