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Announcements:
Fall Premiere Launches New Services

August 8, 2007. Emerging technologies, particularly in the areas of user-created content and social networking, are influencing pedagogy and learning around the world and on the Columbia University campus. Join your fellow faculty and instructors at the Fall Premiere to learn how these developments can enhance your curriculum and actively engage your students in learning, writing, and research this fall. This hour-long event will demonstrate the use of wikis, podcasts, iTunesU, CourseWorks, and other Web 2.0 services.

Date: Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
Time: 11:00 am-12:00 pm
Location: 203 Butler Library

Announcements:
Video from Open Content Conference Available

August 6, 2007. Video and audio recordings of the Video, Education, and Open Content meeting held at Columbia University this spring are now available on the site. Podcast versions are also available.

: Video, Education, & Open Content: Best Practices

Announcements:
Fall Workshops and Events

July 28, 2007. Attend our newly designed workshops for faculty during the weeks of August 27th and September 4th: Discovering Collaboration Tools, Using Digital Resources for Teaching, CourseWorks I & II, and much more. There are more than 20 dates and times to choose from and all sessions are 45 minutes long. See workshop descriptions and register online for the workshops below.
CourseWorks I: An Introduction
Monday, August 27, 2007: 11am - 11:45am
Tuesday, August 28, 2007: 11am - 11:45am
Thursday, August 30, 2007: 11am - 11:45am
Tuesday, September 4, 2007: 2pm - 2:45pm
Thursday, September 6, 2007: 11am - 11:45am
Friday, September 7, 2007: 1pm - 1:45pm

CourseWorks II: More Features
Tuesday, August 28, 2007: 12:15pm - 1pm
Thursday, August 30, 2007: 12:15pm - 1pm
Wednesday, September 5, 2007: 11am - 11:45am
Wednesday, September 5, 2007: 2pm - 2:45pm
Friday, September 7, 2007: 2pm - 2:45pm

Using Digital Resources for Teaching: An Overview
Monday, August 27, 2007: 12:15pm - 1pm
Tuesday, September 4, 2007: 3pm - 3:45pm

Discovering Collaboration Tools
Wednesday, August 29, 2007: 12:15pm - 1pm
Wednesday, September 5, 2007: 12:15pm - 1pm
Monday, September 10, 2007: 11am - 11:45am

Teaching with Audio and Video
Wednesday, August 29, 2007: 2pm - 2:45pm
Monday, September 10, 2007: 12:15pm - 1pm

Teaching with Digital Text and Image
Thursday, August 30, 2007: 2pm - 2:45pm
Thursday, September 6, 2007: 12:15pm - 1pm

See workshop descriptions and register online or contact us at (212) 854-9058 or ccnmtl-workshops@columbia.edu to register for a session or for more information

In The News:
Global Health Research Center in Central Asia Opens

July 31, 2007. The Columbia homepage featured an article on the new Global Health Research Center in Central Asia, a partnership of the Columbia University School of Social Work's Social Intervention Group, the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy and the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning. Based in Almaty, Kazakhstan, this is the first research center on global health established by a university in Central Asia, serving Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan. It will develop effective solutions to pressing health problems and help reduce health disparities in Central Asia, which is experiencing one of the fastest-growing HIV epidemics in the world.

View full article.

Announcements:
Press Release: NIMH Grant for Multimedia Connect

July 30, 2007. The Columbia University School of Social Work’s Social Intervention Group (SIG) and the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and
Learning (CCNMTL) announced the receipt of a $3.5 million,
five-year research grant award from the National Institute of
Mental Health (NIMH). The goal of the collaborative project is to
evaluate the outcomes of using multimedia and Web-based technology
to disseminate an HIV prevention program.

View full press release (PDF)

Announcements:
Summer CourseWorks Workshops: CU Medical Center

June 27, 2007. CCNMTL offers workshops for instructors interested in learning the basics of the CourseWorks course management system. These one-hour sessions will provide an overview of CourseWorks and introduce participants to the system's rich features. All sessions meet in the PC Classroom on the second floor of the Hammer Health Sciences Library.

Introduction to CourseWorks

Learn the basics of course Web site development and how to apply technology to your teaching. The session covers the basics of CourseWorks, Columbia's course management system, and other tools.

Monday, July 9, 2007: 12pm - 1pm
Monday, July 16, 2007: 4pm - 5pm

CourseWorks+

Note: Participants of this workshop must have a basic knowledge of CourseWorks.

This workshop covers the discussion board and test/quiz features of Courseworks.

Wednesday, July 11, 2007: 12pm - 1pm
Wednesday, July 18, 2007: 4pm - 5pm

Announcements:
Summer Session II CourseWorks Workshops

June 18, 2007. CCNMTL offers workshops for instructors interested in learning the basics of the CourseWorks course management system. The one-hour sessions will provide an overview of CourseWorks and introduce participants to the system's rich features, including the Discussion Board and the best ways to incorporate multimedia resources for the classroom.

The following workshops will be held in 204 Butler Library.

Summer Session II Workshops:
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Introduction to CourseWorks
Thursday, June 28, 2007: 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Monday, July 2, 2007: 10:30am - 11:30am
Monday, July 2, 2007: 12:30pm - 1:30pm

Discussion Board
Monday, July 2, 2007: 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Media in the Classroom
Thursday, June 28, 2007: 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Register online or contact us at (212) 854-9058 or ccnmtl-workshops@columbia.edu to register for a session or for more information.

Announcements:
CCNMTL Videos Vital in Texas

June 15,2007. More than 2,000 elementary mathematics educators in Texas will be trained using videos produced by the Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) as part of a project to improve the mathematics preparation of teachers nationwide. In May 2007, Math Teks - a partnership among Wireless Generation, Texas A&M University, and Columbia University- held workshops for 100 staff developers representing all 20 Texas Regional Service Centers and more than 20 Texas school districts. This group of 100 is expected to train an additional 20 educators each using the same approach.

The CCNMTL project, Video Interactions for Teaching and Learning (VITAL), is an interactive learning environment for courses in early childhood mathematics education developed in collaboration with Herbert P. Ginsburg, Jacob H. Schiff Foundations Professor of Psychology and Education at Teachers College. With the support of a $2.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation, VITAL will serve as a platform to disseminate curriculum for teachers, video demonstrations of children engaged in mathematical activities, and activities that make use of tools for analyzing and writing about video.

“We are delighted that VITAL is already making a national impact on teacher professional development. The interest of the Texas State Education Authority is an early indication of the significance of this project,” added CCNMTL executive director Frank A. Moretti.

CCNMTL staff taped more than 100 hours of video at pre-kindergarten and elementary classrooms across New York City and in New Jersey. The videos show children at play, children talking about mathematics with researchers, and teachers leading classroom lessons. The videos are organized according to content areas derived from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics standards, which track the developmental progression of children. The modules created by Wireless Generation and its university partners will train educators in identifying the mathematical development of children and appropriate pedagogical strategies, guiding student understanding, and developing assessment strategies to inform instruction.

Read more about VITAL

Read more about the Texas A&M University professional development modules.

Announcements:
Press Release: CCNMTL Hosts Open Content Meeting

June 7, 2007. CCNMTL hosted a two-day invitational symposium on May 22-23, gathering an international audience of leaders in the education, industry, and archival communities to build upon the work that CCNMTL and Intelligent Television have been conducting in the area of educational video, open productions, and commercial/non-commercial collaborations. Participants discussed new approaches -– economic, legal, and editorial -– to the creation and distribution of important new resources for open education and explored how video and open education can work together for the public good amidst rising concerns of copyright and fair use violations.

View full press release (PDF)

View Video, Education, and Open Content web site

Announcements:
University Seminar: Harlem Digital Archive

April 26, 2007. 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.

University Seminars in New Media Teaching and Learning

Date: Thursday, April 26, 4pm
Location: 203 Butler Library
Phone: (212) 854-9058

Announcements:
CourseWorks Adds Wimba Voice Boards

March 27, 2007. This semester, faculty and students in dozens of foreign language courses are using Horizon Wimba, a new voice tool that works seamlessly within the CourseWorks course management system.

Wimba’s “voice boards” allow students and instructors to hold audio- and text-based conversations within CourseWorks. Wimba extends classroom instruction by providing more opportunities for students to listen and respond to spoken language and to practice their own pronunciation and speaking fluency in the target language.

