Projects by "with 3 e's?"

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.

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".