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CourseWorks Mini-Workshops Summer ScheduleApril 29, 2004. CourseWorks Mini Workshops for the summer have been scheduled. Learn the basics of course Web site development and how to apply technology to your teaching. The one-hour session covers the basics of CourseWorks, Columbia's course management system, and other tools. CCNMTL Attends Higher-Ed Meeting with Cisco CEOMarch 18, 2004. John Chambers, President and CEO of Cisco Systems, hosted an executive higher education dinner and discussion with representatives from New York metro area colleges and universities. Maurice Matiz, Vice Executive Director of CCNMTL, attended the dinner held at Le Cirque restaurant in midtown New York. The dinner and discussion provided an opportunity to chat informally with the CEO of one of America's most successful technology companies. Chambers, who has served on President George W. Bush's Education Committee and has been given many awards for his efforts to improve education and performance, believes in the positive role that education can play in the economic growth of the United States. He was eager to hear comments and opinions about the role of technology in education from the assembled group. NSF Awards Grant to Enhance Brownfield ActionMarch 15, 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 and distribution of the Brownfield Action curriculum and simulation. The award, effective February 15th, will be used to assist Dr. Bower and CCNMTL to prototype a new, more modular version of the Brownfield Action environmental assessment simulation that will also be tested in an upper-level undergraduate hydrology course at Connecticut College. If successful with these efforts, the project will be considered for additional funding to facilitate a major re-development of the simulation and to establish a distribution method to other educational institutions. For more information see links below.
Ted Nelson Visits ColumbiaFebruary 27, 2004. Theodor Holm Nelson, hypertext theorist and fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, visited the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning. The purpose of Nelson's visit to CCNMTL was to introduce his latest vision of a non-hierarchal interface entitled, "ZigZag" to the Columbia community. "Zig Zag," cross-viewable multidimensional lists, provides a new paradigm for computer structures including database, inheritance, file management, simplified graphical programming, and other useful computer concepts. These structures appear to streamline many aspects of data and programming. Nelson occupies a unique place in the computer field, a designer best known as an agitator and visionary. "I didn't know what to call these ideas; "hypertext" came to me in 1962, and I published it in 1965. I first heard strangers use it around 1986." He has been called "the Thomas Paine of the computer revolution." His book Computer Lib, proposing a new Utopian world of intellect around the computer screen, came out in 1974, just four months before the first personal computer was advertised. Computer Lib is said to have inspired much of today's software design, as well as personally influencing Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, and Bill Gates. Nelson's vision for hypertext preceded the Web by three decades. Nelson was virtually alone in predicting a worldwide hypertext. His 1981 book, Literary Machines, while describing the work of his group on Project Xanadu, contains many passages that predict the World Wide Web. For more information see links below. Library Compass ReleasedFebruary 5, 2004. Library Compass, a new resource to develop and enhance academic research skills, was developed by the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) in conjunction with the Columbia University Libraries and has been released today. It is an online environment that serves as an orientation tool to aid students in honing their research skills for academic scholarship. Through learning activities and detailed explanations, Library Compass supports the writing of academic papers by exposing students to specific library research skills and strategies. Students who work with the Library Compass environment can improve the quality of their research papers and also access online support and assistance during the research process. In addition, videotaped interviews with Columbia librarians offer guidance and advice to students new to academic research. As students and researchers are challenged to find both method and meaning in the midst of an abundance of information, Library Compass points the way to new habits of mind in order to generate questions, locate sources for answers, evaluate the proffered solutions, and formulate responses. The Library Compass is another step taken by Columbia University Information Services to respond to a growing need to harness the University's vast knowledge resources. VITAL Adapted for the School of Social WorkJanuary 21, 2004. The VITAL environment has been adapted for use in five sections of "Clinical Practice with Couples," taught by Tazuko Shibusawa and Susan Oppenheim of the School of Social Work. VITAL was originally designed for Professor Herbert Ginsburg's "Development of Mathematical Thinking" course at Teachers College. VITAL has become a strategic technology for CCNMTL given the adaptability of the pedagogy and methodology for pre-professional and clinical training. Students use VITAL to generate weekly essays based on video recordings of clinical sessions. In their personal workspace, students construct essays that can include video quotes to support their arguments. The linked video annotations within the essay allow faculty to follow student observations. Additionally, once completing an assignment, students have access to the essays submitted by their peers. In "Clinical Practice with Couples," Professors Shibusawa and Oppenheim focus on relating concepts and theoretical frameworks studied in course readings to professionally produced recordings of couples' clinical sessions. Using VITAL, students identify and analyze different theoretical models and clinical techniques as well as consider their own intervention methods. For more information regarding VITAL contact ccnmtl-vital@columbia.edu
New Media in Education 2003 Conference FootageJanuary 8, 2004. Please see the link below for video clips from our 2003 New Media in Education Conference that took place at the Low Library on September 26th. New Video Assets Added to Midnight's Children MSEJanuary 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 Environment). Panelists include Edward Said, Manning Marable, Linda Williams, Gauri Viswanathan, Russell Banks and Lee Bollinger, among others. In addition we have added an audio recording of a conversation between Edward Said and Salman Rushdie from 1996 that took place at Miller Theatre in the resources section of the MSE. For more information regarding using the Midnight's Children MSE in your course contact: John Frankfurt at 212-854-1865 or ccnmtl@columbia.edu C250 Event : "Digital Media in Education: A Time for Invention" POSTPONEDNov. 21, 2003. This full-day event has been postponed until September 2004. However, the CCNMTL staff will be conducting a two hour presentation on Wednesday, December 10th in the Butler Library Rm. 523 from 10:00AM until noon. Refreshments will be provided. Please RSVP by December 5th to Sherry Mayo, slm73@columbia.edu or 212-854-0205. CCNMTL Presents at 2003 Educause Conference in Anaheim"Nov. 17, 2003. Peter Sommer, Director of Education, represented the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) in Track 3 of the 2003 Educause Conference in Anaheim, California. Sommer presented a paper entitled, "Building to Learn: A New Paradigm for Design Research and Assessment." Educause is a national conference in education technology and one of the best attended in the field. To view abstract and associated Web pages please see links below.
Client Survey ReportOctober 27, 2003. In the spring of 2003 CCNMTL conducted a client survey. The goals of the survey were to measure the quality of our service activities, to learn what modes of outreach have been effective, to improve current services, and to determine new directions. Three hundred randomly selected clients were sent an invitation to participate in a 20-minute in-person survey interview; 68 participated in the study. Please see link to pdf of the CCNMTL Service Survey Report below. New Media in Education Conference at ColumbiaOctober 7, 2003. On September 26th in Low Memorial Library, the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) and its faculty partners presented a series of innovative teaching approaches employing new media tools to an enthusiastic audience. Over two hundred people attended this year's conference, representing a cross-disciplinary array of faculty, technical specialists, and librarians both inside and outside the University. The conference highlighted faculty panels constructed around approaches to teaching with new media, including "Third Spaces for Learning," "Using Multimedia Case Studies to Promote Focused Learning," and "Simulations as an Educational Tactic." These approaches have been applied across disciplines and have initiated new conversations between faculty regarding strategies for applying the distinctive properties of electronic spaces and instruments to particular challenges in teaching. Kiosks throughout the Rotunda gave attendees the opportunity to spend time with CCNMTL's Educational Technologists and experiment with a variety of new media projects. The workshops focused on scientific computing and visualization, the Courseworks course management system, and the use of digital video in the classroom. Opening with remarks from Provost Alan Brinkley and University Librarian James Neal, this full-day conference incorporated faculty presentations, project kioks, and hands-on workshops. Neal placed the conference in the context of several pressing issues facing academic policy makers nationwide. "This transformation in higher education and response to preceived expansive markets for networked learning," he stated, "challenges the academy to rethink its nature and role. The electronic campus demands rampant digital content creation, new strategies for information storage and management, more sophisticated search and query techniques, dependable and secure distribution and access systems, and new approaches in rights management." The goal of this conference was to share various strategies for incorporating new media technologies into teaching practices throughout the University. In the two years since CCNMTL's last conference there have been an increase in the number of its faculty partnerships and further advances in the application of new media. For streaming video of the conference presentations see link below.
