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Brownfield Action Curriculum to be Adopted by Connecticut College, by Petra Tuomi Barnard News CenterThe Brownfield Action simulation, developed by Professor Peter Bower and the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL), is being modified to be used by Conneticut College. This adaptation is made possible through a National Science Foundation (NSF) "proof-of-concept" grant. For full article Barnard Press Release. Interactive Video Learning System Developed, Inside TCThe Video Interaction for Teaching and Learning (VITAL) environment was featured by the Teachers College News Bureau. This article disscusses the collaboration between Dr. Herbert Ginsburg and the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) in developing this tool for professional practice training. For full article see Inside TC. For more info on Video Interactions for Teaching and Learning see VITAL. Technology May Be Very Good For Your Health, by Carol Power, The Irish TimesColumbia University's School of Nursing is featured by The Irish Times this month for using PDAs in their teaching. This article mentions their collaboration with the Columbia University Center for New Media Teaching and Learning to incorporate technology at the point of care. For full article see Irish Times Columbia's Center for New Media, Teaching and Learning Supports Digital Innovation in Classroom-Based Teaching and Learning, USC Learning Edge: Teaching, Learning and Technology in the News"We are living in the middle of one of three great transformations of Western civilization, a move to digital technologies that is changing the way almost all human transactions take place -- from the economic, to the political, to the educational," said Dr. Frank Moretti, Executive Director of the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) and Professor of Communications at Teachers College. The University of Southern California (USC) Center for Scholarly Technology wrote a feature article highlighting the efforts of CCNMTL. For full article see The Learning Edge. Special Edition 12. Columbia's Center for New Media Teaching and Learning Focuses on New Projects, Columbia University RECORDOn Sept. 26th in Low Library, the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) and its faculty partners presented a series of innovative teaching approaches employing new media tools to an enthusiastic audience. Over two hundred people attended this year's conference, representing a cross-disciplinary array of faculty, technical specialists and librarians, both inside and outside the University. For more, please see the New Media in Education Conference page. Boomers & Gen-Xers Millennials: Understanding the New Students, by Diana Oblinger EducauseOn page 44, Oblinger cites the Disease Outbreak Simulation (Epiville) as an example of what students entering higher education expect in their classrooms. This article describes the profile of students today and their demands for experimental, interactive, and authentic learning environments. For full article Environmental Sustainability Through GIS: An Online E-Seminar for Higher Education by Ryan Kelsey and Mark Becker, URISA Journal: Urban and Regional Information Systems AssociationThis article discusses the development of an online e-seminar that uses a geographic information system as the basis for its major activities. Students of the seminar explore the concept of environmental sustainability in a conference-style format with the perspectives of nine Columbia University faculty members affiliated with the Center for International Earth Science Information Network. Students experience innovative presentations from each faculty member, participate in online forums, and complete online activities using a customized mapping tool with data from the Environmental Sustainability Index. The activities are designed to engage the student as an active participant in exploring environmental sustainability. Center for New Media Teaching & Learning Set Sights on Midnight's Children Program, Columbia University RECORDThrough hands-on research and international collaboration, the Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CNMTL), has developed a new multi-media educational application in conjunction with Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children. For more info see the Midnight's Children MSE. The Internet as a Teaching Tool, Rights News: Columbia University Center for the Study of Human RightsProfessor Anne Nelson in the Journalism School tells of her experience developing The Rhode to Srebrenica with CCNMTL and how this project served her as a teaching tool. Inquiry-Based Learning Meets New Media, The Nitle News: The Newsletter of the National Institute for Technology & Liberal EducationFeaturing Brownfield Action. Combine inquiry-based learning with new media, and you have a compelling model for attracting students to liberal arts education and improving their learning experiences. Perhaps for this reason, technologically sophisticated inquiry-based learning projects are becoming more and more common. Lying beneath the surface, however, are complicated quesstions about how to fund these projects, who owns them, and whether they might be commercialized. This article defines inquiry-based learning and explores the role technology has to play in it, and the issues that surround it, by highlighting new and established projects that are changing the way students learn. Article: The Nitle News - Inquiry-Based Learning Meets New Media Web Watch, Physics TodayIn the past, astronomy was confined to one spectral band, the visual. Now, however, astronomers exploit the entire electromagnectic spectrum. To demonstrate the power of full-spectrum observing, Columbia University's David