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9:00 pm
Meet and Greet
Location: Cozy Nook, The Banff Centre
There will be opportunity to introduce yourself and meet other fellows and faculty, share a glass of wine or have a cup of tea and nestle in for a night in the mountains.

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8:45am - 10:00am
Welcome and brief re-introduction:
Location: Classroom JPL 204

• Sara Diamond Executive Producer, TV & New Media, Artistic Diretcor Media Visual Arts, The Banff Centre
• CWC rep: Stephanie MacKendrick
• Corus rep: David Kincaid

Executive Producer, Sara Diamond provides an overview of the issues that we will cover during the course. From the challenges of an ever changing landscape, to peer to peer technologies, to consistent technological change, to the need for cross media knowledge, to leading cross-disciplinary teams, to hiring just the right skill sets, women leaders will need an adaptive, creative and focussed response to the ever changing new media world.

10:00am -11:00am
The Mating Game: Marriage, Divorce, Betrayal and Loyalties: The Current State of Convergence. What is New Media? Who are the Players? What are the Forms? What carries over? Who Carries on?
Location: Classroom
Faculty: Deborah Beatty
Keynote address on the current stage of convergent media, the process of convergence and the knowledge and skills needed to lead in a time of change. This lecture will establish definitions that will be of value for the Fellows. We will have a glossary of terms prepared for the course. This lecture will bring the glossary alive!

11:15am – 12:30pm
$, Rights and new Media
Location: Classroom
Faculty: Christene Hirschfeld
What are rights issues in current new media deals? How should deals be negotiated to get the best out of potential properties. Where do peer to peer technologies, the culture of free content, fit with a rights model? What are alternatives?

1:30pm – 3:00pm
Old knowledge and New: Fellows Response
Location: Classroom
Faculty: Sara Diamond
Fellows have a facilitated opportunity to respond to the ideas of the keynote speakers. The goal of this session is to validate the knowledge that the Fellows are bringing into the course. It will underline the ways that they can build on their knowledge. It will note the key areas of learning and skill development that will emerge through the program.

We will review individual learning goals and structure of the program for meeting those goals based on previous discussions with Fellows and their response to the curriculum plan.

3:00pm – 3:30pm
Facilities Tour
Location: JPL

3:45pm - 5:15pm
Hands on Lab Time- Using the WWW for Research Part One
Location: Windows Lab JPL 221
Faculty: Elizabeth Vander Zaag, assisted by Jennifer Villamere and Lisa Betterton
Fellows will receive an introduction on how to use the WWW as a research and finding aid, how to take advantage of web-based services and how to set up your own computer environment to remember information. Knowledge mapping will be discovered and discussed.

5:15pm - 6:00pm
Conclusions, check in
Location: Classroom

7:30pm - 8:45pm
Improvisational Drama, Interactivity, Games, and Multiplayer Storytelling
Location: Performance Studio, Glyde Hall
Faculty: Lizbeth Goodman and Sara Diamond
Interactive narratives may be the future of convergent media. This is an introduction to the use of live theatre improvisation in creative problem solving in new media; including some role play and identity games to be set by LG, with repercussions for storylines to be developed throughout the week. Some samples of games and media applications that tell stories may be shown.

8:45pm - 10:30pm
Inspirations: Creative New Media Case Studies
Location: Classroom
Faculty: Elizabeth Vander Zaag, Gayle Irwin, and Martha Ladly (facilitated by Sara Diamond)
This session provides a case study of a crossover/convergent media product that has won international awards for its approach to content and technology. We will look at why it was successful from the aesthetic to the practical production sides. Who developed the idea, how was a team assembled to produce it, what were the controversies during production, what is its economic model, what its ROI?

• Eve, Ceremonies of Innocence, Drum (Martha Ladly)
• Talk Nice and Cougerdate.com (Elizabeth VanderZaag)
• artscanada.cbc.ca (Gayle Irwin)

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9:00am – 9:30 am
Summary and Check in from Previous Day
Location: Classroom
Faculty: lead by Sara Diamond

9:30am - 10:45am
Using the Web for Research: Placement in Search Engines
Location: Windows Lab JPL 221
Faculty: Elizabeth Vander Zaag, Susan Kennard, assisted by Jennifer Villamere and Lisa Betterton
This component includes a discussion of search engines, hierarchies in www information, the web as community versus mass media, accuracy, security, ecommerce on the web. This discussion is informed by search problems that the Fellows bring to the fore.