Director's Notebook ReleasedSeptember 22, 2003. CCNMTL has released the first iteration of Director's Notebook, in partnership with Nicholas T. Proferes, a film professor at the School of the Arts. This environment aids students in conceptualization, planning, and visualization activities involved in the film directing process. The Director's Notebook project provides a digital workspace and activities to help students envision their films with clarity supported by a step-by-step film directing methodology outlined in Proferes' text, Film Directing Fundamentals: From Script to Screen. Climate Prediction Project ReleasedSeptember 8, 2003. Seasonal Climate Prediction for Regional Scales was developed in partnership with the International Research Institute (IRI) and Neil Ward. In this project, students learn to apply global climate forecast models to local environments through an online text, figures, and exercises that use a custom online mapping environment based on GrADS (Grid Analysis and Display System) software developed by the Institute for Global Environment and Society at the Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies.
CCNMTL Featured in Eduventures' CXO Monthly NewsletterJune 10, 2003. CCNMTL was featured in the June issue of CXO Monthly, an e-publication providing news and analysis to senior higher education executives. In the article entitled "In Practice: Columbia University Innovates with Applied Digital Media," Peter Stokes, CEO of Eduventures, describes CCNMTL as a successful example of fostering a culture of use in a skeptical market. Commencement Broadcast Archives Now AvailableMay 27, 2003. The archives for the 249th Commencement broadcast and Class Day broadcasts are now available for on-demand viewing. Additionally, we have provided a download option for those that want to have a personal copy of the broadcasts.
CCNMTL Presents at the Education, Technology and Curriculum SummitMay 19, 2003. CCNMTL participated in both the Higher Education and K-12 Summit at Columbia University. Eduventures launched the conference at CCNMTL with a virtual tour attended by a variety of educational technologists from universities around the country. Dr. Frank Moretti presented, "Reinventing Education with New Media," and moderated "Digital Media in Columbia's Educational Program: A Faculty Perspective." Peter Sommer Director of Education participated in a panel on professional development for K-12 teachers.
CCNMTL Presents at 21st Century Campus ConferenceApril 30, 2003. Dr. Frank Moretti and Maurice Matiz presented at the 21st Century Campus: How Internet Technologies are Transforming Higher Learning Industry Summit for Higher Education hosted by Cisco Systems at Stanford University. The conference was dedicated to how technology has transformed education and where it will be going next. CCNMTL presented "Digital Media and Education at Columbia: A Time for Invention." Conference attendees comprised CIO, university presidents and IT directors from Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America.
URISA Journal: Environmental Sustainability Through GISApril 17, 2003. Published in a special education issue of the Urban Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) Journal, this paper describes the pedagogical strategies used in a CCNMTL e-seminar, "Environmental Sustainability: Perspectives on the World." The refereed paper was written by, Ryan Kelsey (CCNMTL) and Mark Becker (CIESIN), and it explores potential benefits of GIS tools for the teaching and learning of environmental science. (URISA Journal Vol.15 No.1) CCNMTL presents VITAL at TC Tech Demo DayApril 03, 2003. The planners of the annual Teachers College Tech Demo Day asked CCNMTL to participate by providing two kiosks: one for CCNTML general information and one for VITAL. David Miele, Gordon Campbell, Dan Beeby, and Sherry Mayo conducted guided tours of VITAL (Video Interactions for Teaching and Learning) for approximately ten faculty and a dozen graduate students. Midnight's Children MSE Released TodayMarch 21, 2003. The Midnight's Children Multimedia Study Environment (MSE) has been released to the Columbia University community. The Midnight's Children MSE provides students the opportunity to gain a richer understanding of Salman Rushdie's acclaimed novel, the play derived from it, and the historical and cultural context in which the story is set. The MSE provides a wealth of related content including reflections from Rushdie, Columbia faculty, and members of the Royal Shakespeare Company. The release has been anticipated by eleven courses that are using the MSE this spring semester. This first release also coincides with the ongoing Midnight's Children Humanities Festival and the performances at the Apollo Theatre. Faculty interested in using the MSE for their courses should contact Cynthia Lawson, the MSE project manager, at clawson@ccnmtl.columbia.edu.
VITAL, Video Interactions for Teaching and Learning Released by CCNMTLMarch 14, 2003. CCNMTL and Herbert Ginsburg, professor of psychology and education, have created an interactive learning environment for education and psychology students. In spring 2003, this Web-based application, Video Interactions for Teaching and Learning (VITAL), was first deployed in Professor Ginsburg's "Development of Mathematical Thinking" course at Teachers College. The VITAL environment allows students to use a digital video library carefully chosen to reflect the educational goals of the course, to construct a series of weekly essays that foster understanding of the course concepts and that can be shared with other students who have completed the assignment. The video library includes over fifty interviews, observations and classroom lessons that Ginsburg has archived over the past twenty years. All students maintain a workspace containing their essays and edited video clips that help illustrate their observations and buttress their arguments. The videos are embedded as hyperlinks within the essays. "Allowing students not only to view, but also to actively manipulate and comment on selected video clips in preparation for our classes has transformed my teaching and, I believe, my students' understanding of the course content," notes Ginsburg. "Developing the VITAL tool with CCNMTL has helped me to reflect on the educational goals of the course, and has resulted in an educational technology that allows me to teach my subject matter more effectively." For many years, Ginsburg had successfully incorporated video in his courses through an assortment of VHS tapes that showed children engaged in "everyday mathematics," students grappling with mathematical problems and reflecting on their methods of solution, and teachers presenting mathematics instruction. VITAL now allows Ginsburg easy access to the video segments of interest. It also provides his students the opportunity to review the videos at will and to embed segments within essays so as to provide evidence for hypotheses and arguments. Using a Design Research approach to develop VITAL required the documenting of decisions and hypotheses that led to the final design. In weekly meetings the CCNMTL project manager, David VanEsselstyn, Ginsburg and two teaching assistants brainstormed and discussed issues related to the course. Present at every meeting was a CCNMTL Design Research Fellow who captured goals, hypotheses, and ideas from each meeting. After amassing an understanding of the educational issues, a technical framework for a system addressing the educational objectives was developed. As the framework became further defined, the team began developing the course syllabus and student assignments with VITAL specifically in mind. The technical framework for VITAL includes an authentication system and a set of database tables to keep track of every student's effort, including maintaining markers to track student progress through the weekly assignments. The video library is stored on a media server, but all information related to the video excerpts used by the student is maintained with the student's profile. A simple essay editing and preview tool is also integrated into the system. Three times during the semester, students were asked to evaluate key aspects of the VITAL system by responding to open-ended questionnaires. The data were analyzed in an attempt to identify successes and failures in the system as well as in the design process. Because Design Research endeavors to develop hypotheses and goals throughout the design process, the evaluation exercise allows the project team to tie results to ideas articulated in the project design. The results of the evaluation can then inform the design of similar educational technology projects.
