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Women's Letters Online CCNMTL is creating an online database of approximately 1,400 Latin letters written to and by medieval women. Each letter will be linked to the woman/women involved, i's translation, and general notes. Biographical information will be provided for each woman, and the women and men involved will be integrated throughout a genealogical table. The translations will be searchable, either by full text or by keyword. The Center is exploring possibilities for Library collaboration in developing a scheme for subject access and cataloguing the documents. Distance
Education Master of Public Health in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention This project is a partnership with Sociomedical Sciences to enhance the 14 course distance learning Master of Public Health in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention using a range of technologies and teaching strategies. The program is delivered to in-service professionals with 2 sites in 1999-2000, 3 in 2000-2001, and 15 in 2002-2003. CCNMTL will work closely with faculty to retool their courses for delivery at a distance, provide workshops, Web development, and technical assistance, and explore new paradigms and practice for distance education. This project also involves an exploration of the potential for development of an online tutoring capacity in Biostatistics. Virtual
Reading Room The Virtual Reading Room Project involves two components related to theColumbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning's work. One is tools development represented as the E-folio Project . (See E-folio description). The second involves supporting discrete efforts within each of the core content domains. More specifically, CCNMTL will support the Contemporary Civilization Website Prototype, the Literature Humanities Workbench, the Parthenon Project of Art History, the New Deal Network, Music Humanities digital resources, and Groundwater Action. The focus of this project is to work with faculty to build digital tools and content, with a particular emphasis on facilitating cross course interaction. Each project will be introduced within the core curriculum on a pilot basis so that eventually all sections use the resources exposing every Columbia College student to new media applications early in their undergraduate career. "5
Biome" CCNMTL is working in conjunction with CERC to establish a network of digitally enhanced environmental science courses in different ecosystems around the country and the world. The courses will feature a variety of web-based exercises in addition to traditional fieldwork. The Internet component of each course will allow students to situate their local research in a global context. The first course to be offered as part of the 5 Biome series will be the Summer Ecosystem Experience at Black Rock Forest. New Media experts at the Center are currently working in conjunction with scientists from the Forest and from CERC in order to develop a digital curriculum that will include advanced Java mapping tools, online databases, realtime forest data, and streaming video. East
Asian Curriculum Project (EACP) The East Asian Curriculum Project (EACP) is a national project devoted to supporting education on Asia. With the introduction of Asia into the core curriculum at undergraduate institutions throughout the United States, teachers are increasingly seeking materials concerning Asian history, literature, and the social sciences. The Columbia Project on Asia in the Core Curriculum, involving over one hundred scholars, Asianists and non-Asianists, from seventy-five undergraduate institutions of different sizes and types is attempting to meet this demand. The web site "Asia for Educators" offers a variety of topics and resources for the instructor and student. CCNMTL (and AcIS) have provided the technical infrastructure and technical direction for the project. The Center is also processing numerous video and audio clips, encoding them for web delivery and archiving the digital versions. These resources will be catalogued in a database and accessible online.
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A. Hartford Grant for Social Work Research CCNMTL is working to develop an asynchronous web-based communications hub that will enable remote supervision of Social Work students engaged in fieldwork throughout the city. Comprehensive websites will be developed for four courses that relate directly to the fieldwork. This project will allow the Center to pioneer strategies for remote supervision of fieldwork that can be applied to other disciplines including Health Sciences where off-campus activity is a central to the academic program. Experience gained through this pilot project will also be used in developing technology components of a major grant proposal for the creation of a national center at the School of Social Work focused on Gerontology. Template
Development for Multimedia Documents CCNMTL is developing a web-based template that will allow scholars to create multimedia versions of content rich documents. Specifically, the template will be used to create digital resources for the General Studies core curriculum; however, the template will not be limited to this domain and may be used for any course within the University. The vehicle for prototype development of the template is an article by Fredric Jameson, entitled "Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism." The prototype will feature a glossary of concepts and terms, profiles of relevant artists, and links to multimedia and web resources directly and indirectly referenced in the text. Tool
