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<p class="elementToProof" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><b>Content Creation for Immersive Media focused on Biodiversity</b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Register at</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> https://forms.gle/AfVYHGCn1QncBjKS7</span></p>
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<p class="elementToProof" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">We are pleased to announce
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">registration is open for</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"> the course “Content
Creation for Immersive Media focused on Biodiversity” from iDigBio's </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="https://digitizationacademy.org/" id="OWA727d17a2-57d5-b302-cf80-9881135f0c6e" class="OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Digitization
Academy</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">. This free, online, 2-hour Digitization Academy course positions the biodiversity collections and research communities to contribute high-fidelity digital captures
of biodiversity for emerging opportunities in immersive media, including augmented, mixed, and virtual reality and 360-degree photography/videography. We will introduce workhorse structure-from-motion and cutting-edge, AI-enabled NeRF 3D modeling techniques,
best-in-class examples of their utility, and potential new directions in the space for the biodiversity collections community. Participants will gain an understanding of how immersive media approaches can be applied for research, education, and outreach. The
course is open to everyone from the biodiversity collections and adjacent communities from around the world.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">The course will occur on
<b>May 1, 2024, from 3pm ET - 5pm ET</b> (UTC-4).</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">The course will be delivered in English.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><b>Advanced
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registration</a> required.</b></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><b>The course is co-led by Nicole James, MFA, and Alex Adkinson, MFA, with additional contributions from Alex Leeds and Austin Mast. </b></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><b>Direct any questions about the opportunity to Kalina Jakymec (<a href="mailto:kjakymec@fsu.edu" id="OWA1e722cd3-764e-3169-d564-a62fa11499e4" class="OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">kjakymec@fsu.edu</a>).</b></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; background-color: yellow;">Please consider sharing this announcement with others who might benefit from it.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"> </span></p>
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<p class="elementToProof" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><i>The Digitization Academy is funded by iDigBio and Florida State University's Institute for Digital Information
and Scientific Communication. iDigBio is funded by grants from the National Science Foundation [DBI-1115210 (2011-2018), DBI-1547229 (2016-2022), & DBI-2027654 (2021-2026)]. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material
are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.</i></span></p>
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<i>Kalina Jakymec</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><i>iDigBio </i></span><i>Workforce Development Manager</i></div>
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