Press Release: With Project Rebirth Columbia and Georgetown Offer Students a Closer Look at Post 9-11 Recovery

December 16, 2008. Project Rebirth, the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning, and Georgetown University have partnered to create an educational initiative to inform students about and to support research on the human response to the devastation of the 9/11 attacks. Project Rebirth is a nonprofit organization led by Imagine Entertainment president Jim Whitaker that is producing a documentary chronicling the re-development of the World Trade Center site and the recovery of 10 people coping with the aftermath of 9/11. CCNMTL has recently launched a Web site – http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/rebirth – that provides project information and lists courses taught by leading figures in psychology, social work, nursing, architecture, business, English, film, and other fields at Columbia and Georgetown who will use the content in their classrooms.

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Design Research Site Improved

December 8, 2008. The Design Research section of the CCNMTL Web site has been updated to include a more comprehensive set of published papers and conference presentations. It also has a new section called "Cases" that highlights the different stages that take place during the Design Research process.

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Design Research at CCNMTL

December 18th Seminar: Facilitating Critical Reflection Online

November 25, 2008. CCNMTL and the Center for Education Research and Evaluation are co-sponsoring a new seminar, Facilitating Critical Reflection Online, for faculty and instructors on Thursday, December 18th on Columbia's medical campus. This seminar will focus on the value of critical reflection and the enhancements that online environments offer to the exercise of writing, reflecting, and journaling. A CCNMTL educational technologist will demonstrate a range of technologies, including Wikispaces, Google Docs, blogs, and e-portfolios, that can be used to facilitate online reflection and self-assessment.

To learn more about this seminar and to register, please visit CCNMTL Events.

Columbia on iTunes U Proves to be a Hit

November 21, 2008. Columbia on iTunes U, launched by CCNMTL in September 2008, has already become a hit. In recent weeks, Columbia podcasts have earned two notable spots on Apple's iTunes U storefront. The Artistry of "Pops": Louis Armstrong at 100, a podcast provided by Columbia's Center for Jazz Studies, reached the top of the download charts on iTunes U last week. The podcast was downloaded nearly 11,000 times in two weeks after being featured in an Apple Education article. In addition, Columbia's Harlem Digital Archive podcast has been posted on Apple's iTunes U homepage as a highlighted item. This podcast includes lectures from Columbia professor Manning Marable's 2007 course, Harlem's Heritage. For more information or to download Columbia podcasts, please visit Columbia on iTunes U.

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The Artistry of "Pops": Louis Armstrong at 100 podcast

Harlem Digital Archive podcast

NME 2008 Conference Audio and Video Recordings Now Online

November 18, 2008. Visit the New Media in Education: Connecting a Global Community conference Web site for newly posted audio and video recordings of the conference sessions. Information about the conference and session recordings are also available on Columbia on iTunes U in the New Media in Education 2008 Conference Page.

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New Media in Education 2008 Web site

NME 2008 conference page on Columbia on iTunes U

View NME 2008 event press release

Mid-Semester Faculty Workshops Extended to November 12-13

November 10, 2008. If you missed the workshops at our recent NME 2008 conference, or would like to learn more about teaching tools like iTunes U, Wikispaces, and online video, then attend our latest round of faculty workshops. CCNMTL will host free, hands-on workshops on November 12th and 13th in the Faculty Support Lab in 204 Butler Library. Register now for iTunes U: Getting Started, Using Online Video for Teaching, Wikispaces: Getting Started, or Wikispaces: Advanced Features.

iTunes U: Getting Started Register
November 12, 2008, Wednesday 12:00 PM

Using Online Video for Teaching Register
November 12, 2008, Wednesday 3:30 PM

Wikispaces: Getting Started Register
November 13, 2008, Thursday 11:00 AM

Wikispaces: Advanced Features Register
November 13, 2008, Thursday 1:00 PM

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Columbia on iTunes U Launch Site

Columbia Wikispaces

Press Release: CCNMTL's 4th New Media in Education Conference a Success

October 30, 2008. The Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) hosted its fourth New Media in Education Conference on October 17, 2008 at Columbia University. New Media in Education: Connecting a Global Community was designed to engage faculty and instructors in a dialogue on the best practices of pedagogy and technology and the future possibilities of an interconnected classroom.