Symposium on Assessment and Evaluation Showcases Existing ToolsMarch 03, 2003.The Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) held a symposium for Columbia faculty on February 18th to discuss resources and tools used in the evaluation of teaching practice. Educational Technologist Liliana Pinto demonstrated three different assessment tools: Individual Development Educational Assessment (I.D.E.A.) Students Rating of Instruction System; the test, quiz, and survey features of CourseWorks@Columbia; and Flashlight. The I.D.E.A. system, developed at Kansas State University, compares course objectives and student comments to similar courses in the I.D.E.A. database to suggest specific teaching strategies to improve learning outcomes. The test and survey section in CourseWorks can be used to create and implement different assessment strategies about both course activities and student understanding of particular topics. CourseWorks provides tabulated results of student scores and a distribution of class responses. The Flashlight Program is a collection of tools and resources to develop plans for evaluating and improving the educational uses of technology. One of its main resources is the "Current Student Inventory," an indexed archive of 500 questions for drafting surveys, questionnaires, and protocols for interviews and focus groups. It includes an evaluation handbook that provides guidance for creating studies, readings, resources, case studies, bibliographies, and related Web sites. Columbia University has a license to use Flashlight resources. For more information on the symposium or any of the tools presented, including access to the Flashlight Program, please contact Lilana Pinto (lnp19@columbia.edu) at 212.854.0207.
Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) joins the Information Services DivisionJanuary 31, 2003. Columbia's Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) has joined the University's Information Services Division, which also includes the University Libraries, the Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia (EPIC), the Center for Research on Information Access (CRIA), and Academic Information Systems (AcIS). The move of CCNMTL to the Information Services Division signals the University's commitment to the Center as an important educational and research unit at Columbia. (EPIC), the Center for Research on Information Access (CRIA), and Academic Information Systems (AcIS). The move of CCNMTL to the Information Services Division signals the University's commitment to the Center as an important educational and research unit at Columbia. Frank Moretti, CCNMTL Executive Director, said, "By becoming part of Information Services we, CCNMTL, are now closer to those who have been our strategic partners from the beginning." He continued, "We are excited by the new possibilities that this close relationship allows, as we continue the process with our faculty collaborators of discovering and inventing purposeful uses of digital media in the university's educational programs. At the Center, we have already established a very strong working relationship with Jim Neal and his team and foresee many opportunities for extending and enhancing our common efforts." Jim Neal, Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian at Columbia, predicts "an outstanding partnership among our now expanded family of electronic pedagogy, electronic publishing, research and development, academic computing and network services, and digital libraries." He added, "The beneficiaries of bringing CCNMTL into the larger Information Services organization will be our students and faculty who will see new and expanded initiatives and innovation in educational technology and learning design." Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) is a service of Columbia University whose goal is to enhance teaching and learning through the purposeful use of new media. We form partnerships with faculty, providing them with as much support as they need in everything from the construction of course Web sites to the development of more advanced projects. CCNMTL is committed to remaining a leader in its field, engaging with its faculty partners in the reinvention of education for the digital age. http://www.ccnmtl.columbia.edu. The Information Services Division at Columbia University includes Academic Information Systems (AcIS), the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL), the Center for Research on Information Access (CRIA), Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia (EPIC), and the University Libraries. CCNMTL goes to the U.K. to interview the RSC and film rehearsalsJanuary 21, 2003. CCNMTL staff traveled to London, England to witness the final preparation for Midnight's Children's adaptation to the stage by the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). The CCNMTL crew went behind the scenes, taping rehearsals and off-stage interviews with director Tim Supple, designer Melly Still, and key members of the creative team, gathering important artifacts for the development of the multi-media study environment (MSE). CCNMTL also captured the technical and full dress rehearsal in preparation for the preview opening of Midnight's Children, which took place last Saturday evening, January 18, at the Barbican Centre in London. In the production itself, the RSC used archival footage that was researched by CCNMTL. In partnership with the Columbia University, School of the Arts, the CCNMTL is constructing a rich MSE based on Salman Rushdie's prize-winning novel, Midnight's Children. The MSE will enhance the understanding and appreciation of this significant work by adding context to selected text through direct links to glossaries of concepts and terms, significant web sites, profiles of relevant figures, scholarly commentary, archival historical footage, and artwork. The collaborative efforts of the School of the Arts, the RSC and the University Musical Society of the University of Michigan will bring this work to the stage of the Apollo Theater in Harlem in March. Beyond the stage, this MSE serves multiple cross-disciplinary courses throughout the University. Using the text of the novel and the play as frames, it presents Columbia faculty as commentators: the turning points of South Asian history, literary commentary, dramaturgic critique, and the process of adapting the novel to the stage, as well as the play itself. Professor Neguin Yavari from Columbia's Religion Department, will be using the Midnight's Children MSE in her Religion, Gender & Literature: Muslim Women Write Islam course at Columbia this spring. As she states in speaking about her spring course syllabus: "The Midnight's Children project focuses on a novel rooted in a specific locality at a certain juncture in history and yet invites questions and raises issues directly relevant to the interplay of religion and culture in different spheres and contexts And last but not least, it promises to exploit one of the web's most useful assets, its capability to respond to different users and provide for different needs. I therefore look forward to using the project with my students and am hoping to learn as much from their reactions as my own." The MSE has broad interdisciplinary application and will also be used in Professor Anupama Rao's Political Modernity in South Asia, in the History Department at Barnard; Narrative and Identity: Rushdie's Midnight's Children, a Comparative Literature course, taught by Professor Deborah A. Martinsen and instructor John Frankfurt; and in Constructing Digital Educational Communities: Midnight's Children a Case Study in Self-Education at Teachers College. Distinguishing features of the MSE include Rushdie's video commentary, interviews with director Tim Supple and other creative artists on the stage production team, and interviews with Columbia University faculty whose expertise complements and enhances the understanding of Rushdie's work and the cultural history of South Asia. These Columbia faculty conversations include Peter Awn, Dean, School of General Studies; Dennis Dalton, Political Science; Nicholas Dirks, Chairman, Anthropology; and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, English. An initial release of the MSE will be made in January 2003, and a more comprehensive version will be released one month later.
