May 13, 2009. Teachers College (TC) press recently posted an article about a summer course that will be taught by TC faculty Margaret Crocco and Bill Gaudelli. The course, "Vietnam Now," will use a CCNMTL-created video analysis tool called VITAL to clip and annotate segments of documentary footage of the Vietnam War. Students will learn about the Vietnam War and explore how multimedia can be used to enhance the teaching of the War in middle and high school classrooms.

The documentary footage comes from Project Vietnam, a partnership between CCNMTL, WGBH, and the University of Massachusetts-Boston to digitize, preserve, and disseminate primary source materials created for the 1983 documentary, Vietnam: A Television History, which examines in depth the causes and consequences of the Vietnam War. Project Vietnam offers an online library comprising hundreds of hours of original interview materials and images from the documentary.

CCNMTL is also working with faculty from the Columbia School of Journalism, the Department of History, and the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures to integrate the Project Vietnam into their educational activities.

Related links:
See the full Teachers College article for "Vietnam Now"
Read about Project Vietnam, a Digital Bridges Project