New Media in Education 2006: A Progress Report: Recent Episodes
Columbia University
Since 1999, the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning has partnered with faculty in the design, development, and assessment of projects that enhance the Columbia educational experience. The goal of our third New Media in Education Conference is to highlight some of the innovations that have evolved since we began our work seven years ago. Our commitment to keeping pace with current developments while maintaining a reflective context has allowed the Columbia community to benefit from newly emerging pedagogical best practices.
Panel 4 Frank Moretti describes new efforts at CCNMTL to leverage multimedia adaptations of University research for use in Columbia's classes. Susan Witte will introduce Multimedia Connect, an AIDS intervention program developed at the School of Social Work.
Panel 3: A Partnership in Educational Innovation, part 5; Letty Moss-Salentijn discusses how she used the Image Annotation Tool in her histology course at the School of Dental and Oral Surgery.
Panel 3: A Partnership in Educational Innovation, part 4; Zaheer Ali demonstrates The Autobiography of Malcolm X Multimedia Study Environment.
Panel 3: A Partnership in Educational Innovation, part 3; Daniela Noe highlights how immersing students in an all-Italian media site like Caleidoscopio encourages language studies.
Panel 3: A Partnership in Educational Innovation, part 2; Richard Peña demonstrates the Film Language Glossary. (John Frankfurt, panel convener)
John Frankfurt and Lisa Gordis discuss the use of wiki in the classroom. John Frankfurt covers Robin Kelly's course Social Justice and the Lisa Gordis describes her use of a wiki in her Reading and Writing Women in Colonial America.
Panel 3: New Technologies Serving Educational Goals; John Frankfurt discusses the Social Justice wiki.
Panel 2: Virtual Fieldwork for Pre-Professional Education, part 4; Herbert Ginsburg shares his experiences with Video Interactions for Teaching and Learning (VITAL).
Panel 2: Virtual Fieldwork for Pre-Professional Education, part 3; Tazuko Shibusawa shares her experiences with Video Interactions for Teaching and Learning (VITAL).
Panel 2: Virtual Fieldwork for Pre-Professional Education, part 2; John Zimmerman shares his experiences with Video Interactions for Teaching and Learning (VITAL).
Panel 2: Virtual Fieldwork for Pre-Professional Education, part 1; Angela Calabrese-Barton discusses the Educational Multimedia Case Constructor (EMCC).
Jonathan Hall, Brian O'Hagan, Steve Cervera (Apple) - Podcasting is the hottest topic among technology-savvy educators. With help from Apple Computer staff, learn what is needed to create and publish podcasts.
Dan Beeby and Jonah Bossewitch highlighted a new family of emerging technologies-- including Really Simple Syndication (RSS) and tagging-- for which educational applications are just now being explored.
David Klatell describes the process of creating a curriculum based on case studies for the new Master's program in Journalism. (Ryan Kelsey, panel convener)
Jonathan Hall and Brian O'Hagan simplified the arcane vocabulary for blogs (blogosphere, trackbacks, pings) down to a basic definition of a blog: a Web site made up of discrete "entries" which sometimes allows reader comments.
Dan Beeby and Jonah Bossewitch provided an overview of Sakai, an open-source course management system that may be deployed at Columbia in the future.
Panel 1: A Partnership in Educational Innovation, part 1; David Helfand discusses the creation of Frontiers of Science, a new Core Curriculum course at Columbia. (Ryan Kelsey, panel convener)
Frank Moretti, CCNMTL Executive Director, introduces James Neal, VP for Information Services and University Librarian, for the welcoming remarks of the New Media in Education 2006 conference.