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CCNMTL Accepts Award for Innovative Use of Archives
October 27, 2009. CCNMTL received the 2009 Award for Innovative Use of Archives from the Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York last Friday for its website, Mapping the African American Past (MAAP)—a unique learning environment created to enhance the study of significant sites and moments in the history of African Americans in New York from the early 17th-century through the recent past.
The Award for Innovative Use of Archives recognizes the use of archival material in a meaningful and creative way, making a significant contribution to a community or body of people, and demonstrating the relevance of archival materials to its subjects. Frank Moretti and Maurice Matiz, CCNMTL's directors, along with Center staff involved in the development of the site, accepted the award at a reception held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
MAAP is a public website enabling students, teachers, and visitors to browse a multitude of locations in New York and read encyclopedic profiles of historical people and events associated with these locations. The site is enhanced by selected film, music clips, and podcasts; photographs, documents, archival maps from Columbia University and New York Public Libraries; and commentary from Columbia faculty and other experts. The site, which also offers a mobile portal for smartphone users, was developed by CCNMTL in partnership with Curriculum Concepts International (CCI) and Teachers College and funded by the JPMorgan Chase Foundation.
Dr. Manning Marable, professor of history and political science and founding director of both Columbia's Institute for Research on African American Studies (IRAAS) and Center for Contemporary Black History (CCBH), conferred the award and spoke briefly about African American history and MAAP. "Mapping the African American Past helps teachers at all levels engage students in content through stories about building community, resisting slavery, and contributing to New York City development. It is a remarkable resource that turns teaching into an extraordinary adventure," said Dr. Marable during the presentation of the award.
Students Learn From Apollo Theater Project's Historic Interviews
October 26, 2009. The Apollo Theater Project, a multifaceted effort to preserve and disseminate the history of the Apollo Theater and its Harlem community, made its educational debut in classrooms this fall semester.
The project represents a unique partnership between the historical Apollo Theater, Columbia faculty, and Columbia’s Information Service organizations to achieve intersecting educational, artistic, and research ambitions. Since summer 2008, CCNMTL and the Oral History Research Office (OHRO) have compiled audio and video interviews with cultural and political figures connected with the 75-year history of the Apollo Theater. These interviews, with the likes of Smokey Robinson, Quincy Jones, Dionne Warwick, and more, will inform a documentary of the theater's history and provide the basis for a rich research archive.
While the compilation of interviews remains a work in progress, CCNMTL has partnered with faculty to adapt raw footage from the project for classroom and online use. For instance, Ruksana Sussewell has implemented interviews in her Oral History Fieldwork and Documentation course, which is offered in the Oral History Master of Arts (OHMA) program at Columbia. Sussewell’s students will use the CCNMTL-developed video tool VITAL (Video Interactions in Teaching and Learning) to analyze the interviews and to study techniques used in the interview process. This exercise will aid students in designing and conducting research interviews for their own thesis projects.
Additionally, guest lecturer Jennella Young, who is also the coordinator for the Apollo Theater Project, has used footage from the project in seminars attended by students from Cornell University and the Calhoun School. Young had students view interviews of Charlie Rangel, Shirley Caesar, Thelma Prince, and others as they explored topics ranging from the history of African American entertainers in the 1950s to the similarities and differences between oral history and journalism.
As the Apollo Theater Project unfolds, CCNMTL continues conversations with faculty affiliated with Columbia's Center for Jazz Studies, the Institute for Research in African American Studies, English and Comparative Literature, and other programs to make materials available and foster educational activities that enable students to engage with this wealth of primary source materials.
MAAP Wins Archivist Round Table Award
MAAP is a public website created to enhance the appreciation and study of significant sites and moments in the history of African Americans in New York from the early 17th-century through the recent past. The website is a geographic learning environment, enabling students, teachers, and visitors to browse a multitude of locations in New York and read encyclopedic profiles of historical people and events associated with these locations. The site is enhanced by selected film and music clips; photographs, documents, archival maps from Columbia University and New York Public Libraries; and commentary from Columbia faculty and other experts. MAAP also includes podcasts and a mobile version of the site.