Frontiers in Science: Stimulating Scientific ThinkingJanuary 8, 2003. This past semester the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) assisted Professors David Helfand, Darcy Kelley and Horst Stormer on a series of lectures entitled Frontiers in Science at the Miller Theatre. The series, which continues this spring with three additional lectures, is a prelude to a possible new approach to science in the Core Curriculum. The professors hope to institute a one-semester course, required of all first-year students with lectures such as those in this series. In addition to the development of the dynamic presentations the professors use during the lecture, CCNMTL has helped define the pedagogical perspective of the discussion sections and the planning of an online casebook supporting the course objectives and competencies. The web-based casebook will illustrate notions of estimation, uncertainty, graphs, models, and perspective that will stimulate scientific thinking and discovery. The fall lectures concluded with Professor Horst Stormer's talk entitled Small Wonders: The World of Nano-Science. One goal of the talk was to provide an insight on the nano-scale and our ability to manipulate it. This was highlighted when Professor Stormer invited a student to the stage to move a single atom at a California research lab with a program that remotely controlled the equipment in California. All the fall lectures were videotaped and edited for future use with other online materials for the course. The spring lineup include Wallace Broecker, Don Melnick and Nick Turro. The next lecture is scheduled for February 3rd, 2003. CCNMTL Builds MSE for Midnight's ChildrenDecember 10, 2002. In partnership with the School of Arts, the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning is constructing a rich Multimedia Study Environment (MSE) based on Salman Rushdie's prize-winning novel, Midnight's Children. The MSE will enhance the understanding and appreciation of this significant work by adding context to excerpts through direct links to glossaries of concepts and terms, profiles of relevant figures, video commentary, film, historical photographs, and artwork. The collaborative efforts of the School of Arts, the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) and the University Musical Society of the University of Michigan will bring this great work to the stage of the Apollo Theater in Harlem. Beyond the stage this MSE will serve multiple cross-disciplinary courses throughout the University. It will deliver an investigation of the turning points in the history of South Asia, literary commentary, dramaturgic critique and the process of its adaptation to the stage. Distinguishing features of the MSE include Rushdie's video commentary, interviews with director Tim Supple and other creative artists on the stage production team, and interviews with Columbia University faculty whose expertise complements and enhances the understanding of Rushdie's work and the cultural history of South Asia. These Columbia faculty conversations include Peter Awn, Dean General Studies; Dennis Dalton, Political Science; Nicholas Dirks, Chairman of Anthropology; and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, English. An initial release of the MMSE will be made mid-January and a more comprehensive version will be released May 2003.
Nursing Tracks Patient Interventions with Palm OrganizersDecember 07, 2002. New York, December 7, 2002. Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) has developed a Clinical Rotation Palm Database for Entry-to-Practice (ETP) students at Columbia School of Nursing (CSN). CSN is a leader in advanced nursing practice and infomatics. In keeping with their cutting-edge profile, the Columbia School of Nursing has been experimenting with using Palm Personal Digital Assistants (PDA) to collect observational data during patient interventions. Since mid-January of 2002 approximately 200 ETP students have employed this new application on their m500 handhelds. Students in the field now travel with a PDA that allows data entry at the point of care. The students then return and upload their data with HotSync technology to a database manager that generates reports for faculty for student assessment. This allows CSN students to draw relationships between cases and assess their work with their faculty advisors. CSN is currently working with CCNMTL to develop the mobile software application further. In mid-January 2003, ten graduate students in Geriatrics will be given m515 Palm PDAs with a more expansive Clinical Rotation Palm Database. Mike Soupios, Educational Technologist, CCNMTL, is currently working on a revised application for CSN that will include many more fields of entry and database resources for these students. According to Soupios, "one of the keys of the new program is the ability to create nursing plans to manage their patients, more closely mimicking their clinical experience."
Number of CourseWorks sites reaches 1,000November 15, 2002. CourseWorks@Columbia, the university's course management system, less than a year old, is now in use by over 1,000 courses this semester. The adoption of CourseWorks has been surprisingly strong, surpassing goals set by the CourseWorks team. In addition, students have also embraced the system with over 11,000 students accessing the system this semester. New features and bug fixes continue to improve the environment. "It is with the help of our faculty users that we fine tune the system. The faculty has been great at providing us feedback for improvements," commented Dan Beeby, who spearheads CCNMTL support for CourseWorks. Recent features added to the system include Third Space, a CCNMTL-created application that allows instructors and students to "quote" and comment on video and audio materials. Other new features include competency tracking tools used at the Health Sciences campus to reinforce student learning goals and a course migration option for easily moving course content from semester to semester. CCNMTL CourseWorks workshops have been well-attended this semester. The workshops encourage faculty to move beyond the rote creation of HTML pages, enabling instructors to discuss features of CourseWorks to meet their educational goals. Journalism Radio Broadcast Courses Assisted by New Management ToolOctober 24, 2002. The Radio Broadcast Content Management System (Radio CMS) is a database driven solution that models the decision-making, review and editorial process of radio broadcasting, managing the steps journalism students follow to organize a live broadcast composed of numerous news stories. Each broadcast is then archived and distributed through a simple Web page front-end. This tool greatly reduces the technological burden on students helping them focus on learning high-quality radio reporting, writing and production while modeling the editorial process from idea to distribution. Radio Webcasting has been the heart of the radio program at the Columbia School of Journalism since the program was redesigned in 1996 around NPR-style production techniques and journalistic principles. Radio training is intended to develop descriptive and narrative writing techniques for those who intend to go into radio or television. Students produce Webcasts as a part of the following courses: Reporting and Writing for Broadcast (RW1/Broadcast), Radio Workshop, Documentary, and Masters Project. Radio CMS organizes the work flow of a production cycle for reporters, producers, and instructors starting with the initial story pitch to the generation of a Web page of the archived broadcast which contains a series of story leads and links to the audio files. Within this cycle, the executive producer reviews the list of available stories from the radio reporters -- assembling a set of stories that make up the live broadcast while the webcaster adds and edits elements such as story introductions and teasers. The assembled set of stories make up the broadcast which is then published in three different forms. Once with teasers for the upcoming broadcast, once during the live broadcast and once after the broadcast is recorded and archived. RadioCMS was produced in collaboration with John Dinges, Professor in the School of Journalism. Kristen Sosulski, educational technologist for CCNMTL, led the project development effort and was assisted by a team consisting of interface developer, Zarina Mustapha and Anders Pearson, who developed the database and programs for RadioCMS. Numerous other staff members were contributors to the project.
Physics Today highlights CCNMTL Astronomy ProjectOctober 14, 2002. Physics Today highlights in their Web Watch section of their October 2002 issue, Seeing the Whole Symphony, a project developed for David Helfand, Professor of Astronomy. Seeing the Whole Symphony demonstrates the power of full-spectrum observing using an aural analogy. Social Work Practice Video Archive ReleasedOctober 9, 2002. CCNMTL and the School of Social Work produced a series of videos depicting social worker/client interviews on four topics in social work practice with older adults and their families. The topics include: Coping with Chronic Illness, Active Aging, Depression, and Sexuality in Aging. In total, ten client and social worker interactions were captured totalling over four hours of video. One of the videos (Depression) was conducted in Spanish and is being distributed in both Spanish and English. The videos and teaching materials are already being used in courses at the School of Social Work, and will also be distributed on CD-ROM to social work libraries across the country. The effort was led by SSW Professors Denisse Burnette and Anne McCann-Oakley, who along with the rest of the School of Social Work team developed the supplementary teaching materials including interview transcripts, discussion guides for instructors, and links to studies that relate to the video content. Education technologist, David VanEsselstyn managed the project for CCNMTL. The video editing and compression was completed by Stephanie Ogden, Senior Video Specialist and her intern assistants, Ndlela Nkobi, Stephen Padilla. Inauguration Investiture Ceremony WebcastUpdate: October 3, 2002. The archive of the Investiture broadcast is now available.
Revitalizing Epidemiology 101August 25, 2002. In Vivo, a publication of the Columbia University Health Sciences, describes how the Mailman School of Public Health is revitalizing its introductory epidemiology course. One of the elements contributing to this revitalization is an outbreak simulation developed by CCNMTL. Working with Dr. Daniel Herman, Dr. Lydia Zablotska, and Dr. Ian Lapp, CCNMTL has developed a fictional town, Epiville, complete with newscasts, and other online materials.
