Arts and Sciences

Interactive Pinocchio Storybook

Interactive Pinocchio StorybookA native speaker of Italian was recorded reading the classic story of Pinocchio. A digital version of the book was created in Flash including the audio. Students could read along, pause, and click on words to hear them alone. They could also select certain passages to see grammar examples, watch videos of various interpretations of Pinocchio in Italian, and at the end play a game where they matched an image with the audio of the word. 

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Interactive Map Exercises

Map QuizInteractive map exercises were developed to aid students’ understanding of the geography and borderlands of medieval Europe. These interactive map exercises prepared students for lectures. The activities were built in Flash and information was stored in XML files.

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Interactive Comic Book

Interactive Comic BookPITFs developed an interactive comic book based on a professor's work. The interactive comic book included annotated pages and an English translation along with the original text.

Interactive City Map

Interactive City MapFor a Core course covering several pieces of literature set in St. Petersburg at different periods, students were able to view overlaid maps and other comparisons between the storylines of the various works. Since the city's neighborhoods and important sites have names from...

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Image Zoom Module

Image ZoomFor a Literature and Arts course, PITFs created a map viewing module to display a map of India, with important pilgrimage and other sites highlighted with hotspots and linked to more detailed information. This module was used for in-class presentations and served as a resource for...

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Glossary of Economic Terms

Glossary of Economic TermsPITFs created an online glossary of economic terms that combined text, images, and mathematical examples. 

Flashcard Tool

FlashcardThis flashcard application allowed students to see a word in English and Hebrew, see it used in a sentence, hear a native speaker say it, and see its root.

Flash Simulations

Flash SimulationsPITFS developed interactive flash animations that allowed students to fully explore and understand a phenomenon and ultimately gave them better intuition about the physical concepts presented in the course.  Interactive animations for the following systems were created: single spring, rotating disk, double spring, double pendulum, falling rod, shaky table. Students were able to change the values of various parameters, animate the systems, and plot graphs of different variables.

Experiencing Jim Crow

Experiencing Jim CrowA scenario-driven exercise was developed to explore the effects of segregation laws that restricted the activities of African Americans during the Jim Crow era. The exercises presented students with a set of information drawn from source materials, and then presented scenarios in which the students made a decision. Students learned how each decision would have affected their experience during this era. Built in Perl, the exercises could be authored by the instructor using a simple web interface. The instructor defined situations containing source materials, images, and other information, and then constructed a navigation path by connecting scenarios together. These technologies could be repurposed for other courses with relative ease.

Evolution Animations

Evolution AnimationsA mutating bug widget (application) was developed in Flash and PHP to demonstrate some aspects of Darwinian evolution in an appealing, graphical way, while allowing a class of individuals to collectively monitor—and mutate—the bug while visiting the website.

Color-Coded Commenting

Color Coded CommentPITFs developed a MediaWiki template that allowed users to post inline, color-coded comments on a wiki page. This allowed students to use a different style when reviewing problem sets and enabled TFs to quickly identify students’ annotations on problem sets.

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