What is "shindig"

"dance, party, lively gathering," 1871, probably from shindy "a spree, merrymaking" (1821), also "a game like hockey;" perhaps from shinty, name of a Scottish game akin to hockey (1771), earlier shinny (see shinny (n.)).

n. Noisy party or festivities.

n. a large and noisy party of people [syn: shindy]

A shindig is a lively party; it may also refer to:

"Shindig" is the fourth episode of the science fiction television series Firefly created by Joss Whedon.

Inara attends a formal society dance, only to find Malcolm there as well, attempting to set up a smuggling job. Mal comes to blows with Inara's conceited date and finds himself facing a duel with a renowned swordsman, and only one night to learn how to fence.

'''Shindig '''is a patented technology platform for large scale online video chat events.

Fueled described Shindig as "a new online video chat platform, (which) aims to make talking online more natural by imitating real-life events; users can freely mingle, moving between conversations with the same ease as you might move through a dinner party."

In a Shindig event, participants can use webcams to see each other in a shared space. A featured presenter can give a talk, be interviewed, share a multimedia presentation, give a live performance, teach a course and much more to a live online audience of thousands. Meanwhile, audience members can move freely in and out of private video conversations with whomever they choose, and selected guests can be brought up to "share the stage" and directly interact with hosts "face-to-face" before the entire group. The speaker can also share PDF, MP3, and MP4 multimedia files with the group.

Notable pioneers and institutions who have used the platform include Bill Gates, TED.com, Sheryl Sandberg, Guy Kawasaki, Jim Cramer, Michael Saylor, Forbes, The Chicago Tribune, Random House, Ernst & Young, Simon & Schuster, Folio, Los Angeles Review of Books, Lucky Magazine, TEDx, BookTalk Nation and many more.

The platform was first introduced as a means of enabling author talks and Q&A's. Among the many hundreds of notable authors who have used the platform: Tom Angleberger, Dan Ariely, Edward Jay Epstein, Richard Paul Evans, Jackson "Cat Daddy" Galaxy, Carla Hall, Hugh Howey, A. J. Jacobs, Jerry B. Jenkins, Kevin Kelly, Jill Lepore, Wendy Lower, Marissa Meyer, Jo Nesbø, Susan Orlean, George Packer, Michael Pollan, Diane Ravitch and Lori Wilde.

Shindig has also been looked at as a potential solution for online education. As cited in Campus Technology, "Shindig's proprietary technology may enable online faculty members to facilitate rich media interactive video and audio with large numbers of students in an online course...these students can also see each other, and they can, with only a click, self aggregate into their own collaborative groups and speak with each other in real time during the course." University Business says "Shindig enables the real-life dynamics of a face-to-face course with all its interaction and participatory features at internet scale."

Shindig enables a hybrid MOOC, which has the potential to reduce the cost of higher education without radically diminishing its quality, as many feel other MOOCs and platforms threaten to do. As of October 2013, some 20 institutions had commenced pilots using the platform for online e-courses including Caltech, Duke, NYU, Cooper Union, Texas A&M, Manhattanville, University of the Sciences and University of Crete. Shindig was the recipient of SIAA's 2013 Innovation Incubator Award as the Educator's Choice Runner-Up for Education Technology Product or Service.