{ types: { "Project" : { pluralLabel: "Projects" } }, "items" : [ { type : "Project", label: "Mobile Technologies for Community Health", released: "2009-10-23", access: "Private", status: "Development", partner: "Dr. James Phillips", group: "Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health", description: "\\CCNMTL \<\/span\>is partnering with the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health of the Mailman School of Public Health to develop, test, and disseminate a health information management system relying on low-cost cellular phone technology. This system, being developed in partnership with the Ghana Health Service, \CCNMTL, \<\/span\>and the Grameen Foundation, will be used to improve the timeliness, accuracy, and utility of information required by front-line health workers in remote communities of Ghana. The project is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.\<\/p\>\n\n\The goal of the project is to test whether the adaptation of low-cost mobile phone-based health technology can address major gaps in knowledge and information-sharing among health care workers at the community and district levels, and by doing so, significantly improve health outcomes in impoverished, rural communities in Ghana.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/medicine_and_health/motech.html", categories: ["Medicine and Health"], discipline: ["Medicine and Health"], projecttype: [], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/329.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Ground|Work", released: "2009-10-09", access: "Private", status: "Active", partner: "Marc Levy", group: "Center for International Earth Science Information Network ", description: "\Ground|Work is an online simulation in which users grapple with maintaining the fragile peace in a post-conflict country (Nimpala). Over the course of seven weeks students in Professor Marc Levy\'s Environment, Conflict, and Resolution Strategy course use their knowledge of previous conflicts and conflict resolution strategies to complete both individual and team activities. These activities include drafting a conflict assessment, funding interventions, preventing or responding to humanitarian crises, and working with donors. When the simulation concludes, teams will find that Nimpala is in one of three states/conditions: peace, humanitarian crisis, or resurgence of conflict.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/political_science_and_social_policy/ground_work.html", categories: ["Political Science and Social Policy", "Simulations"], discipline: ["Political Science and Social Policy"], projecttype: ["Simulations"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/322.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Multimedia WORTH", released: "2009-10-08", access: "Private", status: "Active", partner: "Nabila El-Bassel", group: "Social Intervention Group, School of Social Work", description: "\Multimedia \WORTH \<\/span\>(Women On The Road To Health) is the web-based version of an \HIV \<\/span\>prevention program that teaches communication and negotiation skills, delivers health information, and facilitates empowerment and feelings of self worth to at-risk women in the criminal justice system. \CCNMTL \<\/span\>is partnering with the \Social Intervention Group\<\/a\> at the Columbia School of Social Work to develop and test the \WORTH \<\/span\>tool to support health facilitators in delivering both group and individual intervention sessions. Faculty partner Nabila El-Bassel will conduct a randomized control trial funded by the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) to test the efficacy of Multimedia \WORTH \<\/span\>in increasing condom use, decreasing the incidence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and reducing substance use among 432 drug involved female offenders in an Alternative-to-Incarceration (ATI) program in New York City.\<\/p\>\n\n\Facilitators and participants using Multimedia \WORTH \<\/span\>will supplement face-to-face discussion with the use of laptop computers during their weekly group meetings. Key improvements over the traditional intervention model include a visual \"road map\" for facilitators and participants, interactive activities for group and independent use, customized journals for participants, and supervision reports for the study team. Once completed, elements of the multimedia environment will be used to train Columbia social work students who are preparing for careers in the criminal justice system. \<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/social_work/multimedia_worth.html", categories: ["Custom Software Applications and Tools", "Medicine and Health", "Social Work", "Training"], discipline: ["Medicine and Health", "Social Work"], projecttype: ["Custom Software Applications and Tools","Training"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu//images/portfolio/thumbs/324.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Global Master\'s in Development Practice ", released: "2009-09-30", access: "Private", status: "Active", partner: "Jeffrey Sachs", group: "Earth Instutitute", description: "\The Global Master\'s in Development Practice (MDP) is a two-year degree providing graduate-level students with the skills and knowledge required to better identify and address the global challenges of sustainable development, such as poverty, population, health, conservation, climate change, and agricultural productivity. The \John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation\<\/a\> has committed $15 million to create \MDP \<\/span\>programs at up to 15 universities worldwide over the next three years. \<\/p\>\n\n\\CCNMTL \<\/span\>supports the \MDP \<\/span\>with a suite of technological tools to help achieve the program\'s goals. These include a range of customized tools that enable synchronous and asynchronous collaboration among the participants in shared courses taught simultaneously at many universities around the world, and a customized social network to encourage and foster a global community of sustainable development practitioners. \<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/political_science_and_social_policy/mdp.html", categories: ["Custom Software Applications and Tools", "Political Science and Social Policy", "Training"], discipline: ["Political Science and Social Policy"], projecttype: ["Custom Software Applications and Tools","Training"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/330.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Harlem Health History", released: "2009-09-27", access: "Private", status: "Active", partner: "Samuel K. Roberts", group: "Department of History", description: "\The Harlem Health History project was created to enhance students\' historical research on health-focused social movements in an African American community. The project offers students in Professor Samuel Roberts\' course, \"History of African American Health and Health Movements,\" a repository of digitized primary source materials about health and public policy issues in Harlem. Until now, many of these primary source materials—including health reports and studies, news articles, advertisements, images, and interviews—have not been available in any online archive. The Harlem Health History project will enable students to browse, analyze, and tag items, and add their own primary source material to the collection. Exemplary student term papers will be included in the repository for future students to use as secondary sources in their own research papers.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/history/harlem_health.html", categories: ["History", "Repositories and Reference Tools"], discipline: ["History"], projecttype: ["Repositories and Reference Tools"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/323.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Columbia on YouTube EDU", released: "2009-09-01", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "", group: "CCNMTL", description: "\\Columbia on YouTube \EDU\<\/span\>\<\/a\> gives faculty, students, and the public access to Columbia-produced videos of lectures, events, and promotional content on the popular YouTube platform. Launched in September 2009 and managed by \CCNMTL, \<\/span\>the University\'s channel enables instructors and administrators to publish and share videos online for educational, promotional, and general use.\<\/p\>\n\n\YouTube \EDU \<\/span\>organizes videos from over 100 universities and colleges in one convenient place and includes over 200 full course videos from leading universities, including \MIT,\<\/span\> Stanford, UC Berkeley, \UCLA,\<\/span\> Yale, and now, Columbia. The platform offers a more robust set of features than regular YouTube channels, allowing videos to run longer than 10 minutes on a Columbia-branded, ad-free site. Features like annotations, tagging, and high definition also enhance the viewing experience, and videos can be easily embedded in blogs, wikis, or course sites.\<\/p\>\n\n\To learn more about Columbia on YouTube \EDU \<\/span\>and to contribute video, please email \ccnmtl-youtube@columbia.edu\<\/a\>.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/repositories_and_reference_tools/columbia_on_youtube.html", categories: ["Repositories and Reference Tools"], discipline: [], projecttype: ["Repositories and Reference Tools"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/345.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Project Rebirth ", siteURL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/rebirth/", released: "2009-09-01", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: " Faculty and Instructors", group: "Georgetown University, Columbia University, and Project Rebirth", description: "\The Project Rebirth educational initiative aims to help students better understand the many dimensions of trauma and recovery following September 11, 2001. The initiative provides faculty partners from Columbia University and Georgetown University with access to hundreds of hours of footage from \Project Rebirth\<\/em\>, a documentary by filmmaker Jim Whitaker that chronicles the stories of 10 people deeply affected by the attacks on the World Trade Center, including extensive footage of interviews as well as the rebuilding of the site. \<\/p\>\n\n\Using \VITAL \<\/span\>(Video Interactions for Teaching and Learning), \CCNMTL\'\<\/span\>s video analysis tool, faculty and students from a range of fields—including clinical psychology, social work, business, architecture, English, and film—can view the \Rebirth\<\/em\> footage in a secure, web-based environment that supports managing and annotating video content. Through the project, the academic community can capitalize on the power of close viewing and observation to engage in thoughtful study, and the material can be used to train professionals to better understand and respond to the broad impacts of traumatic events on our world.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/training/project_rebirth.html", categories: ["Education", "Medicine and Health", "Training"], discipline: ["Education", "Medicine and Health"], projecttype: ["Training"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/320.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Apollo Theater Project", released: "2009-07-10", access: "Private", status: "Development", partner: "Oral History Research Office", group: "", description: "\The Apollo Theater Project is a multifaceted initiative to document, preserve, and disseminate the history of the Apollo Theater and the Harlem community. The Columbia University Oral History Research Office (OHRO) is conducting more than 150 hours of interviews with cultural and political figures such as Smokey Robinson, Leslie Uggams and Gordon Anderson, who are connected with the 75-year history of the Theater. CCNMTL is assisting in capturing video interviews and is working with Columbia University faculty to integrate the interview footage into the classroom.\<\/p\>\n\n\The Apollo Theater Project is a collaboration between the OHRO, the Apollo Theater Foundation, CCNMTL, and the Center for Digital Research and Scholarship at Columbia. \<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/arts/apollotheater_oh.html", categories: ["Arts"], discipline: ["Arts"], projecttype: [], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/312.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Amistad Digital Resource", siteURL: "http://www.amistadresource.org/", released: "2009-06-22", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "Manning Marable", group: "Institute for Research in African American Studies", description: "\The Amistad Digital Resource is a multimedia website that shares hundreds of rare and iconic photographs, audio and video clips, oral history interviews, maps, and des\criptive text explaining significant themes and key events in African American history, from slavery to the 21st century. Funded by a grant from the Ford Foundation and originally conceptualized by Digital Knowledge Ventures in 2007, the site is in pilot phase and is developed by \CCNMTL \<\/span\>in collaboration with Manning Marable, professor of history and director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University. The Amistad Digital Resource is designed to enhance the ability of educators for grades K-12 to teach African American history as a fundamental part of the overall narrative of the United States and is publicly available to assist students of all ages.\<\/p\>\n\n\The robust content and modular layout of the Amistad Digital Resource invites students and instructors to use it as a textbook, research guide, or multimedia study environment. The site currently comprises three teaching and learning modules, each covering a distinct chronological period, and provides critical questions found in the introduction section. Six additional learning modules may be added to the site in the future. Educators may choose to use the Amistad Digital Resource as a complete unit on 20th century African American history or supplement curricula with the primary source materials available for download throughout the site, effectively broadening student understanding of African American history while maintaining district-mandated standards.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/repositories_and_reference_tools/amistad.html", categories: ["Culture and Society", "History", "Repositories and Reference Tools"], discipline: ["Culture and Society", "History"], projecttype: ["Repositories and Reference Tools"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/316.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Virtual Forest Initiative", siteURL: "http://blackrock.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/", released: "2009-05-05", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "Kevin L. Griffin, Hilary Callahan, Matt Palmer", group: "Arts and Sciences", description: "\The Virtual Forest Initiative will provide a technological framework to support and enhance research, education, and community activities at Black Rock Forest. The framework will provide searchable, downloadable forest assets and resources for access, presentation, and use by scientists, educators, and community members.\<\/p\>\n\n\As part of the larger Virtual Forest Initiative, \CCNMTL \<\/span\>is also developing a suite of web-based learning tools that utilizes Black Rock Forest\'s rich archive of scientific records such as climate field station and tree data. Used in the Earth and Environmental Sciences courses at Columbia University and Barnard College, the project gives students an unprecedented opportunity to utilize real data for comparative analysis.\<\/p\>\n\n\The Virtual Forest Initiative aims to develop a breakthrough model for providing researchers, students, and educators an intuitive means for learning about all aspects of a research and community forest. \Black Rock Forest\<\/a\> is located 50 miles north of New York City in the Hudson Highlands. \<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/field-laboratory/virtual_forest.html", categories: ["Field-Laboratory", "Sciences"], discipline: ["Sciences"], projecttype: ["Field-Laboratory"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/318.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Country X", siteURL: "http://countryx.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/accounts/login/?next=/sim/", released: "2009-04-16", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: "Aldo Civico ", group: "School of International and Public Affairs", description: "\Country X is a web-based educational simulation created in response to challenges surrounding the training and education of prospective genocide prevention practitioners. The simulation, developed in partnership with Professor Aldo Civico of the Center for International Conflict Resolution, takes place in a fictitious nation experiencing rapid instability called Country X. Students work in groups of four, with each student assuming the identity of one of four characters representing the perspectives of diplomatic, intelligence, military, and civil society communities. \<\/p\>\n\n\After analyzing a starting condition, players must address the situation from within their role by independently making a strategic policy decision and providing a rationale for it. The combination of player decisions at each phase of the simulation determines a resulting condition for Country X for better or worse. Students work through three such decision phases and then confront and attempt to deconstruct a final condition. The simulation was created to work in an integrated way with class discussions facilitated by an instructor. It is being used in Professor Civico\'s genocide prevention seminar and will also be available to other courses at Columbia.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/political_science_and_social_policy/country_x.html", categories: ["Political Science and Social Policy", "Simulations"], discipline: ["Political Science and Social Policy"], projecttype: ["Simulations"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/300.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "SLATE", siteURL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/slate/", released: "2009-04-03", access: "Private", status: "Active", partner: "Deepthiman Gowda and Mary Jo Fink", group: "College of Physicians and Surgeons", description: "\Sharing, Learning, and Teaching the Examination (SLATE) is the multimedia course website for Foundations of Clinical Medicine, a second-year clinical skills building course at Columbia University\'s College of Physicians and Surgeons. Created with faculty partners, Deepthiman Gowda and Mary Jo Fink, \SLATE \<\/span\>provides weekly instructional videos on course topics, such as history-taking, physical examination, and diagnostic reasoning, which students watch prior to class. The website also contains assignments, readings, projects, and events posted by professors. \SLATE \<\/span\>seeks to support the course objectives of Foundations of Clinical Medicine by equipping students and faculty with relevant tutorials and course information in an easy-to-use online platform. \<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/medicine_and_health/slate.html", categories: ["Directed Learning", "Medicine and Health", "Training"], discipline: ["Medicine and Health"], projecttype: ["Directed Learning","Training"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/328.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Masivukeni", released: "2009-03-31", access: "Private", status: "Active", partner: "Robert Remien", group: "Department of Psychiatry", description: "\\CCNMTL \<\/span\>and Dr. Robert Remien, a research scientist at the \HIV\<\/span\> Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies and associate professor of clinical psychology (in psychiatry), received a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to create and pilot Masivukeni, a multimedia version of an \HIV\<\/span\>-treatment adherence program, \SMART\<\/span\> Couples, that has been effective in New York City \HIV \<\/span\>care clinics. The grant allows the program to extend its reach to South Africa, which has one of the highest rates of \HIV \<\/span\>in the world. Originally named \SMART \<\/span\>+SA, Masivukeni also aims to enrich Columbia courses at the Mailman School of Public Health and other programs focused on health disparities.\
\n \
\nMasivukeni, which loosely translates to \"let\'s wake up\" in Xhosa, is a computer-assisted program that supports counselors at health clinics in Cape Town, South Africa in assisting \HIV\<\/span\>-positive adults to adhere to their antiretroviral drug regimens through a combination of education and support. The program uses enhanced text, imagery, animations, audio, and video to teach the basics of how \HIV \<\/span\>and antiretrovirals affect health, and to build problem solving and social support skills that patients can use to overcome barriers to treatment adherence. Research partners and community stakeholders from Cape Town provided guidance on Masivukeni\'s design, language, and skill-building activities to ensure that the program incorporated culturally relevant themes. A central component of Masivukeni is the Island Activity, an interactive tool that depicts the improvement or decline of a patient\'s health using an animation of a person on an island surrounded by rising or lowering water. \<\/p\>\n\n\In March 2009, a team from \CCNMTL \<\/span\>and the \HIV\<\/span\> Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies trained two adherence counselors at an \HIV \<\/span\>clinic in Cape Town to deliver Masivukeni to 30 patients who are experiencing challenges adhering to their \HIV \<\/span\>treatment. Based on results from this pilot project, \CCNMTL \<\/span\>and the \HIV\<\/span\> Center will research and explore ways to implement a broader study of Masivukeni. \<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/medicine_and_health/masivukeni.html", categories: ["Medicine and Health", "Training"], discipline: ["Medicine and Health"], projecttype: ["Training"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/289.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Project Vietnam", released: "2009-03-23", access: "Private", status: "Active", partner: " WGBH", group: "", description: "\Project Vietnam provides Columbia University students unique access to heretofore inaccessible material from the landmark 1983 documentary \Vietnam: A Television History,\<\/em\> co-produced by Boston\'s public television station, \WGBH.\<\/span\> Funded by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, Project Vietnam is a partnership between \CCNMTL, WGBH, \<\/span\>and the University of Massachusetts-Boston to digitize, preserve, and disseminate primary source materials created for the 13-part series, which examines in depth the causes and consequences of the Vietnam War. Project Vietnam enables students to discover and watch full-length interviews and a range of stock footage; annotate, edit, and create sub-collections of these videos; and incorporate clips into multimedia projects. Faculty from Columbia University\'s Teachers College, Graduate School of Journalism, Department of History, and Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures are integrating Project Vietnam into their curricula.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/history/vietnam_digital_lib.html", categories: ["History", "Repositories and Reference Tools"], discipline: ["History"], projecttype: ["Repositories and Reference Tools"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/309.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "CCNMTL\'s 10th Anniversary: A Decade of Innovation", siteURL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/10th/", released: "2009-03-19", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "", group: "CCNMTL", description: "\\CCNMTL \<\/span\>celebrates its 10th anniversary this month. Under the leadership of co-founders Frank Moretti and Maurice Matiz, the Center opened its doors in 1999 to promote the purposeful use of new media and technology in education. Since then, \CCNMTL \<\/span\>has worked with over 4,000 faculty and instructors representing each school at Columbia University to develop over \200 educational projects\<\/a\> and initiatives. The \CCNMTL\<\/span\> 10th Anniversary website showcases videos and slideshows looking back at the 10 years, as well as a guest book signed by \CCNMTL \<\/span\>partners. \<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/event_archives/ccnmtls_10th_anniver_1.html", categories: ["Event Archives"], discipline: [], projecttype: ["Event Archives"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/news/images/logo_10th_160w.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "PediaLabs", siteURL: "", released: "2009-03-16", access: "Private", status: "Development", partner: " Rita Marie John, Mary McCord, and Arlene Smaldone", group: "School of Nursing, College of Physicians & Surgeons", description: "\Clinicians require accurate laboratory tests to help them diagnose illness and screen for diseases. Yet, even the best laboratory test is not perfect; it can miss a condition or falsely report a patient as having a condition. PediaLabs is designed to improve graduate nursing and medical students\' understanding of the underlying concepts that direct the proper use and interpretation of pediatric laboratory tests. The site offers two online training modules to explain six concepts: reliability, validity, sensitivity, specificity, predictive value, and prevalence of a disease in a given population. \<\/p\>\n\n\PediaLab\'s first module uses didactic self-directed instruction with immediate-feedback quizzes, graphs, case examples, and animations intended to provide an enhanced learning experience for students. The second module is comprised of case exercises that draw from real patient examples. Students must examine the cases, interpret labs tests, and then make diagnoses and follow-up decisions. PediaLabs was developed in partnership with Rita Marie John, \DNP, CPNP\<\/span\>; Mary McCord, MD; and Arlene Smaldone, \DNS\<\/span\>c, \CPNP \<\/span\>of the Columbia University Medical Center.