For questions on implementing Wimba in a language course, contact voiceboards@columbia.edu or Bill Koulopoulos at the Language Resource Center (vk169@columbia.edu).

Announcements:
Chief Judge Kaye Supports Collateral Consequences Site

March 20, 2007. Judith S. Kaye, Chief Judge of the State of New York, recognized the Collateral Consequences Calculator as a “fabulous online resource” and a "groundbreaking initiative" in her 2007 annual address, “The State of the Judiciary.” Produced in collaboration with Professor Conrad Johnson’s Lawyering in the Digital Age Clinic at the Columbia Law School, the Collateral Consequences Calculator 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.

Announcements:
E-Portfolios in Dental Schools

March 19, 2007. CCNMTL presented the Personal Lifelong Learning Project (PL3P) at the 84th annual session of the American Dental Education Association in New Orleans. These e-portolios have been used by residents in the Advanced Education in General Dentistry Residency Program at the Columbia School of Dental and Oral Surgery to document student work and program outcomes, promote collaboration and community, and manage administrative tasks.

PL3P was built on the open-source Plone platform, and customized to include forms for learning plans and Best Evidence Topics (BETs). CCNMTL published the PL3P software as a free download for other dental programs interested in adopting the e-portfolio methodology at the conference.

Personalized Lifelong Learning Projects

Announcements:
University Seminar: Toward a Democratic Digital Past

March 5, 2007. On March 15, please join CCNMTL and Roy Rosenzweig of George Mason University for a discussion on digital history projects in the next University Seminar for New Media Teaching and Learning. 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, 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.

University Seminars in New Media Teaching and Learning

Date: Thursday, March 15th, 4pm
Location: 523 Butler Library
Phone: (212) 854-9058
Register online

Announcements:
Decision-Making Tools for CRED

February 8, 2007. CCNMTL has partnered with the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions (CRED) to build online tools that will both enhance the group's research on human decision making and demonstrate these concepts to students in "Psychology: Thinking and Decision Making," taught by Professor Elke Weber.

Students in the course used a pilot of the CRED Decision-Making Tool to focus on glacial retreat on Mount Kilimanjaro. The tool provided two modules: an analytic presentation of information about glacial retreat on Mount Kilimanjaro as well as an experiential presentation of the same material. Students were randomly assigned to work through specific modules, and then asked to participate in a survey that measured how well they retained the material they studied, as well as any related behavioral intentions and attitudes they may have formed.

According to the course instructors, the online tool demonstrated experiential and analytical processing more effectively than conventional classroom methods. They reported that students not only learned about global warming, but also about the psychology of decision making.

View demo of CRED Decision-Making Tools

Announcements:
New Site: Podcasting at Columbia

January 24, 2007. The new Podcasting at Columbia site provides a list of audio and video podcasts that are available for courses and events at Columbia University. The site also serves as a resource, featuring a growing library of articles examining technical and pedagogical aspects of podcasting as well as how-to's and product reviews.

Podcasting at Columbia

Announcements:
University Seminar: The Triangle Initiative, Feb. 8

January 23, 2007. CCNMTL's Triangle Initiative represents a new way for the University's three major goals -- research, education and active community engagement -- to work in synchrony, so that research informs and extends into the classroom and beyond. Projects within the Triangle Initiative leverage applied research to create effective educational tools and accessible multimedia elements that serve the classroom as well as the health and service needs of the larger community.

This seminar will discuss the first two established Triangle projects in the CCNMTL portfolio, Multimedia Connect and Collateral Consequences of Criminal Prosecution.

University Seminars in New Media Teaching and Learning

Date: Thursday, February 8th, 4pm
Location: 523 Butler Library
Phone: (212) 854-9058
Register online

Announcements:
Spring CourseWorks Workshops: CU Medical Center

December 15, 2006. CCNMTL offers workshops for instructors interested in learning the basics of the CourseWorks course management system. These one-hour sessions will provide an overview of CourseWorks and introduce participants to the system's rich features. All sessions meet in the PC Classroom on the second floor of the Hammer Health Sciences Library.

CourseWorks Basic Workshop

Learn the basics of course Web site development and how to apply technology to your teaching. The session covers the basics of CourseWorks, Columbia's course management system, and other tools.

Wednesday, January 17, 2007: 12pm - 1pm

CourseWorks Advanced Workshop

Note: Participants of this workshop must have a basic knowledge of CourseWorks.

Learn advanced Web site development and how to apply technology to your teaching. The session covers more advanced topics of CourseWorks, Columbia's course management system, and other tools.

Wednesday, January 24, 2007: 12pm - 1pm

Announcements:
Spring CourseWorks Workshops: Morningside

December 12, 2006. CCNMTL offers workshops for instructors interested in learning the basics of the CourseWorks course management system. The one-hour sessions will provide an overview of CourseWorks and introduce participants to the system's rich features, including the Discussion Board and the best ways to incorporate multimedia resources for the classroom.

The following workshops will be held in 204 Butler Library.

Spring Workshops:
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Introduction to CourseWorks
Thursday, January 11, 2007: 10:30am - 11:30am
Thursday, January 11, 2007: 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Friday, January 12, 2007: 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Tuesday, January 16, 2007: 10:30am - 11:30am
Tuesday, January 16, 2007: 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Tuesday, January 16, 2007: 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Wednesday, January 17, 2007: 10:30am - 11:30am
Wednesday, January 17, 2007: 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Thursday, January 18, 2007: 12:30pm - 1:30pm

Discussion Boards
Thursday, January 11, 2007: 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Wednesday, January 17, 2007: 3:30pm - 4:30pm

Media in the Classroom
Friday, January 12, 2007: 10:30 - 11:30am
Thursday, January 18, 2007: 10:30am - 11:30am

Register online or contact us at (212) 854-9058 or ccnmtl-workshops@columbia.edu to register for a session or for more information.

CourseWorks for Language Instructors
In addition, the following workshops will be held at the Language Resource Center in the International Affairs Building:

Friday, January 19, 2007: 2:00pm-4:00pm
Friday January 26, 2007: 2:00pm-4:00pm

For more information on CourseWorks workshops for language departments, contact vk169@columbia.edu.

Announcements:
Havel at Columbia Podcasts Featured on iTunes

December 8, 2006. The iTunes Store Podcast Directory featured the Havel at Columbia podcasts as one of its "New and Notable" educational podcasts. The podcasts document the many lectures, panels, and presentations that took place during the fall semester during Václav Havel's residency at Columbia University. The audio and video podcasts are available to anyone who visits the iTunes site.

Announcements:
University Seminar: Siva Vaidhyanathan

December 6, 2006. Siva Vaidhyanathan, associate professor of Culture and Communication at New York University, will lead the University Seminar on New Media Teaching and Learning 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.

Date: Thursday, December 14, 2006, 4pm
Location: 523 Butler Library
Phone: (212) 854-9058
Register online

University Seminars in New Media Teaching and Learning

Siva Vaidhyanathan's blog

Announcements:
Five Years of CourseWorks at Columbia

December 5, 2006. This winter marks the fifth anniversary of CourseWorks at Columbia. When the course management system was first introduced in Spring 2002, it was used in about 640 courses. During the Fall 2006 semester, it has been used by more than 2,700 courses throughout Columbia University by more than 25,000 faculty, staff, and students. Over the years, CourseWorks has evolved to meet the growing needs of the University including a photo roster feature for instructors; an improved discussion board interface; a quiz and poll option; and guest access for Columbia-affiliated users with a valid UNI. These evolutionary changes will continue while we research a more comprehensive replacement that will incorporate many of the recent innovations in educational and colaborative tools while maintaining a solid course management infrastructure.

CourseWorks is offered by CUIT and the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning in close coordination with the Libraries and Columbia University Biomedical and Health Information Services. For more information on how to take advantage of the many features offered by CourseWorks, please browse the documentation or attend one of the workshops that will be offered in the upcoming spring semester.

View CUIT news

Announcements:
Press Release: Havel at Columbia Site Released

October 26, 2006. The Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning, in partnership with the Columbia University Arts Initiative, has released the Havel at Columbia site, a resource to support former Czech President Václav Havel's seven-week residency on campus. While he is on campus, the University community will pay tribute to his life and ideas with a number of lectures, symposia, screenings, and panel discussions.