11:00am - 12:00pm
Into the Future: Women, Games and Convergence
Location: Classroom
Faculty: Laura Groppe
A leading woman games analyst will discuss the nature and potentials of the growing games industry providing some examples of new forms of game play and audiences. Where does interactive gaming fit in the world of convergent media? How can women enter this field?

12:00pm - 12:15pm
GROUP PHOTO
Please proceed to risers set up OUTDOOR in the Donald Cameron Amphitheatre, (across from the dining room windows)

1:15pm - 2:30pm
New Media: Building Companies
Location: Classroom
Faculty: Justine Bizzocchi

2:45pm – 4:00pm
Writing, Design and Interactivity: Creative Challenges in New Media
Location: Classroom
Faculty: Martha Ladly, Gayle Irwin, Sara Diamond
Leading new media designers introduce the key creative elements of new media design: writing, visual design, drama, and direction. How do you imagine and develop the creative elements of a new media work?

4:00pm – 5:45pm
Writing, Design and Interactivity: Creative Challenges in New Media
Building Your Own Web Sites
Location: Windows Lab JPL 221
Faculty: Elizabeth Vander Zaag, assisted by Jennifer Villamere and Lisa Betterton
This practical design workshop will introduce the basic elements of simple WWW design to Fellows while considering effective design principles on the web. (Photoshop and Dreamweaver will be introduced)

7:30pm - 8:15pm
Check In & Feedback for Day One Interactive Drama Workshop
Location: Performance Studio, Glyde Hall
Faculty: Lizbeth Goodman, Sara Diamond
Continuing the use of live theatre improvisation in creative problem solving in new media. We will explore "character tone" and work with props, adding these to the emerging narratives.

8:15pm - 8:30pm
Walk to town
Please bring outdoor wear

8:30pm - 10:30pm
Games Night: Show, Tell and Play
Location: Cyber Web Café- 215 Banff Avenue.
Faculty: Laura Groppe
Who says that women and girls do not play games? Find out for yourself, whether you are a player or not, what the pleasures and challenges of interactive games are. We will try out a number of games with high female audiences, look at new forms of games play and design, such as The Sims, Black and White. How can you break into this culture and have success? Where does convergence work in favour of larger audiences (for e.g. through play station technology)?

9:00am – 9:15 am
Summary and Check in from Previous Day
Location: Classroom
Faculty: lead by Sara Diamond

9:15 am – 10:15am
Team Management From Top Down to Open Source
Lateral Thinking: Peer to Peer Technologies, Users, Extreme Programming
Location: Classroom
Faculty Roma Khanna, Caryl Brandt, and Sara Diamond
This panel discusses and debates user driven models of interaction and design. It provides our first overview of new technologies and how these enable different roles for audiences, artists, users and designers. These technologies and user response have created new expectations for participation, validation and engagement on the part of users. We will focus on participatory models and content. Chances are that your staff will also have grown up in this environment. How do you relate to them? What do you need to know? What are some of the economic and rights indicators to take into account in this world? How do you work with distributed teams? How do you work with international networks?

10:30am – 12:30pm
Team Development and Management
Location: Classroom
Faculty: Christene Hirschfeld, Roma Khanna, Gayle Irwin, Sara Diamond, Caryl Brandt
What is the ideal new media management team? What are the expectations of team management? Picking up on panel one, how and when do we use lateral styles? How do you work with "close to the machine" people? What happens when the manager is younger then her team members, or vice versa? Case studies of successful new media projects and the related team strategies and management challenges will be discussed in panel form. How do you work with international networks? What are some of the economic and rights indicators to take into account in this world?

12:30pm – 1:30pm
Lunch

1:30pm – 3:30pm
Role-play Pitching a Project and Developing your Dream Team.
Location: Classroom
Faculty: All Faculty and guest speakers
Fellows are divided into teams. Fellows brainstorm a small project. They will define roles, plan the project and look at a management structure. They will develop a design plan based on previous course work, present it to the class and get feedback. This gives the Fellows the opportunity to role-play taking the lead for a team that has a strongly creative and primarily technical.

