Gevirtz Graduate School of Education
University of California, Santa Barbara

Date: Friday, October 10, 2003
Place: ECE Conference Room, Bldg. 406
Time: 3:30 pm (light refreshments available at 3 pm)

Abstract:
Beginning with the cataloguing work done at the Shoah Foundation, discussion will survey the method of cataloguing used for that archive in 2001. The videos recorded by the foundation were broken down into story segments. Based on the work of the Santa Barbara Classroom Discourse Group, discussion will explore high level communication segmentation, also referred to as Event Maps, and low level communication segmentation, also referred to as Message Units – and how Event Maps, Message Units and Story Segments support research and development of live distributed group to group events.

Biography:
Ella Thompson is currently in the doctoral program at the Givertz Graduate School of Education, UCSB. For the past two years, Ella has worked as a producer for distributed events over CENIC's (Corporation for Network Initiatives in California) K-20 Digital California Project (DCP). Ella took the lead in development of models for distributed production over the DCP network for such programs as the statewide 2002 California Governors' Mentoring Partnership Virtual Training Conference. At the Internet2 2002 Fall Member Meeting, Ella was the Artistic Director of the Performance Event, “Cultivating Communities: Dance in the Digital Age,” which linked multiple live stages using a gigabit connection to a live audience at the USC Bing Theatre. As Internet2 Technology Liaison for Mr. Steven Spielberg's Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation from 1999 to 2001, Ella produced collaborative research institutes which developed models of use for the Foundation's interface for their 180 terabyte digital video archive. Ella has also served as a consultant to the California Digital Library and to the University of Southern California’s Institute for Multi-Media Literacy.