University Seminar on New Media Teaching and Learning tag:ccnmtl.columbia.edu,2009:/seminars/21 2009-06-09T22:10:34Z University Seminars offer the opportunity for scholars to engage in sustained intellectual interaction with colleagues in a forum that cuts across traditional boundaries of learning. These meetings bring together scholars and practitioners from Columbia University and from other institutions in an effort to integrate the many threads of knowledge and experience. The goal is to gain a more unified perspective through interdisciplinary interaction. This conversation is particularly important in the field of new media teaching and learning, as the University continues to experiment and incorporate digital technologies into academic practice. The University Seminar on New Media Teaching and Learning provides a rich opportunity to discuss the exploration of technologies and pedagogical practices to generate fresh approaches and ideas. Movable Type 3.36 Learning from Disaster: Film and Understanding Our Resiliency tag:ccnmtl.columbia.edu,2009:/seminars//21.7707 2009-04-15T18:37:32Z 2009-06-09T22:10:34Z Briana J Ferrigno CCNMTL, with partners from Georgetown University, Project Rebirth, and the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, will host a special event entitled Learning from Disaster: Film and Understanding Our Resiliency in Miller Theatre on Wednesday, April 15th at 6:30PM. The event will focus on Project Rebirth, a documentary film about the recovery of 10 individuals deeply affected by the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. Filmmaker Jim Whitaker will discuss the film and introduce a 30-minute preview of the film and Dr. John DeGioia, President of Georgetown University, will lead a panel discussion with Whitaker and faculty from Columbia University and Georgetown University who are using the archive of interview footage in innovative pedagogical ways.

Faculty panelists Katherine Shear of the Columbia School of Social Work and George Bonanno of Teachers College will discuss how they have designed Web-based assignments that lead students to engage in a close viewing of the archive and analyze effects of trauma and methods of coping. Georgetown University faculty from American Studies (Bernard Cook) and English (Randall Bass) will discuss how they have used the same archive in film and English courses.

Read more about CCNMTL's work with Project Rebirth in the press release, With Project Rebirth Columbia and Georgetown Offer Students a Closer Look at Post 9-11 Recovery or visit the Project Rebirth website.

]]> Date: Wednesday, April 15th, 2009 at 6:30pm
Location: Miller Theatre
Phone: (212) 854-9058

]]> A Framework for New Learning with Randy Bass of Georgetown University tag:ccnmtl.columbia.edu,2009:/seminars//21.7703 2009-03-26T20:00:00Z 2009-04-15T18:46:07Z Randy Bass, Assistant Provost for Teaching and Learning Initiatives at Georgetown University and Executive Director of the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS), will lead a discussion on student learning and faculty Randy Bass, Assistant Provost for... Briana J Ferrigno Randy Bass, Assistant Provost for Teaching and Learning Initiatives at Georgetown University and Executive Director of the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS), will lead a discussion on student learning and faculty Randy Bass, Assistant Provost for Teaching and Learning Initiatives at Georgetown University and Executive Director of the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS), will lead a discussion on student learning and faculty development in technology-enhanced environments. Bass will present on more than six years of research through the Visible Knowledge Project, an initiative that has engaged 70 faculty members on 21 campuses to explore the impact of technology on learning, primarily in the humanities. Collectively, the findings suggest a portrait of student learning that includes dimensions of knowledge and intellectual development that have been traditionally undervalued if not invisible in higher education.

Bass, who is also an associate professor in the Department of English at Georgetown, has been working at the intersection of new media technologies and the scholarship of teaching and learning since the late 1980s. Most recently, he edited, along with collaborator Bret Eynon, a synthesis and digital volume of case studies on learning and new media, published through the online journal, Academic Commons.

]]> Date: Thursday, March 26th, 2009 at 4:00pm
Location: 523 Butler Library
Phone: (212) 854-9058

]]> Open Libraries, Active Learning, and the Public Good: New Paths tag:ccnmtl.columbia.edu,2008:/seminars//21.6721 2008-05-08T20:00:00Z 2008-06-26T17:12:32Z The Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) will hold the final University Seminar for New Media Teaching and Learning session in the 2007-2008 academic year. Briana J Ferrigno The Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) will hold the final University Seminar for New Media Teaching and Learning session in the 2007-2008 academic year. Frank Moretti, CCNMTL Executive Director, Ryan Kelsey, CCNMTL Associate Director of Education and Research, and Mark Phillipson, CCNMTL Senior Program Specialist, will reflect on the seminar’s two-year exploration of emerging possibilities for teaching, learning, and study in the digital age with a special focus on the relationships between large digital repositories, structured learning environments, and the open Web. James Neal, Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian, will respond to the presentations and a discussion with the presenters will follow.

