NJEDge.Net Affiliated Projects

NJEDge.Net is very pleased to help promote "Science and the Cinema," a project in development with Garden State Distance Learning Consortium, NJEDge, Verizon, MAGPI, New Jersey Association for Biomedical Research, and UMDNJ.

"Science in the Cinema", in its original form, is a free film and lecture series intended for a broad range of individuals who enjoy the cinema and have an interest in science and medicine. Selected films touch on a variety of medical and scientific topics. Following each film, an expert discusses the science depicted in the film and takes questions from the audience. These discussions also include the ethical implications raised by the film. Science in the Cinema programs, in this form, was only available to live audiences.

Through the use of videoconferencing our Science and the Cinema program uses technology to accomplish the same goals. It allows students to interact directly with scientists and researchers in their respective fields of expertise without leaving their school. These projects also challenge the students by engaging them in discussions on the ethical and moral issues that the advancement of science and technology places on the world community. Projects are being developed that will include experts in the fields of medicine, genetics, anthropology, cellular biology, and toxicology.

Take a look at the different Science and the cinema topics by visiting the following link http://www.magpi.net/programs/sciencecinema.html
For more information please email Matthew Conforth at pvmconforth@yahoo.com

Through a $1 million three year grant from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), William Paterson University, Rutgers University and NJEDge.Net launched NJVid, a project that creates a statewide digital video repository and portal with tools and services, providing "lectures on demand," licensed commercial videos, and locally owned videos for use by member partners. Three major consortia representing most educational information organizations throughout the state VALE (Virtual Academic Library Environment); New Jersey Digital Highway, the statewide cultural heritage consortium; and NJEDge.Net, the statewide networking consortium will incorporate and extend their video resources and services in this strategic initiative. William Paterson University, Rutgers University, and eight other institutions including universities, community colleges, a high school, a county public library system, and a museum will serve as initial testers of this model integrated resource. NJVid will utilize a variety of cutting edge, open source strategies to serve large and small organizations and thus support all New Jersey citizens where they live, with what they need.

Through open source programs that provide authentication and authorization, and the repository architecture and a huge repository core located at NJEDge.Net, NJVid will provide faculty and organizations the ability to segment the video according to their needs.

Visit the NJVid website at www.njvid.net

 

 

 

 

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Around the World 2003

Welcome to a unique video conferencing program offered through the Passaic Valley High School in New Jersey, United States of America. Inspired by a statement from Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, the purpose of this project is to bring students from different cultures and backgrounds together to promote global awareness and understanding. We hope to do this through a combination of videoconferencing, real time e-mail and online chats during one 24 hour period.

NJEDge.Net's partnership in the Around the World Project enriches the experience of the participating students by supplementing the live video conferencing with an online website and course. The website gives the ability of parents to view the video and the course creates an ongoing opportunity for the students from each country to continue their conversation.

Profiling Fu Manchu

The Page of Fu Manchu represents an ongoing effort by scholars and readers from around the world to create a definitive Sax Rohmer bibliography, reference and archive. It is edited and maintained by Dr. Lawrence Knapp, an English Professor at Essex County College. The Associate Editor is Dr. R. E. Briney, a Professor of Computer Science at Salem State College in Massachusetts. At the site's inception July 5, 1997, NJIN supported it as a faculty initiative. NJEDge.Net now continues to support the site as a unique demonstration project in international scholarship and community. Designed to attract serious scholars of popular culture as well as readers and collectors, it has attracted contributors from all over the world and now has bibliographies in 23 languages from 29 countries.

Faculty-to-Faculty Effective Practices Showcase [March 21, 2003]

NJEDge.Net's 4th Annual Faculty Showcase demonstrates outstanding examples of curricular innovation with technology, including online courses, web-enhanced courses and the infusion of technology into face-to-face courses. Many disciplines are represented, from gender studies, music, English, comparative literature, communications, early childhood education, elementary education, and philosophy to biology, biomedical engineering, nursing, marketing, psychiatry, psychology, math, and computer science. The Faculty Showcase is sponsored by the Educational Activities Task Force of NJEDge.Net and is hosted by the Kean University Center for Instructional Resources & Technology and the PT3 (Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology) Project.

Rainforest Connection [Feb 10-14, 2003]

Rainforest Connection Live! 2004

NJEDge.Net coordinated an exciting international K-12 project, showcasing the Verizon/ANJ Newark Portal and the growing partnerships between higher education and K-12 schools. Support from Verizon made this project possible. Project Director Jacalyn Willis commented, "This is very exciting, and a first for New Jersey educational institutions: to actually develop our own video conference with classes from home, and live from a research site in an exotic location. It gives totally new meaning to the Rainforest Connection as an interactive teaching venue." With the success of this project, additional programming from Montclair State University and from field sites will be made available to more schools partnered with PRISM, she said.

"Implementing Technology in the Classroom"

- a conversation with Dr. Chris Moersch, Executive Director of the National Business Education Alliance (NBEA), and Sue Sullivan, New Jersey Department of Education, Office of Educational and Informational Technology. This program was sponsored by New Jersey Association of Educational Technology, Apple Computers, and the New Jersey Department of Education.
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