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/medicine_and_health/pedialabs.html", categories: ["Directed Learning", "Medicine and Health", "Training"], discipline: ["Medicine and Health"], projecttype: ["Directed Learning","Training"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/315.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "REAL: Remote Electronic Arrhythmia Learning", siteURL: "http://real.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/", released: "2009-02-23", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: " Kathleen Hickey and Mary Donovan", group: "School of Nursing", description: "\Remote Electronic Arrhythmia Learning (REAL), is a web-based tutorial that familiarizes Columbia University medical, dental, and nursing students with the basic parameters and operation of internal cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs). Created in partnership with Drs. Kathleen Hickey and Mary Donovan from the School of Nursing, \REAL \<\/span\>provides students with detailed video demonstrations of \ICD\<\/span\>s from the three major manufacturers—Boston Scientific, Medtronic, and St. Jude. The video demonstrations, available online and for downloading, serve as a visual tool that guides students in their learning of the various functions of each manufacturer\'s \ICD, \<\/span\>which practitioners are required to know before interrogating any patient. \REAL \<\/span\>also includes a text overview of electromagnetic interference, a glossary of terms, a bibliography, and a usability survey for student feedback on \REAL.\<\/span\>\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/medicine_and_health/real.html", categories: ["Medicine and Health", "Training"], discipline: ["Medicine and Health"], projecttype: ["Training"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/321.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Collateral Consequences Calculator", siteURL: "http://cckc.ccnmtl.columbia.edu", released: "2009-02-01", access: "Open to all", status: "Development", partner: "Conrad Johnson", group: "School of Law", description: "\Developed in partnership with Columbia Law School professor Conrad Johnson, the Collateral Consequences Calculator is a web-based \"calculator\" that allows legal practitioners to quickly and easily compare the collateral consequences of criminal charges associated with sections of the New York State Penal Law. The Collateral Consequences Calculator serves multiple communities: faculty can build case studies around it, lawyers can better counsel their clients, judges can assure appropriate sentencing, and public policy researchers can use it as a lens through which to examine the matrix of the New York State legal system. Judge Judith Kaye, former Chief Justice of New York State, has supported the development of this tool, which she sees as a valuable social justice initiative.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/law/collateral_consequen.html", categories: ["Custom Software Applications and Tools", "Law"], discipline: ["Law"], projecttype: ["Custom Software Applications and Tools"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/268.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "New Media in Education 2008", siteURL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/nme2008/", released: "2008-10-17", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "", group: "CCNMTL", description: "\\CCNMTL \<\/span\>hosted its fourth New Media in Education conference on Friday, October 17, 2008 in the Low Memorial Library at Columbia University. This all-day event for faculty, instructors, and the Columbia community explored emerging technologies that are connecting students globally. Columbia faculty members and leaders in the field of education and technology spoke about their experiences with \CCNMTL\<\/span\>-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 also occurred throughout the conference. \CCNMTL \<\/span\>executive director, Frank Moretti provided opening comments, and Nicholas Lemann, Dean and Henry R. Luce Professor at the Columbia University Journalism School, gave the keynote address. Most session were recorded and are available for viewing. \<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/event_archives/nme08_portfolio.html", categories: ["Event Archives"], discipline: [], projecttype: ["Event Archives"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/nme.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Engaging Digital Tibet", released: "2008-09-10", access: "Private", status: "Development", partner: "Gray Tuttle", group: "East Asian Language and Cultures", description: "\This project offers students the ability to work with Tibetan source materials and participate directly with Tibetan history scholarship in an online environment. \CCNMTL \<\/span\>developed this project in partnership with Gray Tuttle, an assistant professor of modern Tibetan studies in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, to allow students to examine the intersections of trade, craftsmanship, art, religion, and politics in Tibet.\<\/p\>\n\n\The online environment includes digital collections, mapping and annotative tools, and individual workspaces, which allow students to synthesize archival material into object biographies. These biographies tell the stories of past peoples and cultures in a uniquely grounded way: an object serves as a basis for developing a narrative about the time, place, and people who participated in the creation of culture. Student-created biographies will be made available to classmates, future students of Tibetan culture, and the public. Engaging Digital Tibet provides new ways to interact with digitized objects from Columbia University Libraries and project partners, including the Rubin Museum of Art and the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/arts/digital_tibet.html", categories: ["Arts", "Repositories and Reference Tools"], discipline: ["Arts"], projecttype: ["Repositories and Reference Tools"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/313.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Jazz Studies Online", siteURL: "http://jazzstudiesonline.org/", released: "2008-09-01", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "John Szwed", group: "Arts and Sciences", description: "\Jazz Studies Online is a Web site developed by the Columbia University Center for Jazz Studies, in association with the Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS) and the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL), and with funding from the Ford Foundation. Jazz Studies Online is a major destination for jazz scholarship on the Web. The site is comprised of an extensive digital resource library, including author and artist interviews, short essays, online dialogues with scholars, book excerpts, audio and video recordings, scholarly papers and conference proceedings, and feature articles. The site forges partnerships with publishers, journals and magazines, scholarly associations, archives, libraries, museums, musicians, educators, and academic institutions.\<\/p\>\n\n\The Web site also includes a multimedia Jazz Glossary with definitions, short essays, and sonic and visual demonstrations of a variety of jazz vocabulary terms. Long-term goals of Jazz Studies Online include the development of a collaborative environment for digital scholarship in jazz studies, and the creation of new teaching tools for jazz curricula.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/arts/jazz_studies_online.html", categories: ["Arts", "Repositories and Reference Tools"], discipline: ["Arts"], projecttype: ["Repositories and Reference Tools"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/274.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Columbia on iTunes U", released: "2008-09-01", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "", group: "CCNMTL", description: "\Columbia on iTunes U offers Columbia schools, departments, faculty, and student groups the ability to contribute and access podcasts on a Columbia-managed iTunes U site, accessible through Apple\'s popular iTunes desktop media player. The platform was launched by \CCNMTL \<\/span\>in September 2008 and continues to gain popularity. \<\/p\>\n\n\Podcasting is a technology that syndicates video and audio files over the Internet for playback on computers or portable media devices like iPods and iPhones. Podcasting can be a useful way of distributing educational content, for example audio recordings of course lectures or course-related content, that students can access 24/7. With iTunes U, Columbia users can also share podcasts of conferences, seminars, and other events with the Columbia community and make them available to the public. \<\/p\>\n\n\Columbia on iTunes U is accessible on the iTunes U section of the iTunes application or, for direct access, visit \http://itunes.columbia.edu\<\/a\>. Some content on Columbia on iTunes U is open to Columbia affiliates only and requires logging in with your \UNI.\<\/span\> Columbia on iTunes U is also available on iPhones and iPod Touches, making Columbia podcasts readily available for download and play without the need of a desktop computer. Access the Columbia on iTunes U mobile portal by visiting \http://itunes.columbia.edu/m\<\/a\> on your mobile Safari browser. \<\/p\>\n\n\\CCNMTL \<\/span\>administers Columbia on iTunes U and provides faculty support to educators at the University. To learn more about Columbia on iTunes U, visit \\CCNMTL\<\/span\> Tools\<\/a\>.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/repositories_and_reference_tools/columbia_on_itunes_u.html", categories: ["Repositories and Reference Tools"], discipline: [], projecttype: ["Repositories and Reference Tools"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/326.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "The Ad Council and AdoptUsKids Case Study", siteURL: "http://caseworks.ccnmtl.columbia.edu", released: "2008-07-01", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "Liz Gordon", group: "Business School", description: "\Columbia Caseworks of the Columbia Business School and \CCNMTL \<\/span\>partnered to create the Business School\'s first multimedia case study environment. Here, students navigate a case via a virtual email inbox as they take the role of an advertising executive who is required to direct marketing decisions to improve adoption rates at an adoption agency called AdoptUsKids. At designated times in the narrative, students complete assignments in a built-in writing space. Student work is stored and review by the instructor, and is then used to guide discussion during class.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/business_and_finance/gbs_cases.html", categories: ["Business and Finance", "Case Studies"], discipline: ["Business and Finance"], projecttype: ["Case Studies"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/311.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "PCORE Portal", siteURL: "http://pcore.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/", released: "2008-06-23", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: "Pablo Joo, MD", group: "College of Physicians and Surgeons", description: "\\PCORE \<\/span\>is a web-based portal providing a standardized curriculum to primary care students at Columbia\'s School of Physicians and Surgeons. The portal offers five interactive education modules on prevention, diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and depression. It also includes an electronic library and online evidence-based point of care tools and patient education in primary care. \PCORE \<\/span\>was developed by \CCNMTL \<\/span\>in partnership with Dr. Pablo Joo, assistant professor of clinical medicine at Columbia University. Accessible to Columbia students completing primary care rotations around the country, the portal also provides teaching resources to supervising residents and faculty of the Primary Care Clerkship. \PCORE \<\/span\>bridges the principles of primary care from the electronic classroom to applications in everyday direct patient care.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/medicine_and_health/pcore_portal.html", categories: ["Directed Learning", "Medicine and Health", "Training"], discipline: ["Medicine and Health"], projecttype: ["Directed Learning","Training"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/314.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Connect", released: "2008-06-01", access: "Private", status: "Active", partner: "Susan Witte", group: "School of Social Work", description: "\Connect is a couples-level intervention for heterosexual couples at risk for \HIV\<\/span\>/STIs developed by the Social Intervention Group at the School of Social Work. The intervention has been proven to reduce risky behaviors in committed heterosexual couples, the fastest growing \HIV\<\/span\>-infected group in the \US. \<\/span\> Principal Investigator Susan Witte and \CCNMTL \<\/span\>have received funding from the National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH) to test a multimedia version of the intervention against the paper version at 80 community-based organizations to measure levels of adoption of the intervention in its multimedia form. Multimedia Connect represents a significant step forward in effective dissemination, providing novice facilitators with a \'road map\' as they go through the intervention with clients. In addition to use in clinical settings, components of Multimedia Connect are already in use in classrooms at the Columbia School of Social Work. \<\/p\>\n\n\The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has also provided funding to develop multimedia training tools to translate the existing Connect intervention materials for national dissemination. \CCNMTL \<\/span\>and Witte have packaged the intervention manual and all training materials, including 22 original video assets that model communication techniques and provide information about \STI\<\/span\>s. The materials will be used both to train facilitators and for use with intervention participants.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/training/sig_project_connect.html", categories: ["Medicine and Health", "Social Work", "Training"], discipline: ["Medicine and Health", "Social Work"], projecttype: ["Training"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/243.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Innovation in the CUMC Classroom", siteURL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/events/websites/innovations_cumc/", released: "2008-04-22", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "", group: "CCNMTL", description: "\\CCNMTL \<\/span\>hosted Innovation in the \CUMC\<\/span\> Classroom on April 22, 2008 to reintroduce Columbia University\'s health science educators to technology innovations for teaching and learning. Faculty, instructors, librarians, and university officials from the College of Dental Medicine, the Mailman School of Public Health, the College of Physicians and Surgeons, the School of Nursing, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Columbia University Information Services attended the event to hear presentations by dental and medical faculty and \CCNMTL \<\/span\>staff. Presenters discussed pedagogical challenges such as effectively teaching cultural competency and teaching histology to large classes, while also introducing technological solutions to these challenges. The presentations focused on several teaching tools including virtual microscopy, web-based simulations, web-based reflection portfolios, and \VITAL, \<\/span\>a video-based observation tool.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/event_archives/innovation_cumc.html", categories: ["Event Archives"], discipline: [], projecttype: ["Event Archives"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/327.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Journalism School Case Studies", siteURL: "http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/cs/ContentServer/jrn/1175372500012/page/1175372499753/simplepage.htm", released: "2008-04-20", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "Knight Case Studies Initiative", group: "School of Journalism", description: "\The Knight Case Studies Initiative at the Journalism School collaborated with \CCNMTL \<\/span\>to create multimedia case studies, which cover a range of topics confronting modern news organizations. The case studies are used in Professor Michael Shapiro\'s graduate journalism course, Decision Making in the Newsroom, to prepare students for the complexity of real-life decisions they will likely face during their careers in journalism. Each case requires students to put themselves in the shoes of editors, publishers, and reporters and to grapple with a wide range of editorial, ethical, and economic issues. Components of some case studies are slowly revealed in class, thus stimulating the actual situation and the stressful decision points that unfold with it. The case study initiative aims to develop journalism students\' analytic, decision-making, management, and leadership skills by adding case-based learning to traditional journalism instruction. \<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/journalism/journalism_case_stud.html", categories: ["Case Studies", "Journalism"], discipline: ["Journalism"], projecttype: ["Case Studies"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/294.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Southside Chicago Documentation Project", siteURL: "http://southside.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/", released: "2008-04-08", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "Sudhir Venkatesh", group: "The Center for Urban Research & Policy", description: "\The Southside Chicago Documentation Project (SCDP) is a web-based environment for students in Columbia\'s Urban Research Workshop to conduct social science research on South Side black communities in Chicago. The project is centered on a digitized collection of the \South Street Journal\<\/em\>, a local newspaper that was once a powerful voice in the Bronzeville community in the 1990s. Through tagging and data visualization mechanisms, \SCDP \<\/span\>allows students to discover patterns and lacunae from primary source materials they are commonly investigating, deepening their understanding of context and discourse in sociological research.\<\/p\>\n\n\\CCNMTL \<\/span\>developed the \SCDP \<\/span\>in partnership with Sudhir Venkatesh, professor of sociology and African-American studies and instructor of the Urban Research Workshop. The project currently contains a publicly-accessible repository called Southside Chicago Archive, as well as a private workspace for workshop students. Professor Venkatesh plans to use student-generated work to expand the \SCDP \<\/span\>and eventually use the online environment as a resource for larger undergraduate classes, continuing the model of collaborative development of meaningful sociological analysis.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/social_sciences/portfolio_southside.html", categories: ["Collaborative Sites", "Repositories and Reference Tools", "Social Sciences"], discipline: ["Social Sciences"], projecttype: ["Collaborative Sites","Repositories and Reference Tools"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/287.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Millennium Village Simulation", siteURL: "http://millenniumvillage.ccnmtl.columbia.edu", released: "2008-03-13", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: " Jeffrey Sachs", group: " The Earth Institute, SIPA", description: "\The Millennium Village Simulation is a web-based simulation of economics and survival for one family and their village in a sub-Saharan African village. In a virtual world of extreme poverty, disease, and environmental variability, students are challenged to help a family of two survive and prosper over a fifty-year period. By making decisions regarding the family\'s allocation of time and financial resources, students develop a greater understanding of the manifold disciplines -- such as agronomy, nutrition, economics, epidemiology, public health and development management -- that constitute sustainable development and how those disciplines interact with each other in \"real world\" scenarios. The simulation\'s creators hope that, by immersing themselves in the daily life of a family, students will identify more deeply with the local experience of extreme poverty.\<\/p\>\n\n\The simulation was created as a study tool for students in Professor Jeffrey Sachs\' undergraduate course Challenges of Sustainable Development, and is freely available to sustainable development practitioners and the general public.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/social_sciences/millennium_village_s.html", categories: ["Simulations", "Social Sciences"], discipline: ["Social Sciences"], projecttype: ["Simulations"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/288.gif" }, { type : "Project", label: "Global Classroom", siteURL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/globalclassroom", released: "2008-02-25", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "Jeffrey Sachs", group: "Earth Institute", description: "\The Global Classroom project provides an incomparable opportunity for students and professors at multiple institutions around the world to actively collaborate in shared courses. Live, global discussion sessions form a key component of every Global Classroom course, allowing course participants to interact in real time. These synchronous activities, in turn, are supplemented by specialized online environments providing continuous, global access to course resources. With videotaped lectures, global online discussion forums, specially customized course management systems, and more, faculty and students engaged in a Global Classroom course make use of a range of tools that enhance interactions across distances and time zones. \<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/sciences/globalclassroom.html", categories: ["Distributed Learning", "Sciences"], discipline: ["Sciences"], projecttype: ["Distributed Learning"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/298.gif" }, { type : "Project", label: "Mapping the African American Past", siteURL: "http://maap.columbia.edu/", released: "2008-02-23", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "", group: "Teachers College, Creative Curriculum Initiatives", description: "\Mapping the African American Past (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 further enhanced by selected film and music clips; digitized photographs, documents, and maps from Columbia University\'s libraries; and commentary from Columbia faculty and other specialists.\
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\nProject partners at Teachers College have devised model lessons that have been published in an instructors\' resource section of the \\MAAP \<\/span\>website\<\/a\>, offering educators across New York State purposive strategies for incorporating the project\'s multimedia material into various curricula. In addition, Teachers College graduate students will use \MAAP \<\/span\>to practice effective curriculum-building in a multimedia environment.\<\/p\>\n\n\This project was developed by \CCNMTL \<\/span\>in partnership with Columbia University\'s Teachers College and \Curriculum Concepts International\<\/a\> (CCI) and funded with generous support of the \\JPM\<\/span\>organ Chase Foundation\<\/a\>. \<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/culture_and_society/maap.html", categories: ["Culture and Society", "Training"], discipline: ["Culture and Society"], projecttype: ["Training"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/302.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "MAC AIDS Fund Leadership Initiative", siteURL: "http://macaids.ccnmtl.columbia.edu", released: "2008-02-22", access: "Private", status: "Active", partner: " Anke Ehrhardt", group: "HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies", description: "\The \MAC AIDS\<\/span\> Leadership Initiative trains fellows from South Africa in \HIV\<\/span\>/AIDS prevention at the \HIV\<\/span\> Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies at the New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI) and Columbia University. The initiative is a 12-month training program designed to cultivate new leaders in \HIV\<\/span\>/AIDS prevention who will make a major contribution to advocacy and programming at the local, regional, or national levels within South Africa. This web-based environment is designed to help the program meet its objectives of training these emerging leaders on reducing the spread of \HIV \<\/span\>and the impact of \AIDS \<\/span\>by addressing the role of gender inequality.\<\/p\>\n\n\The \MAC AIDS\<\/span\> Community Forum is a collaborative space where fellows and program mentors can share and access materials while at Columbia University for the initial two-month training program and when they return to South Africa. Trainees also use the site to develop prevention intervention plans and to receive feedback from their mentors and peers. As trainees implement their intervention plans, their experiences will be tracked and documented in the Forum.\<\/p\>\n\n\The \MAC AIDS\<\/span\> Fund Leadership Initiative project was developed in partnership with the \HIV\<\/span\> Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies at \NYSPI \<\/span\>and Columbia University. The \UCLA\<\/span\> Program in Global Health was also a collaborator. The project was funded by the \MAC AIDS\<\/span\> Fund. \<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/medicine_and_health/macaids.html", categories: ["Collaborative Sites", "Medicine and Health"], discipline: ["Medicine and Health"], projecttype: ["Collaborative Sites"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/305.gif" }, { type : "Project", label: "New York Neighborhoods Wiki", siteURL: "http://nynp.ccnmtl.columbia.edu", released: "2007-12-24", access: "Private", status: "Active", partner: "Ken Jackson", group: "Department of History", description: "\The New York Neighborhoods Wiki is an online compilation of student-produced research on New York neighborhoods for Professor Ken Jackson\'s History of New York lecture course. Students developed walking tours of neighborhoods based on their original research.\