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New Media in Education 2008 Conference Web Site

Columbia on iTunes U Listed in iTunes Store

October 27, 2008. Columbia on iTunes U is now accessible through the iTunes Store. The University's iTunes platform was added last week to the directory of higher education institutions within the iTunes U section of the store. All iTunes users can now search, find, and download podcasts and media collections that have been made publicly available at Columbia on iTunes U.

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Columbia on iTunes U Launch Site

View the Columbia on iTunes press release

Press Release: CCNMTL Partners with Earth Institute on New Master's Degree

October 23, 2008. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has awarded The Earth Institute at Columbia University a $3.275 million grant to create a master’s program that will educate future generations of international development practitioners responsible for addressing the complex problems of extreme poverty and sustainable development. The Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) will receive a share of the funding to co-develop and support the program’s pedagogical and technological framework.

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Press Release: CCNMTL Partners with Social Work Faculty on $3.3 Million Grant

October 20, 2008. A $3.3 million, five-year grant was awarded to Dr. Nabila El-Bassel of the Columbia University School of Social Work by the National Institute on Drug Abuse to study the efficacy of a multimedia HIV prevention program to be developed with the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL).

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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 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 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

New Technologies Announced at Fall Premiere 2008

September 18, 2007. CCNMTL rolled out the latest teaching technologies at the Fall Premiere, an annual event for faculty to learn about new services and technologies available to them for the academic year. CCNMTL staff unveiled the University's new podcasting platform, "iTunes U at Columbia" and discussed how podcasting can be used as an educational tool. A course management site called Sakai was also demonstrated. This system, set to replace CourseWorks in fall 2009, offers customizable, Web 2.0 features and is currently being piloted by some Columbia faculty members. Lastly, a new resource site for faculty called EnhancED was presented. EnhancED is a one-stop resource for the latest articles, tips, and tools to improve the use of technology in teaching. The Fall Premiere was followed by a lively question and answer session.

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Columbia on iTunes U Launch Site

EnhancED Resource Site

Preview Sakai, a new course management system

Press Release: CCNMTL Launches Columbia on iTunes U

Columbia on iTunes U Album Art

September 15, 2008. The Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning launched Columbia University's new site on iTunes U in early September. The site, called “Columbia on iTunes U,” allows Columbia students, faculty, and the public to download free lectures, seminars, and other Columbia-produced media content to mobile devices or personal computers.

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Columbia on iTunes U Launch Site

Questions about CourseWorks? Download a CourseWorks QuickStart Guide

August 19, 2008. Find answers to your questions about CourseWorks in a CourseWorks QuickStart Guide. These guides range from basic set-up steps to more in-depth instructions on how to manage your CourseWorks site. Visit CourseWorks Quickstart Guides and choose from 15 guides to download, including "CourseWorks Syllabus Guide For Instructors," "CourseWorks: Migrating Course Content," and "Discussion Board QuickStart Guide."

For one-on-one help, contact your department's CCNMTL educational technologist, or email or call the CCNMTL Faculty Lab at ccnmtl@columbia.edu or 212.854.9058, open Monday-Friday 9am-5pm, in 204 Butler Library. An educational technologist is always available for individual consultations.

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View your department's CCNMTL educational technologist

Fall Faculty Workshops: CourseWorks, Wikispaces, iTunesU, and More

August 13, 2008. Get ready for the fall semester with Faculty and Instructor Workshops. Attend our workshops to learn how to engage your students and organize your course materials with online tools like CourseWorks, Columbia Wikispaces, Columbia iTunes U, and other digital applications.

From August 18 to September 8, CCNMTL is offering a variety of free workshops and seminars for instructors on both the Morningside and CUMC campuses. Whether you're just getting started with a course Web site, or you're ready to use more advanced features like podcasting or social bookmarking, these workshops are designed to meet your course needs.

