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New CourseWorks Upgrade Adds Features, Improves Interface
On December 29, 2011 CUIT upgraded the New CourseWorks system to Sakai version 2.8. The upgrade adds a number of new features and interface improvements,...
CCNMTL mourns the passing of Václav Havel (1936-2011), former Czech president and artist. Columbia University hosted Havel for a seven-week residency in 2006. CCNMTL, in...
iTunes U Features Frontiers of Science Videos
Apple's iTunes U is featuring the Frontiers of Science video collections from the Columbia University iTunes U channel. These videos present lectures from Columbia's innovative...
Faculty Lab Winter Break Schedule
CCNMTL's Faculty Support Lab in 204 Butler Library will be open through December 22 for normal hours, 9:00am-5:00pm. The lab will have the following schedule...
Inclusive Classrooms Project Launched
Educators at Teachers College, Columbia University celebrated the launch of the Inclusive Classrooms Project website designed to help K-12 educators in New York City make...
CCNMTL Spotlights HIV Projects for World AIDS Day
December 1 is World AIDS Day. CCNMTL is currently working on three projects focused on HIV prevention and treatment: Masivukeni, Multimedia WORTH, and Multimedia Connect....
CCNMTL And JTS Announce New Partnership
The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) and the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) announced a three-year pilot project to have CCNMTL support...
The Columbia community is invited to attend a special screening of the critically acclaimed film REBIRTH scheduled for Thursday, October 27, 2011 from 6:00-8:00...
The Cordial at Monell Library, October 27th
Columbia faculty and instructors are invited to the upcoming The Cordial at the Libraries on Thursday, October 27th, 2011 at 5:00pm. The Cordial at the...
New CourseWorks Transition at CUMC Off to a Great Start
The transition to New CourseWorks (Sakai) was accelerated this fall at the CUMC. The goal was to convert the remaining CUMC courses to the new...
Mid-semester Morningside Faculty Workshops
CCNMTL is offering several mid-semester workshops for Morningside faculty and instructors who wish to take a refresher or get a head start for the spring...
Recapping The 2011 Summer Institute For Teaching and Learning
In late July, the Glenda Garvey Teaching Academy and CCNMTL sponsored the fourth annual Summer Institute for Teaching and Learning—a day-long invitational workshop designed to...
NIMH Awards New Grant to Extend Masivukeni Project
The HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, the University of Cape Town and the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching & Learning have received...
Mid-semester CUMC Faculty Workshops
As midterm approaches, now is a perfect time to learn more about the assessment and grading tools in New Courseworks. Come to one of the...
Grant Received to Develop Technology to Abate Intimate Partner Violence
The Social Intervention Group (SIG) of the Columbia School of Social Work and the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) have received...
Fall 2011 Version of Mediathread Released
The Fall 2011 release of Mediathread, CCNMTL's open-source multimedia study platform, is now live. This release incorporates a number of UI improvements based on a...
Public Health Learning Grant Received
The Health Resources and Services Administration, an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services, has awarded $2.6 million to Mailman School of Public...
CCNMTL Adopts UserVoice Knowledge Base System
CCNMTL has adopted UserVoice.com's knowledge base system. This selection comes after a lengthy search for an online helpdesk, knowledge base, and feedback systems that integrate...
Fall Premiere 2011 Features Sakai LMS Transition
CCNMTL held its 5th annual Fall Premiere yesterday. For the first time the session was held on both Morningside and CUMC campuses. This year, the...
Global Honors College 2011 Concludes
The Global Honors College concluded its 2011 Global Seminar on August 20. This summer's seminar brought together 28 undergraduates from 8 universities in the United...
Faculty Workshops for Fall 2011
During the weeks of August 28th and September 4th, CCNMTL will be offering nine "lunch hour" New CourseWorks (Sakai) sessions. We'll also continue our other...
Fall Premiere 2011 Registration Now Open
Registration is now open for this year's Fall Premiere 2011. The event will be held on Tuesday, September 6th and, for the first time, will...
Dental Students Learn To Curb Tobacco Use
The Tobacco Cessation website, first announced in November 2009, has been completed and will be released this fall to students from the Columbia "College of...
On Tuesday morning, August 9th, VITAL (Video Interactions for Teaching & Learning) will be unavailable between 9:30am and 12:30pm due to scheduled maintenance and upgrades....