CourseWorks Reminder Sent to InstructorsAugust 23, 2002. The following note has been sent to Fall 2002 instructors: Your CourseWorks@Columbia course Web site is ready for your use! To begin working on your course Web site or migrate content from a previous semester, log in with your University Network ID, UNI and password at http://courseworks.columbia.edu. One-hour CourseWorks workshops will be offered daily during the first two weeks of classes. For more information and to sign up for a session at Morningside or Health Sciences campuses, visit the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) Web site at http://www.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/services/workshops/ Sincerely, The CourseWorks Team CCNMTL Moves Into a New Home: 505 ButlerAugust 16, 2002. The Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) has moved from 605 Butler into its new home--505 Butler Library--on August 9, 2002. The other CCNMTL locations (Lewisohn and Health Science) remain the same. Online Facebook for Film and Theater Students ReleasedJune 17, 2002. CCNMTL in partnership with Lenore Dekoven, Assistant Professor of Film at the School of the Arts, released the online Casting Files/Facebook for use as a resource in Film and Theater classes. The digital archive allows students to review hundreds of actors' headshots and resumes online in order to select casts for their productions. Learning to cast actors is a significant part of the core workshops required of first year film students. The site, which contains headshots and resumes for over 1000 actors, offers students easier access to these resources, which were previously only available in hard copy in an office with limited hours. The online version allows students to view, save or print files any time, as well as select from four different criteria (type, age, sex and ethnicity) to identify desirable candidates. Used with tools like the CU Analyzer, the Facebook can help students visualize a potential cast. Film and theater students can begin using the Casting Files/Facebook immediately. State of the Planet 2002 Broadcast ArchivedMay 28, 2002. CCNMTL has archived the Web broadcast of the State of the Planet 2002 Conference.
Commencement 2002 Archived BroadcastMay 23, 2002. CCNMTL has archived the Web broadcast of the Columbia College and School of Engineering Class Day proceedings as well as the May 22nd Commencement 2002 proceedings.
Live Webcast of State of the Planet 2002May 10, 2002. CCNMTL is producing the live Webcast of the State of the Planet 2002 Conference: Science and Sustainability, May 13-14, in partnership with Columbia's Earth Institute. The Webcast is presented live to the world via the conference Web site, and is being recorded for future use. With assistance from Academic Information Systems (AcIS), we are also multicasting an MPEG-1 stream (1.5Mbps) accessible to any Internet2 location. About the 2002 State of the Planet Conference Preceding the World Summit on Sustainable Development, scheduled for August 2002 in Johannesburg, South Africa, the State of the Planet Conference will bring together leading international scientists, opinion-makers, and policy experts to explore the theme: Science And Sustainability. Recordings of the conference proceedings will be available in the CCNMTL Media Archive right after the conference, along with other CCNMTL-produced recordings, including the State of the Planet 1999 conference. Faculty members are invited to use these recordings in their courses by including links to them in their course Web sites. Recorded lectures can be used for classroom presentation and student use. Please contact ccnmtl@columbia.edu for help with course Web site development. Film Analysis Tool ReleasedMay 7, 2002.CCNMTL in partnership with Larry Engel, Adjunct Professor of Film at the School of the Arts, released Deconstructor: A Film Analysis Tool, which will aid film students in learning, understanding and applying the language used in film analysis. Dr. Engel envisioned this new media tool to change the student role from a passive film viewer to an active critical thinker about the construction of a film scenes, a skill they will carry into their own work as filmmakers. Using Deconstructor, students will view film scenes, dissect them into a series of shots, then annotate each shot according to a standard film analysis template. They will be prompted to look at scene analysis with a set of criteria used to identify film elements, such as shot type, angle and camera movement. Analyzing a series of shots, students will build a visual score for a scene by layering and juxtaposing different variables across time. The graphing feature will aid them in identifying relationships and patterns among different film elements. Professor Engel modeled Deconstructor on the teaching of former Columbia Professor Stefan Sharff. Says Professor Engel, Sharff's "approach to film grammar and syntax opened a way of seeing film that I hadn't thought of before. This new tool is a way of continuing his work and helping students more easily collect data necessary to discuss and learn about film's inherent grammatical underpinnings." A beta of Deconstructor was introduced to Engel's course, Analysis of Film, this Spring. The final version, which will be ready for use in Fall 2002, will include many more graphing options and interface changes based on comments from students in the Spring course. Thomas de Zengotita Spices Up University Seminar on New MediaMarch 27, 2002. New York University Professor Thomas de Zengotita presented his controversial and entertaining view on education in a virtual world to the University Seminar on New Media Teaching and Learning. Says de Zengotita, "Freedom in a virtualized world means being able to choose among unlimited options in every sphere of experience and activity because it doesn't really matter what you choose. That is the condition we face as educators." His presentation offered examples of what happens to people in virtuality and the implications for education. Thomas de Zengotita teaches at the Dalton School and at the Draper Graduate Program at New York University. He has published numerous articles on the impact of new media in society and, in 1975, contributed to "Language and Learning: the Debate Between Jean Piaget and Noam Chomsky," the published notes of the conference held that year at Abbaye de Royaumont near Paris.
CCNMTL and Oxford University Awarded $300K Grant by the Mellon Foundation for Development of Simulation to Train Public Health Professionals in Refugee AidMar 27, 2002. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded CCNMTL (with the Program on Forced Migration and Public Health, Columbia University) and the Refugee Studies Centre (with the Technology Assisted Lifelong Learning Group, University of Oxford) a major grant to develop simulations that will train workers in humanitarian emergencies. The pilot program, launching Fall 2002, will be used by Professor Ronald Waldman at the School of Public Health, Columbia University. Responding the growing needs for effective humanitarian aid around the world, Columbia and Oxford Universities are developing this project for use in the field by public health professionals, international relations professionals, and other NGO volunteers, as well as in the classroom by students of public health. The initial research will evaluate different simulation models and technical solutions, the results of which CCNMTL and Oxford will share with the wider community. Later iterations will address increasingly complex issues facing humanitarian workers as the research and development team evaluates the use of the pilot project and discovers appropriate courses that might be enriched by simulation components.
Frank Moretti Delivers Keynote Address at SCUP ConferenceMarch 18, 2002. On March 13-15, 2002, more than 250 campus facilities directors, administrators, planners, architects and builders from the north east and Canada met at Columbia University to explore the close relationship between technology, teaching and educational facilities at a Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) conference entitled "Bricks and Clicks: Challenges in the Digital Age." Invited to deliver the keynote address, Frank Moretti, CCNMTL's Executive Director, presented a lecture entitled "Digital Media: Implications for Academia."