The Havel at Columbia site contains a wide range of teaching and learning materials for classroom study of Havel's life and art, and will continue to grow throughout the semester as events and materials are added. The multimedia resource features video interviews with scholars, artists, and political figures contributing their insights on Václav Havel's legacy as an artist and political leader, including Dean Lisa Anderson from the School of International and Public Affairs, former President George H. W. Bush, Edward Albee, Milos Forman, Lou Reed, and George Soros. A timeline of events, an image glossary with photographs and primary documents, and archival footage from television and films provide historical context for the Velvet Revolution and Havel's presidency, making the site a rich educational resource both during and beyond his campus residency. The site will eventually feature video recordings of the many lectures, performances, and presentations that will take place through December. These will be available to view online and downloadable as podcasts.

View full press release (PDF)

Havel at Columbia

Announcements:
University Seminar: The Evolution of Video in Education

October 23, 2006. Join CCNMTL for a demonstration of Video Interactions for Teaching and Learning (VITAL) and a panel discussion on how the use of video has involved in educational practice. CCNMTL educational technologists will provide an overview of how the application is being used in a wide range of courses and discpline across Columbia University, from the School of Social Work to the School of the Arts.

Date: Thursday, November 2, 2006, 4pm
Location: 523 Butler Library
Phone: (212) 854-9058
Register online

University Seminar in New Media Teaching and Learning

Announcements:
University Seminar: Yochai Benkler

October 5, 2006. 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.

Date: Thursday, October 5, 2006, 4pm
Location: 523 Butler Library
Register online

University Seminars in New Media Teaching and Learning

Announcements:
New VITAL Released to Columbia and Hunter College

September 20, 2006. 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 and Learning.

In 2004, the National Science Foundation awarded CCNMTL a $2.5 million grant to support the development of "Video Interactions for Teaching and Learning (VITAL): A Learning Environment for Courses in Early Childhood Mathematics Education" over five years. Led by the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning and Professor Herbert Ginsburg at Teachers College, the project will develop and distribute model courses and a Web-based resource to enhance undergraduate- and graduate-level mathematics education programs across the country. CCNMTL has also partnered with the Hunter College School of Education, where a great number of teachers in the New York public school system are trained in early childhood education.

Now more than two years into the grant period, CCNMTL has conducted extensive design research, gathering evaluations from faculty and student users to redesign and re-engineer the application for improved usability and to provide a more robust environment in which students watch videos and compose multimedia essays.

NSF funding has also enabled the project partners to videotape hundreds of new clips of young children engaged in mathematical activities, which are essential to the VITAL mathematics education curriculum. Faculty can adapt the model course according to their needs, whether they are teaching the full curriculum or a discrete modules to graduate or undergraduate students. During the remainder of the five-year grant period, the project partners will test VITAL and the new courses at universities around the country and conduct an evaluation of student learning outcomes.

This semester's VITAL 3.0 release is a limited test run of the new application, which is slated to be rolled out in a wider release in spring 2007. An earlier version is currently used in courses across several disciplines at Columbia University, including clinical social work, foreign languages, and film studies.

VITAL: Early Childhood Mathematics

Announcements:
NSF Grant to Enhance Brownfield Action

September 18, 2006. The National Science Foundation has awarded a grant of $450,000 to support the development and expansion of the award-winning environmental simulation Brownfield Action. The NSF-funded proposal, "Brownfield Action: Expansion and Evaluation of a Proven Inquiry-Based Approach to Teaching and Learning Environmental Science," is led by principal investigators Peter Bower, senior lecturer in the Department of Environmental Science at Barnard College and Frank Moretti, CCNMTL executive director. The grant will be used to update the simulation and to evaluate its effectiveness as it is deployed at partner institutions New York University, Connecticut College, Lafayette College, and Georgia State University.

In Brownfield Action, students play the role of environmental scientists charged with probing terrain suspected of being contaminated. The application simulates an actual field investigation, including interviews with local citizens and imposes budgetary constraints on the "scientists" as they collect and analyze data using tools to probe the ground, each with its own cost. Brownfield Action was named one of the Association of American Colleges and Universities' four Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities models in 2003.

Announcements:
Havel at Columbia site released

September 15, 2006. At the invitation of President Bollinger, Václav Havel will spend seven weeks during the fall 2006 semester at Columbia University, participating in lectures, interviews, conversations, classes, performances, and panels centered on his life and ideas. To accompany his residency, the CU Arts Initiative and the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning present Havel at Columbia. This multimedia resource features video interviews with a range of scholars and friends of Václav 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 site also contains a wide range of material about Havel's life and art, including a timeline of events, image glossary, and archival films that can be used in the classroom during and beyond his campus residency.

Havel at Columbia

Announcements:
Virtual Techniques in Dentistry (VirTechs) Released

September 12, 2006. Faculty from the College of Dental Medicine have collaborated with CCNMTL to update Virtual Techniques in Dentistry (VirTechs). The Web site serves as a multimedia laboratory procedure manual, providing students with immediate access to a collection of videos of dental procedures from Dental Anatomy and Occlusion, Pediatrics, and Endodontics. Students have the option of viewing each procedure with captions or without, and to navigate the videos by using bookmarks that indicate discrete steps within each procedure. The site emphasizes functionality and easy access to the videos, which can be viewed online or downloaded to a computer. Additionally, the procedures are available as enhanced video podcasts for use with video iPods. Each module includes PDFs of the transcript and full-color armamentarium descriptions.

VirTechs

Announcements:
Press Release: Spring Grants for CCNMTL and Partners

August 30, 2006. The Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) has secured or helped secure substantial grant funding this past spring. Most of the funding will support the deployment of innovative technologies for course work and the development of pedagogical strategies that encourage students to engage fully with course material in disciplines that span the humanities, sciences, and social sciences, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels. A new facet to some of these grant-funded projects is a community service-oriented component, part of CCNMTL's new Triangle Initiative that seeks to extend the benefits of University research into the classroom and to the community beyond Columbia.

View press release (PDF)

Announcements:
CCNMTL Hosts Big Apple Plone Sprint

June 29, 2006. From July 5-7, 2006, CCNMTL will host the Big Apple Plone Sprint. Plone is an open source content management system that the Center has used to deliver a number of projects. At a software sprint, a number of developers from various companies or institutions gather to work on programming challenges in a concentrated effort. This sprint will focus on additions to Plone that can make an impact in educational technology, including RSS, podcasting, annotations, tagging, and blogging.

Big Apple Sprint 2006

Announcements:
College of Dental Medicine Faculty Discuss CCNMTL Tools

June 6, 2006. The annual College of Dental Medicine (CDM) retreat, held on Saturday, June 2nd, featured workshops designed by CCNMTL highlighting current and potential uses of technology to help the faculty teach more effectively. In a series of group sessions, CCNMTL staff moderated discussions on topics including:

Teaching Clinical Techniques - Video Technologies, VirTechs, VITAL
Case-Based Learning - Case Building Tool, Image Annotation Tool, Image Database
Large Lecture Classes - Podcasting, Presentation Software, CourseWorks Best Practices
Portfolios - Supporting Life-Long Learning, Assessment and Communities of Learning

The goal of the workshops was to expose CDM faculty to technologies, some already in use by the school, that can enhance teaching and learning as well as to gauge their particular needs as a group. The sessions led to interesting and motivating discussions within the faculty.

Other schools and departments interested in similar workshops should email their CCNMTL contact or send email to ccnmtl@columbia.edu.

Announcements:
CCNMTL's International Journeys

June 2, 2006. Frank Moretti and Maurice Matiz travelled to the University of Glasgow from May 10-16 as part of a Columbia University contingent fostering greater collaboration between the two institutions. They presented the Center's work and methodology to many of the university's schools and departments, including medical and dental, veterinary, business, and education faculty, as well as to the new media group and the university's senior administration.

Meanwhile, Educational Technologist Jonathan Hall was invited to consult on the use of IT at the new King's Academy, a progressive, co-educational boarding high school in Jordan. From May 6-15, he visited the new campus, modeled on Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Massachusetts, to meet with numerous leaders in the Jordanian education and IT sectors, including Minister of Education Dr. Khaled Toukan and His Majesty King Abdullah II. The school, which will open in September 2007, is intended to be a leading institution internationally in the innovative use of technologies in educational, social, and operational life.

Announcements:
Film Language Glossary Evaluation Now Available

June 1, 2006. The Film Language Glossary 2005 evaluation report is now available on CCNMTL's Project Evaluations page.