In the coming weeks, the following workshop subjects will be offered multiple times in the Butler Library on the Morningside Campus and in Hammer Library on the Columbia Medical Campus:

CourseWorks: Getting Started
CourseWorks for Effective Communication
CourseWorks Immersion
Wikispaces: Getting Started
Wikispaces: Advanced Tips & Tricks
It's Delicious! Social Bookmarking and Teaching
iTunes U and Your Course
Using Online Video for Teaching

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Columbia on iTunes U Beta Released

August 4, 2008. Earlier this week, a beta version of the "Columbia on iTunes U" site was released to allow for some wider testing and will be fully released at the start of the fall semester. Columbia on iTunes U will allow students, instructors, and the general public to easily search, download, and play content on computers or iPods. The site, accessible via the web site, http://itunes.columbia.edu/, contains audio and video podcasts of course lectures, course media and campus events. CCNMTL staff will work with instructors, administrators, and academic departments wishing to upload content to the site.

Columbia on iTunes U provides both public and Columbia-only access. Instructors can manage their course-related audio and video collections for students and choose their access permissions. Please contact us at ccnmtl@columbia.edu to learn more about Columbia on iTunes U or to register for a faculty workshop in September.

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Visit Columbia on iTunes U Web site

New Faculty Seminar: Using Online Video for Clinical Training

July 8, 2008. On July 22, CCNMTL will host a new faculty seminar that focuses on CCNMTL's Web-based video analysis system, VITAL (Video Interactions for Teaching and Learning). VITAL helps students develop the skills of observation, interpretation, and critical thinking through the use of online video clips and accompanying analysis tools. The system has been adopted widely at Columbia University, typically in pre-professional contexts such as clinical counseling, cultural competency training, and teacher development.

During this one-hour seminar, faculty will learn about tools that enable students to edit and annotate video clips and write "multimedia essays" with text and video. The seminar will also highlight the benefits and applications of the VITAL environment, exploring how students can share their work in VITAL with instructors and peers, build personal repositories of video and written content, and participate in analytic exercises to build critical thinking skills pertinent to their field of study.

Learn more about VITAL by attending this seminar:

Using Online Video for Clinical Training
Tuesday, July 22
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
2nd floor of the Armory on Columbia University's Medical Campus
Read the seminar description and register

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Read more about VITAL

Watch a brief video demonstration of VITAL

Press 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 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.

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Read the Vietnam Digital Library informational sheet (PDF)

HISTP Welcomes its Second Cohort of Trainees and Mentors

June 13, 2008. The HIV Intervention Science Training Program (HISTP) at Columbia University introduced its second cohort of trainees and mentors to the HISTPCommons Web site during a week-long institute from June 9–13, 2008. HISTP is a national mentorship program aimed at increasing the number of racial and ethnic minority HIV intervention researchers receiving grants from federal agencies. Developed to help facilitate the program, HISTPCommons is a collaborative Web-based environment created by CCNMTL to help researchers create proposals for pilot interventions and grant submissions, receive feedback from mentors, and document professional growth.

The three-year study and mentorship program is funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and led by Drs. Nabila El-Bassel and Elwin Wu of the Columbia University School of Social Work.

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View the HISTPCommons Web site

Summer Faculty Workshops on Morningside Campus

June 13, 2008. Columbia Faculty and Instructors: Consider enhancing your course with technology this summer. The Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) will host faculty development workshops on July 7 and 8 to help you learn how to use the free technologies that are available to you as an instructor. CCNMTL educational technologists will guide one or two-hour training sessions on popular tools such as CourseWorks, Wikispaces and an online social bookmarking tool called Del.ici.ous.

Workshops are designed for varying skill levels, from users who are just getting started to more advanced users who have used these technologies in the past. This set of workshops will be held in the CCNMTL Faculty Support Lab in 204 Butler Library. Read more and register for workshops at
http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/events/workshops.

CourseWorks: Getting Started
Monday, July 7, 2008 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM
Tuesday July 8, 2008 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM

CourseWorks for Effective Communication
Tuesday July 8, 2008 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM

CourseWorks Immersion
Monday, July 7, 2008 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM

Wikispaces: Getting Started
Monday, July 7, 2008, Monday 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM
Tuesday July 8, 2008, Tuesday 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM

It's Del.icio.us! Social Bookmarking and Teaching
Monday, July 7, 2008 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Tuesday July 8, 200812:30 PM to 1:30 PM

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