Current CCNMTL University Seminar Focuses on General Education and Global StabilityFebruary 26, 2002. Taking for its topic General Education, New Media and the Challenge of Global Stability, the University Seminar on New Media Teaching and Learning welcomes the insights of major leaders at the University and beyond, including Lisa Anderson, Dean of the School of International and Public Affairs; Alan Brinkley, Allan Nevins Professor of History; James Carey, CBS Professor of International Journalism; Robbie McClintock, Co-Director of Institute for Learning Technologies and John and Sue Anne Weinberg Professor of History and Education; and Frank Moretti, Executive Director, Center for New Media Teaching and Learning and Co-Director of Institute for Learning Technologies. On March 11, the Seminar welcomes Tom de Zengotita, Adjunct Associate Professor at the Draper Graduate Program at New York University, who will speak to the question of Education in a Virtual World. According to de Zengotita, "freedom in a virtual world means being able to choose among unlimited options in every sphere of experience and activity because it doesn't really matter what you choose." This compelling statement frames his talk and promises to engage participants in a lively discussion. Seminars are open to invited participants, but all members of the Columbia community are invited to participate in the online discussion at the Seminar Web site. For a complete schedule, to read more about the current seminar and to view past presentations and participate in the online discussion, please visit the Seminar Web site. CourseWorks@Columbia Launched for Spring 2002; CCNMTL Supports Faculty LearningJanuary 22, 2002. Following Columbia's launch of CourseWorks@Columbia, the University's new course management system that aids students and faculty in the management of their online course materials, CCNMTL offers faculty at the University support for building their course Web sites and training to learn how to use the application on their own. CourseWorks@Columbia is an evolution of several technologies introduced by AcIS and CCNMTL, including CUBboard, the Course Web Site template and the Directory of Classes (DOC). With it, faculty can publish course information and content, communicate with students via bulletin boards and e-mail lists, maintain digital assets (text, slides, video and audio), deliver and receive files (such as readings and assignments) and manage group projects with ease. The hundreds of faculty who have developed course Web sites in the past will notice a remarkable difference between this simple, Web-based publishing environment, which allows them to post information and materials just before a class begins, and the more complicated, time-consuming protocols used in the past. CCNMTL is offering regularly-scheduled workshops to teach faculty the ABCs of publishing their course Web sites and to help them develop pedagogical frameworks for presenting their course materials online. Basic course Web site development workshops are offered the first and third Friday of every month. For those faculty who want a more specialized consultation, CCNMTL Educational Technologists are available for one-on-one training. For students, CourseWorks@Columbia serves as a single point of entry for all of their course information and content, including links to digital library reserve materials, a calendar they can use to track assignments and deadlines, bulletin boards and groups for which they are registered, and announcements from their instructors. CourseWorks@Columbia is available to all schools and joins similar systems at the Graduate School of Business and Teachers College. It is based on Prometheus, a community-based, commercial, open architecture software platform originally developed by the George Washington University. Faculty and instructors may contact CCNMTL at (212) 854-9058 or ccnmtl@columbia.edu for help on developing a Web site or learning to use CourseWorks.
CCNMTL Contributions Recognized by the American Dental Education AssociationDecember 5, 2001. In its annual compendium of Best Practices in Dental Education 2001, the American Dental Education Association (ADEA) acknowledged the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) for its success in integrating new media in the dental curriculum. According to the ADEA report, the School of Dental and Oral Surgery "has combined resources and formed a unique cooperative venture with the university's Center for New Media Teaching and Learning. This collaboration has catalyzed a new effort in integrating new media in the dental curriculum." The result of these initiatives, according to SDOS, is that they "have been able to design and begin implementation on a comprehensive electronic curriculum." In particular, the study notes the innovative design of electronic pre-clinical lab instruction, development of new tools for learning diagnosis and treatment planning as well as critical thinking in other areas of the curriculum and curriculum management tools. Citing Community DentCare, a community-based project at the school that provides dental services to the local, low-income community in partnership with health centers, neighborhood practices, public schools and others, the report acknowledges the primary role CCNMTL played in facilitating the dental education network. Community DentCare provides the framework for educational programs including an AEGD Primary Care program, dental student rotations and specialty student training. The network also serves as a foundation for health services research. CCNMTL continues to partner with the School of Dental and Oral Surgery, as well as all schools on the Health Sciences campus, on new media initiatives that support teaching and learning.
University Seminar: New Media, General Education, and the Challenge of Global Stability.For more detailed information about the University Seminar on New Media, General Education and the Challenge of Global Stability, please visit the Seminar site. November 26, 2001. On Tuesday, December 4, 2001, CCNMTL presents its latest University Seminar on New Media Teaching and Learning on the subject New Media, General Education, and the Challenge of Global Stability. The Seminar features Lisa Anderson, James W. Carey, Robbie McClintock and Frank Moretti as the key presenters, with the extended group of Seminar members serving as respondents. Participants will examine the ways in which a national crisis, such as the Sept. 11 attacks on American soil, move educators to consider how best to nurture the generative values of civilization as defined by Columbia's Core Curriculum. The issue will be presented in the framework of how new media transform the creation and use of knowledge, alter the conditions of participation in culture, and vastly amplify the reach, the scope, and the power of individual action, for good and for ill. One of the crucial questions for discussion will be, "What form of general education do we need to create in order to enable society to be both global and free?" To continue the discussion beyond the limitations of the two-hour seminar, CCNMTL is creating a Seminar Web site to facilitate ongoing global discussion forums and netcasts of significant related events, inviting key partners at other institutions and public sector groups to deepen the intellectual discussion. The University Seminars at Columbia University make possible sustained interaction of scholars, cutting across traditional boundaries of learning to generate fresh approaches and ideas and camaraderie and intellectual fellowship that enrich and challenge members. Participants are selected by invitation from the Columbia faculty and other experts. CCNMTL Resources Available on Columbia Interactive.November 14, 2001. CCNMTL is pleased to be a part of Columbia Interactive (CI), the new gateway to e-learning resources developed at Columbia University. Launching on November 14, 2001, CI provides access to course Web sites, projects and digital tools produced by CCNMTL in partnership with faculty. For more information about CCNMTL and Columbia's other digital initiatives, please pick up the special November 14 "Columbia Digital" issue of the Columbia Record. News Reporting Simulation Launches at Journalism School.October 23, 2001. The Graduate School of Journalism launched version one of their News Reporting Simulation (NewsSim) this fall. Developed by John Pavlik, Professor and Melvin Mencher, Professor Emeritus, at the Graduate School of Journalism in collaboration with CCNMTL, elements of NewsSim—from the simulated scenario to sources to supplemental reading lists—can be customized for faculty members based on their individual curriculum needs. Students will use the simulation to practice news gathering, interviewing and writing skills in a controlled digital environment that approximates some of the conditions found in the real world by reporters covering common news stories. In the first version of NewsSim, students cover a fire in a local apartment building as a spot news story. The simulation will ultimately contain several scenarios, each intended to teach students a different aspect of news reporting. NewsSim includes simulated video interviews with key witnesses and officials. As it guides students through the fire scenario, the simulation offers suggestions on how to proceed and provides feedback based on the students1 choices. Students also listen to fire codes broadcast over a police scanner in order to find a potential story and navigate the town using an interactive map. At the end of the simulation, they identify the story elements and submit their story covering the simulated event, which is sent to the instructor to be read and graded. NewsSim has already received overwhelmingly positive feedback from students who are using it in Professor Pavlik's class Exploring New Media. The project is undergoing evaluation this fall, with comprehensive results expected to be released by the Summer of 2002. New Digital Classroom in Lewisohn Hall.October 23, 2001. 