Kit 3 (TK3) CCNMTL is working to introduce TK3 to Columbia faculty as an effective tool for teaching and learning. TK3 is a multimedia publishing toolset that enables the user to author, edit, and produce high quality digital documents. Beginning with a primary text composition, the user can build a robust multimedia environment by adding image, audio, and video annotations. The user has complete control over the layout and design of these annotations. Once a user finishes authoring a TK3 document, she can publish a finished version that can be distributed to other TK3 users. The TK3 Reader allows each user to view published TK3 documents and to make his or her own annotations to their contents. The reader annotations do not, however, alter the contents of the original documents. The TK3 Reader also includes a notebook which allows users to collect their favorite selections from the document. PSEL CCNMTL is working in collaboration with PSEL to plan an intensive one-day conference on the subject of technology for social and emotional learning. The goal of CCNMTL is to develop a one-day distance learning conference "template" able to be supported at Columbia, usable in any field, and ultimately extensible to any number of sites. The PSEL conference will be held at Columbia, but will include video-links to Yale and Puerto Rico. CCNMTL is currently researching the logistics of high-end video conferencing and will be responsible for setting up video links on the day of the conference. The conference will be publicized on the newly developed PSEL website. The Center is furthering the development of the website by creating an online media room that will include video and audio clips of past conferences and interviews with experts in the field of SEL. Space
and Time Since Einstein Development of distance learning strategies for an introductory physics course including graphics, animations, simulations, communications tools as well as the traditional course materials. The course will be based on Brian's recent publication, The Elegant Universe, and is intended to be a demonstration piece for integrated digital strategies and other enhancements. General
Studies Core Curriculum CCNMTL will develop a series of multimedia texts for General Studies core courses with extensive links to graphics, text, and other relevant information resources. These documents will be based on the multimedia template currently under development by CCNMTL. These rich hypertext documents will sit within fully developed course websites for the four General Studies core courses. E-Folio This project is a collaboration of Learn Technologies Interactive (LTI), CCNMTL and the Virtual Reading Room project of the Columbia University School. CCNMTL will aid in development of specifications for LTI to build a Web plug-in that allows students and faculty to capture online information including text, graphics, audio, and video. Users are able to manipulate, annotate, and organize information objects within E-folio. As part of the development contract, Learn will create twenty worksheet templates, the designs for which will be the result of conversations with faculty overseen by CCNMTL. Columbia
Greats Online: Webcasts CCNMTL broadcasts and captures important events, seminars and lectures on the Columbia campus. Numerous events have been captured this year including Hillary Clinton's visit and Noam Chomsky and Edward Said's lecture at Miller Theatre. The addition of two video professionals will allow the Center to further experiment with emerging streaming technologies, provide a more robust service model, and significant increase the number of broadcasts and archived events. Biomedical
Sciences In its current phase, this project is an exploration of strategies to strengthen ties between Biology faculty downtown and faculty in the biomedical sciences uptown. The primary means of strengthening ties will be to increase student access to information about faculty research across the two campuses. A number of additional strategies to integrate academic programs at the graduate level are being explored. Brownfield
Action This project is an interactive 3D environmental simulation of a hypothetical contaminated land site. Students work in pairs to investigate the site using various environmental testing technologies to find the source of contamination. They must operate within a budget and construct visualizations of the data they collect. A story about the history of the site allows students to gather information through virtual interviews with neighbors of the site. The simulation has been used on paper for several years, and is ideally suited for a digital environment where students can seamlessly gather, store, and manipulate data. This is a CCNMTL sponsored STA project that is also receiving support from the Virtual Reading Room. Music Humanities Sonic
Glossary This project involves the creation of an individual study environment for Music Humanities students. The Sonic Glossary is an on-line dictionary of musical terms that combines text, narration, pictures, animations, and music in creative ways. It is both an innovative teaching tool for music appreciation and a valuable study tool for the student. This resource is complementary to the Music Humanities Online Reserves and Virtual Tapes.
Virtual Training Environments This project involves ongoing additions to the Music Humanities web site, which encompasses the Sonic Glossary, Online Reserves and Virtual Tapes. A significant new development for Summer 1999 is the creation of three music training environments: Major/Minor Training, Harmonic Hearing Training and Beat Recognition Training Environment. These training modules target concepts that are difficult t comprehend using traditional media. CCNMTL is assisting with development, design and implementation as a compliment and supplement to the existing curriculum. Video
Case Studies for Social Work CCNMTL is assisting the School of Social Work in creating a CD-ROM case study for working with HIV+ clients. The CD will include a fictional case on video with associated materials such as case files. The Center is providing technical assistance in video capture and creation of the CD-ROM as well as consultation on effective use of this product in Social Work courses. This is a CCNMTL sponsored STA project. |
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