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\nThe website contains Google mapping technologies that allow students to mark their tours and points of interest along the walking tour, as well as precise directions to the neighborhood via public transportation; exact addresses of the places discussed; a general history of the area; individual histories of important structures; interviews with people in neighborhood institutions, and over a dozen historical and contemporary images for each neighborhood.\<\/p\>\n\n\The wiki forms a growing repository of original research about local New York City history.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/history/nyneighborhoods.html", categories: ["Collaborative Sites", "History"], discipline: ["History"], projecttype: ["Collaborative Sites"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/308.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Harlem Heritage Project", siteURL: "http://harlem.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/", released: "2007-11-13", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: "Manning Marable", group: "Arts and Sciences", description: "\The Harlem Heritage Project is an online resource that allows students to gather digital assets pertaining to their individual projects and presentations in Professor Manning Marable\'s graduate course, Harlem Heritage: A Community History, 1900 to the Present. Students in the course study Harlem\'s rich history through four lenses: Politics, Social Science, Deviance, Aesthetics and \"othering.\" They are able to search, browse, collect, and edit the collection of videos, audio, images and text documents assembled especially for this seminar to support their multimedia presentations.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/culture_and_society/harlem_heritage.html", categories: ["Culture and Society", "Repositories and Reference Tools"], discipline: ["Culture and Society"], projecttype: ["Repositories and Reference Tools"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/290.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Funeral Homes: The Living and the Dead", siteURL: "http://funeralhomes.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/", released: "2007-10-18", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: "Peter Bearman", group: "Arts and Sciences", description: "\Students in Peter Bearman\'s Individual Study class are using this content management system as a central repository for the media they gather while investigating the funeral industry in the New York area. The site enables them to associate audio, visual, map, and textual information to particular funeral directors. Students and researchers will review each other\'s work, creating views of data, tagging media, and creating meta data.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/social_sciences/funeral_homes_the_li.html", categories: ["Collaborative Sites", "Social Sciences"], discipline: ["Social Sciences"], projecttype: ["Collaborative Sites"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/299.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Virtual Microscopy", siteURL: "http://histologylab.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/", released: "2007-10-16", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: " Patrice Spitalnik", group: "College of Physicians and Surgeons", description: "\In fall 2007, first-year students in the Sciences Basic to the Practice of Medicine and Dentistry (SBPMD) course participated in a pilot program to test a new virtual microscopy solution that could change the way medical and dental students learn about tissues. In addition to viewing glass slides with traditional microscopes, students now have access to the \SPBMD\<\/span\> Online Laboratory Manual, a Web-based interface that allows them to view high-resolution histological slides online. \<\/p\>\n\n\\CCNMTL \<\/span\>collaborated with the College of Physicians and Surgeons, the Dean of Scholarly Resources, and the \CUMC \<\/span\>campus network group to create the online manual, and to coordinate the installation and configuration of the technology, created by Aperio, a company specializing in digital pathology management systems. As \CUMC \<\/span\>investigates the possibility of moving towards a more comprehensive virtual microscopy solution, \CCNMTL \<\/span\>is committed to supporting the implementation and evaluation of these technologies. \<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/medicine_and_health/virtual_slides.html", categories: ["Field-Laboratory", "Medicine and Health"], discipline: ["Medicine and Health"], projecttype: ["Field-Laboratory"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/303.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "HIV Intervention Science Training Commons", siteURL: "http://histp.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/", released: "2007-10-10", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: "Nabila El-Bassel", group: "School of Social Work", description: "CCNMTL partnered with Drs. Nabila El-Bassel and Elwin Wu of the Columbia University School of Social Work to develop this web-based environment for the HIV Intervention Science Training Program. The website helps the program meet its program and research objectives of recruiting and training minority researchers in the fields of HIV/AIDS, health disparities, and mental health and substance co-morbidities. Funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the HISTP Commons is a dedicated online space where trainees develop research proposals and gain feedback from their mentors and other specialists. It is also a space for collaboration among HISTP members and a repository of resources and information about the program; some of this information is also publicly available.\n \nHIV Intervention Science Training Commons is a \Global Learning Initiative\<\/a\> project.", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/social_work/hiv_intervention_sci.html", categories: ["Collaborative Sites", "Social Work", "Training"], discipline: ["Social Work"], projecttype: ["Collaborative Sites","Training"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/296.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "World Theater", siteURL: "http://worldtheater.ccnmtl.columbia.edu", released: "2007-10-09", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: "Amy Trompetter", group: "Barnard College", description: "\The World Theater website was born of the spectacular appeal and wealth of codified information located in aural and visual media resources for improving teaching and learning of world theater. Students use the website to pursue original research from primary materials, design comparative analyses by quoting concrete examples of performances, and assemble excerpts from Web archives. Students use their research to take the course in directions that are more relevant to their lives. With easy access to a critical mass of specifically selected media, students are able to revisit previous units, locate additional curricular through-lines, and discuss their findings in facilitated discussion and collaboration spaces.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/arts/world_theater.html", categories: ["Arts", "Repositories and Reference Tools"], discipline: ["Arts"], projecttype: ["Repositories and Reference Tools"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/306.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Forced Migration Case Studies", siteURL: "http://forcedmigration.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/", released: "2007-10-01", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: "Neil Boothby", group: "School of Public Health", description: "\The Forced Migration website contains case studies in humanitarian crises that focus on issues of protection and the moral quandaries of humanitarian action. Included in each case are authentic media resources that are strategically attached to parts of the narratives. The website also features a forum that provides students with a space for raising questions, completing assignments, and analyzing and critiquing any of the media resources or cases as artifacts. In spring 2009, content revision began in preparation for a new 14-week course, Protection of Children in Disaster and War, to begin in fall 2009.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/medicine_and_health/forced_migration.html", categories: ["Case Studies", "Medicine and Health"], discipline: ["Medicine and Health"], projecttype: ["Case Studies"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/282.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Korean Through Drama", siteURL: "http://ktd.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/", released: "2007-09-27", access: "Private", status: "Active", partner: "Carol Schulz", group: "East Asian Languages", description: "\This interactive website includes audio, video, trans\criptions, phrasal dictionaries, student pages, assignments and general extended resources for the study of Korean language and culture. Students access specific materials as assigned, and complete their assignments within the website itself for peer and instructor review.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/languages/korean_through_drama.html", categories: ["Culture and Society", "Languages", "Training"], discipline: ["Culture and Society", "Languages"], projecttype: ["Training"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/301.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Epistolae", siteURL: "http://epistolae.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/", released: "2007-08-01", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "Joan Ferrante", group: "Arts and Sciences", description: "\Epistolae is a collection of letters to and from women during the 4th to 13th centuries. This website is open to the public, offering scholars and students a growing repository of texts, translations, and background information about women engaged in correspondence in the Middle Ages. The letters, originally written in Latin, are translated to English and linked to biographical sketches of the women who wrote or received them. First released in 2000, the website has been updated with a more robust database as well as the ability to search the collection.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/literature/epistolae.html", categories: ["Literature", "Repositories and Reference Tools"], discipline: ["Literature"], projecttype: ["Repositories and Reference Tools"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/73.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Brownfield Action 3.0", siteURL: "http://brownfield.ccnmtl.columbia.edu", released: "2007-08-01", access: "Private", status: "Active", partner: "Peter Bower", group: "Barnard College", description: "\The Brownfield Action simulation is a central component of Professor Peter Bower\'s Introduction to Environmental Science Course at Barnard College. In this simulation, students are presented with maps, documents, videos, and an extensive network of scientific data to investigate a suspected contaminated land site. They assume the roles of environmental consulting firms contracting with a real estate developer to study the condition of the site and report on the feasibility of commercial construction. \<\/p\>\n\n\First developed in 1999, Brownfield Action has been nationally recognized by the Association of American Colleges and Universities and was featured as a model curriculum at the Association\'s \SENCER\<\/span\> Institute (Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities). Development of the simulation\'s most recent evolution is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation, with the broader goal of disseminating the project to other colleges and universities. \<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/sciences/brownfield_action_30.html", categories: ["Custom Software Applications and Tools", "Field-Laboratory", "Sciences", "Simulations"], discipline: ["Sciences"], projecttype: ["Custom Software Applications and Tools","Field-Laboratory","Simulations"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/277.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "StudyPlace - Education, Communication and Culture", siteURL: "http://studyplace.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/", released: "2007-06-18", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "Robbie McClintock", group: "Teachers College", description: "\StudyPlace serves those who seek to advance the shared understanding of education, communication, and culture by filling a gap in the way universities organize the study of education. Great research universities simultaneously support both academic inquiry and professional preparation with respect to the vital sectors of life. They generally include both departments of sociology and schools of social work, departments of economics and schools of business, departments of politics and schools of public affairs, departments of biology and physiology and schools of medicine. \<\/p\>\n\n\Provisions for the study of education rarely strike such a balance, however, for there are few departments of education independent of the professional concerns dominant in schools of education. As a step towards including education as an academic study in the arts and sciences, StudyPlace will provide an online resource for scholars and students whose interest in education is more academic than professional.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/education/studyplace.html", categories: ["Collaborative Sites", "Education"], discipline: ["Education"], projecttype: ["Collaborative Sites"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/262.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Video, Education, and Open Content Conference", siteURL: "http://opencontent.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/", released: "2007-05-23", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "", group: "CCNMTL", description: "\Video, Education, and Open Content Conference convened educators, technologists, video producers, and archivists for a two-day symposium on May 22-23, 2007. Attendees discussed best practices for the production, distribution, technology, and legal issues of video and open education. The conference was hosted by \CCNMTL \<\/span\>and supported by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/event_archives/veoc.html", categories: ["Event Archives"], discipline: [], projecttype: ["Event Archives"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/292.gif" }, { type : "Project", label: "Social Work Video Commons", siteURL: "http://swvc.ccnmtl.columbia.edu", released: "2007-01-15", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: "Ann McCann Oakley / Ron Thompson", group: "School of Social Work", description: "\The Social Work Video Commons provides a portal to important video resources and creates a faculty forum around these resources. In spring 2007, five core videos for the foundation course Social Work Practice II were made available to faculty in an environment where they can tag the videos with keywords, share assignments and syllabi, associate related items and comment on videos and one another\'s work. Videos from the fall 2008 Foundations of Social Work Practice course were also added to the commons.\
\n \<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/social_work/social_work_video_co.html", categories: ["Repositories and Reference Tools", "Social Work"], discipline: ["Social Work"], projecttype: ["Repositories and Reference Tools"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/280.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Podcasting at Columbia", siteURL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/podcasting", released: "2007-01-15", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "", group: "", description: "\A repository of audio and video podcasts of Columbia University courses and events. It also features a growing library of articles examining some technical and pedagogical aspects of podcasting, as well as how-to\'s and product reviews. \<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/event_archives/podcasting_at_columb.html", categories: ["Event Archives", "Repositories and Reference Tools"], discipline: [], projecttype: ["Event Archives","Repositories and Reference Tools"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/285.gif" }, { type : "Project", label: "CRED: Decision-Making Tools", siteURL: "http://cred.ccnmtl.columbia.edu", released: "2006-11-28", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: "Elke Weber", group: "Arts and Sciences", description: "\Professor Weber uses this online tool in the Psychology: Thinking and Decision Making course to encourage students to experiment with and analyze two different information processing systems in human decision making: experiential learning versus analytic learning. Students view the modules and submit an online survey that evaluates their retention of the material as well as any related behavioral intentions and attitudes they may have formed after viewing the information. For the pilot launched in the Fall 2006 semester, the tool provided an analytic presentation of information about glacial retreat on Mount Kilimanjaro as well as a presentation of the same information in an experiential format.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/social_sciences/cred_decisionmaking.html", categories: ["Directed Learning", "Social Sciences"], discipline: ["Social Sciences"], projecttype: ["Directed Learning"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/278.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "ReliefSim", released: "2006-11-19", access: "Private", status: "Active", partner: "Ronald Waldman", group: "School of Public Health", description: "\ReliefSim is a simulation of a humanitarian emergency scenario. Students play the role of a health relief director and have a team of people they assign to assess the situation and attempt to manage the health concerns of the crisis. The educational goal concerns the challenges arising from prioritizing assessments and interventions while saving lives in moments of crisis. The simulation was originally designed to train humanitarian workers to manage complex emergencies, and is currently used as the final exam in the course Public Health in Humanitarian Action at Columbia\'s Mailman School of Public Health.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/medicine_and_health/reliefsim.html", categories: ["Medicine and Health", "Simulations"], discipline: ["Medicine and Health"], projecttype: ["Simulations"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/134.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Columbia Artist/Teachers wiki", siteURL: "http://cat.ccnmtl.columbia.edu", released: "2006-09-25", access: "Private", status: "Active", partner: "Alan Ziegler", group: "School of the Arts", description: "\Columbia Artist/Teachers (CA/T) are graduate students in the Writing Division of Columbia University\'s School of the Arts. The CA/T initiative works with several schools and organizations to build stronger communities through writing, teaching, tutoring, and volunteering. CA/T members are trained via the course The Writer as Teacher, which is taught by Writing Division Director of Pedagogy and Teaching Alan Ziegler, CA/T mentors and master teachers and Columbia alums who have taught extensively. The CA/T wiki is used as a resource to help train and support graduate students, many of whom are novice teachers, with lesson plans and writing exercises. The wiki also serves as a journal, allowing student teachers to share their experiences with other CA/T members.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/arts/columbia_artistteach.html", categories: ["Arts", "Collaborative Sites"], discipline: ["Arts"], projecttype: ["Collaborative Sites"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/279.gif" }, { type : "Project", label: "Havel at Columbia", siteURL: "http://www.havel.columbia.edu/", released: "2006-09-14", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "", group: "CUArts Initiative", description: "\Havel at Columbia is a multimedia resource that features video interviews with a range of scholars and friends of Vaclav Havel, including Lisa Anderson, George Soros, Brad Abrams, and Chris Harwood, who contribute their insights into his legacy as an artist and political leader. The website also contains a wide range of material about Havel\'s life and art, including a timeline of events, image glossary, and archival films.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/culture_and_society/havel_at_columbia.html", categories: ["Culture and Society", "Event Archives"], discipline: ["Culture and Society"], projecttype: ["Event Archives"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/271.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Sacred Gotham", siteURL: "http://sacredgotham.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/", released: "2006-09-10", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: "Courtney Bender", group: "Columbia College", description: "\Maps and mapping technologies help students better conceptualize the impact of larger social trends on the specific religious groups on which they focus in Courtney Bender\'s Religion and the City course. Students conduct individual research projects on religious sites in Manhattan, through which they try to understand how larger changes in the city have influenced those sites, whether by shifting immigrant populations, and changes in local economies using anthropological, historical and sociological approaches.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/culture_and_society/sacred_gotham.html", categories: ["Culture and Society", "Field-Laboratory", "Philosophy and Religion"], discipline: ["Culture and Society", "Philosophy and Religion"], projecttype: ["Field-Laboratory"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/272.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "VITAL: Early Childhood Mathematics Education", released: "2006-09-01", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: "Herb Ginsburg", group: "Teachers College", description: "\The National Science Foundation is supporting \CCNMTL \<\/span\>and Herbert P. Ginsburg, Professor of Psychology and Education at Teachers College, with a grant to continue the development of Video Interactions for Teaching and Learning (VITAL): A Learning Environment for Courses in Early Childhood Mathematics Education. The project\'s main goal is to develop and distribute a resource that will enhance undergraduate- and graduate-level programs in mathematics education to address the national need for improved teacher training for early childhood mathematics (pre-K through grade 3). During the five-year grant period, we are working to (1) create model undergraduate and graduate courses in early childhood mathematics education, (2) design a new version of \VITAL \<\/span\>based on extensive user testing and formative evaluations, (3) test \VITAL \<\/span\>and the new curriculum at partner universities around the country, and (4) conduct an evaluation of student learning outcomes.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/education/vital_early_childhoo.html", categories: ["Custom Software Applications and Tools", "Education", "Training"], discipline: ["Education"], projecttype: ["Custom Software Applications and Tools","Training"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/231.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Triplex", siteURL: "http://triplex.ccnmtl.columbia.edu", released: "2006-09-01", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: "Kadambari Baxi", group: "Barnard College", description: "\Triplex is an online community space for students enrolled in the Barnard + Columbia Architecture program. The site contains three distinct areas: \"know,\" which aggregates information from the program and the architecture world; \"find,\" where students can search for and browse images on reserve for their studio courses; and \"show,\" where faculty can curate special collections and students can display their work.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/architecture/triplex.html", categories: ["Architecture", "Collaborative Sites"], discipline: ["Architecture"], projecttype: ["Collaborative Sites"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/275.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Virtual Techniques in Dentistry (VirTechs)", siteURL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/virtechs", released: "2006-08-15", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "Dory Calev, Stanley Freeman, Richard Lichtenthal, Shantanu Lal", group: "College of Dental Medicine", description: "\\CCNMTL \<\/span\>and the College of Dental Medicine collaborated to create Virtual Techniques in Dentistry (VirTechs). This interactive web-based dental laboratory manual provides students with access to detailed instruction on procedures and treatments. The VirTechs collection includes video demonstrations, instructions, and supplementary materials for learning the dental procedures that are covered in a student\'s preclinical and clinical studies. Dental residents will also find that this is a useful review resource. Using VirTechs\' many options for accessing the videos, dental students and residents can learn and practice dental procedures at their own pace.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/medicine_and_health/virtual_techniques_i.html", categories: ["Field-Laboratory", "Medicine and Health", "Training"], discipline: ["Medicine and Health"], projecttype: ["Field-Laboratory","Training"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/138.