The evaluation describes the context in which the Film Language Glossary was produced and implemented in Professor Richard Peña's Fall 2005 graduate course "Introduction to Film Studies." The document covers the design and deployment of the Glossary in Peña's class; an overview of the findings derived from this evaluation; and, finally, recommendations for future implementations of the Glossary in the classroom.

Film Language Glossary Evaluation

Announcements:
CDC Grant for School of Social Work's HIV Intervention

May 11, 2006. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has awarded the School of Social Work a two-year grant of $400,000 for the dissemination of an HIV intervention model developed by the Social Interventions Group. Led by Professor Susan Witte, Project Connect is the first relationship-based HIV/STI prevention intervention for couples to be developed and tested in efficacy trials. CCNMTL will receive $271,000 of the grant to help develop technology and media for Multimedia Connect.

Announcements:
Released: ePrep | Emergency Preparedness Training

April 28, 2006. The School of Nursing and the New York Presbyterian Healthcare System have released the ePrep project, a six-module series for hospital and community-based clinicians focusing on the command and management aspects of Emergency Preparedness. This project is part of a national effort to increase and improve emergency preparedness in hospitals throughout the United States.

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has supported this effort in recognition of the critical need to provide health care professionals across disciplines with skills that strengthen their ability to respond to public health emergencies (whether natural or manmade) within the larger context of city, state, and national emergency response plans and protocols.

CCNMTL worked with an advisory board from the Bioterrorism Curriculum Development Project and the New York-Presbyterian Healthcare System Preparedness Council to develop the modules: The Basics (of emergency preparedness), Biological Incidents, Chemical Incidents, Explosive Incidents, Radiological Incidents, and Incidents Affecting Children. Each module begins with a realistic scenario and continually engages users with cases, Q&A, reflective moments, and thought provoking questions. Users can elect to take each of the the modules for Continuing Education credit.

ePrep | Emergency Preparedness Training

Announcements:
Rebalancing Copyright Conference Podcasts Released

April 12, 2006. Audio and video podcasts from the Correcting Course: Rebalancing Copyright conference are now available. Held in May 2005, the conference attempted to promote a renewed activism in support of fair use and the full complement of copyright exceptions and limitations which enable libraries to serve their communities. Click on the links below to download the podcasts.

Announcements:
CCNMTL Projects Included in World Leaders Forum

March 22, 2006. The World Leaders Forum site features several CCNMTL projects as University-produced resources to supplement the Seen From Abroad film series that is taking place on campus this week. The three-day event features four full-length foreign films and a panel discussion between major international film critics moderated by David Denby, film critic for the New Yorker. The site features four CCNMTL projects: the Film Language Glossary, Kaleidoscope, Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children Multimedia Study Environment, and Dr. B. R. Ambedkar's Annihilation of Caste Multimedia Study Environment were selected for their relevance to the international films.

Announcements:
African-American Poets Wiki Launched

March 21, 2006. This spring, the African-American Poets: Brooks and Hughes wiki has been deployed in Professor Farah Griffin's undergraduate course, "African American Literature," which explores the development of black writing in the United States since the Harlem Renaissance.

Within the collaborative Web site, students are asked to conduct both a textual and extra-textual analysis of poems by Langston Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks by selecting key sections, phrases and words of the works to annotate as well as authoring and categorizing relevant discourse, such as the cultural context, social significance and relationship of the texts to other literary movements. At the conclusion of the semester, CCNMTL will evaluate how the design and deployment of the wiki supported Professor Griffin's curricular goals.

Announcements:
Open CourseWare Presented

March 3, 2006. On February 23, John Dehlin, Director of Outreach for the Center for Open and Sustainable Learning (COSL) based at Utah State University, joined CCNMTL for a presentation on the OpenCourseWare movement in which he described eduCommons, software that is available to assist Universities interested in hosting open courses.

Mr. Dehlin provided an overview of the OpenCourseWare project, which was inaugurated in 1999 when the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) began making their university course materials available for free on the Internet. Today, the materials for over 1200 courses can be found on http://ocw.mit.edu. Many other universities, including Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Tufts, Michigan, Utah State, Notre Dame, and several Japanese universities are now creating OpenCourseWare sites as well. These sites are providing tangible benefit to the participating universities, departments and faculty - not to mention learners all over the world.

Mr. Dehlin also discussed the OpenCourseWare Consortium, recently formed to provide support, awareness, and membership affiliation to all institutions who are interested in joining the OpenCourseWare movement.

The session was attended by staff from the Libraries, CUIT, Teachers College and CCNMTL, as well as students interested in the movement.

The Center for Open and Sustainable Learning

Announcements:
Carnegie Mellon Scientists Present at University Seminar

February 7, 2006. Scientists from Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Howard Wactlar, Michael Christel and Scott Stevens, demonstrated and discussed the educational application of two innovative video technologies, Informedia and CareMedia, at this month's University Seminar in New Media Teaching & Learning.

University Seminars in New Media Teaching and Learning

Announcements:
School of Social Work Maps Social Support Networks

February 6, 2006. School of Social Work Professor Susan Witte introduced an interactive version of the Social Support Network Map in her "Advanced Clinical Practice: Contemporary Social Problems" course. The Flash-based tool, developed by CCNMTL, allowed student pairs to easily and interactively create support maps for clients after having learned about the use of these maps in clinical practice. In a post course survey, students unanimously felt that the mapping tool helped them gain a better understanding of the clinical technique.

Announcements:
SimCity Incorporated into Art History Course

February 6, 2006. Last fall, Professor Hilary Ballon used the popular game SimCity in her "The American City: Urban Forms and Social Patterns" course to create realistic scenarios faced by urban designers. Working in groups, students developed strategies to deal with population growth, transportation and traffic, cultural and religious education, zoning, and infrastructure. One student reported, "Many of the challenges facing urban designers, like the difficulties in creating a comprehensive city-wide water system, which had seemed trivial in class, became all important when it came to enticing residents to the city. We saw the effect that different street grids had on growth and evaluated the boon that public transportation gave to neighborhoods."

Announcements:
New Media in Education 2006 Conference

January 27, 2006. The New Media in Education 2006: A Progress Report conference was held today with over 200 attendees treated to inspiring faculty panels and informative workshops. Participants represented numerous University departments and included a contingent from nearby colleges and universities. Video of the sessions will be released at the conference Web site soon.

NME2006 Conference Web Site

Announcements:
Spring CourseWorks Workshops: CU Medical Center

January 5, 2006. CCNMTL offers workshops for instructors interested in learning the basics of the CourseWorks course management system. These one-hour sessions will provide an overview of CourseWorks and introduce participants to the system's rich features. All sessions meet in the PC Classroom on the second floor of the Hammer Health Sciences Library.

CourseWorks Basic Workshop
Learn the basics of course Web site development and how to apply technology to your teaching. The session covers the basics of CourseWorks, Columbia's course management system, and other tools.

Wednesday, January 18, 2006: 11am - 12pm
Wednesday, January 25, 2006: 1pm - 2pm

CourseWorks Advanced Workshop
Note: Participants of this workshop must have a basic knowledge of CourseWorks.
Learn advanced Web site development and how to apply technology to your teaching. The session covers the basics of CourseWorks, Columbia's course management system, and other tools.

Friday, January 20, 2006: 10am - 11am
Friday, January 27, 2006: 11am - 12pm

Announcements:
2005 Client Survey Report Released

January 5, 2006. The Columbia Center for New Media Teaching & Learning (CCNMTL) has released its Fall 2005 client survey report. CCNMTL conducted 20-minute in-person surveys with a random sample of faculty clients in an effort to learn more about how faculty at Columbia are incorporating technology into their teaching and how effectively CCNMTL's service and outreach activities have been in helping faculty reach their goals. The results of the survey are available as a PDF below.

CCNMTL Fall 2005 Client Service Survey Report

Announcements:
CourseWorks Workshops for Instructors

December 8, 2005. CCNMTL offers workshops for instructors interested in learning the basics of the CourseWorks course management system. The one-hour sessions will provide an overview of CourseWorks and introduce participants to the system's rich features.

All workshops will be held in 204 Butler Library.