Helfand makes an aural analogy. His Web site, Seeing the Whole Symphony, offers audio files that sample the last movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony one octave at a time.Revitalizing Epidemiology 101, In VivoThe goal of the Mailman School of Public Health's introductory and now redesigned epidemiology course is to captivate its 250 students from day one. . . Article: IN VIVO - Revitalizing Epidemiology 101 Adding Calorie Counting to Gross Anatomy, In VivoAs obesity is becoming an epidemic and people are more conscious about the role of food in heart disease and other conditions, nutrition as a scientific discipline has gained more prominence. . . Article: IN VIVO - Adding Calorie Counting to Gross Anatomy National Science Foundation Honors Chemistry's Nicholas Turro for Distinguished Teaching, Columbia University RecordColumbia Professor Nicholas Turro joins a select group of six university science researchers and educators nationwide who will receive the 2002 National Science Foundation (NSF) Director's Awards for Distinguished Teaching Scholars. . . The Rohde to Srebrenica, Yahoo! PicksThe Columbia Graduate School of Journalism presents a fascinating, sobering look at Bosnian-Serb war crimes in 1995 and the perils faced by war reporters. . . Article: Yahoo! Picks - The Rohde to Srebrenica CCNMTL Awarded Grant to Develop Training Simulation For Public Health, Columbia University RecordThe Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) has been awarded a $300,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop simulations that will train workers in humanitarian emergencies, in collaboration with Oxford University. . . Article: Columbia University Record - CCNMTL Awarded Grant to Develop Training Simulation For Public Health Columbia University School of Nursing Selects Palm Handheld Computers For Patient-care Initiative, Palm, Inc.Palm, Inc. today announced that the Columbia University School of Nursing (CUSN) has selected Palm™ handheld computers for an initiative designed to promote evidence-based, error-free patient care in nursing. . . Article: PR Newswire Can file sharing thrive? With the future of music trading unclear, the technology may not stand on its own, CNN MoneyPeter Sommer, director of education at Columbia University's Center for New Media Teaching and Learning, said this type of network can help teachers collaborate at universities and in primary and secondary schools, but would require a major change in people's thinking. . . Article: CNN Money - Can file sharing thrive? Forced Migration Online (FMO), TALL NewsletterFMO (RSC), TALL and CCNMTL have recently received major funding for an innovative new project. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has granted £200,000 for a two-year joint pilot study beginning in January 2002. . . Article: TALL at the the University of Oxford: News New Smart Room Utilizes Technology to Enhance Teaching and Learning Process, Columbia University RecordHere in 308 Lewisohn, technology plus traditional lecture equals a new kind of learning experience for students, and a creative but surprisingly natural teaching experience for professors. . . Online Course Info Now Available: Columbia's new online program seems promising to both students and teachers, Columbia SpectatorAs part of its latest effort to move academics out of the ivory tower and onto the World Wide Web, Columbia launched a University-wide online course management system last month. . . Article: Columbia Spectator Online - Online Course Info Now Available CERC and CCNMTL Offer 5 Week Summer Ecosystem Experience in Brazil, Columbia University RecordA global understanding of biomes is essential for students preparing to address the environmental concerns of the 21st century. . . Article: Columbia University Record - CERC and CCNMTL Offer 5 Week Summer Ecosystem Experience in Brazil CourseWorks' Website Tool to Provide Faculty with New Course Management System, Columbia University RecordThis spring, faculty and students on the Morningside campus will have access to CourseWorks@Columbia, a new course management system that will enable them to publish course syllabi online, regularly update and post online course materials, and even create a course bulletin board, easily and on their own using their desktop computer. . . Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning Supports Digital Innovation in Classroom-Based Teaching and Learning, Columbia DigitalColumbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) is a faculty service organization that encourages and supports innovation in teaching and learning in the classroom using digital technologies. In an era increasingly defined by new technologies, the Center brings the best practices in new media teaching and learning to the fore. . . Enhancing Education in the 21st Century: Three-Part Strategy Brings Columbia Digital Media to Campus, the Public and the Marketplace, Columbia DigitalThe technological revolution brought on by the Internet and digital technologies is transforming the way almost all human transactions are conducted, including teaching and learning. . . Columbia's Digital Media Initiatives Bring Teaching Tools, Business Opportunities and More Exposure For Columbia Faculty, Columbia DigitalEach of the three organizations included in Columbia's digital media strategy bring a number of benefits and resources to faculty. The following is a guide to understanding each organization from a faculty perspective, including directions on how faculty can work with each organization. . . Article: Columbia Digital Top Wired Colleges, Yahoo! Internet LifeWith its innovative use of video and audio to preserve and re-create lectures, Columbia's Center for New Media Teaching and Learning is a model for Universities nationwide.