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Harlem Digital Archive Film", siteURL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/harlemarchive/", released: "2006-06-05", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "James Neal", group: "Columbia University Libraries", description: "\Created in collaboration with Intelligent Television, this short film addresses the potential of a Harlem Digital Archive to allow researchers, educators, and documentarians to draw from Columbia University\'s extensive collections of Harlem-related material to create interesting new works. The promotional piece debuted at the \"Culture, Commerce, and Public Media: A New Forum for Creators\" conference at the offices of \WNET.\<\/span\> It will also be distributed to potential funders for the project.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/culture_and_society/harlem_digital_archi.html", categories: ["Culture and Society", "Repositories and Reference Tools"], discipline: ["Culture and Society"], projecttype: ["Repositories and Reference Tools"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/267.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Emergency Preparedness Directed Learning Experiences", siteURL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/eprep/", released: "2006-04-26", access: "Private", status: "Active", partner: "Kristine Gebbie", group: "School of Nursing", description: "\In order to serve New York City\'s need to develop a program of continuing education to prepare health professionals for potentially catastrophic emergency and terror events, Columbia University developed a series of web-based experiences on responding to radiological, chemical, biological, and conventional terror attacks from an emergency-preparedness perspective. \CCNMTL \<\/span\>oversees the educational and technical development of these exercises, whose target audience includes over 30,000 hospital- and community-based physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and dentists in the New York-Presbyterian (NYP) hospital system. Special emphasis will be given to the emergency needs of the pediatric population. This project is funded by \HRSA.\<\/span\>\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/medicine_and_health/emergency_preparedne.html", categories: ["Directed Learning", "Medicine and Health"], discipline: ["Medicine and Health"], projecttype: ["Directed Learning"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/227.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "The African American Poets: Brooks and Hughes", siteURL: "http://africanamericanlit.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/", released: "2006-03-01", access: "Private", status: "Active", partner: "Farah Jasmine Griffin", group: "Arts and Sciences", description: "\The African American Poets: Brooks and Hughes wiki was deployed in Professor Farah Griffin\'s Spring 2006 undergraduate course, African American Literature, which explores the development of black writing in the United States since the Harlem Renaissance. Within the collaborative website, students conduct both a textual analysis of poems by Langston Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks by selecting key sections, phrases, and words of the works to annotate. Students also author and categorize relevant discourse, such as the cultural context, social significance, and relationship of the texts to other literary movements.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/literature/the_africanamerican.html", categories: ["Collaborative Sites", "Literature"], discipline: ["Literature"], projecttype: ["Collaborative Sites"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/259.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "ELEAblog", siteURL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/blogs/elea", released: "2006-02-14", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: "Diane Dittrick", group: "Barnard College", description: "\\ELEA\<\/span\>blog is a student-authored blog site for the Barnard course, Environmental Literature, Ethics, and Action (ELEA), taught by Diane Dittrick, Randall Balmer, and Laura Wright. Students write to their blogs weekly, using the exercise to reflect in a public forum on the environmental stewardship projects they undertake in the course. The blog format enables students to build interlinkages between their own work and thought and that of others they encounter, creating a network of the human connections that support and inform their projects. The \"landing page\" for \ELEA\<\/span\>blog shows the latest \"headlines\" from each of the student blogs, encouraging students to read each other\'s work, as well.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/sciences/eleablog.html", categories: ["Collaborative Sites", "Sciences"], discipline: ["Sciences"], projecttype: ["Collaborative Sites"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/265.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Advanced Practice Nursing: Mobile Decision Support", released: "2006-01-31", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: "Suzanne Bakken", group: "School of Nursing", description: "\Beginning in September 2005, over 300 doctoral and nurse practitioner candidates at the School of Nursing will use Palm and Pocket PC devices in three practice areas: depression screening, smoking cessation, and obsesity management. This National Institute of Health-funded project promotes evidence-based, error-free patient care for nurses in training.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/medicine_and_health/advanced_practice_nu.html", categories: ["Custom Software Applications and Tools", "Medicine and Health"], discipline: ["Medicine and Health"], projecttype: ["Custom Software Applications and Tools"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/229.gif" }, { type : "Project", label: "New Media in Education 2006: A Progress Report", siteURL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/nme2006", released: "2006-01-27", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "", group: "", description: "\The New Media in Education 2006 conference highlighted some new technologies and innovations that have evolved since \CCNMTL \<\/span\>began working with Columbia faculty members in 1999. Throughout the day, faculty partners shared their experiences implementing projects in the classroom. Conference participants also had the opportunity to attend workshops and demonstrations of a number of collaborative and community-oriented technologies, such as blogs, wikis, podcasts, and \RSS \<\/span\>feeds. Audio and video podcasts of the faculty panels are available for download from the \NME\<\/span\> 2006 conference site.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/event_archives/new_media_in_educati.html", categories: ["Event Archives"], discipline: [], projecttype: ["Event Archives"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/269.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "The Politics of Sustainable Development", siteURL: "http://susdev.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/", released: "2006-01-20", access: "Private", status: "Active", partner: "Lisa Anderson", group: "School of International and Public Affairs", description: "\Sustainable development is an emerging field, drawing students and practitioners from diverse backgrounds such as economics, statistics, ecology, climatology, and sociology. Students in Dean Lisa Anderson\'s Spring 2006 graduate seminar, The Politics of Sustainable Development, used the wiki to outline some of the major concepts, resources, and organizations in this interdisciplinary research and policy arena. The students\' work began to define a structure for thinking about how these disciplines work together by integrating their research projects into the wiki, which will become a growing resource as future seminar students add new content.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/political_science_and_social_policy/the_politics_of_sust.html", categories: ["Collaborative Sites", "Political Science and Social Policy"], discipline: ["Political Science and Social Policy"], projecttype: ["Collaborative Sites"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/258.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Connect: Social Support Network Map", siteURL: "http://ssnm.ccnmtl.columbia.edu", released: "2005-11-01", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: "Susan Witte", group: "School of Social Work", description: "\The Social Support Network Map is used in conjunction with student role plays to teach students the technique of social support network mapping to reduce risky behavior. The map was used originally in Professor Witte\'s Advanced Clinical Practice course (T7113), but can be used in many classroom settings. The Social Support Network Map was originally developed as part of Multimedia Connect.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/social_work/connect_social_suppo.html", categories: ["Social Work", "Training"], discipline: ["Social Work"], projecttype: ["Training"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/256.gif" }, { type : "Project", label: "World Leaders Forum: Student Essays", siteURL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/wlf/", released: "2005-11-01", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "", group: "", description: "\\CCNMTL \<\/span\>sponsored six graduate students from Columbia\'s School of International and Public Affairs and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences to produce multimedia essays in response to the speeches of Pervez Musharraf, President of Pakistan, and Jalal Talabani, President of Iraq, during the 2005 World Leaders Forum at Columbia University. These essays were created with \CCNMTL\'\<\/span\>s video analysis tool, Video Interactions for Teaching and Learning (VITAL).\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/political_science_and_social_policy/world_leaders_forum.html", categories: ["Event Archives", "Political Science and Social Policy"], discipline: ["Political Science and Social Policy"], projecttype: ["Event Archives"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/253.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Teaching Assistant Training Environment", siteURL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/task/", released: "2005-10-01", access: "Private", status: "Active", partner: "Jane Kenefick", group: "Arts and Sciences", description: "\In partnership with \MIT \<\/span\>and Columbia\'s American Language Program, \CCNMTL \<\/span\>produced an online learning environment to support novice teaching assistants. \TASK, \<\/span\>the TA Strategy Kit, is a web-based tool designed to help teaching assistants, new faculty, and novice instructors become better teachers. \TASK \<\/span\>features short, annotated videos that model good teaching and effective interactions with students, allowing users to see concrete, practical techniques they can implement in the classroom immediately. Complementary text reinforces the points illustrated in the videos, discusses other effective strategies and tactics, and explores the theory and research that support the techniques suggested.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/training/teaching_assistant_t.html", categories: ["Education", "Training"], discipline: ["Education"], projecttype: ["Training"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/233.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Seminar in Applied Mathematics Wiki", siteURL: "http://sam.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/index.php/Main_Page", released: "2005-09-28", access: "Private", status: "Active", partner: "Chris Wiggins", group: "School of Engineering and Applied Science", description: "\The Seminar in Applied Mathematics Wiki provides a collaborative work space for students\' senior theses. Students enrolled in the course post information on their research interests, add links to resources pertinent to other students\' interests, and post presentational materials.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/sciences/seminar_in_applied_m.html", categories: ["Collaborative Sites", "Sciences"], discipline: ["Sciences"], projecttype: ["Collaborative Sites"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/261.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Latin American Humanities Resource Site", siteURL: "http://latinhum.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/index.php/Main_Page", released: "2005-09-15", access: "Private", status: "Active", partner: "Anke Birkenmaier", group: "Arts and Sciences", description: "\This website was developed to facilitate the teaching of Latin American Humanities I and II at Columbia University. Latin American Humanities is a course that provides a rigorous introduction to Latin American literature and culture. The first semester topics include discovery, conquest, colony and the struggles for independence; the second semester usually starts with \modernismo\<\/i\> and studies literature from the 20th century to the present. Materials showcased in this site include bibliographies and lists of resources, lesson plans, discussion questions, paper topics, sample exam questions, sample student papers on the Web as well as useful links.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/languages/latin_american_human.html", categories: ["Languages", "Repositories and Reference Tools"], discipline: ["Languages"], projecttype: ["Repositories and Reference Tools"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/249.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Film Language Glossary", siteURL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/filmglossary/", released: "2005-09-06", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: "Richard Peña, Nancy Friedland", group: "School of the Arts, Columbia University Libraries", description: "\The Film Language Glossary is an innovative teaching tool for the study of film, designed to enhance screenings, readings, lectures, and discussions throughout the duration of a course. It provides definitions of essential terms used in basic and advanced film courses that are representative of all the major categories of film studies: practical terminology, technical terminology, the language of business, and historical terms, as well as the language of criticism and theory. Through the use of multimedia within the definitions, users will have a more complete understanding of the terms being defined--an explanation of the theory and a demonstration of the practice. Each entry is enhanced by sample film clips, images, and animations.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/arts/film_language_glossa.html", categories: ["Arts", "Repositories and Reference Tools"], discipline: ["Arts"], projecttype: ["Repositories and Reference Tools"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/217.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Music Humanities: Online Music Reserves", siteURL: "https://www1.columbia.edu/sec/itc/music/reserves/", released: "2005-09-01", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: "Walter Frisch", group: "Arts and Sciences", description: "\The Online Music Reserves contain a wide range of works selected to support the Music Humanities curriculum. Titles have been selected by the Music Humanities faculty from the Music & Arts Library holdings and are available for classroom listening and student study. The system provides a filtering search feature to aid in the location of works or tracks. Access requires a Columbia \UNI \<\/span\>and a broadband network connection.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/arts/music_humanities_onl.html", categories: ["Arts", "Repositories and Reference Tools"], discipline: ["Arts"], projecttype: ["Repositories and Reference Tools"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/79.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Reading and Writing Women Wiki", siteURL: "http://rww.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/index.php/Main_Page", released: "2005-09-01", access: "Private", status: "Active", partner: "Lisa Gordis", group: "Barnard College", description: "\The Reading and Writing Women Wiki provides students in Professor Gordis\' course with a repository of assignments and bibliographic material as well as a collaborative workspace for the students, who work together to develop new research about little-studied literary figures. Students are encouraged to create and share their own \"commonplace books,\" which colonial women used to copy segments of texts that they wanted to save for later reading. The wiki\'s collaborative environment encourages students to be more fully aware of the complexities of the relationships among writing, publication, print, and reading, and to think about these relationships more flexibly.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/literature/reading_and_writing.html", categories: ["Collaborative Sites", "Literature"], discipline: ["Literature"], projecttype: ["Collaborative Sites"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/260.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Personalized Lifelong Learning Plans for Dentists", siteURL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/pl3p/", released: "2005-08-01", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "John Zimmerman", group: "College of Dental Medicine", description: "\Supported by a grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), the Personal Lifelong Learning Project (PL3P) serves as a portal for post-graduate dental residents in the Advanced Education and General Dentistry, General Practice Residency, and Graduate Prosthodontics programs at Columbia. The goal of the project is to coach residents in lifelong learning strategies that can be continued for professional development beyond their formal studies. \PL3P \<\/span\>provides electronic tools that promote active learning and reflection, including reflective blogs, learning plans and electronic portfolios in which residents are expected to provide evidence of their learning. The \PL3P \<\/span\>approach requires the dental resident to take an active role in his own training by developing personalized learning plans to meet his individual needs.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/medicine_and_health/personalized_lifelon.html", categories: ["Collaborative Sites", "Medicine and Health", "Training"], discipline: ["Medicine and Health"], projecttype: ["Collaborative Sites","Training"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/236.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Spatial Information Design Lab", siteURL: "http://spatialinfo.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/index.php/", released: "2005-06-10", access: "Private", status: "Active", partner: "Laura Kurgan", group: "Architecture, Planning and Preservation", description: "\A series of studios taught by Laura Kurgan, the Spatial Information Design Lab is a think- and action-tank at the School of Architecture specializing in the visual display of spatial information about contemporary cities and events. The lab works with data about space -- numeric data combined with narratives and images to design compelling visual presentations about our world today. The projects in the lab focus on linking social data with geography to help researchers and advocates communicate information clearly, responsibly, and provocatively. We work with survey and census data, Global Positioning System information, maps, high- and low-resolution satellite imagery, analytic graphics, photographs and drawings, along with narratives and qualitative interpretations, to produce images. Student\'s individual work from the various labs is added to a collaborative wiki page that is organized by case study and theory.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/architecture/spatial_information.html", categories: ["Architecture", "Field-Laboratory"], discipline: ["Architecture"], projecttype: ["Field-Laboratory"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/250.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Correcting Course of Copyright", siteURL: "http://correctingcourse.columbia.edu/", released: "2005-05-05", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "James Neal", group: "Columbia University Libraries", description: "\In May 2005, \CCNMTL \<\/span\>provided the online presence and video archive for \"Correcting Course: Rebalancing Copyright for Libraries in the National and International Arenas,\" a conference presented by Columbia University and the Office of Information Technology Policy (OITP) of the American Library Association. The conference provided a high-level briefing on developments in the United States and in international venues affecting the balanced interpretation and application of copyright. It promoted a renewed activism in support of fair use and the full complement of copyright exceptions and limitations which enable libraries to serve their communities. This conference brought together influential and committed thinkers and activists who view a balanced application of copyright and the advancement of fair use as fundamental to the future health of libraries and the communities they serve.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/political_science_and_social_policy/correcting_course_of.html", categories: ["Event Archives", "Political Science and Social Policy"], discipline: ["Political Science and Social Policy"], projecttype: ["Event Archives"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/244.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Quip", released: "2005-05-01", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "CCNMTL", group: "", description: "\Quip is a web-based application that allows instructors, with the help of \CCNMTL \<\/span\>educational technologists, to create online quizzes and surveys simply by entering multiple choice questions into a simple form and sending a link to students. Quip supports the creation of surveys and quizzes both as stand-alone entities and within larger applications and environments. Evolved from a simpler tool, Quip provides features for basic content management (such as hiding and showing), easy content editing, shared design and interaction elements across multiple surveys and quizzes, and data export to Microsoft Excel. For \CCNMTL\'\<\/span\>s faculty clients, Quip represents new possibilities to deploy this pedagogically useful tool in order to positively impact student learning.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/custom_software_applications_and_tools/quip.html", categories: ["Custom Software Applications and Tools"], discipline: [], projecttype: ["Custom Software Applications and Tools"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/232.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Washington Post Case Study", siteURL: "http://www.columbia.edu/itc/journalism/cases/wpost/default/index.html", released: "2005-04-15", access: "Private", status: "Active", partner: "David Klatell", group: "School of Journalism", description: "\\"Building the Front Page of The Washington Post\" is the first case study jointly created by \CCNMTL \<\/span\>and the Journalism School. It reconstructs how the editors of The Washington Post built the front page of the June 16, 2004 issue, based on the news of June 15. The goal is to gain an understanding of the considerations behind a newspaper\'s front page, identify the practical concerns at work, and discuss the extent to which editors\' priorities are realized in the finished product.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/journalism/washington_post_case.html", categories: ["Case Studies", "Journalism"], discipline: ["Journalism"], projecttype: ["Case Studies"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/263.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Black Rock Forest Data Capture and Class Integration", released: "2005-04-01", access: "Columbia only", status: "Archived", partner: "Bill Schuster", group: "Arts and Sciences", description: "\This project is an \NSF\<\/span\>-funded initiative to modernize the wireless meteorological network of Black Rock Forest to allow real-time access to data over the Internet for use in Columbia courses. Archived and live data from Black Rock has been incorporated into a web-based graphing tool that allows students in Kevin Griffin\'s Environmental Systems course to study watershed-based environments.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/sciences/black_rock_forest_da.html", categories: ["Field-Laboratory", "Sciences"], discipline: ["Sciences"], projecttype: ["Field-Laboratory"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/222.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Tierno Bokar", siteURL: "https://www1.columbia.edu/sec/cu/ccnmtl/bokar/", released: "2005-03-10", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: "Gregory Mann", group: "Arts and Sciences", description: "\The \Tierno Bokar\<\/i\> Educational Resources site provides Columbia faculty with teaching material for Peter Brook\'s production of \Tierno Bokar\<\/i\>, concentrating on the play\'s themes, including history, religion, cultural theory, and drama. The site includes essays and video commentaries by Columbia faculty; footage of Peter Brook\'s reflections on theater; relevant films, photographs, and maps; video of the production; as well as bibliographic links to digital archives and libraries at Columbia for materials related to \Tierno Bokar\<\/i\>.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/arts/tierno_bokar.html", categories: ["Arts", "Event Archives"], discipline: ["Arts"], projecttype: ["Event Archives"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/242.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Social Justice Movements wiki", siteURL: "http://socialjustice.ccnmtl.columbia.edu", released: "2005-03-07", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "Robin Kelley", group: "Arts and Sciences", description: "\Students in Professor Robin Kelley\'s spring 2005 undergraduate course, Black Movements in the \U.S., \<\/span\>have developed the content of a collaborative website about key social justice movements in the United States. The Social Justice Movements wiki provides students the opportunity to create a website exploring the broader political visions of organizations representing labor, civil rights, black liberation, reparations, socialism/communism, feminism, welfare rights, youth/Hip Hop activism, education, peace, environmental justice, and anti-globalization and their impact on local communities. As Professor Kelley continues to teach this course in future semesters, new groups of students will add to the site, making it a valuable tool for social justice research.