Digital Bridges at CCNMTL
CCNMTL's Digital Bridges initiative works in partnership with Columbia faculty and librarians to bring students into exemplary engagements with digital collections. Digital Bridges learning environments promote active, hands-on use of digitized materials from Columbia University Libraries collections, audio and video resources at Columbia and beyond, digital libraries and databases, public educational resources, and faculty- and student-generated content. Read more...
Recent Projects
The Vietnam Digital Library
The Vietnam Digital Library is an IMLS-funded collaboration between CCNMTL and WGBH that will define new ways of integrating premium documentary footage into online learning environments. The acclaimed 13-part series Vietnam: A Television History was initially broadcast in 1983, and...
Engaging Digital Tibet
Engaging Digital Tibet--currently being developed in partnership with Gray Tuttle, Assistant Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures--is defining innovative ways for students to work with source materials and participate directly in historical...
Mapping the African American Past
In fall 2007, the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) received a $200,000 grant from the JPMorgan Chase Foundation to develop Mapping the African American Past. MAAP is a public, Web-based learning environment designed to enhance the...
News
CCNMTL Hosts New Media in Education 2008 on October 17th
September 18, 2008. CCNMTL will host its fourth New Media in Education conference on Friday, October 17, 2008 in the Low Memorial Library at Columbia University. This free, all-day event for faculty, instructors, and thePress Release: CCNMTL Collaborates with WGBH and UMASS Boston to Activate Vietnam Digital Archive
June 25, 2008. The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has recently awarded a National Leadership Grant to the WGBH Educational Foundation Media Library and Archives (WGBH) along with the University of Massachusetts BostonFinal 2007-2008 University Seminar - Open Libraries, Active Learning, and the Public Good: New Paths
May 1, 2008. The Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) will hold the final University Seminar for New Media Teaching and Learning session in the 2007-2008 academic year. Frank Moretti, CCNMTL ExecutiveOur Partners
"Digital Bridges allows us to utilize primary source materials available at Columbia, such as correspondence, original manuscripts, excerpts from oral history interviews, and photographs to bring Harlem's heritage to life. Instead of studying the collective experiences of a community from...more.
- Manning Marable, Professor of Public Affairs, Political Science, and History
"CCNMTL's Digital Bridges initiative has not only been extraordinarily helpful in my undergraduate teaching, but I have been able to re-conceptualize my approach to bringing ideas to life. Much of my research has been rooted in urban poor communities where...more.
- Sudhir Venkatesh, Professor of Sociology
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