Introduction to CourseWorks
* Wednesday, January 11..........10:30-11:30am
* Wednesday, January 11..........12:30-1:30pm
* Wednesday, January 11..........2:00-3:00pm
* Thursday, January 12.............12:30pm-1:30pm
* Thursday, January 12.............2:00pm-3:00pm
* Friday, January 13.................10:30-11:30am
* Friday, January 13.................12:30-1:30pm
* Tuesday, January 17..............10:30-11:30am
* Tuesday, January 17..............12:30-1:30pm
* Tuesday, January 17..............2:00-3:00pm
* Wednesday, January 18..........10:30-11:30am
* Wednesday, January 18..........12:30-1:30pm
* Thursday, January 19.............10:30-11:30am
* Friday, January 20 ................10:30-11:30am

Discussion Boards
* Wednesday, January 11..........3:30-4:30pm
* Thursday, January 19.............12:30-1:30pm

Media in the Classroom
* Thursday, January 12.............10:30-11:30am
* Friday, January 20..................12:30-1:30pm

Announcements:
Personal Life-Long Learning Plans Launched

December 2, 2005. This summer, CCNMTL and the School for Dental and Oral Surgery introduced the Personal Life-Long Learning PLans (PL3P) to post-doctoral dental residents in the Advanced Education and General Dentistry and General Practice Residency courses. Funded by a three-year grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), PL3P serves as a portal for post-graduate dental education at Columbia, providing students with tools that promote active learning and reflection, including private home pages and blogs.

Students can upload files, including images, Word, and PowerPoint documents, into various folders that can be organized by topics, cases, or seminar presentations. Mentors can then review completed portfolios and provide feedback on student work. PL3P provides a space that promotes reflection and dialogue between residents and their mentors.

Announcements:
Dr. Letty Moss-Salentijn Discusses the IAT

November 18, 2005. At the University Seminar in New Media Teaching and Learning on November 17, Dr. Letty Moss-Salentijn described her experience with the Image Annotation Tool (IAT), a web-based application designed for students and faculty to upload, organize, categorize, present and annotate digital images. In this session, she provided an overview of the process of integrating the IAT into her histology course, where she uses the IAT to augment the presentation of histology slides.

Dr. Moss-Salentijn is the Dr. Edwin S. Robinson Professor of Dentistry in Anatomy and Cell Biology and Senior Associate Dean in the School of Dental and Oral Surgery.

University Seminar: Teaching and Learning with Digital Images: The Image Annotation Tool

Announcements:
CCNMTL Contributes MediaWiki Plug-ins

November 7, 2005. CCNMTL programmers have developed two plug-ins that make it easier for MediaWiki users to add category tags to organize entries within their collaborative Web sites.

MediaWiki software is the engine that powers the Wikipedia. At Columbia, CCNMTL has deployed the MediaWiki for several courses, including the Social Justice Movements Wiki for Robin Kelley's "Black Movements in the U.S" and the University Writing Program's (UWP) Instructors' Resource Site. While creating their wiki pages, the UWP instructors realized that they needed a more user-friendly way to organize pages within the site. The new Category Editor plug-in adds a menu of existing categories from which a user can select the appropriate category in which the wiki page that they are editing should be associated, and the Category Search plug-in makes it easy to find articles that are associated with certain categories. Contributing these plug-ins to the open source community helps improve the MediaWiki software, making it easier for multiple participants to collaboratively develop and edit a site.

See the Category Plug-in page at SourceForge.Net.

See a screenshot of the Category Editor plug-in.

Announcements:
Columbia and Stanford Share a Virtual Classroom

November 1, 2005. "African Civil Wars in Comparative Perspective," a graduate research seminar offered by the Political Science department here and at Stanford University, uses various technologies to create and share a virtual classroom space. The course, a collaboration between Professors Macartan Humphreys (Columbia) and Jeremy Weinstein (Stanford), engages students in the "rigorous, empirical analysis of multiple dimensions of contemporary civil conflict."

Using a networked-based video conferencing system and online tools to share data sets, presentations, and a whiteboard, the students grapple with data sets to debate issues surrounding civil war, including the organization of rebel groups and bargaining as a part of negotiating peace processes. Students in the Columbia course meet in the Experimental Digital Classroom in 308 Lewisohn Hall, which is outfitted with a Polycom video conferencing system complementing the SmartBoard system already in place.

Electronic Digital Classroom

Announcements:
Mark Phillipson Discusses Wikis in the Classroom

October 27, 2005. On Thursday, October 27, Dr. Mark Phillipson ('88C) shared his expertise with class wikis at the University Seminar for New Media Teaching and Learning. He discussed the effects of wikis on peer interaction, modes of analysis, notions of authority, and course organization based on his experience with wikis in his Romantic Audience course at Bowdoin College. Detailing his collaboration with educational technologists and librarians, Phillipson identified crucial areas of support for pedagogical wikis, and invited discussion of comparable projects at Columbia University.

University Seminar: Implementing a Class Wiki

Announcements:
Use of VITAL Continues to Grow

September 30, 2005. This fall, over 15 courses representing nearly 500 students are using CCNMTL's Video Interactions for Teaching & Learning (VITAL). The VITAL learning environment provides an online workspace where students can analyze video clips through guided lessons and develop multimedia essays that incorporate these video examples into their writing.

The courses that are deploying VITAL this semester span a broad range of schools and disciplines, including the School of Social Work, Teachers College, School of Dental and Oral Surgery and the School of Medicine. Other institutions using VITAL this semester include William Paterson University and the School at Columbia.

Announcements:
Du Bois MSE in Intro to African-American Studies

September 21, 2005. The Souls of Black Folk Multimedia Study Environment (MSE) will be integrated into Professor Manning Marable's Intro to African-American Studies undergraduate lecture course this fall. The MSE is based on W.E.B. Du Bois' 1903 collection of essays and contains references to both historical events and biographical experiences with archival film footage and music.

The Intro to African-American Studies course is a survey that covers African-American culture from its historical foundations and background to the modern black experience, from the struggle against slavery to the Harlem Renaissance. Students will be assigned to read specific sections of the Souls of Black Folk and to view historical film clips as well as video commentary from Professors Manning Marable, Casey Blake, Robert O'Meally, and Alan Brinkley throughout the semester.

The Souls of Black Folk MSE

Announcements:
New Online Music Reserves Launched

September 9, 2005. Students and faculty in the Music Humanities courses this fall will use the new, improved Online Music Reserves. This resource provides faculty and students with access to to an expanded collection of classical works selected specifically for the Music Humanities curriculum. Faculty can link to individual tracks or entire works from their CourseWorks sites, or they can direct students to explore the Reserves themselves. The new Reserves feature improved audio quality and are available to Columbia students both on and off campus with a UNI and high-speed connection.

Announcements:
Expanded Film Language Glossary Released

September 8, 2005. This fall, CCNMTL and the Butler Media Library have launched an upgraded Film Language Glossary for students involved in the production and study of motion pictures. Glossary definitions are enhanced by images, animations, and sample film clips, many of which feature expert commentary and annotations by Columbia film professors. Over 65 new entries were added by contributors Richard Peña, James Schamus, Larry Engel and David McKenna. Courses using the Glossary in the fall 2005 semester include "Intro to Film Studies," "Senior Seminar in Film" and "Screenwriting."

Film Language Glossary

"CCNMTL Uses Big Screen Classics to Teach Film Fundamentals" in the Columbia News (October 31, 2005)

Announcements:
Fall CourseWorks Workshops: Morningside Campus

August 23, 2005. CCNMTL offers workshops for instructors interested in learning the basics of the CourseWorks course management system. The one-hour sessions will provide an overview of CourseWorks and introduce participants to the system's rich features.

Workshops will be held in 204 Butler Library from 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm, except where noted.

CourseWorks Mini-Workshop
Learn the basics of course Web site development and how to apply technology to your teaching. The session covers the basics of CourseWorks, Columbia's course management system, and other tools.

Thursday, September 1 (10:30a and 12:30p)
Thursday, September 1 (2:30p in 306 Butler Lib)
Friday, September 2 (12:30p and 2:00p)
Tuesday, September 6
Wednesday, September 7
Thursday, September 8
Friday, September 9
Monday, September 12

CourseWorks Workshop: Discussion Boards
Note: Participants of this workshop must have a basic knowledge of CourseWorks
Strategies and techniques for using the course discussion board are explained and explored so that it can serve as an effective component of your course.
Learn how to manage and organize your CourseWorks discussion board.