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/culture_and_society/social_justice_movem.html", categories: ["Collaborative Sites", "Culture and Society"], discipline: ["Culture and Society"], projecttype: ["Collaborative Sites"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/247.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Journalism School Content Management System (JSCMS)", released: "2005-02-15", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: "Bruce Porter", group: "School of Journalism", description: "\The Journalism School Content Management System (JSCMS) facilitates the editing, review, and publication of student work. A series of student-submitted articles and photographs are compiled into published issues after the completion of an online review and editing process. \<\/p\>\n\n\\JSCMS \<\/span\>models the publication process and supports different roles of the writers and editors. The student writers submit ideas and drafts to the faculty and adjunct editors that are reviewed, copy-edited and finally published.\<\/p\>\n\n\n\\JSCMS \<\/span\>enables students to focus their efforts on writing rather than Web publishing by handling all tracking and publishing automatically. Special features include automated delivery of text-only stories and high-resolution photographs for wire service use.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/journalism/journalism_school_co.html", categories: ["Custom Software Applications and Tools", "Journalism"], discipline: ["Journalism"], projecttype: ["Custom Software Applications and Tools"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/122.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Undergraduate Writing Program\'s Instructors\' Resource Site", siteURL: "http://uwp.ccnmtl.columbia.edu", released: "2005-02-01", access: "Private", status: "Active", partner: "Joe Bizup", group: "Columbia College", description: "\The Undergraduate Writing Program\'s (UWP) Instructor\'s Resource site extends collaborations and discussions beyond \UWP \<\/span\>instructor training sessions and mentor groups. The site allows \UWP \<\/span\>instructors and directors to share assignments, lesson plans, and other teaching material as well as links to other resources, including the Handbook for \UWP\<\/span\> Instructors. \UWP \<\/span\>instructors can use the space to showcase their own work, find suggestions for future lessons and activities, and discuss techniques and strategies for teaching the \UWP \<\/span\>curriculum.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/literature/undergraduate_writin.html", categories: ["Literature", "Repositories and Reference Tools"], discipline: ["Literature"], projecttype: ["Repositories and Reference Tools"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/234.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Kaleidoscope", siteURL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/kscope", released: "2005-01-19", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: "Daniela Noe", group: "Barnard College", description: "\Kaleidoscope/Caleidoscopio is an innovative film-based curriculum for language instruction. Kaleidoscope immerses the student in an all-Italian site that features a series of activities based on the close analysis of Italian comedies from 1950 to 2000. As students watch selected film clips, they can choose whether to view the clip with or without synchronized closed-captioning in Italian and a synchronized glossary. Film reviews, interviews with actors and directors, and papers on the social and cultural themes portrayed in the films provide context that helps the students analyze and interpret the film clips. Students use the CourseWorks discussion board to analyze and reflect upon the films which are also discussed in class, integrating their Italian reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/languages/kaleidoscope.html", categories: ["Languages", "Training"], discipline: ["Languages"], projecttype: ["Training"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/224.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Art & Technology Lectures", siteURL: "http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/columbia.edu.1938356901.01938356910", released: "2005-01-18", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "Mark Tribe", group: "School of the Arts", description: "\From spring 2004 to fall 2004, the Digital Media Center at the School of the Arts and the Computer Music Center collaborated with \CCNMTL \<\/span\>to organize an Art & Technology Lecture series. In this series, leading new media artists, curators and theorists discussed the exciting and diverse field of Art & Technology to the students, faculty and staff of Columbia University. All lectures were taped and made available online. Students in Mark Tribe\'s interdisciplinary art seminars took the lead in outlining how the lectures should be presented online, which \CCNMTL \<\/span\>produced based on the outlines. The online presentation of the lectures served as a measure of Tribe\'s students\' understanding of each presenter\'s talk as well as its place in the larger discourse of art and technology. (The series is now available via iTunes U; the web site was closed down.)\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/arts/art_technology_lectu.html", categories: ["Arts", "Event Archives"], discipline: ["Arts"], projecttype: ["Event Archives"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/228.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "The Autobiography of Malcolm X", siteURL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/mmt/malcolmx", released: "2005-01-18", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: "Manning Marable", group: "Arts and Sciences", description: "\\The Autobiography of Malcolm X\<\/i\> MSE presents Malcolm X\'s memoir with links to critical annotations that provide perspectives beyond the written word. This \MSE \<\/span\>provides four \"lenses,\" or perspectives, that illuminate the political, cultural, global, and faith-based aspects of Malcolm X\'s life and legacy. In addition, the \MSE \<\/span\>features a rich multimedia archive of primary sources, including historical documents, images, and videos as well as original interviews with scholars and Malcolm X\'s contemporaries. In addition to providing the entire text of \The Autobiography\<\/i\> online, all of the annotations and multimedia assets are cross-referenced and fully searchable, making the \MSE \<\/span\>a significant research tool.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/culture_and_society/the_autobiography_of.html", categories: ["Culture and Society", "Multimedia Study Environments"], discipline: ["Culture and Society"], projecttype: ["Multimedia Study Environments"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/119.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Image Annotation Tool", siteURL: "http://www.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/iat/", released: "2005-01-03", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: "Letty Moss-Salentijn", group: "College of Dental Medicine", description: "\The Image Annotation Tool (IAT) is web-based application designed for students and faculty to upload, organize, categorize, present and annotate digital images. The \IAT \<\/span\>provides students with a workspace equipped with tools to study images. Students also can annotate and organize images into meaningful categories to support their individual study of the course content. For faculty, the \IAT \<\/span\>enables the creation of slideshows and the ability to review student annotations on course images. The \IAT \<\/span\>was developed for Dental School Dean Letty Moss-Salentijn\'s histology course, but can be utilized in other disciplines. For example, any activity requiring the labeling of maps, illustrating art images, or highlighting elements of a graphic can easily be accomplished with the tool.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/medicine_and_health/image_annotation_too.html", categories: ["Custom Software Applications and Tools", "Field-Laboratory", "Medicine and Health"], discipline: ["Medicine and Health"], projecttype: ["Custom Software Applications and Tools","Field-Laboratory"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/167.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Dr. B.R. Ambedkar\'s Annihilation of Caste", siteURL: "http://www.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/mmt/ambedkar", released: "2004-11-01", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "Fran Pritchett", group: "Arts and Sciences", description: "\The Annihilation of Caste Multimedia Study Environment (MSE) was produced by Frances Pritchett, Professor of Modern Indic Languages, Columbia University, and the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning, with additional sponsorship and funding from the Southern Asian Institute, Columbia University. The \MSE \<\/span\>includes the text of \The Annihilation of Caste,\<\/em\> edited for classroom use by Professor Pritchett; her explanatory annotations; and several other major texts by Dr. BAmbedkar, including The Buddha and His Dhamma; Pakistan, or, the Partition of India; and the Indian Constitution. \<\/p\>\n\n\Dr. \B.R.\<\/span\> Ambedkar (1891-1956) was the first highly educated (Ph.D., Columbia University), politically prominent member of the Hindu \"Untouchable\" castes. He wrote \The Annihilation of Caste\<\/em\> for the 1936 meeting of a group of liberal Hindu caste-reformers in Lahore. After reviewing the speech, conference organizers revoked Dr. Ambedkar\'s invitation. He then self-published the work, which became an immediate classic.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/culture_and_society/dr_br_ambedkars_anni.html", categories: ["Culture and Society", "Multimedia Study Environments"], discipline: ["Culture and Society"], projecttype: ["Multimedia Study Environments"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/200.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Educational Multimedia Case Constructor (EMCC)", siteURL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/emcc/", released: "2004-10-11", access: "Columbia only", status: "Archived", partner: "Angela Calabrese Barton", group: "Teachers College", description: "\The Educational Multimedia Case Constructor (EMCC) is a web-based learning environment designed to complement Urban Science Education courses at Teachers College, Columbia University. \EMCC \<\/span\>is comprised of three primary components: a case workspace, a media library, and a case builder. The environment provides education students with opportunities to observe authentic classroom interactions and \"get to know\" urban youth, to analyze cases and respond to questions, and to develop new ideas about teaching and learning based on these activities.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/education/educational_multimed.html", categories: ["Case Studies", "Education"], discipline: ["Education"], projecttype: ["Case Studies"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/211.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Frontiers of Science Field Experiment", released: "2004-10-01", access: "Columbia only", status: "Archived", partner: "Don Melnick & James Danoff-Burg", group: "Columbia College", description: "\\CCNMTL \<\/span\>collaborated with the Center for Environmental Research and Conservation (CERC) to create a \PDA\<\/span\>-based field experiment activity in \NYC \<\/span\>parks for the Fall 2004 Frontiers of Science course. 550 students participated in the experiment using Pocket \PC\'\<\/span\>s running Fieldworker (http://www.fieldworker.com) software. Working in groups, students were assigned to identify and collect plant and ant species for biodiversity analysis in designated park locations throughout Manhattan. Student data was automatically compiled into a database for quick distribution and analysis at the end of the study. The results of the study were written up by \CERC \<\/span\>and shared with local agencies including the \NYC\<\/span\> Parks Commission, Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, and International Wildlife Trust.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/sciences/frontiers_of_science_1.html", categories: ["Field-Laboratory", "Sciences"], discipline: ["Sciences"], projecttype: ["Field-Laboratory"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/248.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Africana Criminal Justice Project", released: "2004-06-30", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: "Manning Marable, Geoff Ward", group: "Arts and Sciences", description: "\The increase in rates of incarceration in the United States over the past three decades is well-documented, as is its disproportionate impact on poor men and women of color. Yet, far less is known about the broader and enduring political, economic and social consequences of these trends, and how strategies of research, education and collective action can contribute to reversing their destructive consequences. To bridge this research gap, Columbia students are working with Sociology Professor Geoff Ward to collect oral histories from African Americans who have passed through the American criminal justice system.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/culture_and_society/africana_criminal_ju.html", categories: ["Culture and Society", "Repositories and Reference Tools"], discipline: ["Culture and Society"], projecttype: ["Repositories and Reference Tools"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/204.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Commencement of the 250th year (2004)", siteURL: "http://www.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/broadcast/commencement2004/", released: "2004-05-19", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "", group: "University Events", description: "\Video archives of the 2004 Commencement Ceremonies Web broadcast.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/event_archives/commencement_of_the.html", categories: ["Event Archives"], discipline: [], projecttype: ["Event Archives"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/00.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Comprehensive Understanding of Physical Examination", siteURL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/cupex/", released: "2004-03-02", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: "Carmen Ortiz-Neu", group: "College of Physicians & Surgeons", description: "\Comprehensive Understanding of Physical Examination (CUPEx) prototype is an online video-based tool aimed at improving the teaching and learning of physical examination skills to medicine, nursing, and dentistry students. This prototype module covers the cardiovascular system and features streaming video demonstrations, study guides, quizzes, and relevant anatomical, basic science, and clinical information.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/medicine_and_health/cupex_comprehensive.html", categories: ["Medicine and Health", "Training"], discipline: ["Medicine and Health"], projecttype: ["Training"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/136.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "News Budget", siteURL: "http://wwwapp.cc.columbia.edu/ccnmtl/app/newsbudget/", released: "2004-02-20", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: "Addie Rimmer", group: "School of Journalism", description: "\In the Columbia School of Journalism\'s Bronx Beat course, students write weekly stories for the Bronx Beat Newspaper. Prior to this project there was no means to keep a running list of each story for a particular issue of the Bronx Beat newspaper. \CCNMTL \<\/span\>created a \"News Budget\" database that shows all the story features on one page and enables students to update story status. A similar system is in use at the New York Times.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/journalism/news_budget.html", categories: ["Journalism", "Repositories and Reference Tools"], discipline: ["Journalism"], projecttype: ["Repositories and Reference Tools"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/226.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "VITAL at the School of Social Work", siteURL: "http://www.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/vital/", released: "2004-01-20", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: "Tazuko Shibusawa", group: "School of Social Work", description: "\Video Interactions for Teaching and Learning (VITAL), now in its third iteration, is in use in a variety of courses at the School of Social Work. Clinical Practice with couples, taught by Susan Oppenheim, requires students to apply concepts and theoretical frameworks studied in course readings to questions about clinical practice.\<\/p\>\n\n\Using \VITAL, \<\/span\>students in Clinical Practice with Couples connect class readings to professionally produced recordings of clinical sessions with couples. By viewing the videos, clipping and annotating segments, and adding those video annotations to assigned essays, students identify and analyze different theoretical models and clinical techniques as well as consider their own intervention methods.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/social_work/vital_at_the_school.html", categories: ["Custom Software Applications and Tools", "Social Work"], discipline: ["Social Work"], projecttype: ["Custom Software Applications and Tools"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/213.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Library Compass", siteURL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/compass/", released: "2004-01-20", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "Anice Mills", group: "", description: "\Library Compass, a resource to develop and enhance academic research skills, was developed by \CCNMTL \<\/span\>in conjunction with the Columbia University Libraries. It is an online environment that serves as an orientation tool to aid students in honing their research skills for academic scholarship. Through learning activities and detailed explanations, Library Compass supports the writing of academic papers by exposing students to specific library research skills and strategies.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/training/library_compass.html", categories: ["Education", "Training"], discipline: ["Education"], projecttype: ["Training"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/192.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "French Resources Database", released: "2003-12-29", access: "Columbia only", status: "Archived", partner: "Pascale Hubert-Liebler", group: "Arts and Sciences", description: "\This searchable database allows French language instructors to record and catalogue material for courses. Conceptualized by Pascale Hubert-Leibler, senior lecturer and director of the French Language Program, the French Resources Database contains links to websites, classroom activities, tests, quizzes, and answer keys. Instructors may search for material by course, skill or activity type, media, and even grammar or vocabulary keywords. Each entry includes a brief des\cription and a link to the resource itself.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/languages/french_resources_dat.html", categories: ["Languages", "Repositories and Reference Tools"], discipline: ["Languages"], projecttype: ["Repositories and Reference Tools"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/150.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Conflicts of Interest and Mentoring Directed Learning Experiences", siteURL: "http://www.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/rcr/index.html", released: "2003-12-20", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "Daniel Vasgrid, Ruth Fischbach", group: "College of Physicians & Surgeons", description: "\Members of the university community balance conflicts of interest and serve as mentors or benefit from working with a mentor. These self-directed learning experiences employ fictional case studies and provide resources illuminating the challenges researchers face every day while offering expert guidance on best ethical practices. The Columbia Center for Bioethics and the Office of Responsible Conduct of Research developed the content for this project; their work was supported by a grant from the US Department of Health and Human Services.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/political_science_and_social_policy/conflicts_of_interes.html", categories: ["Directed Learning", "Political Science and Social Policy"], discipline: ["Political Science and Social Policy"], projecttype: ["Directed Learning"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/201.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "University Lecture: Brian Greene", released: "2003-11-20", access: "Columbia only", status: "Archived", partner: "Brian Greene", group: "Arts and Sciences", description: "\\CCNMTL \<\/span\>developed a series of films and animations for Brian Greene\'s fall 2003 University Lecture on string theory.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/sciences/university_lecture_b.html", categories: ["Sciences"], discipline: ["Sciences"], projecttype: [], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/214.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Heart Simulator", siteURL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/heart/", released: "2003-10-01", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "Daniel Burkhoff, Marc Dickstein", group: "College of Physicians & Surgeons", description: "\By modeling the pressure-volume relationship, the Heart Simulator contains parameters that students manipulate to simulate conditions and pathologies. Changing these parameters is helpful for teaching and learning the functions of the heart. It provides a continuous graphic output of the relationship between pressure and volume in the heart under varying conditions.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/medicine_and_health/heart_simulator.html", categories: ["Medicine and Health", "Simulations"], discipline: ["Medicine and Health"], projecttype: ["Simulations"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/105.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Cultura", siteURL: "http://cultura.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/", released: "2003-10-01", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "Jim Crapotta", group: "Barnard College", description: "\The implementation of the Cultura project between Barnard College and Universidad de Leon in Spain is the first custom-designed web-based environment that contains all of the tools for the Cultura methodology, that were originally developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Foreign language students use a combination of online surveys, sentence completion exercises, and discussion boards to observe, compare, and analyze another culture. These exchanges engage students from both groups in a comparative approach to gain insight into the values and attitudes of others by communicating directly with peers in a foreign culture.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/languages/cultura.html", categories: ["Field-Laboratory", "Languages"], discipline: ["Languages"], projecttype: ["Field-Laboratory"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/218.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "NME 2003 Conference", siteURL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/conference2003", released: "2003-09-26", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "", group: "CCNMTL", description: "\The New Media in Education 2003 Conference provided a forum to share our experiences from the last two years and stimulate a dialogue about best pedagogical practices and future possibilities. Faculty panels, project kiosks, and training workshops were available to attendees. Faculty panels were captured and are available for online viewing.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/event_archives/nme_2003_conference.html", categories: ["Event Archives"], discipline: [], projecttype: ["Event Archives"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/216.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Learning the Elements of the Nanoscale Sciences", siteURL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/lens/", released: "2003-09-15", access: "Private", status: "Active", partner: "Len Fine, Colin Nuckolls, Bhawani Venkataraman, Stephen O'Brien", group: "Arts and Sciences", description: "\Learning the Elements of the Nanoscale Sciences (LENS) is an educational environment designed to illuminate the science behind nanotechnology. A series of interactive modules introduces students in the first-year General Chemistry lecture and lab course to the nanosciences using the example of the developming of lighting technology from the incandescent bulb to the light-emitting diode (LED). The exercises are designed to highlight the interplay between the understanding of science and new technological inventions. This project is supported by the National Science Foundation.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/sciences/learning_the_element.html", categories: ["Field-Laboratory", "Sciences"], discipline: ["Sciences"], projecttype: ["Field-Laboratory"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/208.