Project Portfolio

3D Data Format Converter

This extensible application used mappings and plug-ins to convert any 3D format to any other. It was developed using Fortran and XML. Teaching Challenge: The goal of this project was to create an application to easily convert 3D data files from one format...

3D Geology Viewer

This 3D, interactive Java Applet displayed a variety of overlying faults data sets which could be toggled on and off, along with a feature allowing the creation of a plane from three points. The viewer was built from Javaview — a Java-based interactive 3D...

3D Historical Models

Google SketchUp was used to create a richly interactive and historically authentic 19th-century psychiatric asylum on Harvard's island in Second Life. 3D historical models of Colney Hatch and Bedlam hospitals were created. A Google Earth KMZ file was used...

A Faculty Development Guide for First Time Basic Science Tutors

Michael Parker and Elizabeth Ferrenz conducted over 30 one-on-one interviews with the best, most experienced tutors at HMS and compiled about 45 hours of digital “tape” (approximately 1000 transcribed pages). Using the information shared by the tutors...

Abstract Kinetic Collage Interactive Reproduction

This interactivity was intended to simulate the original viewing conditions of Duncan Grant's "Abstract Kinetic Collage" (1914). Fifteen feet long and eleven inches wide, Abstract Kinetic Collage was to be viewed through the aperture of some device as it...

American Religion and Society–Digital Video Production

The PITF produced a 7-minute video each week, integrating American religious music, slide images from lectures, YouTube videos, webpage screenshots, and religious music videos. The videos were started while students were settling in at the beginning of...

Analytic Writing Tutorial

With the help of a PITF, Professor Levinson created a web-based self-paced tutorial consisting of five lessons that students could walk through at their own pace. Each section included exemplars and hyperlinks to supplement materials tailored for the...

Archaeology in Google Earth

All images of artifacts were placed as markers on a Google Earth map. By clicking on the marker, you see a picture of the artifact, a description of it, and the name of the location in both English and Chinese. There was also a link that bounced back to...

Architectural Walk-through

Students navigated a mosque complex using a floor plan, and could inspect photographs of each important feature. Students were able to zoom in on photographs for more detail, view annotations with important architectural terms and features, and look up...

Art Law Wiki

Various solutions were implemented using the course platform. In addition, a wiki that was linked from the course site was created which allowed Professor Martin to easily update and share new content. Teaching Challenge: Present Art Law materials online...

Audio Glossary

The glossary was built in Flash, and integrated into a standard course web site. The Flash application read data from XML files to generate the lists of words, then played audio files referenced by the XML. Terms could be accessed via links in the course...

Authority and Invention: Medieval Art and Architecture

PITFs developed and implemented an experiment in pedagogy to enhance, extend, and deepen students’ engagement with and understanding of the course material by creating a comprehensive website for the course. They re-examined the use of images, introduced...