CCNMTL will accept MAAP's award at a ceremony held on October 23rd, 2009 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Students Curate Digital Collections with Harlem Health History
September 8, 2009. Students taking Professor Samuel K. Roberts' course, "Substance Abuse Politics," will have the unique opportunity to engage with previously inaccessible health-related artifacts and curate their own collections of primary and secondary source materials for research on health and public policy issues in Harlem. The Harlem Health History project, being developed by CCNMTL and Roberts, professor of history and assistant professor at the Mailman School of Public Health, aims to enhance students' historical research skills on health-focused social and political movements in an African American community by encouraging student analysis of digitized reports and studies, news articles, advertisements, political artifacts, interviews, videos, and images. Students can search, browse, tag, and export items, as well as add their own primary source materials to the Harlem Health History collection.
Professor Roberts' students will incorporate these resources into individual or group term papers. Exemplary student work will be added to the Harlem Health History collection for future students to use as secondary sources in their own research. Harlem Health History is a project within CCNMTL's Digital Bridges Initiative and launches this fall in Professor Roberts' course. Sections of the project's website may be available to the public in the future. Read an interview with Professor Roberts in The Record and stay tuned for more news on Harlem Health History and stay tuned for more news on Harlem Health History.
CCNMTL Faculty Partners Call for Media Literacy in Education
August 26, 2009. Teachers College professors and CCNMTL faculty partners Margaret Crocco and William Guadelli penned an editorial in Education Week focusing on the importance of teaching students media literacy in the face of a changed news cycle, a point underscored during both professors' work on the recently launched Project Vietnam developed by CCNMTL, Teachers College, WGBH, and the University of Massachusetts-Boston.
In Media Literacy and the Fog of War, Crocco and Guadelli compare access to information about the Vietnam War to that of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. The professors find that unedited footage of the Vietnam War aired on television and in documentaries like Vietnam: A Television History differs greatly with the current "sanitized and streamlined" news coverage of the middle east wars. Crocco and Gaudelli spent a year reviewing footage produced for WGBH's Vietnam: A Television History in preparation for Project Vietnam and are using footage from the documentary in Vietnam Now!, a course they created this summer.
"[Our work] has left us convinced that changes in the news media, together with an end to the draft and compassion fatigue in the face of the 24-hour news cycle, have combined to put recent wars in a more ambiguous cultural and psychological space for Americans than the Vietnam War inhabited in its day."
To contend with this trend, Crocco and Guadelli call for educators to teach students media literacy—to question the source of their information and examine who is controlling and shaping the information and images they see. The professors use their course to help K-12 teachers implement effective and media-savvy social studies lessons, using custom analysis tools developed by CCNMTL for students to view, annotate, and embed clips of archived footage and interviews into multimedia projects that explore the teaching of the Vietnam War.
Read more about Crocco and Guadelli's appeal for media literacy at Education Week or learn more about Project Vietnam, a CCNMTL Digital Bridges strategic initiative project.
Virtual Forest Initiative Modules Piloted at Columbia University
July 9, 2009. Undergraduate students in Professor Kevin Griffin’s spring course The Life System, learned to see the forest for the trees using the Tree Respiration Tool, one of three new modules recently released by the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) as part of the Virtual Forest Initiative.
The modules, which also include the Forest Sampling Simulation and the Sampling Design & Optimization Tool, use climate and tree data collected from Black Rock Forest, located 50 miles north of New York City in the Hudson Highlands. The sampling modules help students learn how to design and perform an accurate ecological inventory, thus revealing the overall species composition of a forest.
Over the past year, CCNMTL, in collaboration with Columbia University professors Kevin Griffin and Matthew Palmer and Barnard College Professor Hilary Callahan, developed and piloted three modules that help students master the scientific understanding of key concepts taught in their respective courses. Students in Dr. Callahan’s Plant Evolution and Diversity laboratory course piloted the Forest Sampling Simulation module for a comparative forest sampling exercise. Dr. Griffin’s students experimented with environmental factors in the Tree Respiration Tool, and Dr. Palmer’s students tested their understanding of sampling design using the Sampling Design & Optimization Tool.
“The Tree Respiration Tool allowed me focus on teaching the concepts rather than struggling with data manipulation,” said Griffin, “and the students spent time thinking about the output rather than becoming frustrated with the process. These tools gave them flexibility to explore multiple scenarios and simulations, which, in turn, led to interesting class discussions about the physiology of plant respiration from the scale of leaves to ecosystems.”