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "OPTIMUS - Earth Science Engineering Grant", siteURL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/optimus/", released: "2003-09-05", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: "Upmanu Lall", group: "School of Engineering and Applied Science", description: "\The Open Platform for Teaching Integrated Modeling and Urban Simulation (OPTIMUS) project was a prototype of a spatial modeling application that allowed engineering students to design and manipulate models of environmental engineering problems such as the relationship between automobile traffic congestion and pollution. The prototype was a central feature of a re-designed undergraduate curriculum that exposed students to the power and challenges of modeling early in their undergraduate experience.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/engineering/optimus_earth_scienc.html", categories: ["Engineering", "Simulations"], discipline: ["Engineering"], projecttype: ["Simulations"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/187.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Epiville: Disease Outbreak Simulation", siteURL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/epiville/", released: "2003-09-02", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "Dan Herman Lydia Zablotska", group: "School of Public Health", description: "\Students play the role of a epidemiologist, gathering facts and deciding actions to curb an outbreak that has struck the fictitious town of \"Epiville.\" The case study uses digital video newscasts and interviews and municipal websites provide information about commerce and diseases in an attempt to mirror real-life situations. Different modules map onto various types of epidemiology study designs—case control, ecological, and cohort studies. Another module explores the topic of infectious diseases. Interactive visuals and multiple-choice questions allow students to test hypotheses about these cases.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/medicine_and_health/epiville_disease_out.html", categories: ["Case Studies", "Medicine and Health"], discipline: ["Medicine and Health"], projecttype: ["Case Studies"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/120.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Seasonal Climate Prediction for Regional Scales", siteURL: "http://www.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/climate/", released: "2003-08-01", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "M. Neil Ward", group: "International Research Institute for Climate and Society", description: "\Students learn to apply global climate forecast models to local environments through an online text, figures, and exercises that use a custom online mapping environment based on GrADS (Grid Analysis and Display System) software developed by the Institute for Global Environment and Society at the Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/sciences/seasonal_climate_pre.html", categories: ["Field-Laboratory", "Sciences"], discipline: ["Sciences"], projecttype: ["Field-Laboratory"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/130.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Deconstructor: An Online Film Analysis Tool", siteURL: "http://www.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/engel/deconstructor/", released: "2003-07-31", access: "Private", status: "Active", partner: "Larry Engel", group: "School of the Arts", description: "\This tool assists in exploring cinema\'s visual syntax through its arrangement of shots and organization. Students use the Deconstructor to view and dissect film scenes into series of shots, allowing them to focus on examining the components of the whole in order to layer and juxtapose variables across time. Students can view film scenes, excerpt a series of shots from the scene, and provide a des\cription of each shot by considering the common variables such as shot type, time and angle. The information from each excerpt of the film will then become part of a larger visualization synchronizing the shots chosen by the student, with a graphical representation of their des\criptions. This aims to provide a sense of score for each scene and material that probes further analysis. The further analysis will take place in the form of a final paper using the data students have generated in the Deconstructor as their primary source material.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/arts/deconstructor_an_onl.html", categories: ["Arts", "Custom Software Applications and Tools"], discipline: ["Arts"], projecttype: ["Custom Software Applications and Tools"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/133.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "QMSS E-Lessons", siteURL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/qmss", released: "2003-06-20", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "Steve Laymon, Christopher Weiss", group: "Arts and Sciences", description: "\The Quantitative Methods in Social Sciences (QMSS) e-lessons combine conceptual frameworks such as hypothesis testing and multivariate analysis with specific statistical tools. The e-lessons are a series of exercises that guide students through research concepts and different statistical tests such as \ANOVA, \<\/span\>t-test and Chi-Squared. The lessons are used in data analysis and seminar courses in Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/social_sciences/qmss_elessons.html", categories: ["Custom Software Applications and Tools", "Social Sciences"], discipline: ["Social Sciences"], projecttype: ["Custom Software Applications and Tools"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/123.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "IRI Modules on Probability and Decision-Making", released: "2003-05-01", access: "Private", status: "Deferred", partner: "David Krantz, Jennifer Phillips", group: "Arts and Sciences", description: "\This project helps students study the relationships between probability and decision-making with respect to climate and disaster predictions through the use of several learning modules. These modules provide an active learning environment to supplement lectures in climate science and connect climate science to decision science and hazards risk management.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/sciences/iri_modules_on_proba.html", categories: ["Field-Laboratory", "Sciences"], discipline: ["Sciences"], projecttype: ["Field-Laboratory"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/121.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Medieval and Renaissance Manus\cripts", siteURL: "http://www.columbia.edu/itc/music/manuscripts", released: "2003-04-01", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "Susan Boynton", group: "Arts and Sciences", description: "\Originally designed for a meeting of the Medieval Academy of America in April 2002, the updated website is used by Columbia University music and religion courses and the public. The primary feature of the site is a Web exhibit containing slideshows of original medieval manus\cripts arranged by type of manus\cript; each manus\cript type is also explained. The site also features related music clips, recommended readings, and additional online resources.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/arts/medieval_and_renaiss.html", categories: ["Arts", "Repositories and Reference Tools"], discipline: ["Arts"], projecttype: ["Repositories and Reference Tools"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/202.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Midnight\'s Children MSE", siteURL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/mmt/mc", released: "2003-03-21", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: "Bruce Ferguson", group: "School of the Arts", description: "\The Midnight\'s Children Multimedia Study Environment provides students the opportunity to gain a richer understanding of Salman Rushdie\'s acclaimed novel, the play derived from it, and the historical and cultural context in which the story is set. The \MSE \<\/span\>provides a wealth of related content including reflections from Rushdie, Columbia faculty, and members of the Royal Shakespeare Company.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/arts/midnights_children_m.html", categories: ["Arts", "Multimedia Study Environments"], discipline: ["Arts"], projecttype: ["Multimedia Study Environments"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/189.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Midnight\'s Children Humanities Festival", siteURL: "http://midnightschildren.columbia.edu", released: "2003-03-01", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "Bruce Ferguson", group: "School of the Arts", description: "\This website was created to support the Humanities Festival held March 2003. The website includes information and video recordings of the various festival events, information on the performances at the Apollo Theatre and links to the educational programs developed around Midnight\'s Children at Columbia University and beyond.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/arts/midnights_children_h.html", categories: ["Arts", "Event Archives"], discipline: ["Arts"], projecttype: ["Event Archives"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/203.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Paris Mapping Project Prototype", siteURL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/paris_map/", released: "2003-02-01", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "Stephen Murray", group: "Media Center for Art History", description: "\This prototype provides a chronological context for major religious architectural structures using an interactive map of Paris. Students are able to explore the religious architecture of Paris through the ages.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/arts/paris_mapping_projec.html", categories: ["Arts", "Repositories and Reference Tools"], discipline: ["Arts"], projecttype: ["Repositories and Reference Tools"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/198.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Cost Benefit Analysis in Health", siteURL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/cbah", released: "2003-01-17", access: "Columbia only", status: "Archived", partner: "Joshua Graff Zivin", group: "School of Public Health", description: "\A set of modules designed to give students an opportunity to experiment with cost benefit problems in the field of healthcare. The students will learn various statistical methods measuring quality of life, powering and sampling, collection and indirect cost data, discounting and sensitivity analysis. By working through the simulations modules students will learn the possibilities and pitfalls of these frequently used techniques.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/medicine_and_health/cost_benefit_analysi.html", categories: ["Case Studies", "Medicine and Health"], discipline: ["Medicine and Health"], projecttype: ["Case Studies"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/128.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "The Holy Teaching of Vimalakirti: A Mahayana S\cripture", siteURL: "http://www.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/mmt/vimalakirti/", released: "2002-12-15", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: "Robert Thurman", group: "Arts and Sciences", description: "\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, a timeline of early Buddhist history and Buddhism in Tibet, excerpts from interviews with and lectures by Professor Thurman, slideshows of art images to illustrate aspects of the text, textual resources and a bibliography for further reading, selections from relevant Buddhist texts, and articles on the historical and modern reception of the Vimalakirti.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/philosophy_and_religion/the_holy_teaching_of.html", categories: ["Multimedia Study Environments", "Philosophy and Religion"], discipline: ["Philosophy and Religion"], projecttype: ["Multimedia Study Environments"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/126.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Living With the Genie: Post Conference Site", siteURL: "http://www.columbia.edu/cu/genie", released: "2002-10-16", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "Stephen Feinson", group: " Center for Science Policy and Outcomes (CSPO)", description: "\History has been driven by scientific and technological change. This site explores how human institutions, attitudes, and actions have enabled, mediated, and modulated such changes. Many of the materials found in this site come from a March 2002 event entitled \"Living with the Genie: Governing the Scientific and Technological Transformation of Society in the 21st Century.\" The event brought together a group of 300 scientists, journalists, policy makers, foundation leaders, and opinion leaders to explore the state of the scientific and technological enterprise and the implications for controlling and shaping that enterprise as we move into the new millennium.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/political_science_and_social_policy/living_with_the_geni_1.html", categories: ["Directed Learning", "Event Archives", "Political Science and Social Policy"], discipline: ["Political Science and Social Policy"], projecttype: ["Directed Learning","Event Archives"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/163.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Frontiers of Science", siteURL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/mmt/frontiers/", released: "2002-10-07", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: "David Helfand, Darcy Kelley et al.", group: "Columbia College", description: "\Originally spearheaded by Professors David Helfand and Darcy Kelley in 2002, a team of 30 faculty and science fellows continue to develop Frontiers of Science, a new science core curriculum course for Columbia College. Students in the course attend lectures from a variety of disciplines including astronomy, biodiversity, neuroscience, and climate change, as well as small seminar sections to discuss concepts from the lectures and associated readings. Students also complete related activities and problem sets intended to develop core competencies in scientific thinking and methodology. \CCNMTL \<\/span\>produced an online version of Helfand\'s course text and coordinated the course websites for all course sections. The Center also supported the design and implementation of course evaluations.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/sciences/frontiers_of_science.html", categories: ["Large Class", "Sciences"], discipline: ["Sciences"], projecttype: ["Large Class"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/191.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Investiture Ceremony - Inauguration of Lee C. Bollinger", siteURL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/broadcast/inauguration", released: "2002-10-03", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "", group: "University Events", description: "\Archived broadcast of the October 3rd, 2002 Investiture Ceremony of the Inauguration of Lee C. Bollinger as the 19th President of Columbia University.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/event_archives/investiture_ceremony.html", categories: ["Event Archives"], discipline: [], projecttype: ["Event Archives"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/00.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Radio Broadcast Content Management System", siteURL: "http://www.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/radiocms/", released: "2002-09-26", access: "Private", status: "Archived", partner: "John Dinges", group: "School of Journalism", description: "\The Radio Broadcast Content Management System (Radio \CMS\<\/span\>) is a database driven solution that models the decision-making, review and editorial process of radio broadcasting, managing the steps journalism students follow to organize a live broadcast composed of numerous news stories. Each broadcast is then archived and distributed through a simple webpage front-end. This tool greatly reduces the technological burden on students helping them focus on learning high-quality radio reporting, writing and production while modeling the editorial process from idea to distribution.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/journalism/radio_broadcast_cont.html", categories: ["Custom Software Applications and Tools", "Journalism"], discipline: ["Journalism"], projecttype: ["Custom Software Applications and Tools"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/141.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan, Revisited", siteURL: "http://www.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/mmt/mcluhan/", released: "2002-09-25", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: "James Carey", group: "School of Journalism", description: "\The Harold Adams Innis and Marshall McLuhan \MSE \<\/span\>allows students to explore the political, social, and historical significance of these two writers as explained by Professor James Carey in his groundbreaking article from 1964. Like a multimedia critical edition, students can read the text in its entirety while benefiting from annotations of unfamiliar terms as well as original explanatory material. Excerpts from the works of Innis and McLuhan are made available at relevant moments in the Carey article. Further, an interview conducted with Professor Carey by \CCNMTL\'\<\/span\>s Frank Moretti in spring 2002 is made available in its entirety; and again, from relevant paragraphs in the article particular excerpts of the video interview are immediately accessible.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/culture_and_society/harold_innis_and_mar.html", categories: ["Culture and Society", "Multimedia Study Environments"], discipline: ["Culture and Society"], projecttype: ["Multimedia Study Environments"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/131.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Social Work Practice With Older Adults: A Video Archive", released: "2002-09-25", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "Denise Burnette, Ann McCann-Oakley", group: "School of Social Work", description: "\\CCNMTL \<\/span\>and the School of Social Work produced a series of videos depicting social worker/client interviews on four topics in social work practice with older adults and their families. The topics include: coping with chronic illness, active aging, depression, and sexuality in aging. Ten client and social worker interactions were captured on video, creating more than four hours of interviews. The video on depression was conducted in Spanish and was distributed in both Spanish and English. The videos and teaching materials are being used in courses at the School of Social Work, and have been distributed on CD-ROM to social work libraries across the country.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/social_work/social_work_practice.html", categories: ["Case Studies", "Social Work"], discipline: ["Social Work"], projecttype: ["Case Studies"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/143.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Res Gestae: Propaganda in the Ancient World", siteURL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/mmt/resgestae/", released: "2002-09-25", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: "Myles McDonnell", group: "Arts and Sciences", description: "\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 Dio Cassius and Suetonius are also made available.\<\/p\>\n\n\The combined effect helps the student learn how to read history in light of political propaganda and state-sanctioned expression.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/philosophy_and_religion/res_gestae_propagand.html", categories: ["Multimedia Study Environments", "Philosophy and Religion"], discipline: ["Philosophy and Religion"], projecttype: ["Multimedia Study Environments"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/125.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Sharing Circles: Skills for Social Decision-Making and Problem Solving", siteURL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/ecourse/sel", released: "2002-09-15", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "Robin Stern", group: "Teachers College", description: "\Coming together in sharing circles is the first step in developing emotionally safe classroom environments. This is the kind of nurturing climate needed to introduce social decision-making and problem solving skills. Through participating in sharing circles, students develop a sense of responsiveness to other people\'s feelings and opinions, and they are able to deepen their capacity to share and discuss more personal and complex issues. This prototype prepares teachers to work with Sharing Circles to foster social decision-making skills within their classroom and school activities.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/directed_learning/sharing_circles_intr.html", categories: ["Directed Learning", "Education"], discipline: ["Education"], projecttype: ["Directed Learning"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/00.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Chemistry Instrument Lab Environment (UDL)", siteURL: "http://www.columbia.edu/ccnmtl/draft/dbeeb/chem-udl/spectrometer.html", released: "2002-09-15", access: "Private", status: "Deferred", partner: "Luis Avila, Susan Scheer", group: "Arts and Sciences", description: "\Working with the Office of Disability Services and the Chemistry Department, this website is a prototype which offers an example of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in practice. \UDL \<\/span\>provides a set of design principles that make websites more accessible to users with disabilities. Page content is displayed using alternate views, video annotations offer synchronized text, key combinations move users from one point to another within the page, images have \"des\cription\" tags, and navigation is standardized throughout the site.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/sciences/chemistry_instrument.html", categories: ["Field-Laboratory", "Sciences"], discipline: ["Sciences"], projecttype: ["Field-Laboratory"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/155.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Chinese Language Training Environment", siteURL: "http://www.columbia.edu/itc/ealac/sobelman/yic/", released: "2002-09-09", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "C. P. Sobelman", group: "Arts and Sciences", description: "\This training environment will offer students in the courses \"Intermediate Chinese\" and \"Readings in Modern Chinese\" continued exposure to materials outside of the classroom. With a strong emphasis on relevance to in-class work, materials online will include Chinese texts with hyper-linked glossaries and audio recordings, multiple choice and matching exercises, and practice with Chinese character radicals.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/languages/chinese_language_tra.html", categories: ["Languages", "Training"], discipline: ["Languages"], projecttype: ["Training"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/149.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Poles Together", siteURL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/poles/", released: "2002-09-09", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "Stephanie Pfirman", group: "Barnard College", description: "\In this new core curriculum course at Barnard College, students follow the journeys of polar explorers Nansen, Shackleton, Scott and Amundsen by examining journals kept by the exploration teams, images, and other resources. Using a custom, \CIESIN\<\/span\>-designed, \GIS \<\/span\>map tool, students access recent data from the poles to compare the conditions the explorers encountered with current trends. They also perform role-play exercises that put them in charge of a virtual expedition. Students maintain a journal for review of their findings and questions using the course management system\'s bulletin board feature.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/sciences/poles_together.html", categories: ["Case Studies", "Sciences"], discipline: ["Sciences"], projecttype: ["Case Studies"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/135.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Organizing Engineering Presentations", siteURL: "http://wwwapp.cc.columbia.edu/ccnmtl/app/engpres/index.html", released: "2002-09-01", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: "Lewis Freeman", group: "School of Engineering and Applied Science", description: "\Organization is key to effective presentations. The \"Organizing Engineering Presentations\" learning environment encourages students to understand the audience\'s expectations and perspectives, helps them to plan and structured presentation outlines, and prepares them to deliver an effective, well organized presentation.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/education/organizing_engineeri.html", categories: ["Education", "Training"], discipline: ["Education"], projecttype: ["Training"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/142.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Seeing the Whole Symphony", siteURL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/helfand", released: "2002-08-15", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "David Helfand", group: "Arts and Sciences", description: "\This project presents an aural analogy for understanding the spectrum of observable wavelengths in the universe. It is meant to provide non-science students with an accessible means for understanding how limited an instrument the eye is for astronomical observation.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/sciences/seeing_the_whole_sym.html", categories: ["Custom Software Applications and Tools", "Sciences"], discipline: ["Sciences"], projecttype: ["Custom Software Applications and Tools"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/196.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "David Dinkins Leadership and Policy Forum", siteURL: "http://www.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/broadcast/dinkins2002/", released: "2002-08-01", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "", group: "School of International and Public Affairs", description: "\On April 29, 2002, the Center for Urban Research and Policy at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University hosted the 8th Annual David N. Dinkins Leadership and Public Policy Forum on the critical economic challenges facing New York City since the 9/11 tragedy.