May 4, 2010

VITAL at 2010 AERA Annual Meeting

Teachers College professor Herbert Ginsburg served as chair and UCLA professor Jim Stigler as discussant for a symposium on VITAL at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) in Denver on May 4, 2010. Entitled "Video Analysis...    >> Read more

January 20, 2010

Publication: VITAL research in Educational Technology Magazine

An article entitled "Examining student thinking through video analysis" by CCNMTL educational technologist Michael Preston appears in the latest issue of Educational Technology Magazine (Vol. 50, No. 1, January-February 2010), which is a special issue on video analysis in teacher...    >> Read more

December 17, 2009

Publication: Chapter in the Handbook of Reflection and Reflective Inquiry

Profs. Herbert Ginsburg and Ann Cami of Teachers College and Michael Preston of CCNMTL co-authored a chapter entitled, "Inquiry practices: How can they be taught well?" in the newly published Handbook of Reflection and Reflective Inquiry: Mapping a Way of...    >> Read more

June 22, 2009

VITAL video analysis application released as open source project

The Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) is pleased to announce that Video Interactions for Teaching and Learning (VITAL), a web-based learning environment for video analysis and multimedia essay writing, was released today to the public under...    >> Read more

February 18, 2009

VITAL Symposium at 2009 SRCD Biennial Meeting

Partners in our VITAL project will be presenting at the 2009 biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), in Denver, CO, April 2-4. We are scheduled to present on Friday, April 3, 10:20 AM - 12:00...    >> Read more

March 26, 2008

VITAL Symposium at AERA 2008

Members of our VITAL research group gave a symposium at the AERA 2008 Annual Meeting. Entitled "Video as a Manipulative: An Innovative System to Transform University Courses in Psychology and Education" and sponsored by the SIG Technology as an Agent...    >> Read more

September 11, 2007

VITAL at Discovery Research K-12

Frank Moretti and Michael Preston of CCNMTL attended NSF's Discovery Research K-12 annual PI meeting in Arlington, VA, and presented a poster on the VITAL Web environment, pedagogy, and evaluation. The conference was attended by representatives of nearly 140 projects...    >> Read more

June 1, 2007

Fourth Year of NSF Funding for VITAL

June 2007 marks the beginning of the fourth of five years of National Science Foundation funding for the VITAL project. The major milestone in the coming year will be the testing of VITAL and the early mathematics curriculum at six...    >> Read more

September 20, 2006

VITAL 3.0 Released to Columbia and Hunter College

This fall, more than 300 students at Columbia University and Hunter College will use VITAL 3.0, the newest release of Video Interactions for Teaching and Learning, an interactive video learning environment created by the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching...    >> Read more

June 7, 2006

Meeting with Program Officer, Dr. Julia Clark

CCNMTL's VITAL: Early Childhood Mathematics Education NSF Program Officer Dr. Julia Clark visited the Center on June 7, 2006. The purpose of the visit was for Dr. Clark to meet the VITAL: Early Childhood Mathematics Education NSF team and to...    >> Read more

May 10, 2006

CCNMTL Presents at the Teacher Professional Continuum Conference

Rae Brosnan and Ryan Kelsey attended the second annual Teacher Professional Continuum conference for the VITAL: Early Childhood Mathematics Education NSF grant on May 7-9 in Reston, VA. The goal of the conference was to convene members of the TPC...    >> Read more

April 10, 2006

Presentation: VITAL at the American Educational Research Association

Herb Ginsburg, Debbie Marcus, Ryan Kelsey, and Michael Preston presented a session called "Virtual Fieldwork for Pre-Professional Training" at the 2006 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) in San Francisco on April 10, 2006. The conference theme...    >> Read more

April 6, 2006

Presentation: VITAL at the NYU Technology and Learning Symposium

Michael Preston gave a talk on VITAL called "Virtual Fieldwork for Pre-Professional Training" at the Technology and Learning Symposium at New York University. The theme for the conference was "Cognitive Load Theory and Multimedia Learning," and the subtopic was Multimedia...    >> Read more

March 31, 2006

Presentation: VITAL at the National Association of Laboratory Schools

Debbie Marcus and Michael Preston from CCNMTL and Luyen Chou from The School at Columbia gave a talk called "Virtual Fieldwork for Pre-Professional Development" at the National Association of Laboratory Schools (NALS) annual conference, which was co-hosted by the Bank...    >> Read more

