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3D Data Format Converter

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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...

Professor Alex Rehding, FAS

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“We developed an application that plays a video (of an opera scene) and has the option of stopping the movie to ask specific questions. The students then answer these questions and continue. In this way critical listening skills are practiced with...

Flashcard Tool

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This 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. Faculty/Instructor(s): Irit Aharony Fellow(s): Abigail Evans, Lisa Sanchez, Michael Schachter...

Interactive City Map

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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...

Evolution Animations

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A 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...

Kinship Editor

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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...

Audio Glossary

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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...

Error Analysis Graphing Tool

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This web-based application was created to allow students to perform error analysis to data outputted from Logger Pro with the sophistication desired. Teaching Challenge: Physical Sciences 1, 2, and 3 presented an integrated approach to learning physics...

Collaborative Research Tool

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PITFs developed an online collaborative research tool that allowed students to work in teams to analyze primary sources and to create sets of searchable online notecards. Students used social computing-style tagging to annotate the cards. The...

Materials Collection

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A physical collection, as well as an online digital database and website of materials, ranging from innovative to new materials found everyday in the constructed environment, was created to help students explore and understand material composition and...

Tracing Mobilities - Designing Ubiquities

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The PITF project used an external wiki as an online platform to post and share findings about technology in the urban context. Combining a course wiki with a mobile media gaming platform called Mscape, students were able to communicate and trace their...

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The Presidential Instructional Technology Fellows (PITF) program was established in 2004 and ran through 2011 and benefited students across Harvard and helped faculty incorporate technology into their teaching. The program created opportunities for...