Projects of 2005

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Cox, Ronadh (Geosciences) & All

Professor Cox of the Geosciences Departments complied a collection of slides of different geological phenomena. In this project, students digitized these slides, using a Nikon slide scanner, its software, and Adobe Photoshop. Digitizing the slides allows Professor Cox to make the images more readily available for her students.

Flash Cards, Self Study Tool for Art History

Reynolds, Linda (Art) & Any Milkshake is Good

The project was to develop a web-based study tool that tests ARTH101 and 102 students on the information for their weekly slide quiz. It will display 1 random slide at a time from the week's set, and ask for the information as provided on the syllabus. It will then display the correct information for that slide and move on to the next slide.

New Anthropology/Sociology Site

Brown, Michael (Anthropology & Sociology) & Any Milkshake is Good

This project was to redesign the Williams’ Anthropology & Sociology web site with a focus on elegance with simplicity.

Online Key for Aquatic Insects

Edwards, Joan and Smith, David (Biology) & Any Milkshake is Good

In the introductory Ecology course and Environmental Sciences course students study the aquatic insect fauna of local streams and rivers. To identify the insects to the family level, students use a rather cumbersome key where they have to flip back and forth between pages to link the written clues with line drawings illustrating the key characteristics. This project was to develop a web-based online self-study tool to guide students in identifying the insects without flipping back and forth between pages.

Symposia on Diversity in Sciences Website

Raymond, Wendy (Biology) & Any Milkshake is Good

With events already planned, this project was looking for a way to organize the incoming attendees for the Symposia on Diversity in the Sciences. In a short time, the group created a site to communicate the ideas of the Symposia and provide a mechanism for registration and organization - greatly simplifying the tasks of the organizers.

Virtual Tour, Music Department

Wells, Brad (Music) & Any Milkshake is Good

The main goals of this project were to simplify the virtual tour section of Music Department’s web site and make the site more attractive to prospective students. This involved adding a space for audio and video clips of concerts sponsored by the department, creating a slide show of events, and making a new virtual tour of the inside of Thomson Chapel.

Williams in OxFord

Nolan, James (Williams in Oxford) & Any Milkshake is Good

Design a new website to replace the old one that was childish like.

Digital Archive of Costumes

Brothers, Deb (Theatre) & Delicious with Milk

The Costume Archives at Williams is a digital collection of documentation of theatrical costumes. These costumes, designed by Deborah Brothers of the Williams College Theatre Department are from past productions, and represent different periods in costume history. The archives include three-dimensional rotatable videos of the costumes, as well as digital scans of corresponding costume sketches. This collection will serve as a useful resource to students, allowing them to view the costumes within a historical frame of reference and along with appropriate costume terms.

Natural History of the Berkshires

Art, Hank (Environmental Studies) & Delicious with Milk

Natural History of the Berkshires is an interdisciplinary (Biology and Environmental Studies) course taught by Professor Hank Art. The goals of this project were to provide a reference guide to the Berkshires for the public, create a use (student/public) friendly web site, and to create a means of collecting additional media.

Science & Religion

Crampton, Stuart (Physics) & Delicious with Milk

The Northern Berkshire Center for Religion and Science: Professor Crampton, Emeritus at Williams College, heads the center for religion and science. The center's main goal is to help facilitate and foster discussion between scientists and religious leaders. To help realize this goal, Stuart Crampton asked WIT to slice interactive movies into Quicktime movie format to be used in Powerpoint presentations. Additionally, he requested an expanding universe model and a new web site design for the center.

Chaplains' Office Website

Spalding, Rick (Chaplains' Office) & Exploding Apples

This project involved simplifying and redesigning a new web site for the Chaplains’ Office at Williams College to replace its old web site (http://link.to.the.old.site), giving it a more updated look, and making it easier to maintain.

Fast Enough to Break Your Heart, Exploding Flowers

Edwards, Joan; Whitaker, Dwight (Biology and Physics) & Exploding Apples

The Exploding Flower project involved creating a new web site for Dwight Whitaker and Joan Edwards about their research and recent publication on the Dogwood Flower. This site is geared to two distinct audiences. One group is the academic audience who will be interested primarily in raw data, the video, and contact information section listing publications. The other group is the every day visitors. Children who have heard about the flower from their science teachers, or those who have read about the flower in a magazine and want to know more. For these visitors the section on the plant, with pictures and explanations about its life cycle will be particularly helpful. Since the high speed video is one of the most exciting features of the site, it too can be reached from the home page.

Japanese Quizzes

Yamamoto, Kasumi (Japanese) & Exploding Apples

This project included developing and updating quizzes for Professor Yamamoto’s introductory Japanese courses. All quizzes are made in Blackboard, for specific classes, and are a way students can practice pronunciation, and recognize grammar usage in everyday life (included conversational video clips).

Virtual Tour of the 62' Center for Theater and Dance

Catalano, Cosmo (Theatre) & Exploding Apples

This project was to create a virtual tour of the many spaces in the new 62' Center, as a way of showing others the new features in the building, as well as a way to attract new directors to the space.

Lyrics and Albums for Music of 60s & 70s

Bell, Bob and Sheppard, Anthony (English and Music) & Gogurt

Music of the 60s & 70s is an interdisciplinary class about the music and lyrics of Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, and the Beatles, as well as those of many other well-known artists of the time. In this project, assigned songs were collected, digitized, and put into an online database accessible to the Williams College community. A syllabus-like webpage was also made on the database, allowing students to link directly to specific songs assigned for a particular day in a particular section.

Oakley Center Web Site

Reinhardt, Mark (Oakley Center) & Gogurt

The main goal of this project was to redesign the Oakley Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, giving it an updated look, making it easier to maintain, and more navigable.

Radio, Radio

Rosenheim, Shawn (English) & Gogurt

This project involved creating a space containing Professor Rosenheim’s collections from previous classes as well as audio clips of radio shows and organize those files with in Confluence (an enterprise wiki that makes it easy for your team to collaborate and share knowledge) for class, Radio, Radio. The program, Confluence, allows students to comment on each other’s work, as well as works from other outside sources. Professor Rosenheim can also post materials on the site and students can easily retrieve them.

The 62' Center for Theater and Dance in 42 Seconds

Barton, Gayle (Instructional Technology) & Gogurt

The ’62 Center for Theater and Dance in 42 Seconds involved creating a time-lapse movie, depicting the construction of the Center.