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| February 2002
The September 11 Digital Archive New Teaching With Technology Training Program Multicultural Project in NYC New Resource Combines Art, History, Literature
Contact Efabillar@gc.cuny.edu. Two New Labor at the Crossroads Productions WHAT'S NEW ON THE ASHP/CML WEB SITE Check out the newest additions to our Web site: Student Voices from World War II and the McCarthy Era (http://www.ashp.cuny.edu/oralhistory/index.html) featuring oral history interviews with Brooklyn College students who participated in a World War II Farm Labor Project and a Cold War era controversy over free speech on campus; Virtual New York City (http://www.virtualny.cuny.edu), based on the Old York Library Collection on NYC history now housed at The Graduate Center, which tells the city's history through evocative primary documents and original essays, beginning with an online exhibit on disasters in NYC history; the "Making Sense of Evidence" section of History Matters (http://chnm.gmu.edu/us/making.taf), now offering Learner Guides and interactive exercises that explore the historian's craft; and the online Viewer's Guides (http://www.ashp.cuny.edu/video.html) for our video documentaries. Change your bookmarks, because some ASHP/CML Web pages have new URLs: The Lost Museum, http://www.lostmuseum.cuny.edu; Virtual New York City, http://www.virtualny.cuny.edu; CUNY Wired!, http://www.cunywired.cuny.edu; and the New Media Lab, http://www.newmedialab.cuny.edu. Visit us today! Lastly, it is now easier to order ASHP products (http://www.ashp.cuny.edu/order1.html) through our Web site, including the Who Built America? and Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution CD-ROMs! 
CUNY WIRED! A CUNY New Media Conference Friday, March 15, 12:30 - 7:30PM FREE Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th Street) Sponsored by the New Media Lab, CUNY Graduate Center. From the sciences to the arts to the humanities, CUNY faculty and students are rising to the challenge posed by new digital media--creating innovative programs and interactive courses and working in labs and research centers devoted to the production and teaching of new media. CUNY WIRED! will demonstrate some of the innovative ways in which new media is being created and used across disciplines and across the university. The one-day conference will focus on two themes: Using 3-D Visualization Across Disciplines, and Communication and New Media. With a keynote address, "Artificial Life in Virtual Reality," by Demetri Terzopoulos and a demonstration area with interactive displays from many campuses, this event is a great opportunity to network, to share ideas and approaches, and to see projects that are helping to bring CUNY to the forefront of the digital age. STUART EWEN, Film & Media Studies, Hunter College, CUNY BONNIE YOCHELSON, Photography historian, author of Berenice Abbott: Changing New York and curator of The Museum of the City of NY exhibit DAVID GILLISON, Cyanobacteria, 3-D animating of complex yet not fully imaged bacteria, Biology/Art, Lehman College, CUNY ANDREA POLLI, Intuitive Ocusonics, Eye tracking musical instrument interfaces, Film & Media, Hunter College, CUNY LEEANN POMPLAS-BRUENING, The Lost Museum, A 3-D historical investigation of P.T. Barnum's American Museum, New Media Lab, The Graduate Center, CUNY DAVID SMITH, The Virtual Orchestra, Entertainment Technology, New York City Technical College, CUNY IOANNIS STAMOS, Photorealistic 3-D model laser acquisition and the utilization of dense range 3-D data, Computer Science, Hunter College. ADRIANNE WORTZEL, Camouflage Town, A theatrical scenario for a robot who comments on its environment, New York City Technical College, CUNY (and many more) DEMETRI TERZOPOULOS, Lucy and Henry Moses Professorship in the Sciences at New York University and Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics at NYU's Courant Institute. Contact Avasquez1@gc.cuny.edu.