Monday, September 19

CourseWorks Workshop: Tests & Quizzes
Note: Participants of this workshop must have a basic knowledge of CourseWorks
Learn how to create surveys in CourseWorks that solicit valuable feedback from your students. In this session we will cover how to create a survey using the Test & Quiz section in CourseWorks and different techniques for creating an effective survey.

Tuesday, September 20

Media in the Classroom: Audio, Images, and Video
Note: Participants of this workshop must have a basic knowledge of CourseWorks
Learn strategies for using audio, images, and video in your class. In this session we will cover some of the tools available to you, as well as demonstrate current uses of media in the classroom.

Wednesday, September 21

CourseWorks for Language Instructors
In addition, CCNMTL will offer "refresher" workshops for language instructors who may have specific questions about using CourseWorks for language instruction. These workshops will be held in the Language Resource Center from 12:00 - 1:30pm.

Thursday, October 6
Friday, October 7
Tuesday, October 11
Wednesday, October 12

Announcements:
Fall CourseWorks Workshops: CU Medical Center

August 22, 2005. Join CCNMTL for CourseWorks workshops before the semester heats up. All sessions meet in the PC Classroom on the second floor of the Hammer Building

CourseWorks Basic Workshop
Learn the basics of course Web site development and how to apply technology to your teaching. The session covers the basics of CourseWorks, Columbia's course management system, and other tools.

Thursday, August 25: 1pm
Tuesday, August 30: 11am
Tuesday, September 6: 11am

CourseWorks Advanced Workshop
Note: Participants of this workshop must have a basic knowledge of CourseWorks
Learn advanced Web site development and how to apply technology to your teaching. The session covers the basics of CourseWorks, Columbia's course management system, and other tools.

Thursday, September 1: 1pm
Thursday, September 8: 1pm

For more information on workshops, please contact us at (212) 854-9058 or ccnmtl-workshops@columbia.edu.

Announcements:
Recent Publications by CCNMTL

August 2, 2005. The Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning has been busy writing and contributing to academic journals and books, both at Columbia and internationally. Frank Moretti, John Frankfurt, and David Miele co-authored "Malcolm X: Digital Media in a New Age of Learning and Research" in SOULS. The article describes the history of the Multimedia Study Environment and discusses the development of the Malcolm X Multimedia Study Environment (MXMSE).

Frank Moretti also contributed chapters to two books: "Support in the Use of New Media" in Supporting E-Learning: A Guide for Library and Information Managers, and "What have we learned and how have we learned it? Examples of Best Practices of a New Media Services and Development Center in Higher Education," translated into German for Online-Pädagogik, Band 3, edited by Burkhard Lehmann and Egon Bloh.

With publications like these, CCNMTL continues to play an active role in shaping the academic conversation on digital technologies and student learning.

Announcements:
Deconstructing Commercials

July 25, 2005. During Summer Session I, the Deconstructor was used in Robert Gilbralter's class, "Strategy and Creativity in Today's Marketplace," a nine-week summer course that focuses on reading print advertisements and video commercials. Initially launched as a tool to facilitate the close analysis of movie clips in film studies courses, students used the Deconstructor to analyze television commercials. Gibralter asked students to examine when and how the product was shown or mentioned, where a viewer's attention was directed and how, and to observe other visual or audio clues in the background in order to perform a close textual analysis.

Announcements:
CCNMTL Shares Stickies Product With Plone Community

July 18, 2005. CCNMTL is actively developing PloneStickies, a content annotation solution that borrows the idea of "sticky notes" and applies it to Web pages. The product is currently being developed as a plugin for the Plone Content Management System, an open source CMS and development platform that is being successfully used in several educational web environments, including the Educational Multimedia Case Constructor (EMCC). Within the EMCC, students use stickies to attach notes to images, videos, and other multimedia assets. CCNMTL has made an initial release of this product available to the Open Source Community with the hope that others will benefit from this technology, and reciprocally continue to advance its development. Additional features are currently in the works that will allow users to attach more than one note to an asset, provide an enhanced user interface, as well as allow students to "tag" assets with keywords.

Educational Multimedia Case Constructor

Plone Stickies

Announcements:
Instructional Design for GIS Fellows

June 10, 2005. As a participating member of the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Working Group, an organization dedicated to expanding GIS activity at Columbia, CCNMTL has been offering guidance on Instructional Design to graduate summer fellows. Educational Technologist Ryan Kelsey's contribution to the weekly workshops cover effective teaching practices, from setting educational goals to evaluating student work.

A recipient of an Academic Quality Fund (AQF) grant from the University, the GIS Working Group has organized a Summer Fellows Program for graduate students representing a broad range of social sciences departments from urban planning to public health. In addition to advancing their own research projects based on spatial information, fellows will design a one-week GIS course module to be integrated into a graduate course in their department, develop a spatial research bibliography listing exemplary papers relevant to their field of study, and compile an inventory of GIS-related research projects in their departments.

GIS Summer Fellows Program

Announcements:
Black Rock Forest Data in the Classroom

May 13, 2005. This spring, CCNMTL worked with the Black Rock Forest Consortium on an NSF-funded project to modernize wireless access to the Forest's remote sensing stations to allow access to real-time meteorological and stream data. Using a data viewing system designed by Vista Data Vision, students in Professor Kevin Griffin's Environmental Systems course studied Black Rock Forest's watershed-based environments to analyze rainfall and its correlation to stream flow. Students reported that they appreciated "the opportunity to examine real data" because the "intense data manipulation required us to understand the data and the situation to a much greater degree than other labs."

"The students came up with interesting questions to explore on their own and definitely got a true scientific experience using the lab," notes Professor Griffin. "I'm convinced this can be an excellent teaching tool."

Announcements:
Record Number of CourseWorks Sites

May 5, 2005. During the Spring 2005 semester, a record number of Columbia University courses actively used CourseWorks as class Web sites. More than 1,700 CourseWorks sites were activated, compared to 1,276 sites utilized in the previous Spring 2004 semester. At least 400 courses used the discussion boards section this semester, highlighting the growing popularity of using online communication tools to extend conversations beyond the classroom.

CCNMTL offers CourseWorks support for faculty with workshops and individual sessions. For more information, contact us at (212) 854-9058 or ccnmtl-workshops@columbia.edu.

Introduction to CourseWorks at Columbia.

Announcements:
CCNMTL and CUL Discuss Collaboration at ACRL

April 29, 2005. On April 8, 2005, Frank Moretti, Executive Director of CCNMTL, Jim Neal, Vice President of Information Services, and Patricia Renfro, Deputy University Librarian, made a presentation at the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) 12th National Conference in Minneapolis, MN. The presentation, "Menage à Trois: The Essential Computing, Library and Instructional Technology Partnership to Advance New Media Learning," discussed the collaboration among the computing, library, and instructional technology organizations at Columbia University.

View the presentation.

Download the PowerPoint presentation. (3.62 MB)

Announcements:
Journalism School Presents Case Study

April 22, 2005. On April 15-16, Dean David Klatell and a group of six students from the School of Journalism presented "Building the Front Page of the Washington Post" to more than 100 alumni and prospective students. The case study, produced in collaboration with CCNMTL, is an interactive learning environment that reconstructs the editorial process of designing the front page of a daily issue.

The multimedia case study presents students with background information on the The Washington Post. Students review the same news items that the editors of the newspaper considered for the June 16, 2004 issue and listen to audio clips of meetings from June 15 that document the editors' discussions and their decision-making process. Students then work out their own solutions, keeping the paper's mission, values, and readership in mind, as they reconstruct the layout of the front page. They are then able to compare their work to the actual front pages of The Washington Post and The New York Times that were published on June 16, 2004.

"I was delighted to work closely with the CCNMTL team because they brought so much to the table - ideas that pushed me and my Journalism School colleagues to re-conceptualize our original plans for developing The Washington Post case," said Dean Klatell. "Our alumni loved it."

Announcements:
NIH Grant for School of Nursing and CCNMTL

April 7, 2005. The National Institute of Health has awarded Dr. Suzanne Bakken of Columbia University's School of Nursing a $675,000 grant to develop "Mobile Decision Support for Advanced Practice Nursing." Beginning in September 2005, over 300 doctoral and nurse practitioner candidates will use Palm and Pocket PC devices in three practice areas: depression screening, smoking cessation, and obsesity management. CCNMTL will collaborate with the School of Nursing to design and develop this program, which promotes evidence-based, error-free patient care for nurses in training.

