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InVivo Highlights Virtual Microscopy Project

December 28, 2007. In Vivo, the Columbia University Medical Center’s newsletter, highlighted the Virtual Microscopy initiative in the December 2007/January 2008 issue. The article highlights... MORE

Press Release: Award Received for Brownfield Action Seminar

December 19, 2007. NITLE Eastern Advisory Council awarded Barnard College $28,000 to organize and implement the Brownfield Action Seminar. The seminar, scheduled for spring 2008,... MORE

Award Received for Brownfield Action Seminar

December 19, 2007. NITLE Eastern Advisory Council awarded Barnard College $28,000 to organize and implement the Brownfield Action Seminar. The seminar, scheduled for spring 2008,... MORE

Spring Faculty Workshops: Courseworks, Columbia Wikispaces, and More

December 18, 2007. Faculty workshops are just around the corner. Register now to attend educational sessions on Courseworks I and II, Columbia Wikispaces, collaboration tools,... MORE

NIMH Funds Masivukeni/SMART+SA Project

December 17, 2007. The Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) is partnering with researcher Robert Remien of the HIV Center for Clinical... MORE

12/10: University Seminar: Technologies of Community, Conversation by Design

November 26, 2007. In the United States, public space is splintering into shards. Poor urban planning and the demise of many institutions of civil society... MORE

Harlem Heritage Project Launches

November 16, 2007. CCNMTL, in partnership with Professor Manning Marable, launched the Harlem Heritage Project this week. The project's Web site, built for Marable's course... MORE

Faculty Workshops: Bookmarking & the Libraries

November 9, 2007. The Bookmarking & the Libraries workshop will build on the "Effectively Use RSS for Teaching" workshop offered on November 14 and 15,... MORE

Presentation on Strategic Initiatives

November 9, 2007. CCNMTL welcomes faculty, administrators, and library staff to attend the Digital Library Seminar Series presentation on CCNMTL's strategic initiatives on Monday, November... MORE

Faculty Workshops: Effectively Use RSS For Teaching

November 7, 2007. CCNMTL is hosting a new workshop during the week of November 12. The Effectively Use RSS for Teaching workshop will explore ways... MORE

11/2: New Faculty Welcome Luncheon

October 31, 2007. Are you a faculty member new to the university? Please join us on Friday, November 2, for a luncheon co-sponsored with the... MORE

Thursday, 11/8: University Seminar: Activating the Archives of Activism

October 26, 2007. Join CCNMTL on Thursday, November 8 for a University Seminar led by David Magier on "Activating the Archives of Activism: Deploying Human... MORE

Virtual Microscopy: A Digital Alternative to Glass Slides

October 19, 2007. This fall, more than 200 first-year students in the Sciences Basic to the Practice of Medicine and Dentistry (SBPMD) course are participating... MORE

Brownfield Action Expands Its Reach

October 10, 2007. The Barnard News Center published an article announcing that the Brownfield Action environmental simulation is being used for introductory courses and upper-level... MORE

Faculty Workshops: How to Use Wikispaces on Oct. 9-12

October 9, 2007. Attend a Wikispaces workshop this week to learn how to use a private wiki for your course or for a single assignment.... MORE

University Seminar: Digital Video in a Genocidal Age

October 4, 2007. Join CCNMTL on Thursday, October 4 for the first University Seminar on New Media Teaching and Learning of the 2007-2008 year, "Digital... MORE

Mapping the African American Past For Students of All Ages

October 1, 2007. CCNMTL has received a $200,000 grant from the JPMorgan Chase Foundation to develop Mapping the African American Past (MAAP), a web-based learning... MORE

Columbia Wikispaces

September 28, 2007. Since the launch of Wikispaces at the CCNMTL Fall Premiere in early September, faculty and instructors have welcomed the opportunity to take... MORE

Environmental Science Simulation Enhances Curricula at East Coast Colleges

September 28, 2007. Brownfield Action, an award-winning environmental science simulation developed by Barnard College Professor Peter Bower and CCNMTL, will be used at Connecticut College,... MORE

CCNMTL Debuts New Technologies at 2007 Fall Premiere

September 17, 2007. The Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) kicked off the academic year with the 2007 Fall Premiere, presenting an... MORE

A Wiki for Every Course

September 10, 2007. Looking for a quick and easy way to build a dynamic online resource for your class? You might want to try a... MORE

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... MORE

Fall Workshops and Events

August 7, 2007. Attend our newly designed workshops for faculty during the weeks of August 27 and September 4: Discovering Collaboration Tools, Using Digital Resources... MORE

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... MORE

Video, Education, and Open Content Conference

Video and audio recordings of the Video, Education, and Open Content meeting held at Columbia University, May 2007.... MORE

CCNMTL and SIG Receive $3.5 Million Grant

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)... MORE

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... MORE

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)... MORE

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... MORE

VITAL as "Teacher 2.0" at EduStat 2007

June 8, 2007. Frank Moretti and Michael Preston presented VITAL as a Web 2.0 application for teacher development at EduStat Summit 2007, a conference... MORE

CCNMTL Symposium Discusses Video Archives and Open Access in Education

June 7, 2007. The Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) and Intelligent Television recently hosted a highly successful symposium on best practices... MORE

Press Release: CCNMTL Hosts Open Content Meeting

June 7, 2007. CCNMTL hosted a two-day invitational symposium on May 22 and 23, gathering an international audience of leaders in the education, industry, and... MORE

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... MORE

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... MORE

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... MORE

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.... MORE

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... MORE

Harlem Digital Archive

Harlem Digital Archive: Promo Video... MORE

Brownfield Action Grant Announced on Barnard Newscenter

February 20, 2007. The Barnard College Newscenter announced the $450,000 grant from the NSF to develop and expand the Brownfield Action application. The new grant,... MORE

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... MORE

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... MORE

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... MORE