Fiction and the City Co-sponsored by the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning and the Gotham Center, CUNY Graduate Center. Writers Kevin Baker, Pete Hamill, Peter Quinn, Beverly Swerling, and Louis Auschincloss will discuss the role of New York City history in their works of fiction. |
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| May 2002
1. Feature article: A CUNY New Media Conference That Rocked 
A CUNY New Media Conference That Rocked. CUNY WIRED! The aftermath:
NEH Grant Awarded to The New Media Classroom
The September 11th Digital Archive in New-York History Society Exhibit Media Attention for Two ASHP/CML Projects Virtual New York, which tells the city's history through evocative primary documents and original essays, beginning with an online exhibit on disasters in NYC history, http://www.ny1.com/ny/Living/SubTopic/index.html?topicintid=4&subtopicintid=120&contentintid=20657. Labor at the Crossroads Receives Grant
The New Media Classroom: New Approaches to History and Humanities Education July 8-10, 2002 Interdisciplinary Connections: Gaining a Deeper Understanding of US History and Culture WHAT'S NEW ON THE ASHP/CML WEB SITE ASHP's US history gateway site, History Matters: The US Survey on the Web, now features a guide to help teachers and students use film as historical evidence. "Making Sense of Films" is available at: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/film.
IN MEMORIAM: Adesimba Kumara Bashir, 1952-2002 Our long-time colleague and dear friend, Adesimba Bashir, died on May 7, 2002. Born in Manhattan, Ade (whom many of you may have known as Pat Brown-Height) grew up in the Bronx, graduating from Preston High School in 1970. She graduated from NYU in 1974 with a BS in Elementary Education and received an MS in Educational Reading from Lehman College in 1976. At the time of her death she was working on her Ph.D. in English Education at NYU. Ade was an extraordinary teacher and mentor. She started her teaching career working in a number of elementary schools in the Bronx, and moved on to LaGuardia Community College, where she became a full-time member of its English department in 1986. She recently joined the faculty of Audrey Cohen College on Staten Island. We at ASHP/CML are grateful for our longtime association with Ade, who helped define our Making Connections program in the late 1980s and, more recently, served as a faculty fellow, mentoring high school teachers in our program. Ade's boundless energy, her commitment to democratic education, and her generosity of spirit were an inspiration to us all. She was an honest, straightforward, creative, and deeply insightful colleague whom we will remember forever.. |
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| September
2002
1. Feature Article: September
11 Digital Archive Collects 30,000 Contributions
September 11 Digital Archive Collects 30,000 Contributions Did you send an email to a friend or family member on September 11th? In the hours and days following the attacks, more than 100 million Americans did. As with so many materials registering the social and cultural experiences of ordinary Americans in the past, however, this ephemeral digital record might slip away from us, even after the passage of only a year. Responding to that possibility, ASHP/CML and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University created the September 11 Digital Archive (http://911digitalarchive.org), a permanent digital repository about the attacks and the public reaction to them. Since its March launch, the Archive has accessioned a diverse collection of over 30,000 contributions, ranging from chat room discussions to interviews with Arab-Americans. In turn, the Archive's website--which presents a significant fraction of the project's collection--routinely receives two and half million visits a week, making it one of the most embraced noncommercial locations on the Internet. The project's staff hopes to cast their archival nets broadly by employing new digital tools, creating a record that will allow the history of the attacks and their aftermath to be told "from the bottom up.
Collaborating closely with national and local institutions —including the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History and National Public Radio—the Archive has become the repository of choice for the vast digital record precipitated by September 11th. The Archive's collection has received extensive national and international media coverage, including reports by CNN, New York One, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, El Diario, Mexico's Univista Television, and 218 local newspapers. Perhaps some of the
most compelling material in the Archive's holdings are the computer animations
and digitally manipulated imagery Americans crafted on their home computers
in the wake of 9/11. The project's director, Fritz Umbach, describes these
expressions of public sentiment as digital folk art. "They really
do fit all the classic criteria for folk art," Umbach reports, "they
were created for non-commercial reasons, and distributed by non-commercial
means. And in many ways, these creations encapsulate the rawness and immediacy
of the public reaction."
