Institute for Multimedia Literacy News

Virginia Kuhn, IML Director of Video Production

Virginia Kuhn, Associate Director of the Honors Program of the Institute for Multimedia Literacy [ILM], has been appointed Assistant Editor the the Praxis Section of Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy. Kairos is the longest running peer reviewed digital journal in its field. 

Kuhn, along with DJ Johnson, IML Director of Video Production, and Sonia Seetharaman (USC undergraduate physics major and a student in the first cohort to receive Honors in Multimedia Scholarship), presented at the Educause Learning Initiative Conference in Orlando on Jan. 20. They presented work on their innovative course, IML340: The Praxis of New Media, which uses Johnson's documentary, Iraqi Doctors: On the Front Lines of Medicine, as a course text with students using its footage as a starting point to create their own webbed films. The course is supported by USC's Fund for Innovative Undergraduate Teaching. Their presentation is titled "The Medium is the (Course) Message: Learning Networks Across Disciplinary & Geographic Borders." 

Kuhn and Johnson have also launched a pilot project with ReelSurfer, a video indexing application that marries images and transcripts, allowing a keyword search that renders video clips and then allows editing of those clips, playlist creation and, soon, exporting into students video webtexts.

Students in IML340 used ReelSurfer to comb through the copious B roll and integrate that footage in their projects, along with footage based on their further research. Students' first projects last fall were added to the Remix America site and can be viewed at http://www.remixamerica.org/search?search=vkuhn. Remix America is a project of USC's Norman Lear Center for Entertainment. 

Finally, IML340 is working with the International Medical Corps [IMC] in order to bring current relief work in Iraq into the mix. They are discussing an on ongoing collaboration with the IMC. 

Associated Person:

Virginia Kuhn