Announcements:
Educational Multimedia Case Constructor Expanded

April 6, 2005. This spring, an expanded Educational Multimedia Case Constructor (EMCC) has been deployed in Professor Angela Calabrese Barton's course in Urban Science Education at Teachers College. First launched in fall 2004 as a multimedia library, EMCC enables students to analyze case studies that frame some of the unique challenges of teaching science in urban, high-poverty classrooms.

EMCC provides education students with opportunities to observe authentic classroom interactions and interviews with children and to review supporting documentation and researcher commentaries. These materials are indexed in a multimedia library that contains images, audio, video, and text files. Students can attach notes to these materials and write extended essays responding to the various issues raised by the case studies.

By fall 2005, EMCC will also include a Case Builder that will enable advanced students to create new cases and upload new materials for analysis by other students.

Announcements:
Social Justice Movements Wiki Launches

March 24, 2005. This semester, students in Professor Robin Kelley's undergraduate course "Black Movements in the U.S." will develop the content of a new wiki, or collaborative Web site, about key social justice movements in New York City.

Developed in collaboration with CCNMTL, the Social Justice Movements wiki provides students the opportunity to create a Web site that will become a resource for exploring the broader political visions of these movements and their impact on local communities. Throughout the spring semester, students will explore organizations representing labor, civil rights, black liberation, reparations, socialism/communism, feminism, welfare rights, youth/Hip Hop activism, education, peace, environmental justice, and anti-globalization. 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.

Access to the Social Justice Movements wiki is currently restricted to students in the course. When the students have completed their work at the end of the semester, the Web site will be made available to the public. The Social Justice Movements wiki is one of several wiki projects that are being developed by CCNMTL this semester.

Announcements:
Tierno Bokar Resources Site Launches

March 22, 2005. The newly launched Tierno Bokar Educational Resources site is now available to the Columbia community as an extension of the public Web site for Peter Brook's production of Tierno Bokar this spring.

The Educational Resources site provides faculty and students with teaching material on the play's themes, including history, religion, cultural theory, and drama, featuring an original essay on Tierno Bokar, Hambâté Bâ, and Peter Brook. The site also presents a glossary of key terms, slideshows of visual material, and a timeline of West African history to help students frame the play within its historical and cultural context. Columbia faculty, including Peter Awn, Ousmane Kane, Andrei Serban, and Gregory Mann provide video commentaries about the historical and cultural significance of Tierno Bokar. Also included are video footage from Keita!, a documentary on Mali, and clips from The Empty Space, documenting Peter Brook's theater workshop at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1973.

Additional materials will continue to be added to the Web site during and after the Tierno Bokar production, making it a living resource for the Columbia community. The Educational Resources site is available to students and faculty with a Columbia UNI and password.

Tierno Bokar Web site

Tierno Bokar Educational Resources

Announcements:
Image Annotation Tool Released

March 16, 2005. CCNMTL has released The Image Annotation Tool (IAT), a Web-based application that facilitates the close study of digital images.

The IAT was developed for Dean Letty Moss-Salentijn's Orofacial Histology, Growth, and Development course in the School for Oral and Dental Surgery. In Professor Moss-Salentijn’s course, students review and study a set of clearly annotated histology slides of perfect structures. After studying the annotated slides, students are presented with a set of unmarked images that are representative of typical structures that they are likely to encounter in the real world. Students annotate the slides that are then reviewed by Professor Moss-Salentijn.

Although the IAT was developed for a histology course, it can be utilized in any discipline that requires the close study of images. The tool is especially useful for labeling maps, illustrating art images, or highlighting specific elements of a graphic.

Image Annotation Tool

Announcements:
March 23: CourseWorks Workshop for Instructors

March 15, 2005. CCNMTL offers the following workshop for instructors interested in using CourseWorks to create surveys.

CourseWorks Test & Quizzes Workshop
Wednesday, March 23, 2005 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Learn how to create surveys in CourseWorks that solicit valuable feedback from your students. In this session we will cover how to create a survey using the Test & Quiz section in CourseWorks and different techniques for creating an effective survey.

The workshop will be held in 204 Butler Library on the Morningside Campus. Register online or contact ccnmtl-workshops@columbia.edu for more information.

Announcements:
Tech note: QuickTime and Firewalls

March 8, 2005. QuickTime streaming can be affected by firewalls on personal computers. If you suspect that your firewall is preventing access to streaming clips, use the QuickTime Preferences to set the transport to HTTP using port 80. This should solve most firewall issues.

Details: QuickTime streams are typically transported via the RTP/RTSP protocol, but many firewalls (including the recent Windows XP Service Pack 2 firewall) block these protocols. Should you wish to open your firewall to the RTP/RTSP protocols, you need to do the following:

Open port 554 for RTSP/TCP data
Open ports 6970 through 6999 (inclusive) for RTP/UDP data.

Alternatively, you can grant the QuickTime player an exception, but media embedded in browsers will still encounter problems and the browsers must be granted a similar exception.

For more information on QuickTime for Windows, see:
http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/video/QT_pc/

Quicktime for Macs:
http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/video/QT_mac/

Announcements:
CCNMTL Celebrates 6th Anniversary

March 2, 2005. March 1 marked the 6th anniversary of the opening of CCNMTL as a service organization at Columbia University. During this time, we have worked to help, support, and inspire many instructors to reflect upon their roles as teachers, and to think about how new media and technology can reach students more effectively. We thank all of our partners for the inspirational and stimulating collaborations we maintain, and look forward to continuing along this path.

Announcements:
Malcolm X MSE Article in SOULS

February 27, 2005. Frank Moretti, John Frankfurt, and David Miele co-authored "Malcolm X: Digital Media in a New Age of Learning and Research," published in the journal SOULS. The article traces the history and evolution of the multimedia study environment from the first, based on Fredric Jameson's monograph "Postmodernism: or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism," to the many innovations featured in the latest release, The Autobiography of Malcolm X.

Announcements:
Kaleidoscope: Italian Cinema for Language Instruction

February 18, 2005. This semester, students in the Italian Department at Barnard College are using Kaleidoscope/Caleidoscopio, 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 of the dialogue (in Italian) and a glossary of relevant vocabulary terms. 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.

Kaleidoscope

Announcements:
Multimedia Study Environment Forum

February 17, 2005. On February 17, CCNMTL hosted an educational forum on the Multimedia Study Environment (MSE), The Autobiography of Malcolm X MSE.

With carefully selected annotations embedded within an online environment, the MSE is an innovative way to facilitate the close reading of a text. The Autobiography of Malcolm X MSE, produced in collaboration with the Center for Contemporary Black History (CCBH), presents the primary text with links to critical annotations that provide perspectives beyond the written word. In addition, the MSE 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.

Frank Moretti, Executive Director of CCNMTL, provided an historical overview of the evolution of the MSE from the first, on Fredric Jameson's monograph "Postmodernism: Or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism" to the 17th, The Autobiography of Malcolm X MSE, and describe some of the lessons learned and developments made along the way. John Frankfurt, CCNMTL Educational Technologist, conducted a demonstration of the MSE highlighting some of the innovations implemented with this project. Manning Marable, Director of the CCBH, shared his experiences with the MSE as an educational tool and discussed the value of the MSE for scholarship.

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Digital Media and the History of Science

February 10, 2005. On Thursday, February 10, Professor Adrian Johns of the University of Chicago led the University Seminar in New Media Teaching and Learning in a discussion of one of his major projects: Microcosmos, an online interactive environment that reproduces and conveys the skills of past scientific exploration to students. This highly interactive project asks students to assume the role of a scientist from the past and to develop a theory based on the intellectual resources available at that point in history. Microcosmos suggests new ways we could use digital media to enhance traditional teaching techniques in the sciences, but also to create new ones.

University Seminar: Digital Media and the History of Science

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Wikis: Experimenting in the classroom

January 31, 2005. A Wiki is a collaborative Web site that allows its users to contribute to a dynamic, interactive environment. "Wiki wiki" means "quick" in Hawaiian, referring to the ease with which users can modify existing material, create new content, and link between pages without having to employ complex Web authoring technologies. With simple tagging syntax that is even easier to master than HTML, Wikis have become popular as truly interactive and dynamic tools that capture the "ideal" of the Web as a virtual space that facilitates sharing information by enabling "open editing."

