The Digital Media Commons located upstairs in the Kade building opened its doors the first week of November for a workshop filled week of project sandboxing sessions, interactive demos, and classes to integrate and inspire the community with all things digital media. Themed the “21st Century Professional,” the Fall 2010 Open House attracted upwards of 130 students, staff, faculty, and alumni over the course of 5 days, exploring the changing landscape of academic and professional development.

A big thanks to our staff, alumni, faculty, student, and professional friends who joined forces to conduct sessions and participate throughout the week! We couldn’t have done it without you!  And a special congratulations to Open House participant, Alyson Chun, who won the drawing for the iPod nano!

As it was a dynamic conversation all week, with a whole lot of networking, we thought we’d share some voices from the crowd.  Here’s a selection of participant feedback from the DMC Open House: the 21st Century Professional.

DAY 1: INTERACT = “Insight, inspiring, more resources, network, creative,”I learned – it should be a conversation through social networking,” “Wow, students are using social media as a focal tool to reach youth and create a business model”, “Helpful to see how students view Zocolo”, “we need a more systematic approach to informing about Zocolo.” “Wish there were more people, we should definitely do another session as well.”

DAY 2: COMMUNICATE = “Useful, connect, encouraged, understanding…””I took away from this a lot of knowledge I did not know, online applications– Excel and cloud computing”, “Now have a greater appreciation for how CACS can use Elluminate to pre-advise before students even arrive to MIIS,” “Kept the conversation alive for better and more innovative tools to better serve the students,” In the speaker-understander session, “wow, there are so many levels of understanding and how difficult it is to really listen.”

DAY 3: CONNECT = “Presentation, iMovie, informative, cool!, outside the box,” “Great career resources are zocolo, LinkedIn, MIIS alumni network, blogs,” “Get connected to MIIS alumni”, “Great effort! Very professional looking!”

Day 4: VISUALIZE = “Possibility, visualize, globalization, e-learning, transformational, thought-provoking,” “Lots of possible application to my work! Will it work for my programs? prep. time vs. class time…hmm, good to think about,” “Can now use web-conferencing!” “Web-conferencing is environmentally friendly, and alternative classroom for training and meetings.” “Thank you and loved the carbon footprint addition!” “Amazing exposure to new possibilities of training delivery.”

Day 5: CREATE = “Happy, Fun and inspiring!” “This was a great intro to digital music, copyright free, great for video podcasts and fun!” This was great to learn more resources online and ideas for professional growth.” “Got some great new ideas on LinkedIN, business cards, and networking skills, “Learned more connections and networks exist out there than I knew before,”I WON AN IPOD IN THE OPEN HOUSE PARTICIPANT RAFFLE!”

Continue to BE UNCOMMON, and of course, come visit us soon!

Remixed from a DMC blogpost by DMC staffer, Nelle Sacknoff