]]> Date: Thursday, May 8th, 4pm
Location: 203 Butler Library
Phone: (212) 854-9058

]]> Image-Driven Scholarship and the MIT Visualizing Cultures Project tag:ccnmtl.columbia.edu,2008:/seminars//21.6385 2008-03-20T19:56:51Z 2008-04-28T21:14:04Z MIT history professor John Dower and program director Scott Shunk will discuss lessons learned from five years of developing an innovative educational platform. Visualizing Cultures is a gateway to seeing history through images that once had wide circulation among peoples... Briana J Ferrigno MIT history professor John Dower and program director Scott Shunk will discuss lessons learned from five years of developing an innovative educational platform. Visualizing Cultures is a gateway to seeing history through images that once had wide circulation among peoples of different times and places. Making representations of Japan available for image-driven scholarship and pedagogy, the Visualizing Cultures Project allows scholars, teachers, and students to analyze and compare hitherto inaccessible materials from the mid-19th century forward. The project also offers guides including databases, bibliographies, and lengthy lesson plans for the careful analysis and use of images.

Visualizing Cultures is currently being redesigned to provide sophisticated accessibility, and the new format will be previewed at this event. The presenters will also address how to anticipate—and respond to—negative reactions to controversial images.

]]> Date: Thursday, March 20th, 4pm
Location: 523 Butler Library
Phone: (212) 854-9058

]]> Sacred Landscapes: Spatial Data, Student Collaboration, and New Investigations of Religious Life tag:ccnmtl.columbia.edu,2008:/seminars//21.6162 2008-02-07T21:00:00Z 2008-04-28T22:00:59Z Courtney Bender, associate professor of religion at Columbia University, will examine a recent emphasis on space in religious studies including how religious groups live within and imagine social contexts. This emphasis focuses more attention on the lived social and national... Briana J Ferrigno Courtney Bender, associate professor of religion at Columbia University, will examine a recent emphasis on space in religious studies including how religious groups live within and imagine social contexts. This emphasis focuses more attention on the lived social and national environments in which communities take shape, the movement of religious groups via immigration or globalizing processes, and the role of space in the religious imagination. Professor Bender will introduce SacredGotham, a map-based wiki, and discuss how students use this collaborative tool to understand religious life through various types of spatial data.

]]> Date: Thursday, February 7th, 4pm
Location: 523 Butler Library
Phone: (212) 854-9058

]]> Technologies of Community, Conversation by Design: How should networked public spaces be designed? tag:ccnmtl.columbia.edu,2007:/seminars//21.5739 2007-12-10T17:10:12Z 2008-02-12T15:07:29Z In the United States, public space is splintering into shards. Poor urban planning and the demise of many institutions of civil society are two factors that are to blame. But newer technologies - like television - are usually also seen... Catherine Jhee In the United States, public space is splintering into shards. Poor urban planning and the demise of many institutions of civil society are two factors that are to blame. But newer technologies - like television - are usually also seen to be destructive forces in this shattering of public space. Can new media technologies be designed to engender community rather than undermine it?

Warren Sack, associate professor in Film & Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will outline “discourse architecture,” an approach to designing software for community and then focus on one example of discourse architecture, Metavid.org, currently under development by Michael Dale and Aphid Stern at the Social Computing Lab at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Metavid.org is a Web 2.0 site that hosts an archive of video footage of U.S. House and Senate floor proceedings.

]]> Date: Monday, December 10, 4pm
Location: 523 Butler Library
Phone: (212) 854-9058

]]> Activating the Archives of Activism: Deploying Human Rights Content in Teaching and Research tag:ccnmtl.columbia.edu,2007:/seminars//21.5603 2007-11-08T16:34:23Z 2007-12-12T19:44:22Z David Magier, Director of the Columbia University Center for Human Rights Documentation and Research, will explore the opportunities and challenges in incorporating human rights documentation into teaching and research. Many of the challenges of working with archival collections of the... Catherine Jhee David Magier, Director of the Columbia University Center for Human Rights Documentation and Research, will explore the opportunities and challenges in incorporating human rights documentation into teaching and research. Many of the challenges of working with archival collections of the scale, variety, and importance of the Human Rights archives at Columbia (which include organizational archives of Amnesty International USA, Human Rights Watch, etc.) also present learning opportunities. Dr. Magier will describe the types of documentation being collected and examine possible scenarios for how faculty and students might participate in the effort to improve the mechanisms for discovery and analysis of materials, both in print form and on the web, initiating a dialogue about how new human rights content and tools created by CCNMTL could intersect with the work of the library.