308A Lewisohn Hall is now The Digital Classroom. Overseen by CCNMTL, General Studies and the Registrar's office, the Digital Classroom is designed to encourage interactive learning for small groups in and beyond the classroom. With seating for 18 students, the classroom is designed for seminars that require students and faculty to work together in small groups. The furniture itself is flexible—easy-to-move, color-coded tables allow the instructor to control the room set-up. Control also extends to the presentation of course content, including class notes, Web sites, Word documents, the course Web site, DVD or videotapes. All of these features can be viewed, and many can be created, on the freestanding console called the SmartBoard. Housed in a cabinet resembling a rear projection television set, the SmartBoard is a dynamic, networked computer display with electronic whiteboard, which includes VCR and DVD players and an integrated audio system. A short training session, provided by CCNMTL, prepares any faculty member to use all of the SmartBoard features in their class. Faculty making use of new media in their teaching are encouraged to request The Digital Classroom for the Spring 2002 semester by contacting ccnmtl@columbia.edu. SmartBoard demonstrations for groups of faculty will be given by CCNMTL on request. To schedule a demonstration for your department, please contact CCNMTL at ccnmtl@columbia.edu. The School of Social Work to create course Web sites for every class.June 29, 2001. Beginning Fall 2001, syllabi, reading lists (with links to library databases), bulletin boards, and other course materials will be available online to Social Work students for every class taught at the School of Social Work (SSW). The SSW's Office of Computing and Instructional Technology is working with faculty to compile, digitize and publish course materials using the Course Web Site Template developed by the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning. In addition, each course will have a bulletin board that allows students and instructors to share information throughout the life of the class. According to Ann McCann Oakley, Director of the school's Office of Computing and Instructional Technology, "bulletin boards encourage a higher level of discourse," removing the limitations of the traditional classroom environment. "We think it is important for all courses to make good use of one and we have learned best practices through our work with CCNMTL," she concluded. The CCNMTL Course Web Site format has proven popular with SSW students, who have come to expect the high level of interaction with classmates and instructors it affords them. The consistent, easy-to-navigate interface is appreciated by faculty, as well, since it helps them maintain course materials and encourages students to become more fully engaged with the subject. Says Ms. Oakley, "getting readings online is a great advantage for faculty," since materials that have been digitized once are easily accessible in the future and student have access to them at any time. A number of SSW classes have been online in the last few years, but with this new effort, students will benefit from a consistent digital environment in all classes. This initiative at SSW is the continuation of a multi-year collaboration with CCNMTL, which includes the development of Third Space, a method of referencing and including video snippets within a bulletin board message and will continue as the School finds new ways to bridge the gaps between class work, fieldwork and professional practice. "The Rohde to Srebrenica," a multimedia case study.July 23, 2001. Under the guidance of Anne Nelson, Director of the International Program at the School of Journalism, students from the Elements of International Reporting class developed "The Rohde to Srebrenica: A Case Study of Human Rights Reporting." The case study is presented in the form of a Web site that documents U.S. reporter David Rohde's journey through Bosnia, where he spent several months in 1995 researching and reporting on the genocide of Bosnian Muslims. Visitors to the Web site —which consists of six chronological stages told through a series of student essays, interviews and newspaper articles —can view Rohde's photographs of the gravesites, read the correspondence with his editor, find links to related organizations (such as Freedom Forum and the Committee to Protect Journalists) and read articles that comprised Rohde's ground-breaking series published in the Christian Science Monitor. Central to the study is a multimedia treatment of Rohde and his editor, Faye Bowers, retelling their story at a special lecture held at Columbia in April 2001. The video is presented as a series of clips organized by theme, making individual topics easy to find and study. The Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) is used with RealVideo clips to provide this uniquely educational video interface. The site can be used as a resource for all Columbia faculty and students —from the School of Journalism to the School of International Public Affairs to the School of Law. ["!^(homepage)images/web.gif 17×15! Case Study: "The Rohde to Srebrenica"":http://www.columbia.edu/itc/journalism/nelson/rohde/] ["!^(homepage)images/video.gif 17×15! Video Interface: "The Rohde to Srebrenica: Stage One"":http://www.columbia.edu/itc/journalism/nelson/rohde/ram_files/stage_1.ram]
New versions for CU Analyzer for Windows and Macintosh released.June 27, 2001. A new version of the CU Analyzer (v1.1.214) for Windows is now available for download. In addition, we have released for the first time a Macintosh version which is also available from the download pages. See the CU Analyzer Web pages for details. CU Analyzer (v1.1.150) for Windows released.April 30, 2001. A new version of the CU Analyzer (v1.1.150) for Windows is now available for download. See the CU Analyzer Web pages for details. A MacOS beta is being tested and will be made available during the summer. CCNMTL finds and reports Internet Explorer vulnerability.February 8, 2001. During its research with XML and images, the Center discovered a security problem with Internet Explorer. CCNMTL staff Anders Pearson and Peter Leonard discovered that the security hole affects both Mac (version 5.0) and Windows (version 4.0) and can lead to Web-mail spoofing attacks. The report has been covered by a number of online news sites, including SecurityFocus.com and Macintouch.com. CCNMTL to present a conference on digital technology and pedagogy.February 7, 2001. CCNMTL announces a conference focusing on the impact of new media on education entitled, "Columbia University: Moving Education Into the 21st Century With New Media" to take place on Friday, March 9, 2001. Provost Jonathan R. Cole, CCNMTL Executive Director Frank Moretti, Associate Vice Provost Raphael Kasper, Fathom CEO Ann Kirschner, and Columbia Faculty will be among those who will speak at the conference, which will be open to all Columbia University affiliates. The conference will take place in the Faculty Room of Low Memorial Library. A complete schedule of the conference is now available online. For information or to be added to a mailing list, please visit the Conference Web site. CCNMTL Health Sciences open house to be held on January 25, 2001January 9, 2001. CCNMTL will hold an Open House on Thursday, January 25, 2001, from 11:30 AM - 2:00 PM to welcome CU affiliates to visit the new the new Health Sciences Campus location and enjoy some light refreshments with CCNMTL staff. Columbia University Record articles focus on CCNMTL effortsDecember 15, 2000. The Columbia University RECORD published two articles focusing on the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning's (CCNMTL's) pedagogical role at the university. The first, "General Studies Offers a Paperless Undergraduate Class", was also referred to in New York Magazine's December 18-25, 2000 special Spring Education advertising editorial section. The second, "Grad Students Help Place Course Syllabi Online" Record story describes the role of Departmental Associate Education Technologists (DAETs), a group of graduate students trained under a CCNMTL program designed to provided greater support for faculty. CCNMTL office at the Health Sciences campus now open for businessDecember 1, 2000. The Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) opened its new Health Sciences Campus location this week. While the Center has been in operation serving the faculty from the uptown campus since early this Fall, the staff had been working out of a crowded makeshift office making it difficult to function effectively. The new location is conveniently located across the street from the Hammer Building at the Armory Track and Field Center at 168th Street. The Armory, soon to be home of the National Track and Field Hall of Fame and already the home of several national and community organizations as well as the Columbia Center for Population and Family Health gives the Center a connection to the community and the University. A unique feature of this new location is that the office is entirely wireless, connected to Columbia University and the rest of the Internet using a wireless access point that intercepts a beam of information that is sent from a similarly configured access point on the wired network. This focus on exploring new technologies is representative of the Center's goals of integrating new media tools with the health sciences curriculum. Thus far, the emphasis uptown has been on working with imaging and digital video technologies to provide health care students with patient simulations, virtual charts, and case studies, as well as providing the same services provided by CCNMTL at the Morningside campus. In early January, The Center will announce an open house for faculty and staff to visit and become acquainted with the work of the Center. Until then, Dr. John Zimmerman, Associate Director of the Center and head of the uptown office, invites inquiries and visitors. John can be reached at (646) 772-8607 or zim@columbia.edu. Columbia College Today features CCNMTL in its special edition on "Technology and Columbia"December 2000. Columbia College Today (CCT) features a story on the digital revolution taking place at Columbia University entitled "Columbia Goes Digital" with an extensive discussion of the mission of CCNMTL. The magazine is distributed to all College Alumni as well as all currently affiliated students, staff, and faculty to the university. If you would like to obtain a copy you may contact CCT directly at cct@columbia.edu, fax: 212.870.2747, or by telephone: 212.870.2752. eCompany features CCNMTL Executive Director, Frank Moretti in article on the transformation of the university by new media technologiesNovember 22, 2000. eCompany (December 2000), a new media industry magazine, published the feature story, "The Web is Transforming the University. How and Why?", describing the current debate surrounding technology and how it is changing the university as we know it. Dr. Moretti’s picture is accompanied by the following text:
Brownfield Action 2.0 launches in Barnard Environmental Science courseOctober 2, 2000. Brownfield Action 2.0, the second iteration of an interactive simulation of contaminated landsite on CD-ROM developed by CCNMTL, began this week in Barnard College's environmental science department. The simulation integrates knowledge from a wide range of sources (environmental science, chemistry, geography, geology, epidemiology, the etiology of illness, civics and economics) to solve problems of environmental contamination. Brownfield Action is intended for use as the main laboratory exercise of the Introduction to Environmental Science course at Barnard College, taught by Prof. Peter Bower. Over 100 students working in pairs will spend the next 10 weeks experiencing what it is like to be an environmental site investigator as they explore a brownfield in a virtual town. Using maps, interviews with residents, government documents, and a comprehensive set of environmental testing tools, students will generate a report on the cause and extent of any pollution they find on an abandoned factory site that is ready for sale to a real estate developer who wishes to build a mall on the property.
