Columbia Center for New Media Teaching & Learning - Announcements

May 12, 2008. Calling all Faculty and Instructors: Attend a faculty workshop on May 27-28 and learn how to effectively use online course management and collaboration tools—including CourseWorks, Columbia Wikispaces, and social bookmarking—in your classroom. Faculty workshops range in skill...

May 6, 2008. CCNMTL will release the Columbia iTunes U site in September 2008 allowing students to easily search, download, and play course content just like they do music and movies. The Columbia iTunes U will contain much of the...

May 1, 2008. Wrapping up a two-year exploration of pathways between digital repositories, structured learning environments, and the open Web, we will review our past presenters’ insights and consider the challenges that lie ahead. While no one project has equally...

April 28, 2008. The Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) hosted Innovation in the CUMC Classroom on April 22, 2008 in the National Track and Field Hall of Fame Theater to reintroduce Columbia University’s health science educators...

April 28, 2008. The Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) hosted Innovation in the CUMC Classroom on April 22, 2008 in the National Track and Field Hall of Fame Theater to reintroduce Columbia University’s health science educators...

April 10, 2008. The Barnard College Newscenter released an article on its Web site featuring the CCNMTL-developed environmental simulation, Brownfield Action 3.0. The article, \"New and Improved Environmental Teaching Tool Launches\" introduces Brownfield Action 3.0 and discusses a two-day seminar...

April 8, 2008. The Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning will host Innovation in the CUMC Classroom on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 in the Armory Track and Field Center. Columbia University health sciences teaching faculty are invited to...

April 7, 2008. Eight recently completed multimedia case studies are being piloted by Professor Michael Shapiro in his graduate journalism course “Decision Making in the Newsroom,” as part of the Knight Case Studies Initiative at the School of Journalism. The...

April 2, 2008. The New York City Public Library included a link to CCNMTL\'s Mapping the African-American Past (MAAP) project on the New York City Digital Collections page of its Web site. Mapping the African American Past (MAAP) is a...

March 31, 2008. The Columbia Daily Spectator described the breadth of historical information available though CCNMTL\'s multimedia learning environment, Mapping the African American Past (MAAP). The article, \"Web Site Highlights Local Black History,\" takes a look at MAAP\'s features, including...

March 31, 2008. CCNMTL staff accompanied Dr. Robert Remien, research scientist at the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, on a fact-finding mission to Cape Town, South Africa as part of an NIMH-supported project on HIV-treatment adherence known as...

March 31, 2008. The Columbia University Record explored CCNMTL\'s mission through the lens of such projects as the Millenium Village and Video Interactions for Teaching and Learning (VITAL). \"It Takes a (Simulated) Village: New Media Center Reshapes Teaching for the...

March 20, 2008. MIT history professor John Dower and program director Scott Shunk will discuss lessons learned from five years of developing an innovative educational platform. Visualizing Cultures is a gateway to seeing history through images that once had wide...

March 20, 2008. MIT history professor John Dower and program director Scott Shunk will discuss lessons learned from five years of developing an innovative educational platform. Visualizing Cultures is a gateway to seeing history through images that once had wide...

March 18, 2008. Social networking, the Internet, and cell phones are just a few of the technologies seeping into the everyday lives of citizens in the developing world. In a course offered by the School of International and Public Affairs...

March 13, 2008. On Wednesday, March 26, CCNMTL will host a symposium entitled “Video as a Manipulative: An Innovative System to Transform University Courses in Psychology and Education” at the AERA annual meeting in New York City. The event’s topic...

March 5, 2008. Mapping the African American Past (MAAP) is a public Web site created by CCNMTL and partners to enhance the appreciation and study of significant sites and moments in the history of African Americans in New York from...

February 28, 2008. Mapping the African American Past (MAAP), to be released in coming weeks, is a Web site that enhances the appreciation and study of significant sites and events in the history of African Americans in New York City...

February 18, 2008. A number of spring semester courses are using Sakai, a collaboration and learning environment, which is being considered for the eventual update to CourseWorks. These courses are part of an ongoing test and evaluation of the Sakai...

February 7, 2008. Professor Courtney Bender, in a talk subtitled, “Spatial Data, Student Collaboration, and New Investigations of Religious Life”, will examine recent emphasis on space in religious studies including how religious groups live within and imagine social contexts. This...