This seminar will extend discussions began at the CHRDR's public conference last month, "Human Rights Archives and Documentation: Meeting the Needs of Research, Teaching, Advocacy and Social Justice," a seminal international gathering of over 240 activists, scholars, and librarians.

]]> Date: Thursday, November 8, 4pm
Location: 523 Butler Library
Phone: (212) 854-9058

]]> Digital Video in a Genocidal Age: The Holocaust in 52,000 Acts tag:ccnmtl.columbia.edu,2007:/seminars//21.5251 2007-10-04T19:31:02Z 2007-11-20T19:48:36Z Professor Douglas Greenberg will describe the work of the USC Shoah Foundation and the technologies it has developed for searching the 52,000 testimonies of Holocaust survivors it has collected. In addition to describing the content of this digital library and... Catherine Jhee Professor Douglas Greenberg will describe the work of the USC Shoah Foundation and the technologies it has developed for searching the 52,000 testimonies of Holocaust survivors it has collected. In addition to describing the content of this digital library and demonstrating the unique software created for searching it, Professor Greenberg will also indicate its scholarly value not only in Holocaust studies but in other fields of research and education.

Professor Greenberg is professor of history and executive director of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education at the University of Southern California.

]]> Register online-->]]> Harlem Digital Archive tag:ccnmtl.columbia.edu,2007:/seminars//21.3659 2007-04-26T19:56:09Z 2008-04-11T20:50:23Z The Harlem Digital Archive will be a repository and the source for a wide range of teaching and learning materials that can be deployed in the university classroom setting and more broadly in libraries and museums, online, and in educational television and radio. Join CCNMTL for a discussion on how this online archive plans to draw on digital resources here at Columbia and elsewhere that illuminate Harlem's rich artistic, social, and political history, activating new forms of engagements with these materials in learning environments. Catherine Jhee Columbia University has long had a unique role as a major institution of higher learning situated in the neighborhood of Harlem. It is crucial to the University’s continued development and character that the University continue to cultivate Harlem’s role in various school endeavors, from the classroom to the campus as a whole.

Over the years, Columbia has acquired and produced many materials related to Harlem's rich artistic, social, and political history. Numerous treasures in Columbia's libraries, departmental archives, and courseware repositories—from books, documents, photographs, artwork, to music, oral histories, film and video collections, architectural renderings, even born-digital projects—explicate the role of Harlem from a variety of perspectives and explore the relationship between contemporary and historical Harlem.

The Harlem Digital Archive will highlight the potential of Harlem resources at Columbia to support various scholarly projects both inside and outside the classroom. The project will strengthen funding efforts to support the development and production of audiovisual curricula with the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute for Museum and Library Services, and others. The project also will facilitate the development and production of nationally and internationally distributed media projects—including public broadcasting documentaries on the subject of Harlem.

Join CCNMTL for a discussion on how this online archive plans to draw on digital resources here at Columbia and elsewhere that illuminate Harlem's rich artistic, social, and political history, activating new forms of engagements with these materials in learning environments.

]]> Toward a Democratic Digital Past: Prospects and Problems tag:ccnmtl.columbia.edu,2007:/seminars//21.3567 2007-03-02T21:40:19Z 2007-03-28T20:52:20Z Roy Rosenzweig is Mark and Barbara Fried Professor of History & New Media at George Mason University, where he also heads the Center for History and New Media (CHNM). Since 1994, the CHNM has used digital media and computer technology to democratize history—to incorporate multiple voices, reach diverse audiences, and encourage popular participation in presenting and preserving the past. Rosenzweig will reflect on some of the work of the Center for History and New Media as the basis for talking about the possibilities and problems of achieving a democratic digital past. Ryan Kelsey Roy Rosenzweig is Mark and Barbara Fried Professor of History & New Media at George Mason University, where he also heads the Center for History and New Media (CHNM). Since 1994, the CHNM has used digital media and computer technology to democratize history—to incorporate multiple voices, reach diverse audiences, and encourage popular participation in presenting and preserving the past. The CHNM sponsors more than two dozen digital history projects and offers free tools and resources to historians. Rosenzweig is the author, most recently, with co-author Daniel Cohen, of Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web.