March 1, 2006

VITAL: Early Childhood Mathematics Education NSF Year 2 Report Submitted

CCNMTL's second annual report provides the project's NSF Program Officer, Dr. Julia Clark, with information on the progress of the VITAL: Early Childhood Mathematics Education development....    >> Read more

October 25, 2005

Howard University partner Dr. Gerunda Hughes visits CCNMTL

On Tuesday, October 25, 2005 Dr. Gerunda Hughes from Howard University visited the CCNMTL to meet with the VITAL: Early Childhood Mathematics Education project team. Frank Moretti, Michael Preston, Rae Brosnan, and Kendra Crook met with Dr. Hughes to introduce...    >> Read more

October 21, 2005

Presentation: VITAL at the Northeastern Educational Research Association

Prof. Herbert Ginsburg was the invited speaker at the 36th Annual Conference of the Northeastern Educational Research Association (NERA), held October 19-21 in Kerhonkson, NY. The talk was entitled Using Video to Nourish the Teacher's Intermediary Inventive Mind, a reference...    >> Read more

July 2, 2005

Paper: VITAL at ED-Media

Preston, Michael, Gordon Campbell, Herbert Ginsburg, Peter Sommer, Frank Moretti. "Developing New Tools for Video Analysis and Communicating Critical Thinking," Paper presented at Ed-Media: World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia, and Telecommunications, Montreal, Canada, July 2, 2005.   VITAL: Early...    >> Read more

June 23, 2005

Meeting with Julia Clark

CCNMTL's VITAL: Early Childhood Mathematics Education NSF Program Officer Dr. Julia Clark visited the Center on June 23, 2005. The purpose of the visit was for Dr. Clark to meet the VITAL NSF team and to get an update of our activities and progress.    >> Read more

June 14, 2005

CCNMTL Presents a Poster at the Teacher Professional Continuum Conference

Drs. Frank Moretti and Herbert Ginsburg attended the first annual Teacher Professional Continuum conference for the VITAL: Early Childhood Mathematics Education NSF grant on June 12- 14 in Washington, DC. The goal of the conference was to convene members of...    >> Read more

April 18, 2005

CCNMTL Presents VITAL at the Technology Demonstration Day

CCNMTL's Michael Preston and Kendra Crook presented VITAL: Early Childhood Mathematics Education at the Technology Demonstration Day at Teachers College. Preston and Crook demonstrated the VITAL: Early Childhood Mathematics Education environment and discussed CCNMTL's application of design research to the...    >> Read more

April 14, 2005

Paper: VITAL at the American Educational Research Association

Preston, Michael D., Herbert P. Ginsburg, Susan Jang, Janet G. Eisenbrand, Frank Moretti, Peter Sommer. "Video Interactions for Teaching and Learning (VITAL): A Learning Environment for Courses in Early Childhood Mathematics Education," Paper presented at American Educational Research Association, Montreal,...    >> Read more

March 18, 2005

Presentation: VITAL at NJEDge.net Conference

Project partner Prof. Rochelle Kaplan of William Paterson University in NJ gave a presentation at the 6th Annual Faculty Best Practices Showcase, organized by NJEDge.net, New Jersey's higher education network. This one-day conference focused on effective practices employed by faculty...    >> Read more

March 1, 2005

VITAL: Early Childhood Mathematics Education NSF Year 1 Report Submitted

CCNMTL's first annual report provides the project's NSF Program Officer, Dr. Julia Clark, with information on the progress of the VITAL: Early Childhood Mathematics Education development. Download file    >> Read more

January 7, 2005

VITAL Partner Launch Meeting

CCNMTL kicks off the VITAL: Early Childhood Mathematics Education project with a day-long partner meeting.    >> Read more

June 7, 2004

CCNMTL Receives NSF Grant: Press Release

New York, June 7, 2004. The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded $2.3 million to a consortium led by Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) to develop Video Interactions for Teaching and Learning (VITAL): A Learning Environment for Courses in Early Mathematics Education. This new resource will give prospective early childhood mathematics teachers new tools to improve their understanding of children’s mathematical thinking. The consortium also includes Teachers College and William Patterson University.    >> Read more