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/political_science_and_social_policy/david_dinkins_leader.html", categories: ["Event Archives", "Political Science and Social Policy"], discipline: ["Political Science and Social Policy"], projecttype: ["Event Archives"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/177.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Responding to Climate Forecasts", siteURL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/iri/responding", released: "2002-07-25", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "Jennifer Phillips", group: "Arts and Sciences", description: "\Responding to Climate Forecasts: Using Scenarios in the Planning Process is a step-by-step guide for using the strategy of scenario building to generate plans based on climate forecasts. Each step includes a short des\cription of the issues you need to consider, the information you need to gather, and where you can go for more information. The site has three main sections: Principles (the theory), Cases (theory applied), and Tutorials (do-it-yourself guide.)\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/sciences/responding_to_climat.html", categories: ["Case Studies", "Sciences"], discipline: ["Sciences"], projecttype: ["Case Studies"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/153.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Cultural Studies Course Environments: The Media Machine", siteURL: "http://www.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/mediamachine/", released: "2002-07-09", access: "Private", status: "Active", partner: "John Broughton", group: "Teachers College", description: "\This database allows faculty to organize content online in a manner that reveals the multiple connections within a collection of digital assets (slides, images, movies, audio, text) for use in their courses. Using the Media Machine website, students can search for and view video clips, browse a storyboard of images based on video keyframes, and read movie summaries, screenplays and editorial annotations. All content is searchable by keywords and lecture themes.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/arts/cultural_studies_cou.html", categories: ["Arts", "Culture and Society", "Repositories and Reference Tools"], discipline: ["Arts", "Culture and Society"], projecttype: ["Repositories and Reference Tools"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/100.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Pediatric Residency Program", siteURL: "http://www.columbia.edu/itc/hs/medical/residency/peds/index.html", released: "2002-07-01", access: "Private", status: "Active", partner: "Dr. D. Meyer", group: "College of Physicians & Surgeons", description: "\The project provided an initial online architecture for the University\'s community pediatric training program.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/medicine_and_health/pediatric_residency.html", categories: ["Large Class", "Medicine and Health"], discipline: ["Medicine and Health"], projecttype: ["Large Class"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/112.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Art and Understanding", siteURL: "http://ci.columbia.edu/ci/eseminars/0211_detail.html", released: "2002-05-15", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: "Arnold Aronson", group: "School of the Arts", description: "\This e-seminar offers the reflections of prestigious Columbia University artists/theorists concerning the question, What is art? Based on their personal work, these artists and theorists engage the question of art and the artist in the Western world.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/arts/art_and_understandin.html", categories: ["Arts", "Directed Learning"], discipline: ["Arts"], projecttype: ["Directed Learning"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/180.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Cinema e Commedia", siteURL: "http://www.columbia.edu/itc/italian/noe/divorce/", released: "2002-05-14", access: "Private", status: "Archived", partner: "Daniela Noe", group: "Arts and Sciences", description: "\Film is an important window into Italian culture. Cinema e Comedia features segments from six classic films, which students analyze with the help of contextual annotations and exercises. See also the Kaleidescope project, a follow up to this one.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/languages/cinema_e_commedia.html", categories: ["Languages", "Repositories and Reference Tools"], discipline: ["Languages"], projecttype: ["Repositories and Reference Tools"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/102.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Casting Files/Facebook", siteURL: "http://www.columbia.edu/itc/film/facebook", released: "2002-05-01", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: "Lenore Dekoven", group: "School of the Arts", description: "\Film and theater students used this online archive of actors\' head shots and resumes to build a cast. The database of 2000 images offers students easier access to these resources, which were previously only available in single-copy, print-form in an office with limited hours. With this online version, students can now view, save or print the files at their convenience.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/arts/casting_filesfaceboo.html", categories: ["Arts", "Repositories and Reference Tools"], discipline: ["Arts"], projecttype: ["Repositories and Reference Tools"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/172.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Impression Formation Study Project", siteURL: "http://www.columbia.edu/itc/psychology/rmk/Project02/", released: "2002-05-01", access: "Open to all", status: "Archived", partner: "Robert Krauss", group: "Arts and Sciences", description: "\For use in Robert Krauss\' Human Communication course, students use this online database of images and taped interviews to develop psychological surveys, the results of which they use to form an impression analysis. Students choose the characteristics to be rated in their survey, and may modify them each time to gain insight into the factors involved in conducting a survey and to gauge the impact of differing criteria.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/sciences/impression_formation.html", categories: ["Field-Laboratory", "Sciences"], discipline: ["Sciences"], projecttype: ["Field-Laboratory"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/170.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Chad-Cameroon Pipeline Project Case Study", siteURL: "http://www.columbia.edu/itc/sipa/martin/chad-cam/", released: "2002-04-30", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "J. Paul Martin", group: "School of International and Public Affairs", description: "\The Chad-Cameroon Oil Development and Pipeline Project is a $3.7 billion private sector development project comprising some 300 oil wells, which are expected to extract approximately one billion barrels of oil over twenty-five years. The project is the largest private sector investment in sub-Saharan Africa. Led by Exxon-Mobil, the project has received financing from the World Bank and International Finance Corporation (IFC). The pipeline is known as one of the most controversial World Bank Group projects in history.\<\/p\>\n\n\This project website provides references a large quantity of online material that is available on the Chad-Cameroon pipeline including Chad-related websites and online documents about the project.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/political_science_and_social_policy/chadcameroon_pipelin.html", categories: ["Case Studies", "Political Science and Social Policy"], discipline: ["Political Science and Social Policy"], projecttype: ["Case Studies"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/171.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Shakespeare & The Book: Study Environment", siteURL: "http://www.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/shakespeareandthebook/studyenv/", released: "2002-04-29", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "David Scott Kastan, Alan Farmer", group: "Arts and Sciences", description: "\A companion study environment to Professor David Scott Kastan\'s Shakespeare & The Book, composed by Alan Farmer. This site provides high-resolution archival images of books published in Shakespeare\'s time, contextualized with analyses of issues surrounding authorship, plays, and printers.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/literature/shakespeare_the_book_1.html", categories: ["Literature", "Repositories and Reference Tools"], discipline: ["Literature"], projecttype: ["Repositories and Reference Tools"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/175.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Schoenberg and Modernism", siteURL: "http://ci.columbia.edu/0210", released: "2002-04-15", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: "Ian Bent", group: "Arts and Sciences", description: "\Taught by Ian Bent, Anne Parsons Bender Professor of Music and an expert on Arnold Schoenberg, this seminar examines the life of the composer and his relationship to the Modernist movement. Schoenberg and Modernism explores the significance and influence of Schoenberg\'s Pierrot lunaire as one of the seminal works of twentieth-century music and a landmark of musical modernism.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/arts/schoenberg_and_moder.html", categories: ["Arts", "Directed Learning"], discipline: ["Arts"], projecttype: ["Directed Learning"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/184.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Historical Studies for Sociomedical Sciences", siteURL: "http://cnmtl.columbia.edu/slideshow_2008/fairchild_spring_2002/", released: "2002-04-15", access: "Private", status: "Archived", partner: "Amy Fairchild", group: "School of Public Health", description: "\\CCNMTL \<\/span\>worked with Professor Amy Fairchild to develop and implement an educational tool that incorporates imagery in the pursuit of historical theory building.\<\/p\>\n\n\The tool, which repurposed the Center\'s internal Slideshow Maker tool, allowed students to upload images to a communal database. Students could then choose a subset of these uploaded images and create an annotated slideshow that could be experienced by other students.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/history/historical_studies_f.html", categories: ["Custom Software Applications and Tools", "History"], discipline: ["History"], projecttype: ["Custom Software Applications and Tools"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/117.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Electronic Encyclopedia of the Ancient World Prototype", siteURL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/eeaw/CD/website/", released: "2002-04-01", access: "Private", status: "Active", partner: "Roger Bagnall, William Harris", group: "Arts and Sciences", description: "\A prototype for a comprehensive online reference for the study of the ancient Mediterranean world.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/history/electronic_encyclope.html", categories: ["History", "Repositories and Reference Tools"], discipline: ["History"], projecttype: ["Repositories and Reference Tools"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/124.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "New Teacher Academy", siteURL: "http://www.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/nta_demo/", released: "2002-03-15", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "Maureen Cassidy Grolnick", group: "Teachers College", description: "\\CCNMTL \<\/span\>partnered with Teachers College Innovations to produce a prototype for their New Teacher Academy launch page. Two elements from the launch page were developed. The first, \"Multiculture in the Making\" is a 20-minute online learning experience that introduces the challenges of teaching about and across social and cultural differences. The second, \"To New Teachers,\" is a video collage featuring Maxine Greene, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Education at Teachers College, urging new teachers \"to think about what they are doing and use their imaginations as they keep in mind what might be, what ought to be.\"\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/education/new_teacher_academy.html", categories: ["Directed Learning", "Education"], discipline: ["Education"], projecttype: ["Directed Learning"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/237.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Chemistry Library Tutorial", siteURL: "http://www.columbia.edu/itc/chemistry/chem-tutorial/", released: "2002-03-01", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "Jayashri Nagaraja", group: "Arts and Sciences", description: "\This tutorial was designed to introduce students to research sources in the field of Chemistry. Students can find direct links to primary sources or information about locations where the materials can be found. There are also a number of exercises that allow students to test their own knowledge about chemistry resources at Columbia.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/sciences/chemistry_library_tu.html", categories: ["Sciences", "Training"], discipline: ["Sciences"], projecttype: ["Training"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/174.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Nursing Clinical Rotation Palm Database", released: "2002-01-15", access: "Private", status: "Archived", partner: "Sarah Cook, Suzanne Bakken, Lesly Curtis", group: "School of Nursing", description: "\A personal digital assistant (PDA) environment will enable Nursing students to report on their experiences at clinical rotation sites. Both faculty and students will have the ability to track their experiences and generate reports on the fly. As a result, site and preceptor evaluations will be completed more accurately and efficiently.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/medicine_and_health/nursing_clinical_rot.html", categories: ["Medicine and Health", "Training"], discipline: ["Medicine and Health"], projecttype: ["Training"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/110.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Poverty, Wealth and History in the East End of London: Part II", siteURL: "http://ci.columbia.edu/0762/", released: "2002-01-01", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: "Paul Johnson", group: "London School of Economics", description: "\Poverty, Wealth and History in the East End of London: Revolution and Reform is Part II of Professor Johnson\'s course. It examines how the physical landscape of London\'s East End reflects a century of social, political and economic revolutions.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/culture_and_society/poverty_wealth_and_h_1.html", categories: ["Culture and Society", "Directed Learning"], discipline: ["Culture and Society"], projecttype: ["Directed Learning"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/183.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Music Intellectual Property Cases", siteURL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/law/library/", released: "2002-01-01", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "Charles Cronin, Jane Ginsburg", group: "School of Law", description: "\The Music Law Copyright Infringement project provides law students and copyright scholars with access to previously inaccessible materials that may provide new insights into an often opaque area of law. By offering digital renderings of the case documents, relevant music with melody and harmony dissected, final outcomes of cases, commentary, opinions, musical scores and study questions allows a more efficient and effective presentations of these materials in the classroom. It provides for the first time versions of the works that one can easily and dramatically manipulate (with the Finale, Coda Music Plugin) that enables students to study, compare and actively engage in the analysis of the disputed the works.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/law/music_intellectual_p.html", categories: ["Case Studies", "Law"], discipline: ["Law"], projecttype: ["Case Studies"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/129.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)", siteURL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/mmt/udhr", released: "2002-01-01", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "Peter Danchin", group: "School of International and Public Affairs", description: "\The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Multimedia Study Environment offers a unique glimpse into events that led to the document\'s creation and its lasting impact on world history, including extensive videotaped interviews with major scholars in the field, including Louis Henkin, one of the document\'s drafters; historical film clips and links to relevant organizations.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/political_science_and_social_policy/universal_declaratio.html", categories: ["Multimedia Study Environments", "Political Science and Social Policy"], discipline: ["Political Science and Social Policy"], projecttype: ["Multimedia Study Environments"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/106.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Pierrot lunaire: The Melodramas", siteURL: "http://www.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/pierrot", released: "2002-01-01", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: "Ian Bent", group: "Arts and Sciences", description: "\Arnold Schoenberg\'s musical arrangements of the Symbolist poetry of Albert Giraud serves as an entrypoint into the composer\'s work and the historical context of inter-war European cultural history. Included is a comprehensive online collection of audio, video and still image recordings and resources.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/arts/pierrot_lunaire_the.html", categories: ["Arts", "Multimedia Study Environments"], discipline: ["Arts"], projecttype: ["Multimedia Study Environments"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/103.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Poverty, Wealth and History in the East End of London: Part I", siteURL: "http://ci.columbia.edu/0761/", released: "2001-12-21", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: "Paul Johnson", group: "London School of Economics", description: "\Poverty, Wealth and History in the East End of London: Life and Work is part I of an exploration of the rich and dramatic history of the East End of London using Spitalfields, an historic corner of the East End, as a window onto the history of social and economic change. This two-part e-seminar is led by Professor Paul Johnson from the London School of Economics.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/culture_and_society/poverty_wealth_and_h.html", categories: ["Culture and Society", "Directed Learning"], discipline: ["Culture and Society"], projecttype: ["Directed Learning"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/182.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Molecular and Cellular Biology", siteURL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/biology/", released: "2001-11-30", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "Lawrence Chasin, Deborah Mowshowitz", group: "Arts and Sciences", description: "\The audio-graphic approach to classroom material will allow students to listen to pre-recorded lectures, while viewing a hyperlinked trans\cript of the material, a course outline, illustrative materials, and relevant sites available online. Text, audio, video, and graphics will be integrated into discrete modules with appropriate links to discussion boards and outside resources. Podcast versions also available.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/sciences/molecular_and_cellul.html", categories: ["Large Class", "Sciences"], discipline: ["Sciences"], projecttype: ["Large Class"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/88.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Shakespeare & The Book: Digital Exhibition", siteURL: "http://www.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/shakespeareandthebook/", released: "2001-11-01", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "Jennifer Lee, David Kastan", group: "Arts and Sciences, CUL", description: "\In this online exhibition, the Shakespeare first folio - the 1623 first printing in folio format of the collected works of William Shakespeare - is presented alongside Columbia University\'s copies of the other three 17th century Shakespeare folios. All four folios are shown within the context of the 17th century English printed play, along with copies of works known to Shakespeare. This exhibition, inspired by the publication of David Scott Kastan\'s Shakespeare & The Book, draws heavily on the splendid collection of four centuries of English and American literature and it is distinguished not only for the titles represented but also by their excellent condition and, in many cases, distinguished provenance.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/literature/shakespeare_the_book.html", categories: ["Literature", "Repositories and Reference Tools"], discipline: ["Literature"], projecttype: ["Repositories and Reference Tools"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/00.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Arthur C. Danto\'s \"The Artworld\"", siteURL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/mmt/danto", released: "2001-10-01", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: "Michael Kelly", group: "Arts and Sciences", description: "\The Multimedia Study Environment (MSE) for Arthur C. Danto\'s 1964 essay \"The Artworld\" ushers the reader into the artistic and philosophical scene of the mid-1960s America. Danto sought to lay out the basic principles of his philosophy of art. The \MSE \<\/span\>includes scholarly and theoretical writings on aesthetics by Danto and others, as well as hundreds of images and archival videos that help document art theory and the arts circa 1964.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/arts/arthur_c_dantos_the.html", categories: ["Arts", "Multimedia Study Environments"], discipline: ["Arts"], projecttype: ["Multimedia Study Environments"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/116.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Major Minor Training Environment", siteURL: "http://www.columbia.edu/itc/music/training/majmin/", released: "2001-10-01", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "Walter Frisch", group: "Arts and Sciences", description: "\This training environment helps Music Humanities students learn to distinguish major and minor in musical composition, a common obstacle for students who lack prior experience or training in music. It contains seven lessons, each of which uses audio and video-enhanced examples, and practice exercises to reinforce understanding.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/arts/major_minor_training.html", categories: ["Arts", "Training"], discipline: ["Arts"], projecttype: ["Training"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/76.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Rohde to Srebrenica", siteURL: "http://www.columbia.edu/itc/journalism/nelson/rohde/", released: "2001-09-30", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "Anne Nelson", group: "School of Journalism", description: "\This project was created for the course \"Elements of International Reporting\" at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, but can be used in international affairs, political science, and other courses. The website chronicles a journalist\'s journey through war-torn Bosnia, enhanced by video of Columbia University Professor Anne Nelson\'s interview with war reporter David Rohde, evidentiary documents, and a clear outline of best-practices for human rights reporting.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/journalism/rohde_to_srebrenica.html", categories: ["Case Studies", "Journalism"], discipline: ["Journalism"], projecttype: ["Case Studies"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/173.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Experimental Digital Classroom", siteURL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/services/classroom", released: "2001-09-15", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "", group: "", description: "\The Experimental Digital Classroom is located in 308 Lewisohn Hall. This seminar-sized classroom with a capacity of 18 has been outfitted with communications and presentation capabilities that enable the instructor to use technology transparently. The focal point is a SmartTech SmartBoard device featuring a touch-screen annotation system and its related SmartNotebook technology.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/education/experimental_digital.html", categories: ["Education"], discipline: ["Education"], projecttype: [], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/165.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "News Reporting Simulation", siteURL: "http://www.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/newssim", released: "2001-09-15", access: "Private", status: "Active", partner: "John Pavlik, Sig Gissler", group: "School of Journalism", description: "\Using the News Reporting Simulation (NewsSim), journalism students assume the roles of reporters covering a fire story in a fictitious small city. Students practice their newsgathering skills, interviewing techniques, and writing in a controlled digital environment that approximates some of the conditions found in the real world.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/journalism/news_reporting_simul.html", categories: ["Journalism", "Simulations"], discipline: ["Journalism"], projecttype: ["Simulations"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/101.