Rosenzweig will reflect on some of the work of the Center for History and New Media as the basis for talking about the possibilities and problems of achieving a democratic digital past.

]]> The Triangle Initiative tag:ccnmtl.columbia.edu,2007:/seminars//21.1583 2007-02-08T21:00:00Z 2007-04-09T20:31:10Z Taking advantage of the versatility of digital media, CCNMTL's Triangle Initiative is about making educational tools and capacities that are derived from applied research serve both Columbia's classrooms and the health and service needs of the larger community. This session will discuss the first two established Triangle projects in CCNMTL's portfolio, Multimedia Connect and Collateral Consequences of Criminal Prosecution. Ryan Kelsey Taking advantage of the versatility of digital media, CCNMTL's Triangle Initiative is about making educational tools and capacities that are derived from applied research serve both Columbia's classrooms and the health and service needs of the larger community. It is called the Triangle Initiative because it represents a way for the three goals of the University to work in a new synchrony in which research simultaneously extends classroom capability and professional practice in the world.

This seminar will discuss the first two established Triangle projects in the CCNMTL portfolio:

Multimedia Connect: Susan Witte, The School of Social Work & Jessica Rowe, CCNMTL

Connect is a proven HIV intervention model for working with couples at risk of transmitting HIV to each other. CCNMTL, in partnership with the Social Intervention Group at the Columbia University School of Social Work, will translate this intervention to multimedia (creating "Multimedia Connect") in order to enable its wide dissemination to health service, social service, and community- based practitioners in New York State, other states in the U.S., and beyond our borders. In addition, components of Multimedia Connect will become core teaching tools used within the School of Social Work to train the next generation of practitioners about intervention techniques, Connect, and HIV/AIDS risk reduction.

Collateral Consequences of Criminal Prosecution: Conrad Johnson, Columbia Law School & Jessica Rowe, CCNMTL

This unique resource allows one to compare the collateral consequences of New York State criminal charges across of variety of doctrinal areas. It will serve multiple communities in a variety of ways: faculty can build case studies around it, lawyers can use it to help them better counsel their clients, judges can use it to help assure appropriate sentencing, and public policy researchers can use it as a lens to examine the matrix of the New York State legal system. Judge Kaye, Chief Justice of New York State, has supported the development of this tool, which she sees as a valuable social justice initiative.

]]> Siva Vaidhyanathan: The Googlization of Everything tag:mt.ccnmtl.columbia.edu,2006:/seminar//21.1526 2006-12-15T02:21:12Z 2007-01-24T21:26:37Z Siva Vaidhyanathan, associate professor of Culture and Communication at New York University, will lead the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning University Seminar on December 14, 2006. Dr. Vaidhyanathan's research on intellectual property and the ways it shapes contemporary culture has resulted in two widely noted books: Copyrights and Copywrongs (2001), and The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System (2004). Catherine Jhee Siva Vaidhyanathan, associate professor of Culture and Communication at New York University, will lead the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning University Seminar on December 14, 2006. Dr. Vaidhyanathan's research on intellectual property and the ways it shapes contemporary culture has resulted in two widely noted books: Copyrights and Copywrongs (2001), and The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System (2004).

In this and other writing, Dr. Vaidhyanathan has promoted a "hacker ethic" that "rests on openness, peer review, individual autonomy, and communal responsibility." In the seminar, he will discuss the implications of Google's Book Search service on reading, writing, and research.

]]> VITAL 3.0: The Evolution of Video in Teaching and Learning tag:mt.ccnmtl.columbia.edu,2006:/seminar//21.1398 2006-11-02T19:49:12Z 2007-01-17T22:00:04Z Join CCNMTL for a demonstration of VITAL 3.0 and a panel discussion on how the use of video has evolved in educational practice. Catherine Jhee Video Interactions for Teaching and Learning (VITAL) is a Web-based learning environment that enables students to view, analyze, and communicate ideas with video. The VITAL project began in 2002 as a partnership between CCNMTL and Herbert P. Ginsburg, Professor of Psychology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Since then, VITAL has been deployed in a wide range of courses and disciplines across Columbia University, from the School of Social Work to the School of the Arts.