3:45pm - 5:30pm
Hands on Lab Time: Building your own Website Part Two
Location: Windows Lab JPL 221
Faculty: Elizabeth Vander Zaag assisted by Jennifer Villamere and Lisa Betterton

7:30pm- 8:45pm
Improvisational Drama, Exercises That Help You Pitch
Location: Performance Space, Glyde Hall
Faculty: Lizbeth Goodman
The Butterfly Project prototype-an exploration in movement. The curriculum will be customized to this group of participants so the contents of this session may change as the week progresses. Code Zebra and definition games will also be featured.

8:45pm - 10:00pm
Talk by Sheelagh Carpendale: Close to the Machine- Woman inventing technologies. Special guests Blast Theory from the UK speaking about interactive projects
Location: Classroom

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9:00am – 10:45am
How to Finance New Media?
Location: Classroom
Faculty Ellie Rubin, Christene Hirschfeld, Mary Barroll, Corrie Coe -
moderated by Sara Diamond
Putting the new media convergence television deal together. Different perspectives of deal making are explored, from development through to marketing. What is the role of tool making in relation to the content agenda? What issues are of particular importance from inside convergent media, the broadcaster, inside the new media company, inside the Technology Company? What are the stages of financing, the sources in Canada and abroad? Case studies.

11:00am – 12:30pm
"I Entrepreneur", High Tech Convergence and the New Leader
Location: Classroom
Faculty: Ellie Rubin

1:30pm- 2:30pm
The New Media Budget
Location: Classroom
Faculty: Caryl Brandt
This practical session walks through all the elements of a new media budget, the challenges in covering the skills, time and resources needed.

3:15pm - 5:15pm
Building Websites: Part Two
Location: Windows Lab JPL 221
Faculty: Elizabeth Vander Zaag assisted by Jennifer Villamere and Lisa Betterton
Participants will continue to design a web site, with an introduction to forms and development of index pages.

Work in groups: Develop a pitch for a new media project. Develop the concept, the team, a time line, a financing plan and a pitch
Location: Classroom and Windows Lab JPL 221
Faculty: All Faculty and Guest Speakers
With guidance from the faculty, you will develop your concept, the production and financing plan. You will also plan your pitch, with clear roles amongst the pitching group. Other faculty and participants will role-play vetting and responding to your pitch.

B) Meeting With Individual Faculty for Career Consultation
Location: Classroom, and Performance Space

8:45 am
Meet the Bus for Ski Expedition
Location: road in front of DCH

2:00pm - 5:00pm
Pitching Session
Location: Classroom
Fellows pitch their projects to the group and receive feedback. 4 minutes for pitches per group with 6 minutes of discussion to follow each group.

9:00am – 10:45am
The Future is Now!
Case Study: Women Learning new media in Morocco
Location: Classroom
Faculty: Lizbeth Goodman, and Sara Diamond
LG to demo the Moroccan cybercafe project and to discuss key issues of gender and development in the knowledge economy. This session to include notes on online pedagogy and facilitation strategies for adult learners in non-Western settings.

11:00am - 12:00pm
Changing the Patterns of Learning--ICT in the Classroom
Faculty: Dr. Patricia Clifford - CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS
1 hour tutorials offered by Christene Hirschfeld, Susan Kennard, and Sara Diamond. Locations TBA

1:30pm - 2:30pm
Branding: yourself, your company and your ideas
Location: Classroom
Faculty: W. Paterson Ferns
Guest presenters will discuss the power of branding and suggest strategies.

2:30pm - 2:45pm
Coffee Break

2:45pm – 4:00pm
Bringing it all Home/Building your Company a Review of Lessons Learned with Faculty
Location: Classroom
Faculty: All
Kicked off by an overview of the New Media Company we move into a summary of lessons learned. This is a strategic session on bringing New Media into their companies and their lives, facilitated discussion by Fellows. How will they implement their personal plan?

4:00pm - 5:00pm
Program Evaluation
Location: Lloyd Hall 2^nd floor lounge

5:00pm- 6:30pm
Reception to Welcome Anthony Kiendel, new director of Visual Arts
Location: Walter Phillips Gallery

6:30pm - 9:30pm
Banquet and keynote address by: Twin Speakers: Two Perspectives on the Future
Dr. Elizabeth Cannon, Women and the Future of Science
Dr. Kathleen Sherf, Women and the Future of Communications
Location: TransCanada Pavillon Foyer
Faculty: Dr. Elizabeth Cannon and Dr Kathleen Scherf

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