Arts and Sciences

For an Italian course focused on the city of Rome, students developed place biographies — media-rich web pages, demonstrating their grasp of Italian language, culture, and history — and shared them on a Google map of the city. School, Library, Museum...

These three-dimensional animations of key concepts helped students visualize concepts more thoroughly than 2-dimensional diagrams. Some of the animations were interactive and allowed students to manipulate variables on the fly. School, Library, Museum...

This online learning evironment allowed students to read and analyze different varieties of Middle English, a generic name for the dialects of England and Scotland 1100-1550). The resources were intended for students to learn at set rhythms but in their...

This web-based program allowed students to enter their proof information and allowed teaching staff to generate reports. Teaching Challenge: Students in Math 23 had to create and listen to mathematical proofs. Each student kept a record of the proofs they...

The kinship module was designed for students to input and analyze their family's genealogy and study kinship structures. This application consisted of two drawing options: a classical genealogical family tree builder and an experimental family tree...

A 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...

Interactive 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...

PITFs 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. Faculty/Instructor(s): Adam Kern Fellow(s): Jin Lin, Kristin Williams, Ron...

For 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...

For 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...