Systems Go for New CourseWorks (Sakai)
Last week, Columbia University Information Technology (CUIT) announced that a number of necessary changes and updates to prepare for the fall semester rollout of New...
CCNMTL recently launched a public website detailing the outcomes of Project Vietnam, an initiative among CCNMTL, WGBH, and the University of Massachusetts-Boston...
Cordial at the Rare Book Library, July 28th
Columbia Faculty and Instructors are invited to the upcoming Cordial at the Libraries on Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 5:00pm. The Cordial at the Libraries...
Learn how to integrate online materials and build greater student participation into your courses. Get started with teaching tools like New CourseWorks (Sakai), Wikispaces, and...
Faculty Workshops for Summer Session II
Learn how to integrate online materials and build greater student participation into your summer course. Get started with teaching tools like New CourseWorks (Sakai), CourseWorks,...
CCNMTL Attends the eLearning Africa Conference
Over 1,700 participants from over 90 countries convened at the 6th eLearning Africa conference, including Ryan Kelsey, associate director of education and research at CCNMTL....
Global Honors College 2011 Kicks Off
The online phase of the Global Honors College 2011 officially began on June 20. The course, Global Seminar on Sustainability (2011 Theme: Food and Agriculture),...
CCNMTL Contributes to Higher Ed Tech Forum
Dan Beeby, CCNMTL associate director of services, represented Columbia at the fourth annual New York Higher Ed Tech Forum. The NYHETF aims to gather...
CCNMTL Featured in FutureGov Asia Pacific
FutureGov Asia Pacific, a magazine for public sector organizations and leaders in Asia and the Middle East, recently highlighted CCNMTL in an article entitled...
Special Event: Recapping Project Vietnam
On June 9th, please join us at this special public event for a recap on Project Vietnam presented by CCNMTL's Mark Phillipson and Maria Janelli....
Columbia Public iTunes U Channel Released
Last week, the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) released a new Columbia University iTunes U public channel, featuring courses, events,...
Congratulations to Presidential Award for Teaching Recipients
CCNMTL congratulates the recipients of the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Teaching. The awards are given to current Columbia faculty who have had a significant...
The Cordial at Starr Library, May 26th
Columbia Faculty and Instructors are invited to the upcoming Cordial at the Libraries on Thursday, May 26, 2011 at 5:00pm. The Cordial at the Libraries...
New CourseWorks Powered by Sakai
Columbia is accelerating the move to Sakai, an open-source learning management system (LMS), as the successor to CourseWorks/Prometheus. Many departments and schools have experimented with...
Commencement 2011 Videos on YouTube and iTunes U
Watch the Columbia Commencement videos on YouTube and iTunes U. The ceremonies kicked off on May 14, 2011. Throughout this week, additional video recordings...
Faculty Workshops for Summer Session I
Learn how to integrate online materials and build greater student participation into your summer course. Get started with teaching tools like New CourseWorks (Sakai), CourseWorks,...
Environmental Change Course Using IRIS Project
In April, CCNMTL released the International Research Institute Study (IRIS) project for use in the Remote Sensing and Environmental Change course taught by professors Pietro...
Malcolm X Multimedia Study Environment Revisited
The New York Times' article A Digital Critique of a Famous Autobiography discusses the multimedia study environment created by CCNMTL in 2005 for "The Autobiography...
HuffPost Interviews Goldie Hawn on MindUP
The HuffPost Living blog released an interview of Goldie Hawn by Marianne Schall, where Ms. Hawn discusses the MindUP program. During the interview, she briefly...
Public Health Publication Features Columbia Global Course
The Friday Letter, a weekly publication of the Association of Schools of Public Health, released an article entitled, "Expanding the Knowledge Network through Columbia’s Global...
New Columbia on iTunes U Public Channel Coming
Recently, Apple announced a major change to its popular iTunes U platform that affects how public and private media are organized. Because of this change,...
MySmileBuddy Testing Begins Today
Tooth decay is painful and can be particularly traumatic for young children. Once decay sets in, sometimes a visit to the operating room is the...
Still Time to Register for Workshops at CUMC
Attention CUMC faculty: there is still time to sign up for upcoming workshops this week. One workshop will provide useful tips and ideas for developing...
Anthology Features Chapter on Video Annotations
Jonah Bossewitch, CCNMTL lead technical architect, and Michael Preston, former CCNMTL senior educational technologist, co-authored a chapter entitled, Teaching and Learning with Video Annotations, for...
