Arts and Sciences

As part of this project the PITFs created Zeega ( www.zeega.com ). Zeega enables individuals and organizations to create nonlinear digital narratives that seamlessly combine photos, videos, text, audio and maps from public APIs. Teaching Challenge...

An interactive word game was created in Flash, as an engaging way students that could practice casual conversation in French. The game provided audio examples and students had to pick the correct choice. Students played in sound-match format to test...

The PITFs designed a system for teaching vocabulary and grammar and tested tools with Chinese, Hebrew, and Egyptian Hieroglyphs. Teaching Challenge: Egyptian Aa and Ab focused on reading and discussion of artifacts from ancient Egypt. An emphasis was...

PITFs worked with the professor to select historical and contemporary maps from the Pusey Library and developed a module that allowed students to view maps from the various historical periods covered in the course. The maps showed the development of the...

The PITFs developed interactive modules that demonstrate algorithms in signal and image processing. Flash was used to develop the interactive modules and MATLAB was used to generate the data sets. Faculty/Instructor(s): Patrick J. Wolfe Fellow(s)...

PITFs acquired and scanned a reproduction of the Qingming scroll, and developed a custom implementation of the Zoomify component for Flash to present the high-resolution image in an easy-to-navigate form. The scroll module interface was standardized to...

This program gave students the ability to switch instantly between different frames, making many perplexing problems and apparent paradoxes transparent. Teaching Challenge: Relativity is not intuitive and everyone has difficulty visualizing it. Faculty...

The audio glossary or pronunciation guide for East Asian Languages was developed to help students pronounce commonly/frequently used words in languages other than the ones they were studying in their area of specialization. PITFs produced audio-image...

Podcast pronunciation exercises were developed around letter sounds of French phrases. These exercises incorporated video, as well as audio, in order to make pronunciation of sounds easier to understand for students. Podcasts allowed students to listen to...

The PITFs: a)Produced a series of 2D electronic illustrations of physical phenomena b)Created 3D models of primitive ships for detailed analysis of navigation principles c)Developed simple animations and time lapse photography of stars and sun d)Designed...