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Mediathread
Mediathread CCNMTL
Mediathread is CCNMTL's innovative, open-source platform for exploration, analysis, and organization of web-based multimedia content. Mediathread connects to a variety of image and video collections (such as YouTube, Flickr, library databases, and course libraries), enabling users to lift items out of these collections and into an analysis environment. In Mediathread,...

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Released: September 2010

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Sacred Gotham
Sacred Gotham Partner: Courtney Bender- Columbia College
In Courtney Bender's Religion and the City course, maps and mapping technologies help students better conceptualize the impact of larger social trends on religious groups. Students conduct individual research projects on religious sites in Manhattan and investigate how population and economic changes in the city have influenced those sites. The...

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Released: September 2006

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The Holy Teaching of Vimalakirti: A Mahayana Scripture
The Holy Teaching of Vimalakirti: A Mahayana Scripture Partner: Robert Thurman- Arts and Sciences
A study environment for Professor Robert A. F. Thurman's translation of The Holy Teachings of the Vimalakirti. This site allows students to contextualize the ideas of the text and the ideas and history of Buddhism with the help of textual, visual and audio annotations. Features include Sanskrit glossaries and annotations,...

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Released: December 2002

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Res Gestae: Propaganda in the Ancient World
Res Gestae: Propaganda in the Ancient World Partner: Myles McDonnell- Arts and Sciences
This Multimedia Study Enviroment offers an English translation of Augustus's famous declaration of his personal and governmental achievements. The document is annotated with definitions and helpful biographies, as well as plans, elevations, and pictures of ancient buildings. At relevant moments in the text, the writings of contemporary historians such as...

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Released: September 2002

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Paradise Lost Book IX by John Milton
Paradise Lost Book IX by John Milton Partner: Andrea Solomon- School of General Studies
A primary reading in the Core Curriculum, this text is enhanced by the MSE with the inclusion of a catalogue of images, notes on the text by the MSE's faculty consultant, glossaries of concepts and people, and links to reference materials such as the John Milton Reading Room....

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Released: June 2000
Archived, no longer available.