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Critical Issues in Journalism", siteURL: "http://www.columbia.edu/itc/journalism/j6075/", released: "2001-09-04", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: "James Carey, Stephen Isaacs", group: "School of Journalism", description: "\The course web site is a model environment that contains a rich array of online articles, video excerpts, ethics codes, recent news, lecture slides and case studies, many of which are supplemented with broadcast and print coverage of the original news stories upon which the case is based. Students engage in online discussion using linked bulletin boards.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/journalism/critical_issues_in_j.html", categories: ["Journalism", "Large Class"], discipline: ["Journalism"], projecttype: ["Large Class"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/89.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Malcolm X: Life After Death", siteURL: "http://ci.columbia.edu/ci/eseminars/0402_detail.html", released: "2001-09-01", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: "Manning Marable", group: "Arts and Sciences", description: "\An exploration of Malcolm X\'s life and work, focusing on the popular view of his life and his treatment by historians and scholars.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/culture_and_society/malcolm_x_life_after.html", categories: ["Culture and Society", "Directed Learning"], discipline: ["Culture and Society"], projecttype: ["Directed Learning"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/181.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Digital Learning Communities: Democracy Through Education", siteURL: "http://ci.columbia.edu/ci/eseminars/0501_detail.html", released: "2001-09-01", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: "Robbie McClintock", group: "Teachers College", description: "\Digital Learning Communities: Promoting Democracy Through Education shows how the work of educators can be transformational. As we renew our progressive bond with posterity, we must recognize the power of digital communications, and discover and invent ways to use all our resources to help posterity achieve more coherent, momentous measures of worth.\<\/p\>\n\n\Robbie McClintock has created a Web-based learning experience that draws on his experience as a teacher, intellectual historian, and educational theorist. He has developed a stimulating e-seminar that provides a roadmap to the future of education. For McClintock, the city can act as educator and agent of positive change. The continuous presence of a high-quality electronic \"Education Zone\" greatly supports natural educational conditions. In the past, the school has contained the educational program. Henceforth, the educational program will contain the school as well as the home and the community.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/education/digital_learning_com.html", categories: ["Directed Learning", "Education"], discipline: ["Education"], projecttype: ["Directed Learning"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/179.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Lehman Letters", siteURL: "http://db.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/lehman", released: "2001-09-01", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "", group: "Arts and Sciences", description: "\This digital collection of Columbia\'s Lehman Center archive of documents relating to McCarthyism includes 100 original letters, many of which were written to Senator Lehman by his constituents.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/political_science_and_social_policy/lehman_letters.html", categories: ["Political Science and Social Policy", "Repositories and Reference Tools"], discipline: ["Political Science and Social Policy"], projecttype: ["Repositories and Reference Tools"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/108.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "CU Analyzer", released: "2001-09-01", access: "Columbia only", status: "Archived", partner: "Learn Technologies, Inc.", group: "", description: "\The Columbia University Analyzer is a personal digital portfolio application developed for course preparation, project management, study, research and writing. With this unique tool, available to all students and faculty from 2001-2003, users were able to create Web-linked multimedia expressions using content from the Web. Users collected text, audio, video and links and for use in an offline workspace, where one could catalog, annotate and analyze them in context.\<\/p\>\n\n\The Columbia University Analyzer was a customized edition of Hyperfolio, a revolutionary Web tool developed in 2000-2001 by Learn Technologies Interactive, Inc. The application is no longer supported by \CCNMTL.\<\/span\>\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/custom_software_applications_and_tools/cu_analyzer.html", categories: ["Custom Software Applications and Tools"], discipline: [], projecttype: ["Custom Software Applications and Tools"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/93.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Environmental Sustainability: Perspectives on the World", siteURL: "http://www.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/ecourse/esi.html", released: "2001-05-09", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: "Marc Levy", group: "Arts and Sciences", description: "\Taught in a conference-style format with perspectives of nine Columbia faculty members associated with the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN).\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/sciences/environmental_sustai.html", categories: ["Directed Learning", "Sciences"], discipline: ["Sciences"], projecttype: ["Directed Learning"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/95.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "The Impact of Technology on the Legal Profession", siteURL: "http://www.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/ecourse/lawyering.html", released: "2001-04-18", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: "Conrad Johnson, Brian Donnelly", group: "School of Law", description: "\An exploration of technology\'s influence on the practice of law and the ways in which it will change the profession.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/law/the_impact_of_techno.html", categories: ["Directed Learning", "Law"], discipline: ["Law"], projecttype: ["Directed Learning"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/00.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "The Shakespearean Sonnet and the Modern Voice", siteURL: "http://www.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/ecourse/sonnet.html", released: "2001-03-16", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: "Kristin Linklater", group: "School of the Arts", description: "\A personal journey through William Shakespeare\'s sonnets that wakens the dormant power of the human voice.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/arts/the_shakespearean_so.html", categories: ["Arts", "Directed Learning"], discipline: ["Arts"], projecttype: ["Directed Learning"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/97.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Moving Education Into the 21st Century With New Media Conference", siteURL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/nmedia/conf2001/", released: "2001-03-09", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "", group: "", description: "\The conference provided a two-part look at digital technologies at Columbia. The morning session consisted of four presentations, covering a wide range of disciplines, focusing on compelling and innovative projects developed at Columbia that have transformed the classroom experience. The afternoon session focused on the University\'s efforts to go beyond its walls. An introductory session featured the \CEO\<\/span\>s of Digital Knowledge Ventures, the organization that was the interface between the market and the University, and Fathom, the University\'s knowledge portal. The demonstrations were samplings of projects identified as having a commercial potential. The afternoon concluded with a number of kiosks for a hands-on view of selected projects.\<\/p\>\n\n\Conference was repeated on Saturday for approximately 225 IT directors visiting from 35 countries as part of Cisco\'s E-Learning Advantage program.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/event_archives/nme2001.html", categories: ["Event Archives"], discipline: [], projecttype: ["Event Archives"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/na.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "\"Pops\" Out Here in the Cause of Happiness: The Louis Armstrong Story\"", siteURL: "http://www.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/ecourse/pops.html", released: "2001-02-15", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: "Robert O'Meally", group: "Arts and Sciences", description: "\The life and work of Louis Armstrong, from his childhood days in New Orleans to his time in Hollywood and the last decades of his life. Multimedia elements include conversations with jazz writers and enthusiasts, historical footage, musical selections, photography and the words of Armstrong himself.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/arts/pops_out_here_in_the.html", categories: ["Arts", "Culture and Society", "Directed Learning"], discipline: ["Arts", "Culture and Society"], projecttype: ["Directed Learning"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/98.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Network Analysis Tool", released: "2001-02-01", access: "Private", status: "Archived", partner: "Eric Abrahamson", group: "Business School", description: "\This Java-based, \SQL\<\/span\>-backed concept organizer allows visualization, manipulation and transformation of data objects, which allows discrete types of information and linkages to be filtered and shown at will. Users load data through a user-friendly, Web-based form interface, which provides real-time statistical analysis of the data along multiple axes.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/custom_software_applications_and_tools/network_analysis_too.html", categories: ["Business and Finance", "Custom Software Applications and Tools"], discipline: ["Business and Finance"], projecttype: ["Custom Software Applications and Tools"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/104.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Third Space", released: "2001-02-01", access: "Open to all", status: "Archived", partner: "", group: "CCNMTL", description: "\Third Space was a set of software functions that added video to class discussion boards allowing students and faculty to identify, annotate, and share video clips. Drawing from a library of videos for the class, students could embed video segments to make or support arguments as part of a discussion board posting. Third Space was effectively used in the School of Social Work, Teachers College, and the School of General Studies. See also the Video Interactions for Teaching and Learning (VITAL).\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/custom_software_applications_and_tools/third_space.html", categories: ["Custom Software Applications and Tools"], discipline: [], projecttype: ["Custom Software Applications and Tools"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/102.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "W.E.B. Du Bois and the Black Experience", siteURL: "http://www.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/ecourse/dubois.html", released: "2001-01-01", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: "Manning Marable", group: "Arts and Sciences", description: "\This e-seminar examines the life and work of \W.E.B.\<\/span\> Du Bois, the leading African-American writer and political activist of the twentieth century and author of \The Souls of Black Folk\<\/em\>. The e-seminar is divided into three modules and contains a number of interactive elements to engage the student in the course, including a number of video elements of Manning Marable guiding the student through the e-seminar.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/culture_and_society/web_du_bois_and_the.html", categories: ["Culture and Society", "Directed Learning", "History", "Literature"], discipline: ["Culture and Society", "History", "Literature"], projecttype: ["Directed Learning"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/99.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois", siteURL: "http://www.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/mmt/dubois", released: "2000-12-01", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: "Casey Blake, Robert O'Meally, Manning Marable and Alan Brinkley.", group: "Arts and Sciences", description: "\Based on the author\'s 1903 collection of essays, the \MSE \<\/span\>for \The Souls of Black Folk\<\/i\> includes references to both historical events and biographical experiences with archival film footage, \"Sorrow Song\" recordings for nearly 30 spirituals and more than 150 texts and documents written by or to Dr. DuBois that have a direct bearing on the collection. The \MSE \<\/span\>also contains video interviews with Columbia University faculty members Manning Marable\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/literature/the_souls_of_black_f.html", categories: ["Literature", "Multimedia Study Environments"], discipline: ["Literature"], projecttype: ["Multimedia Study Environments"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/087.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "U6800: Conceptual Foundations of International Politics", siteURL: "https://courseworks.columbia.edu/cms/outview/courseenter.cfm?no=INAFU6800_001_2002_3", released: "2000-09-02", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "Lisa Anderson", group: "School of International and Public Affairs", description: "\The course website houses readings from the course and links to external materials; provides an environment that allows students to discuss issues with members of their discussion sections, as well as with affinity groups whose members have common concerns and interests; captures every lecture from year 2000 on digital video, and made selected lectures available to this year\'s course members; and includes several video-based, informal interviews between the course\'s guest lecturers and teaching assistants who are familiar with their work.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/political_science_and_social_policy/u6800_conceptual_fou.html", categories: ["Large Class", "Political Science and Social Policy"], discipline: ["Political Science and Social Policy"], projecttype: ["Large Class"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/90.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Video Case Studies for Social Work (CARLA)", released: "2000-09-01", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: "Ned Walsh", group: "School of Social Work", description: "\Video was shot and produced to create an interactive case study, Carla. The project aims to train social work students by using lessons derived from the social worker-client interactions. The case studies include information on relevant laws and as well as commentary from the faculty.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/social_work/video_case_studies_f.html", categories: ["Case Studies", "Social Work"], discipline: ["Social Work"], projecttype: ["Case Studies"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/113.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "\"Paradise Lost Book IX by John Milton \"", released: "2000-06-01", access: "Columbia only", status: "Archived", partner: "Andrea Solomon", group: "School of General Studies", description: "\A primary reading in the Core Curriculum, this text is enhanced by the \MSE \<\/span\>with the inclusion of a catalogue of images, notes on the text by the \MSE\'\<\/span\>s faculty consultant, glossaries of concepts and people, and links to reference materials such as the John Milton Reading Room.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/philosophy_and_religion/paradise_lost_book_i.html", categories: ["Multimedia Study Environments", "Philosophy and Religion"], discipline: ["Philosophy and Religion"], projecttype: ["Multimedia Study Environments"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/81.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Television\'s Screens: Hegemony in Transition by Todd Gitlin", siteURL: "http://www.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/mmt/gitlin", released: "2000-06-01", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: "Frank Moretti", group: "Arts and Sciences", description: "\A important work in media studies, this text is enhanced by the \MMSE \<\/span\>with the inclusion of a catalogue of TV shows with links to related Web sites, notes on the text by the \MMSE\'\<\/span\>s faculty consultant, glossaries of concepts and people and links to reference materials such as the Museum of Television and Radio, the Internet Movie Database and Who Owns What, the Columbia Journalism Review\'s Web guide to what major media companies own.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/culture_and_society/televisions_screens.html", categories: ["Culture and Society", "Multimedia Study Environments"], discipline: ["Culture and Society"], projecttype: ["Multimedia Study Environments"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/84.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "e-Biome Geographic Information System", siteURL: "http://www.columbia.edu/itc/cerc/seeu/index.html", released: "2000-06-01", access: "Open to all", status: "Archived", partner: "", group: "CERC, CIESIN", description: "\E-Biome is a student-driven resource that spans both space and time. A Geographic Information System (GIS) tool developed for the Summer Ecosystem Experience for Undergraduates (SEE-U) program, e-Biome enables students to collect ecological data in the field, which they enter in a Web-based database and query to engage in advanced, spatially-oriented investigations. Because the field research is performed with global positioning system (GPS) devices, the data has a very accurate spatial component.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/sciences/ebiome_geographic_in.html", categories: ["Field-Laboratory", "Sciences"], discipline: ["Sciences"], projecttype: ["Field-Laboratory"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/92.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Hell\'s Kitchen South Project", siteURL: " http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/mmt/hks", released: "2000-05-01", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: "David Smiley", group: "Architecture, Planning and Preservation", description: "\A departure from the standard \MSE, \<\/span\>the Hell\'s Kitchen South Project is a study in urban planning with the city grid standing in as the foundation of the study environment. The project includes detailed maps and photographs of the neighborhood; texts related to the social, historical and architectural development of Hell\'s Kitchen; and links to related projects in urban research, block analysis, zoning, among others.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/architecture/hells_kitchen_south.html", categories: ["Architecture", "Multimedia Study Environments"], discipline: ["Architecture"], projecttype: ["Multimedia Study Environments"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/83.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke", released: "1999-12-01", access: "Columbia only", status: "Archived", partner: "Marc Meyer", group: "School of General Studies", description: "\A primary reading in the Core Curriculum, this text is enhanced by the \MSE \<\/span\>with the inclusion of glossaries of concepts and people, author\'s notes and links to reference materials such as the online version of the Oxford English Dictionary and the Grove Dictionary of Art.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/history/reflections_on_the_r.html", categories: ["History", "Multimedia Study Environments"], discipline: ["History"], projecttype: ["Multimedia Study Environments"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/82.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, F. Jameson", siteURL: "http://www.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/mmt/jameson", released: "1999-09-01", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: "Frank Moretti", group: "Teachers College", description: "\An essential work in the study of postmodern thought, the Frederic Jameson text is enhanced by the multimedia study environment (MSE) with the inclusion of an extensive catalogue of images, notes on the text by the \MSE\'\<\/span\>s faculty consultant, glossaries of concepts and people and links to reference materials such as the ejournal Postmodern Culture and the Panic Encyclopedia, a guide to the postmodern scene.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/culture_and_society/postmodernism_or_the.html", categories: ["Culture and Society", "Multimedia Study Environments"], discipline: ["Culture and Society"], projecttype: ["Multimedia Study Environments"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/80.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "East Asian Curriculum Project", siteURL: "http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/", released: "1998-12-01", access: "Open to all", status: "Active", partner: "Roberta H. Martin", group: "Arts and Sciences", description: "\An online resource for Asian history and culture featuring an extensive library of primary-source and background readings, lesson plans, and multimedia units for teachers and students. \CCNMTL \<\/span\>helped \AFE \<\/span\>create several video-based teaching units featuring well-known experts on Chinese and Japanese culture and history.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/culture_and_society/east_asian_curriculu.html", categories: ["Culture and Society", "Repositories and Reference Tools"], discipline: ["Culture and Society"], projecttype: ["Repositories and Reference Tools"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/74.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "The Sonic Glossary", siteURL: "https://www1.columbia.edu/sec/itc/music/sonic", released: "1998-09-01", access: "Columbia only", status: "Active", partner: "Ian Bent", group: "Arts and Sciences", description: "\The Sonic Glossary is an innovative teaching tool for music appreciation. It assumes no musical training on the part of the user. It defines musical terms by combining visual text, spoken voice, pictures, graphic images, and musical sound in creative ways, delivering them in high-quality audio for private study. The Sonic Glossary does not replace classroom teaching: at Columbia University Music Humanities is taught by small-group discussion, which the Sonic Glossary reinforces and amplifies.\<\/p\>\n\n\Definitions are written by the teaching staff of Music Humanities, sound is recorded and mixed by the Computer Music Center, and the illustrations and animations are generated at \CCNMTL.\<\/span\> The finished components are then compiled and released on the Web. The Sonic Glossary contains over 75 entries.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/arts/the_sonic_glossary.html", categories: ["Arts", "Repositories and Reference Tools"], discipline: ["Arts"], projecttype: ["Repositories and Reference Tools"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/78.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Music Humanities: Virtual Tape Project", siteURL: "http://www.columbia.edu/itc/music/", released: "1998-09-01", access: "Private", status: "Archived", partner: "Ian Bent", group: "Arts and Sciences", description: "\Created for the Music Humanities curriculum, Virtual Tapes are playlists customized for course sections allowing instructor and students easy access to musical pieces for detailed study. Virtual Tapes replaced a cumbersome cassette tape dubbing system that had been criticized for poor quality, but resource intensive.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/arts/music_humanities_vir.html", categories: ["Arts", "Repositories and Reference Tools"], discipline: ["Arts"], projecttype: ["Repositories and Reference Tools"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/77.jpg" }, { type : "Project", label: "Tobacco Cessation", released: "2009-11-10", access: "Private", status: "Development", partner: "David Albert", group: " College of Dental Medicine", description: "\Tobacco Cessation is an educational website that provides students in the Columbia College of Dental Medicine with multimedia learning modules on pharmacotherapy regiments for tobacco cessation. The site offers self-study lessons and activities, including immediate-response quizzes, treatment activities, four virtual patients, and demonstrative videos, which students are assigned to review before attending a required tobacco cessation seminar. Once students complete the online modules independently, learning content and working through specific scenarios virtually, they are then asked to act out potential encounters in the seminar and write reflections on their experience.\<\/p\>\n\n\The Tobacco Cessation website aims to support Columbia dental students\' understanding of the available tobacco cessation pharmacotherapies and to empower students to effectively encourage tobacco cessation in their future dental practice. The site, developed by \CCNMTL \<\/span\>and David Albert, associate professor of clinical dentistry, continues to expand with new learning modules and may be offered to students in partnering universities in the future.\<\/p\>", entry: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/portfolio/medicine_and_health/tobacco_cessation.html", categories: ["Medicine and Health", "Training"], discipline: ["Medicine and Health"], projecttype: ["Training"], tags: [], thumb_URL: "http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/images/portfolio/thumbs/336.jpg" } ] }