The CU Analyzer (Windows) 1.0 now availableSeptember 25, 2000. The Windows version of the Columbia University Analyzer has been released. This unique web-based tool allows one to capture, analyze, and ultimately express new knowledge using multimedia objects culled from the Web. The CU Analyzer, known as HyperFolio during the beta stages, is a plug-in for your browser that allows you to collect assets (text, images, and audio and video links) off any Web site simply by dragging and dropping. You can then expand the CU Analyzer to manipulate those assets on worksheets that can be made to represent an unlimited number of organizational structures. Additional information, demos, and dowload options are available at the CU Analyzer project pages. . Downloading requires a University Network ID. The Macintosh version is now in beta and will also be released this Fall.
Apple.com features CCNMTL Summer Intensive Training Program in its Higher Education WebsiteAugust 25, 2000. CCNMTL Summer Intensive Training Program is the subject of Apple.com’s Macs in Action: a collection of stories about how Macs and Apple technology are being used by faculty, administrators, and students. It the article “Grad Students Rev Up Web for Faculty”, Apple highlights the Summer Program and focuses on the Macintosh portable, wireless networking, and software solutions employed by CCNMTL throughout the course of the program. This piece was also picked up by the Macintosh News Network.
CNN interviews Frank Moretti on the use of technology in educationAugust 18, 2000. CNNfn broadcasted a seven minute interview of Frank Moretti, CCNMTL’s Executive Director, during a technology in education segment. The segment was aired live on August 11, 2000 at 7:50 AM.
CCNMTL satellite will open at the Health Sciences campus early Fall 2000August 2, 2000. CCNMTL will be expanding to include a satellite at the Health Sciences campus later this summer. The Center will occupy two separate locations. One will be a small office in the Hammer Building and a second larger space across the street at the Armory Track and Field Center, which has become one of the vitalizing forces for community re-development in Washington Heights (armorytrack.com. Work has started on the renovation of the Armory space and we expect to move into both of these locations by the end of 2000. Dr. John Zimmerman has joined CCNMTL as the Associate Director for the Health Science campus. Dr. Zimmerman (zim@columbia.edu) will continue his appointment as Associate Professor of Clinical Dentistry and Clinical Medical Informatics while directing the efforts of the Center uptown. He will bring into the fold of the Center his team of developers and technicians. While we work on the physical presence, the Center has begun a number of digital efforts with the faculty across each of the four schools at the Health Sciences campus. Current projects include developing the Science Basic to the Practice of Medicine and Dentistry course, a required course for all first-year students, a nutrition course, and the Primary Care and Pediatric Clerkships among others. For further information, please contact John Zimmerman at (646) 772-8607. The Christian Science Monitor features the use of technology in education in two articles on CCNMTLAugust 2, 2000. The Christian Science Monitor (August 1 2000) features two stories on the use of technology in education and how CCNMTL is meeting that challenge. The main article, “Professors try to keep up with cyberage” and the sidebar, “Digging for signs of pollution—with a mouse and a hard drive”, focus on the efforts of the Center to date and includes quotes by faculty, staff of the center, and visitors to the center. This piece was also picked up by University Business Daily, a site covering changes in education, and geek.com. The geek.com article includes an editorial comment and reader responses to the article.
Columbia University Copyright Policy approved by the TrusteesJune 3, 2000. The University Copyright Policy prepared by a Provostial faculty committee and adopted by the University Senate was approved and adopted by the Trustees of the University at their June 3, 2000 meeting. The Policy is effective as of that date.
The Summer Ecosystem Experience for Undergraduates (SEE-U)May 2000. The The Summer Ecosystem Experiences for Undergraduates (SEE-U) is an innovative collaboration between Columbia University’s Center for Environmental Research and Conservation (CERC) and the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning. The digitally networked five-week field ecology program consists of a network of introductory ecology courses running simultaneously during the summer in different biomes around the world. CCNMTL is developing a variety of digital resources that will allow students in a particular biome to contextualize their local research within a broader understanding of global ecology. In conjunction with CERC and Center for International Earth Sciences Information Network (CIESIN), the Center is working to develop eBiome. eBiome is an innovative, integrated tool for storing and retrieving all types of field ecology data ranging from climatic and abiotic information to ethological and behavioral data. This tool has been developed exclusively for the SEE-U program and will serve as one of the centerpieces of the class. All data collected during the class will be entered into eBiome for use by students at the field site as well as by students who are in the other SEE-U field sites. eBiome will help students gain a unique understanding of how similar processes occur around the globe, because they will compare data from many biomes. In so doing, eBiome will help students to more thoroughly grasp and comprehend important ecological concepts. The Center is also constructing websites featuring web-based communications infrastructure that will allow students from different biomes to share ideas and exchange information that pertains to their field research. The websites will also serve as a curriculum portal for the SEE-U program—a platform for assignments; lecture and multimedia archive; and other online resources. CCNMTL and GSAS team-up students to support educational technology at the departmental levelsMay 2000. CCNMTL has partnered with the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in developing a program to train students over the summer and place them within academic departments. This highly selective program will provide faculty with additional support for the use of new media in teaching and learning and will extend the Center’s ability to reach out to increasing numbers of faculty across the campus. Ten departments have students in the program with seven additional students who will be trained to support projects in courses ranging from Infectious Disease to African American Studies and Psychology. The seventeen graduate students, Departmental Associate Educational Technologists (AETs) will participate in an immersive six-week summer training program to aquire Web development skills and learn about pedagogical strategies that exploit the full educational potential of digital technologies. During the academic year, AETs will work closely with Center staff to get all courses in their department online and work with faculty on larger course development projects. In addition to stipends, AETs will have the use of a laptop for the year so they can demonstrate possibilities to faculty and develop course Web content anywhere on campus.
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