The creation of the modules represents phase one of the multi-year Virtual Forest Initiative project. The larger Initiative, which includes the creation of a growing data repository by the Columbia University Center for Digital Research and Scholarship, will provide a technological framework that supports and enhances research, education, and community resources at Black Rock Forest.
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Project Vietnam Launches at Teachers College
June 29, 2009. Project Vietnam, the educational component of a partnership among the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL), WGBH Media Library and Archives, and the University of Massachusetts-Boston, launched its Vietnam War film archive and accompanying analysis tools in a week-long intensive course at Teachers College today.
Vietnam: A Television Archive is the result of the Project’s initiative to digitize, preserve, and disseminate primary source materials from the landmark 1983 documentary, Vietnam: A Television History, co-produced by WGBH. The online archive offers students unique access to hundreds of hours of original interviews and stock footage from the 13-hour series, which closely examines the causes and consequences of the Vietnam War. CCNMTL has also developed custom analysis tools that integrate the archive in online workspaces where students can view, annotate, edit, and incorporate clips into multimedia projects.
Drs. Margaret Crocco and Bill Gaudelli, Teachers College professors of social studies and social studies and education, respectively, will use the Vietnam: A Television Archive and analysis tools in the course, Vietnam Now!. Participating students will explore how multimedia can be used to enhance teaching of the War by examining primary source materials from the series and identifying topics for lesson plans. CCNMTL staff will be on hand to assist the students and to film lectures by guest faculty, including noted 1960s cultural historian Todd Gitlin.
With funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, WGBH Media Library and Archives (MLA)—a department within WGBH that manages and provides access to historical content produced by the Boston-based public television station—has reconstructed and digitized materials for use in Project Vietnam. “We are thrilled that Columbia University will utilize this digital library from our Vietnam series. This collaboration marks an on-going effort to unlock the WGBH archive for educational use,” said MLA Director Karen Cariani.
CCNMTL continues to partner with Teachers College and Columbia University faculty members interested in using the Project Vietnam archive and tools in varying ways. In 2011, Project Vietnam partners will host a consortium conference to showcase exemplary uses of the digital collection.
"Project Vietnam represents new opportunities for students and faculty to further the exploration and education of the Vietnam War using previously inaccessible resources. After 18 months in the making, we are excited to see the educational deployment of the project this week,” said CCNMTL Executive Director Frank Moretti.
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Black Rock Forest Celebrates Anniversary with Consortium Partners
May 19, 2009. The Black Rock Forest Consortium celebrated its 20th anniversary by gathering its member institutions, including Columbia University, at a special luncheon last week. The Consortium maintains a 3,800-acre forest, located 50 miles north of New York City, for cutting-edge scientific research and creates educational opportunities for more than 11,000 students annually. Columbia University's partnership with the Consortium is represented by a number of research and educational efforts including CCNMTL's recent work on the Virtual Forest Initiative. At the luncheon, Frank Moretti, CCNMTL executive director and Consortium board president, focused his speech on future digital and educational plans of the Forest. During his speech, Moretti noted the gains possible with the help of partner organizations: "Our visionary acorn has become an oak. And now, through digital media and the Virtual Forest Initiative, this Forest is on the brink of extending itself through time and space; it is poised to become a resource for a global community and a model of how technology can merge research, education, and conservation."
Other speakers at the luncheon included former Barnard College president and current president of the American Museum of Natural History, Ellen Futter; writer and chair of the Barnard College Board of Trustees, Anna Quindlen; and executive director of the Consortium and senior research scientist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, William Schuster.
CCNMTL Project Analyzing Vietnam War Documentary Footage Highlighted in Teachers College Article
May 13, 2009. Teachers College (TC) press recently posted an article about a summer course that will be taught by TC faculty Margaret Crocco and Bill Gaudelli. The course, "Vietnam Now," will use a CCNMTL-created video analysis tool called VITAL to clip and annotate segments of documentary footage of the Vietnam War. Students will learn about the Vietnam War and explore how multimedia can be used to enhance the teaching of the War in middle and high school classrooms.
