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New Technologies Serving Educational Goals

January 27, 2006
Lisa Gordis professor, Barnard College
Richard Pena professor, film, Columbia University
Daniela Noe LeSassier professor, italian, Columbia University
Zaheer Ali professor, Columbia University
Letty Moss-Salentijn educational technologist
John Frankfurt Columbia University

For collaborative technologies, Educational Technologist John Frankfurt presents Robin Kelley's Social Justice wiki followed by Barnard Professor Lisa Gordis, who shares the Reading and Writing Women in Colonial America wiki. Both wikis required the students to engage in collaborative writing projects and post their assignments to the site. For media-rich technologies, Richard Pena from School of the Arts demonstrates the Film Language glossary and how he assigned the site's terms and film's clips in his Introduction to Film Studies lecture course. Daniela Noe LeSassier from the Italian Department highlights how immersing students in an all-Italian media site like Caleidoscopio encourages language studies. Finally, for online study spaces, Zaheer Ali gives an overview of The Autobiography of Malcolm X Multimedia Study Environment and how it was used in the spring 2005 lecture course on Malcolm X. Letty Moss-Salentijn and Educational Technologist Michelle Hall give an overview of the Image Annotation Tool in Moss-Salentijn's histology course at the School of Dental and Oral Surgery.

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