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Academic Year 2008 - 2009
TCETC 2009
Conference: Technology, Media, and Designs for
Learning
The Communication, Computing,
and Technology in Education Program at Teachers
College
invites submissions for its 2009
conference
This conference will take place
at Teachers College on May 10-11, 2009. It will serve as a
multi-disciplinary forum for graduate students to discuss and
exchange information on the research, development and applications
of emerging technologies for learning. The deadline for
submission is March 16, 2009.
Please refer to the
conference website for more information and submission
guidelines.
"TCETC 2009: Technology,
Media and Designs for Learning" May 10th and
11th
Join us for an exciting lineup of presentations
and posters exploring the educational applications of new technologies
and communication tools:
Instructional Design of
Online Environments
•
Social Software
• Web
2.0 Tools
•
Human-Computer
Interaction
•
Computer-Mediated
Communication
• Mobile
Media
•
Computer-Supported Collaborative
Learning
• Games for
Learning
•
Possibilities of Virtual
Worlds
• New
Literacies
• Identity
Formation
•
Cross-Cultural
Communication
•
Teaching with Technology
Please share this info with
any one who may be interested in meeting and collaborating with
scholars from TC and across the country.
Find out
more…register : conference website
(it’s
only $25 and we feed you)
Dr. Lalitha Vasudevan: Invited Judge for
Media That Matters Film Festival
Dr. Lalitha Vasudevan, Professor of Communication, has been
invited to participate as part of the jury for the Ninth Annual
Media That Matters Film
Festival taking place on Wednesday, February 11,
2009.
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In a Game Jam,
participants come together to make video games. Each participant works
in a small team on a complete game project over the course of a limited
time period, usually over a weekend. With such a small time frame, the
games tend to be innovative and experimental. The Global Game Jam (GGJ)
is the first of its kind: a Game Jam that takes place in the same 48
hours all over the world--and CCTE/TC is a host
site
!If you'd like to maximize your creativity by
designing games within specified constraints, in a limited period of
time, or to network and make new connections with both professional and
amateur game designers as we embark upon an intense 48-hour journey of
immense creativity, innovation, collaboration, and experimentation,
then consider participating! The event takes place simultaneously at 44
different locations in 15 countries around the world. This year's
Global Game Jam at Teachers College will begin at 3 pm EST on January
30, 2009 and ends at 5 pm EST on February 1, 2009. |
To participate, you'll
need to register at the respective host location. To be a part of the
GGJ at CCTE/TC, contact: Shwetha Bhaskar at sb2940@columbia.edu. More
information is also available at the Game Jam Website:
www.tc.columbia.edu/ggj2009. There is a registration fee: $30 for early
registration (expires January 16, 2009), $50 afterwards. Space is
limited.
The CCTE/TC GGJ will be held at: Teachers
College, Columbia University, 525 W 120th Street, New York, NY, 10027.
Room/Lab Location: Grace Dodge Hall
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Spring 2009 Graduate Research
AssistantshipHarlem Schools Partnership for
Science and Math Education
The graduate assistant
will support Teachers College faculty and staff in the first year phase
of a five year project, funded by the General Electric Foundation, to
improve science and math education in Harlem public schools (grades
K-12). The graduate assistant will work under the guidance of
faculty from the Department of Mathematics, Science and Technology
(MST) and the Harlem Schools Partnership project director.
Responsibilities will include some or all of the following
activities:
* Collect data for needs assessments and
evaluations at the schools through interviews, surveys and
observations
* Analyze data and prepare reports for
the project leadership group and evaluator
* Provide
on-site support to teachers and students for inquiry-based classroom
activities in science, technology, engineering and
mathematics
* Participate in team meetings with
school staff and with Teachers College Harlem Schools Partnership
leadership groups as needed
Terms of
Award
Eligibility for the award is limited to
full-time Teachers College students, preferably doctoral students with
day-time availability. The funding package includes 3 tuition
points and a $5,000 stipend. Recipients should expect to
devote an average of 10 hours per week to assistantship
responsibilities. The position is for the Spring 2009
semester. Applicants will be notified of award by January
2009.
Application Process:
Please
submit the following materials to Dr. Janell N. Catlin, Project
Director, Harlem Schools Partnership via email to jcatlin@tc.edu no
later than November 14, 2008:
1. A letter indicating your experiences in education, MST, and
research
2. Curriculum
vitae
3. One professional letter of
reference
A visit from Jesper Juul, MIT games
scholar
Teachers College was fortunate enough to have a recent visit from
Jesper Juul, thanks in part to the efforts of
LearnPlay, a CCTE-led
student group.
Dr. Juul spoke on the topic, "What makes casual games so appealing, so
attractive? Looking for 'the casual' in casual video games."
Jesper Juul is currently a video game theorist at the Singapore-MIT
GAMBIT
game
lab in Cambridge. He was previously an assistant professor in video
game theory and design at the Centre for Computer Game Research
Copenhagen where he also earned his Ph.D. His book Half-Real on video
game theory was published by MIT Press in 2005. His blog, The
Ludologist, can be found at
http://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist;
http://www.jesperjuul.net
For
more information on this or other LearnPlay events, please e-mail Dan
Hoffman (
dlh2109@columbia.edu)
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Academic Year 2007 -
2008
CCTE student publishes book of Star Wars
parodies
Jonathan
Bresman, a doctoral student in Communication and Education at Teachers
College, has recently published Mad About Star Wars, a compilation of
classic Mad Magazine parodies with a forward by George Lucas. Jon is
currently senior editor at Mad, and has previously worked for
Lucasfilm. This book, and Jon's previously-publised The Art of Star
Wars, Episode I - The Phantom Menace can be found on Amazon.com,
BarnesandNoble.com, and through other sources.
CCTE professor directs feature-length
documentary
The Film Society of Lincoln Center screened Dr. Jamsheed
Akrami's documentary, The Lost Cinema, in January 2007.
Dr.
Akrami has previously taught Cinema as Cross-Cultural Communication,
and is teaching MSTU 4012, Film as Art, within the Program for
Communication, Computing and Technology in Education at Teachers
College.
The Lost Cinema
This feature-length documentary on
Iranian cinema before the revolution explores the key issues of the
Iranian New Wave cinema, a film movement that blossomed in the late 60s
as a cinema of protest against a film industry dominated by the
aesthetically crude, socially uninformed domestic films and excessive
exhibition of popular Hollywood and European imports. Through analyzing
selected films and a series of interviews with filmmakers and scholars,
U.S.-based film professor Jamsheed Akrami, whose previous documentary,
Friendly Persuasion, examined Iranian cinema after the revolution,
sheds light on a significant trend of politically themed films made in
the 70s that contributed to the political awareness of the Iranian
middle class.
Hidden Agenda is an
educational video game development contest sponsored by the nonprofit
Liemandt Foundation. This contest has been running annually since 2003
and the winning games from previous years have been released online for
middle school children (and everyone else) to play. The
Liemandt Foundation is dedicated to facilitating, testing, and
promoting “stealth education” video games so that they can make
learning fun for kids who might enjoy educational games more than
traditional education.
CCTE students Cheng-Ling Chen, Kuo-Hsun Hung, and Selen Turkay were one
of the five finalist teams selected from more than 20 who participated
in the last competition. These teams' products and presentations
were judged in Austin, Texas (June 28-29). Out TC students' game
(called
Tank-Q), was designed to teach specific physics concepts and
was awarded second place in a very tough competition.
Congratulations!
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