The documentary footage comes from Project Vietnam, a partnership between CCNMTL, WGBH, and the University of Massachusetts-Boston to digitize, preserve, and disseminate primary source materials created for the 1983 documentary, Vietnam: A Television History, which examines in depth the causes and consequences of the Vietnam War. Project Vietnam offers an online library comprising hundreds of hours of original interview materials and images from the documentary.
CCNMTL is also working with faculty from the Columbia School of Journalism, the Department of History, and the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures to integrate the Project Vietnam into their educational activities.
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Columbia University Record Article on Professor Samuel Roberts Highlights Collaboration with CCNMTL
February, 24, 2009. The Columbia University Record recently published an article about faculty member Samuel K. Roberts. In the article, Roberts, who is an associate professor of history at Columbia University, highlights his partnership with CCNMTL to develop the Harlem Health History Project. The project is a repository of primary source materials from Harlem, including articles, photos, interviews, and former student term papers on health and public policy issues that students can browse, view, tag, and embed in multimedia essays.
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CCNMTL Develops Educational Materials and Technologies for the Virtual Forest Initiative
January 14, 2009. CCNMTL has recently begun to develop a suite of web-based learning tools for earth science and ecology courses at Barnard College and Columbia University that will be part of the technological framework for the Virtual Forest Initiative of the Black Rock Forest Consortium. This initiative, spearheaded by CCNMTL and funded with a gift of $235,000 from the Golden Family Foundation, aims to support and enhance the research and education activities at Black Rock Forest, which is located 50 miles north of New York City in the Hudson Highlands and frequented by many Columbia University faculty, scientists, and students. The technological framework will provide searchable, downloadable forest assets and resources including a study index, maps, publications, datasets, photographs, and conservation information. With the web-based learning tools, faculty and students will have unprecedented access to Black Rock Forest's assets and therefore significant opportunity to enhance fieldwork and laboratory assignments.
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CCNMTL Hosts New Media in Education 2008 on October 17
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 the Columbia community will explore emerging technologies that are connecting students globally. Columbia faculty members and leaders in the field of education and technology will speak about their experiences with new CCNMTL-produced projects and innovative educational uses of simulations, digital mapping, e-portfolios, wikis, and more. Workshops on podcasting and Columbia on iTunes U, copyright and fair use, Columbia Wikispaces, and other teaching tools will also occur throughout the conference. CCNMTL Executive Director Frank Moretti will provide opening comments, and Nicholas Lemann, dean and Henry R. Luce Professor at the Columbia University Journalism School, will give the keynote address.
NME 2008
Friday, October 17, 2008
Low Memorial Library
8:00am - 5:00pm
For conference information visit the New Media in Education 2008 Site
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 Boston Healey Library (UMB) and the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) for the creation of a digital library with material from the 1983 WGBH miniseries Vietnam: A Television History. The IMLS grant award is $709,000, and WGBH has raised an additional $451,000 in matching funds.
The materials that WGBH generated to create the landmark 13-hour miniseries about the war in Vietnam are currently being preserved and digitized at the University of Massachusetts Boston. CCNMTL will work with WGBH to make these materials accessible to instructors, scholars, and the general public. Photographs and hundreds of hours of interviews, original footage, and archived footage will allow for significant scholarly work to be conducted with these materials that heretofore were inaccessible to scholars, students, and the public. Working in partnership with Columbia faculty from several departments, CCNMTL will define pedagogical models for engaging a range of these multimedia materials.
Dr. Charles Armstrong, Korea Foundation Associate Professor of Korean Studies in the Social Sciences at Columbia University, is partnering with CCNMTL to allow the students in his fall 2009 History of the Vietnam War course to create their own short documentaries using materials from the digital archive. Drs. Margaret Crocco and Bill Gaudelli, Teachers College professors of Social Studies and Social Studies and Education, respectively, are teaming up to create a course where educators will assess how the Vietnam War has been taught, and conceptualize new methods of teaching this subject in K-12 schools using multimedia lesson plans. Dr. John Broughton, associate professor of Psychology and Education at Teachers College, will use the materials in a course in Media Studies to help students examine representations of culture and youth during the Vietnam era.