Students who use VITAL learn to master close viewing skills and articulate their ideas with both text and video, utilizing multimedia for active expression rather than passive reception. VITAL features tools that enable students to edit, annotate, and store clips that they select from a course’s video library. Students then use these clips as multimedia citations in essays that are published within the VITAL environment for review and critique by the instructor and classmates.

VITAL also offers a guided lesson template that allows instructors to create linear, question-by-question exercises. These lessons mimic real-time events in which students must make an interpretation or decision based on limited information. After answering a question, students might read an expert’s commentary, encouraging them to reflect and refine their thinking.

VITAL has been the subject of numerous studies, papers, and presentations examining its impact on student learning, new pedagogical approaches to the classroom and online, and applications such as pre-professional training. For more information, please see the VITAL project’s public Web site.

CCNMTL is committed to working with faculty partners to make VITAL an effective pedagogical tool that enhances both teaching and learning for each course.

Join CCNMTL for a demonstration of VITAL 3.0 and a panel discussion on how the use of video has evolved in educational practice.

]]> Yochai Benkler: Open Collaboration and Networked Environments in Education tag:mt.ccnmtl.columbia.edu,2006:/seminar//21.1397 2006-10-05T19:29:53Z 2007-01-17T17:15:06Z Yochai Benkler, Professor of Law at Yale Law School, will lead a discussion of commons-based peer production, intellectual property in a networked environment, and the effect of open collaboration on educational discourse. Long a champion of unfettered exchange in networked environments, Benkler will describe new opportunities for educators as technology enables large-scale sharing of previously compartmentalized resources. Catherine Jhee Yochai Benkler, Professor of Law at Yale Law School, will lead a discussion of commons-based peer production, intellectual property in a networked environment, and the effect of open collaboration on educational discourse. Benkler's recently published book The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom (Yale University Press, 2006), argues that new models of collaboration, enabled by technological innovation, are dramatically reshaping culture and economic relations, and in turn, human freedom and development. Exemplifying Benkler's interest in communal production, this work is available in its entirety online, and is the basis of a wiki that invites collaborative development of its themes.

Long a champion of unfettered exchange in networked environments, Benkler will describe new opportunities for educators as technology enables large-scale sharing of previously compartmentalized resources.

]]> Informedia & CareMedia: Automatic Digital Video tag:mt.ccnmtl.columbia.edu,2006:/seminar//21.1395 2006-02-16T17:54:28Z 2007-01-17T20:54:49Z This university seminar welcomes scientists from Carnegie Mellon's Human-Computer Interaction Institute. They will demonstrate and discuss the educational application of Informedia and CareMedia, two of the innovative video technologies they are developing. Catherine Jhee This university seminar welcomes scientists from Carnegie Mellon's Human-Computer Interaction Institute. They will demonstrate and discuss the educational application of two innovative video technologies they are developing, Informedia and CareMedia.

Informedia
Informedia digital video research focuses on improving access to broadcast video information through speech recognition, computer vision, and natural language processing techniques. Automatically derived descriptors for the video are used to construct information visualization interfaces for querying, summarizing, and browsing the video. For over 12 years, Informedia has recorded and analyzed several hours a day of CNN, Chinese, and Arabic news video.

CareMedia
CareMedia research centers on the automatic analysis of audio and video for behavioral research. Their most recent work captured video from 23 cameras in public spaces of a nursing home dementia ward. Video was captured from each camera, 24 hours a day for 25 days. The data collected totaled over 13,000 hours of video stored on 35 Terabytes of hard disks. Clearly, this volume of data precludes manual analysis.

CareMedia's interdisciplinary research is developing, integrating, and refining a suite of tools supporting the automatic collection, annotation, access, analysis, and archiving of such massive amounts of behavioral data. These tools capture a continuous audiovisual record of individual and group activity in various settings and apply machine intelligence technology to automatically process that record for efficient use by analytical observers to monitor situational behavior over time. The annotated record provides a level of completeness not feasible with human observers, and allows, for the first time, large-scale longitudinal clinical and behavioral research based on continuously captured and processed data, enabled through extensible interfaces accessing such voluminous records in a user-friendly utilitarian manner.

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