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CCNMTL Website Now Offers RSS Updates

December 11, 2004. The CCNMTL website now offers announcements, press releases, and events information via Really Simple Syndication (RSS). RSS is an XML-based format that... MORE

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... MORE

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... MORE

CCNMTL Releases New Multimedia Study Environment: The Annihilation of Caste

November 12, 2004. Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) has released a new multimedia study environment, "The Annihilation of Caste," an undelivered... MORE

Making History Relevant: Columbia Center to Release Malcolm X Website by Liz Fink

November 17, 2004. The Columbia Daily Spectator published an article about the Malcolm X multimedia study environment to be released this January. Dr. Manning Marable... MORE

Press Release: 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.... MORE

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... MORE

"$2.3 Million Grant to Help TC Students Technologically Teach Early Math" by Leora Falk

November 5, 2004. The Columbia Daily Spectator published an article about the NSF grant awarded to Dr. Herbert Ginsburt and Dr. Fank Moretti of CCNMTL.... MORE

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... MORE

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... MORE

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... MORE

Deep Focus video example

: Video illustration from Film Language Glossary... MORE

Evaluation Reports Released

October 15, 2004. A number of new assessment reports have been released, including evaluation summaries of VITAL and Library Compass. The newly-released reports include internal... MORE

NSF Awards $2.3 Million for Math Teaching Resources

September 27, 2004. The Record included a brief of the recent National Science Foundation grant awarded jointly to Professor Herb Ginsburg and Frank Moretti of... MORE

FIPSE Grant Awarded to CCNMTL

September 29, 2004. The U.S. Department of Education awarded Columbia University's School of Dental & Oral Surgery, CCNMTL, and partners approximately $500,000 over three years... MORE

University Seminar: "Digital Technologies for the Social Sciences"

September 23, 2004. Dr. Sunil Kumar, lecturer at the London School of Economics, addressed the University Seminar in New Media Teaching and Learning. His topic... MORE

Film Language Glossary Released

September 17, 2004. A prototype of the Film Language Glossary, for use by students making and studying motion pictures, was released earlier this week. Specifically,... MORE

EDC Open House Photo

September 17, 2004. The Columbia Daily Spectator published a four inch by six inch photograph of Rachel Mlanao leading a session during the Experimental Digital... MORE

Experimental Digital Classroom Open House Held

September 16, 2004. CCNMTL held an Open House at the Experimental Digital Classroom (308 Lewisohn). The purposes of this event were to bring together current... MORE

"Too Far to Walk" by R.D.R. Hoffmann

July 2004. The business magazine for higher education, The Greentree Gazette, interviewed Maurice Matiz for an article titled "Too Far To Walk," (page 48). The... MORE

Sakai Project at Columbia

A group of about 30 Columbians representing numerous schools and departments attended a brief overview of the Sakai Project and Columbia's participation in the Sakai... MORE

Deconstructor at NME2003

: Larry Engel Describes The Deconstructor... MORE

Brownfield Action at NME2003

: A Demonstration of Brownfield Action... MORE

VITAL at NME2003

: Professor Herb Ginsburg Demonstrates VITAL... MORE

Teachers College Professor Ginsburg and CCNMTL Publish Paper

June 16, 2004. The National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics (NCSM) has published a paper by Teachers College Professor Herb Ginsburg, CCNMTL Educational Technologist Michael... MORE

CCNMTL Awarded $2.3 Million from NSF to Develop New Teaching Resource Supporting Early Childhood Mathematics

June 7, 2004. The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded $2.3 million to a consortium led by Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL)... MORE

Press Release: CCNMTL Awarded $2.3 Million from NSF to Develop New Teaching Resource

June 1, 2004. The National Science Foundation has awarded CCNMTL a $2.3 million grant to develop _VITAL: A Learning Environment for Courses in Early Mathematics... MORE

NSF Award to Expand Monitoring of Black Rock Forest

May 24, 2004. The National Science Foundation has awarded the Black Rock Forest Consortium (BRFC) a grant to modernize and expand the ecosystem monitoring network... MORE

Commencement Broadcast Archives

May 20, 2004. Broadcast archives for the Commencement of the 250th Academic Year held on Wednesday, May 19, 2004 are now available. Please check the... MORE

Short film: Commencement Highlights

: Short film: Commencement Highlights... MORE

New Look to CCNMTL Website

May 5, 2004. Today, the CCNTML website was relaunched with a new interface. The reorganized site provides a sharper focus on the Center's overall mission,... MORE

VITAL Featured Project Page (PDF)

: Video Interactions for Teaching and Learning... MORE

Heart Sim at NME2003

: Dr. Marc Dickstein Demonstrates HeartSim... MORE

"Brownfield Action Curriculum to be Adopted by Connecticut College" by Petra Tuomi

April 7, 2004. The Barnard News Center explains that "The Brownfield Action simulation, developed by Professor Peter Bower and the Columbia Center for New Media... MORE

NSF Awards Grant to Enhance Brownfield Action

March 19, 2004. The National Science Foundation has awarded a proof-of-concept grant of $75,000 to Peter Bower (Barnard College) and CCNMTL to support the modularization... MORE

CCNMTL Attends Higher-Ed Meeting with Cisco CEO

March 18, 2004. John Chambers, President and CEO of Cisco Systems, hosted an executive higher education dinner and discussion with representatives from New York metro... MORE

Interactive Video Learning System Developed

March 1, 2004. The Video Interaction for Teaching and Learning (VITAL) environment was featured by the Teachers College News Bureau, Inside TC. This article disscusses... MORE

Ted Nelson Visits Columbia

February 27, 2004. Theodor Holm Nelson, hypertext theorist and fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, visited CCNMTL. The purpose of Nelson's visit to CCNMTL was... MORE

Library Compass Released

February 5, 2004. Library Compass, a new resource to develop and enhance academic research skills, was developed by CCNMTL in conjunction with the Columbia University... MORE

VITAL Adapted for the School of Social Work

January 21, 2004. The VITAL environment has been adapted for use in five sections of the course Clinical Practice with Couples, taught by Tazuko Shibusawa... MORE

New Media in Education 2003 Conference Footage

January 8, 2004. Please see the link below for video clips from our 2003 New Media in Education Conference that took place at the Low... MORE

New Video Assets Added to Midnight's Children MSE

January 2, 2004. Video footage from last spring's Humanities Festival has now been added to the assets menu of the Midnight's Children MSE (Multimedia Study... MORE

"Technology May Be Very Good For Your Health," by Carol Power

January 2004. Columbia University's School of Nursing is featured in The Irish Times for using PDAs in their teaching. The article mentions their collaboration with... MORE