Report on the Learning to
Look National Leadership Institute ASHP/CML Materials Adapted
for ESL Students New book from ASHP/CML Executive
Director ASHP/CML Goes to Japan Labor at the Crossroads
Programs Reach New Audiences
ASHP/CML will present with the Brooklyn Museum of Art a report on a collaborative curriculum development and teacher training program funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. Using the museum's American paintings and decorative arts collection and ASHP/CML materials, the project focused on the development of interdisciplinary classroom lessons for use in secondary school humanities classrooms. Participants will gain insight into innovative teaching strategies that integrate a critical approach to primary source analysis. The resource guide will be sold at the conference. For more information about the conference see: www.history.org/nche. "September 11: One
Year After" an Interdisciplinary Conference The Middle East in the American
Mind The Center for Media and Learning and the Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center host a conversation among scholars to explore the ways that Americans do—and do not—understand the cultures, histories, and politics of the region defined as the Middle East. What role do cultural productions play in shaping American understandings of the Middle East? What about Americans' claims to natural resources there and perceptions of the region as the birthplace of three major religions? How has the growth of the Middle Eastern diaspora in the U.S. and the ways that Middle Eastern immigrants and Americans of Middle Eastern descent have negotiated their dual national identities shaped American perceptions of the Middle East? Participants include: Ammiel Alcalay is Professor of Classical, Middle Eastern, and Asian Languages at Queens College, CUNY, and author of After Jews and Arabs: Remaking Levantine Culture and Memories of Our Future. Moustafa Bayoumi (Moderator), Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Brooklyn College, CUNY, and co-editor of The Edward Said Reader. This program is part of the 2002 State Humanities Month, a celebration sponsored each October by the New York Council for the Humanities. "Talking History"
On-line Forums from History Matters The discussions will focus on teaching these topics in the standard U.S. history survey course and suggestions for resources or strategies. Although the moderators will respond to questions and comments, we also hope that participants will respond to one another and continue the discussion after the guest moderator's month. Learning to Look: Visual
Evidence and the U.S. Past in the New Media Classroom at CUNY Contact:DThompson@gc.cuny.edu. |
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DECEMBER 2002
1. Announcements:
ASHP/CML at Technology Conference In recognition of our contribution to developing innovative new media resources and approaches to their effective use in the classroom, five of the 38 sessions composing the First Annual CUNY-Wide Informational and Instructional Technology Conference held on Friday, November 15th at John Jay College were devoted to ASHP/CML projects or activities carried out under our auspices. The conference, co-sponsored by Converge magazine and entitled "Using Technology to Enhance Access and Excellence in CUNY: Realities, Plans, Visions," attracted well over 500 CUNY faculty, staff and students (along with members of the digital industry) who were eager to learn about and evaluate the diverse ways the university is engaged in producing and applying educational new media. ASHP/CML1s well-attended sessions included a demonstration of the newly redesigned and expanded Lost Museum website by our head 3-D designer Lee Ann Pomplas-Bruening, a report on The September 11 Digital Archive by project director Fritz Umbach, a survey of the programs and philosophy of the New Media Lab by managing director Andrea Ades Vasquez, a delineation of our Learning to Look teaching with technology program by project director Donna Thompson, and a retrospective look at ASHP/CML1s 12 years in the digital wilderness by executive director Josh Brown. Three additional sessions focused on activities in which ASHP/CML has played a significant role, including the CUNY-wide U.S. History Initiative, the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Doctoral Certificate Program at The Graduate Center, and the Visible Knowledge Project. Lost Museum Recent Publicity The Lost Museum recently received welcomed publicity in two publications. AAA World, the automobile magazine covering the mid-atlantic states, ran an in-depth article that included 6 images of the website and suggested the virtual museum as a complement to vacationers' travels to actual Civil War sites. The Internet Scout Report, a prestigious long-running online magazine offering web resources for scholars, teachers and the public, featured The Lost Museum in its November 22 edition. Virtual New York news Virtual New York City continues to grow in size, and will be launching its
Virtual New York City has also recently added a search function that allows Ordering ASHP/CML Materials
The Civil War in New York--From Print to Pixels
KEVIN BAKER, author, Paradise Alley; JEANIE ATTIE, Associate Professor of History, Long Island University; author, Patriotic Toil: Northern Women and the American Civil War; ANDREA ADES VASQUEZ, Project Director, The Lost Museum, American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning; JOSHUA BROWN (Moderator), Executive Director, American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning. Cosponsored by The Center for Media and Learning and The Gotham Center, The Graduate Center, CUNY. "Talking History" On-line Forums from History Matters Learning to Look: Visual Evidence and the U.S. Past in the New Media Classroom at CUNY
Friday, March 7, 2003, 10AM to 1PM Friday, April 11, 2003, 10AM to 1PM Contact mailto:DThompson@gc.cuny.edu. |
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