Projects of 2004
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Disappearing Farms
Art, Hank (Environmental Studies) & APE Team
This project is a DVD documenting the disappearance of dairy farms around Williamstown. In particular, it contains interviews for, and aerial views of, the Moon Farm, the Sunnybrook Farm, and the Rhodes Farm. Over the past weeks our group has worked on editing footage for inclusion with the DVD, using the Magic Morph program to show the changes in the farms over time and using ArcGIS to produce three dimensional maps of the areas. We used DVD Maker to put all of this content together. Here are two webified short clips: 1970 Moon Farm 3D Map and Rhodes Farm Magic Morph

International Studies Website
Darrow, Bill (International Studies) & APE Team
This project is a new website made for the International Studies department. The site is both a frequently-updated resource for current majors and a lure for prospective students interested in the department. Using both CSS and Flash dynamic content, the site was designed to be catchy and cutting-edge, but still easy to update.

Williams-Mystic Website
Carlton, James (Williams in Mystic) & APE Team
This project is a redesign of the Williams-Mystic website. The goal was to produce a new look and feel for the site that would grab the attention of visitors and potential students. We also worked on reorganizing the navigation of the website to make information more accessible to visitors. The site was rebuilt from scratch to use CSS for layout and display.

Biology Department Website
Altschuler, Marsha (Biology) & Bright Future Behind
This project involved redesigning the current Biology Website with in intent of making it more attractive and easier to navigate. New information was included along with graphics, and a Cascading Style Sheet was used to simplify updates and create a uniform structure and layout.

Environmental Health & Safety Website
Skinner, Anne (Facilities) & Bright Future Behind
The goal of this project is to create a website for the Department of Environmental Health and Safety of Williams College. Since the department has no prior website, the project involves designing the layout as well as structuring and collecting content. This content is provided by multiple sources, including Buildings and Grounds, Health Services, Dining Services, Campus Security and the Laboratory Science departments.

Oscilloscope Tutorial
Forkey, Kevin (Physics) & Bright Future Behind
The goal of this project is to develop a tutorial for instructing introductory physics students on how to use the oscilloscope. To do this, we have created an interactive Flash project that familiarizes students with the oscilloscope's basic functions and default settings. This will be used as a free-standing application that students can then in the lab.

Significance of Sports
Dudley, Will (Philosophy) & Bright Future Behind
This project is for the course Philosophy 226/Religion 279 to be taught in the fall of 2004. The project goal is to create a database of images and audio and video clips for use by students enrolled in the course. This involves digitizing the footage and then uploading it to the CONTENTdm database. The database will be locked down with a password to avoid copyright violations.

CES Websites
Gardner, Sarah (Environmental Studies) & Eight-Sided Die
This was a three-part project, the purpose of which was to create new websites for the Center of Environmental Studies, the Matt Cole Memorial Library, and Hopkins Memorial Forest. These three are inextricably linked, yet very much distinct resources. The new design reflects this relationship, as all three sites have the same layout, yet individual color schemes and graphics. The site construction consisted mainly of transferring information from the pre-existing website, and re-organizing it to facilitate navigation.

Chemistry Lab Videos
Bingemann, Dieter (Chemistry) & Eight-Sided Die
The goal of the chemistry lab videos has been to create comprehensive visual instructions to familiarize students with intimidating equipment and confusing procedures before arriving in the lab. It is important to create a lab environment that looks as simple as possible, and maintain a visual continuity with the physical space even after editing. After filming on digital video we captured the footage on an external hard-drive and edited it using Final Cut Pro.

May 4th Movement
Chang, Cecilia (Chinese) & Eight-Sided Die
We create an instructional website for an advanced Chinese course on May Fourth Movement. Students who take this course will study independently with the help of this project. The focus of this project is a 20 page article in Chinese. As they read the article, students, students will be able to read the English translation and listen to the audio file of the vocabulary words on that page. In addition, they will be able to listen to any part of the article when they click on the corresponding icons. Along with the article pages, web pages introducing the background information and leading intellectuals will also be provided.

Historical Diary Project
Barton, Gayle (Instructional Technology) & with 3 e's?
The diary of a young farmer from 1869, living near Plattsburgh,NY, was transcribed as a TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) learning exercise. The diary tells of the weather and the daily tasks, as he plants and harvests potatoes, "carries" Grandma to church and to meetings, goes to "quoir", and plays euchre with friends, sometimes staying out as late as "2 1/2".

Japanese Utilization
Yamada, Reiko (Japanese) & with 3 e's?
This project is to update the available lessons for the Japanese Department’s Utilization program. The Japanese Department stresses its students’ ability to communicate orally, implementing syntactical and situational speech in an accurate way. Students in JAPN 201-02 and 301-02 use the Utilization programs, where they are given a situation in English and must construct an answer to the situation in Japanese. The program features a model audio file that students can play to hear the model answer, and a recording tool intended for checking the students’ speech skills. Not all of the lessons for the curriculum had a program created for it, and the recording feature did not work. Our group made programs for those missing lessons and enabled the recording feature. We also redesigned the program in the style of the Japanese Department's website, and implemented new situation-relevant photos within the program.

Lantern Slide Scanning
Reynolds, Linda (Art) & with 3 e's?
In the summer of 2004 we scanned approximately 300 lantern slides for a specific project proposed by Professors Eugene J. Johnson and Mike Lewis and supervised by Art Department Slide Librarian Linda Reynolds. The scans will be put into a ContentDM database as well as used for projection and presentation in Art History courses.

Transit of Venus
Pasachoff, Jay (Astronomy) & with 3 e's?
The transits of Venus, when Venus crosses the face of the sun, occur at intervals of 100 plus years. Historically, transits of Venus have been the study and subject of worldwide expeditions in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. On June 8, 2004, the first transit of Venus since 1882 was witnessed. Professor Jay Pasachoff, along with a team of students and colleagues, received a grant from the Committee for Research and Exploration of the National Geographic Society to observe this transit from Greece. From the data collected from that expedition combined with data from NASA's Transition Region and Coronal Explorer and from several telescopes around the world, a website will be created.