Yahoo! Internet Life Ranked Columbia University On Its Top 100 ListOctober 2001. Yahoo! Internet Life ranked Columbia University 22nd on its list of the Top 100 Most Wired Colleges saying,
You can view the complete list and read explanations of their criteria at Wired Colleges. Download Yahoo! Wired Colleges Non-Traditional 'Brownfield Action' CD-ROM Brings New Rules to Teaching and Learning, Columbia University RecordStudents interact with the Brownfield Action's virtual town through a map interface. By selecting areas on the map, such as the vineyard shown above, students can visit residences and local businesses in the town to gather information for their site investigation. . . Article: Columbia University Record - Brownfield Action Feld Challenges Tradition in Teaching Students the Masterworks of Western Music, Columbia University RecordThe class is Feld's section of Music Humanities (http://www.columbia.edu/itc/music/feld/c1123), a core curriculum course in which all Columbia students, music majors and non-majors, are exposed to the "masterworks" of Western music. . . Faculty Can Sample Columbia-developed Digital Education Tools at New Media Conference March 9, Columbia University RecordColumbia faculty and instructors can learn more about the University's new media teaching and learning projects and online learning ventures during a March 9th new media conference entitled "Moving Education Into the 21st Century with New Media" . . . Uptown CCNMTL Open House Jan. 25, Columbia University RecordThe Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning has opened a Health Sciences office in the Fort Washington Armory building at 168th St. to accommodate the expanding use of digital technologies in Columbia's health sciences curriculum. Article: Columbia University Record - Uptown CCNMTL Open House Jan. 25 Grad Students Help Place Course Syllabi Online, Columbia University RecordIt wasn't until two years ago when the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) opened, that faculty were able to get a course syllabus published online, a web site developed or a bulletin board built for free. . . Article: Columbia University Record - Grad Students Help Place Course Syllabi Online Intellectual Property Rights Attorney to Speak at Columbia University, Columbia University RecordThe next session of the University Seminar on New Media Teaching and Learning will be the first annual joint event of the Seminar and the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning. . . Article: Columbia University Record - Grad Students Help Place Course Syllabi Online Center for New Media Teaching and Learning Supporting faculty's use of technology, Columbia College TodayNot long ago, George Flynn, Higgins Professor of Chemistry, was finishing his lectures with a hoarse throat and powdered palms. His students would retreat home with sketches hastily reconstructed from Flynn's renditions on the chalkboard, and a bit of fatigue from deciphering professorial handwriting. . . Desert Yields Secrets to Columbia Junior, Columbia University RecordAngela Barranco, a Columbia College junior and environmentalist, was one of the five students who earned the nickname "hardcore wild desert woman" this past summer while studying at Columbia's Biosphere 2 facility in Arizona as part of the Summer Ecosystem Experiences for Undergraduates program (SEE-U). . . Article: Columbia University Record - Desert Yields Secrets to Columbia Junior Teaching tech to the teachers, Geek.comNew York's Columbia University spent $12 million on its Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CNMTL) and is now showing professors how to use technology to teach more effectively. . . Article: Geek.com - Teaching Tech to the Teachers Professors try to keep up with cyberage, Christian Science MonitorColumbia University's new media center helps technophobic teachers create multimedia lectures and course Web sites. . . Articles: CS Monitor - Professors try to keep up with cyberage Frank Moretti: Education Revolution, Columbia News Video BriefJust as medieval scribes could not have anticipated the impact of the invention of the printing press, educators today cannot yet foresee the revolution in educational practices that digital multi-media and the Internet will spawn. -- Frank Moretti, executive director, Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning. . . Article:Columbia University Record - Frank Moretti: Education Revolution Grad Students Rev Up Web For Faculty, Macs In Action"The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach." Sophocles may not exactly have had Columbia University's computing environment in mind when he uttered those words, but the philosopher had a teachers can often learn a great deal from their students. . . Article: Apple.com - Grad Students Rev Up Web For Faculty Teaching and Learning Beyond the Classroom Walls: Columbia Courses Enhanced and Extended by Web-based Tools, Columbia University RecordAccording to Szlanic, the electronic classroom allows supplemental conversation practice through a second, informal classroom, which is helping students overcome first-year language fear. . . Article: Columbia University Record - Teaching and Learning Beyond the Classroom Walls New High-Tech Hub Branches into Lewisohn: Technology in Teaching and Learning becomes a General Studies priority at Columbia University, The Columbia OwlEmbracing technology in the classroom, General Studies has made room in Lewisohn Hall for a satellite extension of Columbia University's Center for New Media Teaching & Learning (CCNMTL). . . Article: The OWL Online - New High-Tech Hub Branches into Lewisohn Bringing Faculty Up to Speed on the Information Superhighway, Columbia University RecordTaking Columbia University one giant step further into a brave new digital world, the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching & Learning (CCNMTL) opened its doors to faculty on March 1. . . Article: Columbia University Record - Bringing Faculty Up to Speed on the Information Superhighway | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Wired Colleges - Top 100 Chart 2001 