The public will have access to the miniseries materials through the WGBH Open Vault website (http://openvault.wgbh.org/) and on-site at UMB Healey Library. Pedagogical models developed at Columbia will be made available to the public. WGBH, CCNMTL, and the University of Massachusetts also plan to create a consortium of institutions and instructors interested in using the Vietnam Digital Library in their own classrooms.
"This project represents an important partnership between public television, academic institutions, and a digital media and education center where the collaboration produces a profound and lasting impact on the teaching and study of the Vietnam War," said Frank Moretti, CCNMTL's executive director.
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Final 2007-2008 University Seminar -- Open Libraries, Active Learning, and the Public Good: New Paths
May 1, 2008. CCNMTL will hold the final University Seminar for New Media Teaching and Learning session in the 2007-2008 academic year. CCNMTL Executive Director Frank Moretti, CCNMTL Associate Director of Education and Research Ryan Kelsey, and CCNMTL Senior Program Specialist Mark Phillipson will reflect on the seminar's two-year exploration of emerging possibilities for teaching, learning, and study in the digital age with a special focus on the relationships between large digital repositories, structured learning environments, and the open web. James Neal, Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian, will respond to the presentations and a discussion with the presenters will follow.
Date: Thursday, May 8, 4:00pm
Location: 203 Butler Library
Phone: 212-854-9058
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NYPL.org Lists MAAP as City Resource
April 2, 2008. The New York City Public Library included a link to CCNMTL's Mapping the African American Past (MAAP) project on the New York City Digital Collections page of its website. MAAP is a public website created to enhance the appreciation and study of significant sites and moments in the history of African Americans in New York from the early 17th century through the recent past.
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Columbia Spectator Checks in with MAAP
March 31, 2008. The Columbia Daily Spectator described the breadth of historical information available though CCNMTL's multimedia learning environment, Mapping the African American Past (MAAP). The article, "Web Site Highlights Local Black History," takes a look at MAAP's features, including online maps, video, and images, and discusses Columbia professors' role in defining the educational website.
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New York Times Article Features MAAP Project
March 5, 2008. Mapping the African American Past (MAAP) is a public website created by CCNMTL and partners to enhance the appreciation and study of significant sites and moments in the history of African Americans in New York from the early 17th century through the recent past.
Read about the MAAP project on the New York Times website and on the Columbia Teachers College website.
Learn more about the MAAP website by reading the project description or by visiting the MAAP website.
Subscribe and listen to audio podcasts describing people and places highlighted in the MAAP Web site. Podcasts also available from the iTunes Store Podcast Directory.
In addition, the site will officially launch this afternoon at the Heritage High School in East Harlem with speeches by Dennis Walcott, deputy mayor; Robert Jackson, city councilman and chair of the NYC Education Committee; Sabrina King, chief academic officer of the NYC Department of Education and William Baldwin, vice provost of Teachers College.
Mapping the African American Past launches on Web and iTunes
February 28, 2008. Mapping the African American Past (MAAP), to be released in coming weeks, is a Web site that enhances the appreciation and study of significant sites and events in the history of African Americans in New York City from the early 17th-century through the recent past. The Web site uses period maps to navigate and explore 50 key locations, including the African Burial Ground, a National Historic Landmark in lower Manhattan. Accompanying the Web site is a podcast containing a series of readings performed by New York City high school students. This podcast was highlighted as "New and Notable" by the iTunes Directory editors on February 19th.
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University Seminar: Sacred Landscapes
February 7, 2008. Professor Courtney Bender, in a talk subtitled "Spatial Data, Student Collaboration, and New Investigations of Religious Life", will examine recent emphasis on space in religious studies including how religious groups live within and imagine social contexts. This emphasis focuses more attention on the lived social and national environments in which communities take shape, the movement of religious groups via immigration or globalizing processes, and the role of space in the religious imagination. Professor Bender will introduce SacredGotham, a map-based wiki, and discuss how students use this collaborative tool to understand religious life using various types of spatial data. Courtney Bender is an associate professor of religion at Columbia University.
