Projects of 2003

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Kubler, Neil (Chinese) & In Full Effect

This project involves creating a Director MX movie for use as an academic supplement to Chinese 101 and 102 students. The movie incorporates audio, video, and text to accomplish this goal. The completed project includes 88 videos and 352 dialogues synchronized to the audio in the videos. The dialogues consist of 2 speakers and the text can be set to English, Pinyin, Simplified, or Traditional characters. The audio mode can be set to full audio or one speaker only. The project can be delivered as a Shockwave movie, or a projector file for Windows or Mac OS X.

Child and Family Research Labs Website

Heatherington, Laurie (Psychology) & In Full Effect

The purpose of this project was two-fold. First, members of the Williams College Psychology Department wanted to communicate information about their studies with people who lived outside of the immediate Williamstown area. This was addressed by building a web site that would provide information about the various ongoing studies along with contact information. Additionally, the site would allow for related background readings or other publications to be included in the content. Second, the Web Site needed to be interactive in its ability to provide secure online surveys and questionnaires that participants could send back electronically. This was addressed by creating secure .pdf files where participants enter a password before opening the documents. The password is granted to them after a brief phone interview with a faculty member. Once downloaded, participants can email the surveys back as attachments. This content-rich site with the downloadable .pdf files allows faculty members to communicate and interact with participants outside of Williamstown.

Green Energy Website

Dethier, David (Geosciences) & In Full Effect

The purposes of this project are to create a website where people will be able to learn about the seven clean energy basis and to educate people in The Berkshires on the availability and the uses of clean energy. There are three main categories in the site: Green Energy basis, Local Green Energy projects and Special features. As mentioned above, the Green Energy category tells about the seven clean energy basis and the Local Green Energy Projects tells about the Green Energy Projects around Berkshire. Dynamic maps and photo galleries are included under Special features. Dynamic maps are provided by a former Williams graduate and most photos for the galleries are gathered from NREL, NASA websites while some of them were taken by Infulleffect members.

Eclipse Website

Pasachoff, Jay (Astronomy) & Magnetic Lasso

The Eclipse Website project involved an overhaul of the site structure, extensive modification of the underlying html code, and the addition of new photo and video content. Cascading style sheets were implemented across the site to facilitate a uniform appearance and to simplify maintenance and modification in the future. Dead links and redundant content were removed. Lastly, a small website created for the occasion of Professor Pasachoff's 60th birthday was incorporated into the larger Eclipse site.

History of Williams Website

Murphy, Peter; Brown, Sylvia K and Johnson, Dave (English) & Magnetic Lasso

The Williams College history project (tentatively entitled "Change") seeks to digitize holdings in the College Archives, bring it into a manageable media database, and, utilizing the subsequent material, bring the history of Williams College in a suitable manner to a general audience. The WIT portion of this project is to explore, develop and prototype solutions for the creation, cataloging, storage, retrieval and delivery of all the materials necessary for the future growth of this ever-expanding project.

Visualizing Chemical Equations

Bingeman, Dieter (Chemistry) & Magnetic Lasso

The project for chemistry is for the course, Chemistry 153 which will be taught by Professor Bingemann in fall 2003. The project consists of six applets that are to be designed to enable the students of the course to visualize the behavior described by the equations graphically.

Afghan Media Project

Edwards, David (Anthropology & Sociology) & Screaming Streamers

This project branched off from Professor David Edwards' WAMP (Williams Afghan Media Project). It consisted of creating a short video presentation of Professor of Photography, Ed Grazda. The video was to be approximately fifteen to twenty minutes in length, and would comprise of an audio interview of Professor Grazda accompanied by the photographs he had taken of Afghanistan, its people and their way of life under the rule of the Taliban during the years of 1992-2000. It was decided that project would be done in Macromedia Flash MX.

Art Department Website

Epping, Ed (Art) & Screaming Streamers

This project was essentially to have a redesign and reorganization of the existing Williams Art Department website in order to make it both visually more appealing and more user-accessible. The design was to incorporate a bridge between Art History and Studio Art and yet show the distinctions between them.

English Department Website

Knopp, Sherron and Malanga, Pat (English) & Screaming Streamers

This project involved a complete redesign of the current English Department website. The design was to reflect the English Department's vision and character at Williams and provide a stimulating and informative medium of presentation. It was decided that with the addition of JavaScript rollovers to home page involving photos of professors and students and their thoughts on the department would accomplish these goals and as an added dynamic to the site by introducing an easily updateable "Upcoming Events"; section on the front page. Page headers were designed specific to the content displayed on the inner pages to accompany the relevant content which would be provided by the department.

Real Fakes Website

Taylor, Mark (Religion) & Screaming Streamers

This project involved creating a website for a new course entitled "Reak Fakes" to be introduced in spring of 2004; and would be taught by Professor Mark C. Taylor. The design was to reflect the material and character of the course, so the front page was given an air of commercialism by making it 'flashy'. The site was extensively coded in Coldfusion.

Jewish Studies Website

Kraus, Matthew (Classics) & Webcrawlers

Matthew Kraus, chair of Jewish Studies program at Williams, wanted to have a website for the program. Our goal was to build a website that serves as a regular department website, as well as an educational portal for the public.

Music Department Virtual Tour

Wells, Brad (Music) & Webcrawlers

The purpose of this website is to create a virtual tour of the Williams College Music Department. This project seeks to create a breath-taking web experience that will enable visitors to explore the department without having to be on campus.

Picturing Our Past

Art, Hank (Environmental Studies) & Webcrawlers

Picturing Our Past, Williamstown Photohistory Project , is primarily an image database that contains historical images about Williamstown and its residents. Our goal is to build a website that contains information on the project and allows users to search the database of images. In addition, audio clips of interviewing local people, who also owns some of the images in the collection, are added to the site as a part of the image information. This project will be growing in the future.

Prisoner's Dilemma Project

Lee, Kai (Environmental Studies) & Webcrawlers

This project is a continuation of a Director-based game designed in 2000 by a student. The goal of the project for the summer is to add functionality to the game, entitled The Prisoner's Dilemma. To accomplish this goal, we developed a simulation of the game(less the graphics) in C, for research purposes.