For a couple of years, CCNMTL has been using Wikis as part of its project planning. They have greatly facilitated project group interactions, documentation writing, and other collaborative endeavors. Recently, CCNMTL adopted the open-source MediaWiki engine used by the popular Wikipedia project.

After a successful experiment with the History of Electronic Music seminar in fall 2004, CCNMTL is expanding this R&D effort to other courses at Columbia. We have customized the Wiki interface to make it more intuitive and user-friendly for students and instructors. The goal is to learn more about potential uses in the classroom and to begin to compile some best practices that might inform future projects. Faculty in the University Writing Program, the Frontiers of Science core course, and an advanced Architecture Studio will be experimenting with Wikis this spring.

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CCNMTL Hosts NSF Partners for VITAL Project Launch

January 10, 2005. On Friday, January 7, CCNMTL hosted a meeting to kick off an NSF-sponsored project, whose result will help colleges and universities across the country to prepare teachers of early childhood mathematics. CCNMTL and Teachers College will work with teacher education partners to develop model courses supported by a VITAL (Video Interactions for Teaching and Learning), a web-based study environment, which will be deployed at six other universities.

VITAL was first used in Prof. Herbert Ginsburg's course "The Development of Mathematical Thinking" at Teachers College during the spring 2003 semester. Based on this experience, CCNMTL continues to refine the VITAL environment and has received funding to collaborate with content experts and field testers to develop a large-scale, enterprise solution that will accommodate thousands of students nationwide.

VITAL project partners include William Paterson University, Rutgers University, Boston University, Boston College, Howard University, Hunter College, the State University of New York at Buffalo, Georgia State University, the University of Houston, Indiana University at Bloomington, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of San Diego, the University of Hawaii, and the Education Development Center.

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New CourseWorks QuickStart Guide Available

January 5, 2005. An updated QuickStart guide to help instructors plan course Web sites using CourseWorks, Columbia's course management tool, is now available. This step-by-step guide shows you how to get started quickly and easily. Pick up a copy in the CCNMTL Faculty Support Lab in Room 204 Butler Library.

CourseWorks QuickStart Guide for Instructors (594KB)

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CourseWorks Workshops for Instructors

January 3, 2005. Do you need to learn how to prepare a course Web site before classes start? CCNMTL offers workshops for instructors interested in learning the basics of the CourseWorks course management system. The one-hour sessions will provide an overview of CourseWorks and introduce participants to the system's rich features.

Morningside Campus sessions will meet from 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm in 204 Butler Library.
* Monday, January 10
* Tuesday, January 11
* Wednesday, January 12
* Tuesday, January 18
* Wednesday, January 19
* Thursday, January 20

At the Health Sciences Campus, workshops will be held in the computer classroom on the second floor of the Hammer Building.

Basic Workshops for Faculty, Staff, and TAs:
* Monday, January 10, 10am
* Wednesday, January 19, 11am
* Thursday, January 27, 10am

Advanced Workshops for Faculty:
* Tuesday, January 18, 12:30pm
* Wednesday, January 26, 11am

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CCNMTL Web Site Now Offers RSS Updates

December 11, 2004. The CCNMTL Web site now offers announcements, press releases, and events information via Really Simple Syndication (RSS). RSS is an XML-based format that syndicates content for use in news readers and Web logs, and is now being adopted by browsers like Firefox as a built-in feature. Other stand-alone RSS readers compile news from different sources to allow readers to access updates from a variety of sources easily. Future versions of Safari will also offer built-in RSS capabilities.

To subscribe to CCNMTL's RSS feed, point your RSS reader to http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/web/content_ssi_drop/news/index.xml. In Firefox 1.0, a subscription button is visible at the bottom right of the browser window.

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University Seminar: "Design Research Interventions"

December 10, 2004. Design Research has grown in importance since it was first conceptualized in the early 90s, but it has not yet been adopted for research in instructional technology in higher education to any great extent. Many researchers continue to conduct studies that principally seek to determine the effectiveness of the delivery medium, rather than the instructional strategies and tasks.

At the University Seminar for New Media Teaching and Learning on Thursday, December 9, Dr. Tom Reeves of the University of Georgia explored the various incentives for conducting research on the impact of computing and other technologies in higher education, examined the social relevance of that research, and recommended design research as a particularly appropriate approach to socially responsible inquiry. He described the characteristics of design research, together with an argument for the more widespread adoption of this approach to enhance the quality and usefulness of research in computers and other technologies in education.

University Seminar: Design Research Interventions

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Open House: Experimental Digital Classroom

December 10, 2004. CCNMTL hosted an open house in the Experimental Digital Classroom (308 Lewisohn) on Thursday, December 9 to provide faculty with an opportunity to explore its interactive tools and to strategize ways of incorporating them into their courses.

Representatives from CCNMTL met with faculty to brainstorm creative uses of the room's features, to discuss connections to curriculum, and to demonstrate the room's resources to newcomers to the EDC.

The EDC is more than a venue for showing video or browsing the web. It enables faculty in a seminar setting to:

* Annotate primary texts and images
* Toggle between DVD movies and computer applications
* Access presentations prepared in advance for the SmartBoard
* Save group work for distribution after class
* Download and upload files to CourseWorks
* Video conference with remote locations
* Record lectures and SmartBoard interactions

For more information about the Experimental Digital Classroom, please visit http://.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/services/classroom/.

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Ambedkar's "Annihilation of Caste" MSE Released

November 12, 2004. CCNMTL released its latest multimedia study environment (MSE), Dr. B.R. Ambedkar's The Annihilation of Caste, this month. In conjunction with Dr. Frances Pritchett of the Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures department and the South Asian Institute, CCNMTL has produced an annotated version of Ambedkar's famous, but undelivered, speech advocating for the dissolution of the Hindu caste system. Students in Pritchett's "Introduction to Indian Civilization" will use the MSE in their work this semester.

Ambedkar earned his master's degree in 1915 and his Ph.D. in economics in 1928 from Columbia. In 1952, Columbia presented him with an honorary doctorate of law for his writing of the Constitution of India.

The Annihilation of Caste

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Epiville Project Invited to AERA Conference

November 11, 2004. Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health Epidemiology faculty (Professors Lydia Zablotska, Daniel Herman, and Ian Lapp) and Ray Cha of CCNMTL staff have been invited to present the Epiville project at the annual American Education Research Association (AERA) meeting in Montreal in April. Epiville, an online simulation, is currently being utilized by over 250 students in a core course for Columbia's Masters of Public Health.

In this simulation, students play the role of an intern at the Department of Health, gathering facts and deciding actions to curb an outbreak which has struck "Epiville." The case study uses digital video newscasts, interviews, and municipal Web sites to provide information about commerce and diseases in an attempt to mirror real-life situations. Interactive web-based exercises allow students to test hypotheses about these cases.

Disease Outbreak Simulation: Epiville

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Journalism Students Produce Live Election Coverage

November 3, 2004. On Election Night, students from the School of Journalism produced four live broadcasts of election news, commentary, and field reports from New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The broadcasts were accessible to the public from the School of Journalism's home page.

The students were aided by the Radio Broadcast Content Management System (CMS), a database-driven application created by CCNMTL to model the editorial process of radio journalism. Kristen Sosulski, CCNMTL educational technologist, worked late into the night with the students, providing technical assistance with the Radio Broadcast CMS. Students found that using the Radio Broadcast CMS to produce the Election Night coverage provided a great opportunity to put their journalistic skills to the test, highlighting teamwork, organization, and professionalism with the immediacy of live updates.

Columbia Radio News

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CourseWorks Utilization Numbers

October 27, 2004. This semester, 1396 CourseWorks sites have been activated by faculty, instructors, or course directors. In universities nationwide, the use of course sites is becoming a standard that students have come to expect — and the numbers at Columbia appear to confirm that trend. During the week ending October 10, 2004, 13,947 unique students and 1,239 instructors logged onto the CourseWorks system.

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University Seminar: "Activity Centered Design"

October 21, 2004. Dr. Geri Gay of Cornell University discussed "Activity Centered Design: An Ecological Approach to Designing Smart Tools and Usable Systems" as part of the University Seminars on New Media Teaching and Learning. During this presentation, Dr. Geri Gay spoke about lessons learned from two current research projects. The first described the use of wireless computing in formal and informal learning contexts (Intel, Microsoft, NSF) and the second featured collaborative learning among

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