Date: Thursday, February 7, 4 pm
Location: 523 Butler Library
Phone: 212-854-9058
Harlem Heritage Project Launches
November 16, 2007. CCNMTL, in partnership with Professor Manning Marable, launched the Harlem Heritage Project this week. The project's Web site, built for Marable's course Harlem's Heritage: A Community History, 1900 to the Present, contains archival videos documenting and depicting Harlem, a custom-assembled movie collection that charts shifting representations of Harlem throughout the 20th century, and a growing repository of lectures by scholars invited to participate in Dr. Marable's seminar. The site also collates Harlem-related resources produced in previous CCNMTL projects, and draws from Columbia University Libraries' Special Collections holdings such as the Alexander Gumby collection and interviews conducted by Columbia's Oral History Research Office.
The Harlem Heritage Project is a part of CCNMTL's Digital Bridges initiative. To read more, view our project portfolio.
Presentation on Strategic Initiatives
November 9, 2007. CCNMTL welcomes faculty, administrators, and library staff to attend the Digital Library Seminar Series presentation on CCNMTL's strategic initiatives on Monday, November 12.
Since 2006, CCNMTL has initiated a set of new strategic initiatives that are reframing its engagement with the University and beyond: the Triangle Initiative, Digital Bridges, and Global Learning. During the presentation, CCNMTL will introduce the vision behind these new enterprises and demonstrate Triangle Initiative projects related to health and social justice. The demonstration will focus on how these projects enhance CCNMTL's educational mission at Columbia while extending new opportunities for academic research and benefits to the larger community.
Date: Monday, November 12, 1:00-2:30 pm
Location: 203 Butler Library
Sponsor: Libraries Digital Program Division
Thursday, 11/8: University Seminar: Activating the Archives of Activism
October 26, 2007. Join CCNMTL on Thursday, November 8 for a University Seminar led by David Magier on "Activating the Archives of Activism: Deploying Human Rights Content in Teaching and Research."
Dr. Magier, Director of the Columbia University Center for Human Rights Documentation and Research, will explore the opportunities and challenges in incorporating human rights documentation into teaching and research. Many of the challenges of working with archival collections of the scale, variety, and importance of the Human Rights archives at Columbia (which include organizational archives of Amnesty International USA, Human Rights Watch, etc.) also present learning opportunities. Dr. Magier will describe the types of documentation being collected and examine possible scenarios for how faculty and students might participate in the effort to improve the mechanisms for discovery and analysis of materials, both in print form and on the web, initiating a dialogue about how new human rights content and tools created by CCNMTL could intersect with the work of the library.
This seminar will extend discussions began at the CHRDR's public conference last month, "Human Rights Archives and Documentation: Meeting the Needs of Research, Teaching, Advocacy and Social Justice," a seminal international gathering of over 240 activists, scholars, and librarians.
Date: Thursday, November 8, 4 pm
Location: 523 Butler Library
Phone: 212-854-9058
Mapping the African American Past For Students of All Ages
October 1, 2007. CCNMTL has received a $200,000 grant from the JPMorgan Chase Foundation to develop Mapping the African American Past (MAAP), a web-based learning environment with supplementary print materials designed to enhance the appreciation and study of significant sites and moments in the history of African Americans in New York from the early 17th century through the recent past. The full spectrum of MAAP's resources will be openly available to the general public. In addition, 1,000 elementary and middle schools across New York State will receive free supplementary printed materials.
"The struggle for social justice for African American people begins with the reconstruction of our collective memory," said CCNMTL Executive Director Frank Moretti. "The MAAP project will raise into the light for study and investigation the often submerged past of the African American people. It will give students of all ages access to a trove of resources accessible from any computer with an Internet connection."
The MAAP website will launch in time for Black History Month in February 2008. Visitors to the site will explore an interactive map of New York pinpointing locations related to people and events of significance for African American history. The environment will include an extensive collection of resources, including profiles of people and events, commentary by Columbia faculty, film and music clips, and digitized documents from Columbia University's libraries.
CCNMTL will develop MAAP in partnership with Columbia University's Teacher's College and Creative Curriculum Initiatives (CCI), a producer of educational products for the K-12 market. Project partners at Teachers College will devise model lessons and publish these lessons in an instructors' resource section of the MAAP website, offering educators across New York State purposive strategies for incorporating the project's multimedia material into various curricula. In addition, Teacher's College students will use a web-based lesson builder tool to construct curriculum using MAAP resources. Standout lessons will be made available to the general public. CCI will provide elementary and middle school instructors with paper-based alternatives and supplements to content developed for the MAAP website.
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