Visitors Engender an International Spring at CCNMTL
Over the years, CCNMTL has welcomed many visitors to our offices. We find the visits an opportunity for a fruitful exchange of ideas. Recently, we...
Toward Open Standards for Digital Annotations
CCNMTL technologists, Schuyler Duveen and Jonah Bossewitch, were selected to participate in a workshop hosted by the Open Annotation Collaboration (OAC), which aims to improve...
CCNMTL mourns the passing of Manning Marable, the M. Moran Weston and Black Alumni Council Professor of African-American Studies. Professor Marable was an esteemed partner...
CCNMTL Receives Grant to Develop Social and Emotional Learning Curriculum
The Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) has received a $250,000 grant from The Hawn Foundation to develop an online professional development...
University Seminar: Simulating Post-Conflict Environmental Remediation Strategies
On April 5th, come join the discussion at the University Seminar on New Media Teaching and Learning entitled Simulating Post-Conflict Environmental Remediation Strategies at SIPA....
Columbia Wikispaces Milestone Reached
This weekend, the 20,000th Columbia student joined one of over 1,700 course wikis that have been created since the inception of the Columbia Wikispaces service...
Register for Mid-Semester Workshops
We have scheduled a set of mid-semester workshops for faculty and instructors wrapping up this spring's courses or wishing to get an early start on...
The Cordial at Lehman Library, March 24th
Faculty and instructors, you are invited to the next Cordial at the Libraries on Thursday, March 24, 2011 at 5:00pm at the Lehman Social Sciences...
MedSafety: Demystifying Child Dosages
Mistakes during home administration of medications to children have been reported to be as high as 50 percent. MedSafety is a multi-language iPad-based intervention that...
CCNMTL Attends the Global MDP Summit 2011
CCNMTL was invited to present at the Global Master's in Development Practice Summit held in late February 2011 in Turrialba, Costa Rica. The summit, hosted...
New Features Added to Mediathread
Mediathread, CCNMTL's innovative platform for exploration, analysis, and organization of web-based images and videos, continues to improve. A new beta version of Mediathread was released...
Toyota Foundation Grant Enhances Science at Harlem HS
The Toyota Foundation awarded the Black Rock Forest and the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) a 3-year grant of $500,000. Of...
Taking Aim at Childhood Diabetes
diaBeaters! is a unique diabetes intervention aimed at supporting social work students studying to counsel families of children with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM). diaBeaters!...
Brownfield Action Featured in Science Education and Civic Engagement Journal
February 23, 2011. The Science Education and Civic Engagement International Journal published an article on the CCNMTL-developed simulation, Brownfield Action, in its Winter 2011 issue....
New Mobile Version of Mapping the African American Past
February 14, 2011. CCNMTL has released a new mobile version of the award-winning Mapping the African American Past (MAAP) project coinciding with this year's Black...
Project Rebirth Premieres at Sundance Film Festival
February 11, 2011. CCNMTL partner Project Rebirth premiered its feature-length film REBIRTH in the new Documentary Premieres section of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival this...
Columbia on YouTube EDU Hits One Million Views
February 1, 2011. Columbia on YouTube EDU hit 1 million views over the weekend! Columbia's YouTube EDU channel was launched in 2009, and now showcases...
January 31, 2011. Join us at the next University Seminar on New Media Teaching and Learning, "Triangle Initiative Interventions in HIV Prevention and Treatment: A...
CourseWorks Downtime Survival Guide
CourseWorks and Sakai have suffered some delays and outages recently. Below is a guide to help faculty continue to communicate online, provide necessary course materials...
Join us at the next Cordial on January 27
January 24, 2011. *The Cordial is still on! Cap off the snowy day with your friends at the Libraries. Faculty and instructors, you're invited to...
iTunes U and YouTube EDU Continue to Expand at Columbia
January 20, 2011. Columbia's iTunes U and YouTube EDU channels have increasingly become the place where viewers worldwide look to see what is happening at...
Top Updates to Your Course Sites This Spring
January 14, 2010. With the new year comes a new set of improvements to Columbia's popular course management and collaboration systems. How can you benefit...
And We're Back! Just in Time for Spring Workshops
January 5, 2010. Welcome to 2011, Columbia! Here at CCNMTL we're poised and ready to help faculty and instructors get started with educational teaching tools...
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