Photography
Last Modified: August 12, 2005
Knapp Intern Amy Wong '06 worked with Professor Judith Black to redesign and update a site for the three Photography classes offered by the Art Department. In addition to syllabi and assignments for these courses, the site features a lab manual; print and web-based bibliographies for photography; and links to online image archives at ARTstor, Photomuse, Getty, and the Smithsonian.

Design - Principles, Elements, Practice, and Theory
Last Modified: August 13, 2004
Professor Jessica Irish worked with Knapp interns Carla Holleran '06 and Kristen Roth '06 to create a web site on design principles for students of architecture, design, and studio art. Each topic featured dozens of visual examples of design principles such as concavity and convexity, symmetry and asymmetry, balance, rhythm, repetition, color, variation, scale, gestalt theory, and semiotics. Note: this site is available only to computers on Wellesley's campus.

Books of Hours in the Wellesley College Library
Last Modified: August 18, 1999
Special Collections Librarian Ruth Rogers and Mellon intern Cameron Salisbury '02 developed a site containing over sixty images from the five Books of Hours in Special Collections in the Wellesley College Library. The site provides a resource for Professor Lilian Armstrong's Art History 253 class (The Beautiful Book: Medieval and Renaissance Book Illumination in France and Italy). This site allows students to study the images at their convenience and reduces handling of the fragile manuscripts.

Art History 101
Last Modified: March 10, 2003
Professor Anne Higonnet and Mellon interns Kate Golder '02 and Amy Barao '01 created a web site which allows students on the Wellesley campus to view the "major works" of Art History 101. Students can click on an image to obtain information concerning the work so that students can quiz themselves. The site also includes instructions on how to write an Art History paper, as well as links to and directions to local museums and general course information. Note: this site is available only to computers on Wellesley's campus.

Students Access Art History Images over Campus Network
Last Modified: July 25, 1996
Traditionally, in order to study for exams, Art History students crowded into the Art Study Room at the Jewett Arts Center to view reproductions mounted on the walls. However,the Art Study Room was able to accommodate less than one fifth of the one hundred students vying for space. The department digitized slides via PhotoCD and transferred the images to a networked file server to solve the space problem, and to give students the opportunity to view the images at their convenience. Instructors have continued to use conventional slides and slide projectors in lectures in Jewett Auditorium, but now, thanks to the availability of the images on the network, dozens of students can simultaneously review lectures and study for exams from any Mac on the campus-wide network, at any hour of the day or night. The original database for Art 100 included 847 digitized art images stored on the file server for twenty-four lectures. The database continues to be developed and refined and now includes over 8,000 digitized images of works of art supporting twenty-five art history courses.

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Cultural Traditions of China
Last Modified: August 11, 2004
Professor Jack Chen worked with Knapp interns Mimi Lai '06 and Kristen Roth'06 to develop a site for Introduction to the Cultural Traditions of China (CHIN 110). The site features an interactive timeline covering almost eight thousand years of history. Students in the course will add events and descriptions of these events to the timeline each semester. The interns also created sections describing the evolution of Chinese characters, over one hundred images of Chinese art and objects, and over twenty maps.

Introductory Chinese Tutorials
Last Modified: August 13, 2004
Professor Jing-Heng Ma worked with Knapp Interns Gowun Kim '06, Jiayang Chien '05, Kellen Li '05, Maxine Wu '07, and Niki Zhou '06 to create an extensive web site supplementing a new textbook she wrote for Introductory Chinese. Each of the twenty-two lessons contains a listening comprehension section with a dialog and a multiple-choice, self-correcting quiz; between fifteen and thirty animated vocabulary flashcards (both Chinese to English and English to Chinese); an illustrative sentences section of listening exercises; and a section of digital audio of sentence pattern drills, sentence building, and questions and responses. Students will use the web site in preparation for their classes as well as to review material that has been covered during the semester. Note: this site requires QuickTime 5.0 or later and Flash 6.0 or later.

Village Works: Photographs by Women in China's Yunnan Province
Last Modified: September 30, 1999
In the fall of 1999, the Davis Museum presented the Village Works exhibition: 76 photographs taken by women in rural Yunnan China recording their daily lives. The women were trained using Caroline Wang's Photovoice Methodology, which attempts to empower underprivileged groups by giving them cameras and allowing them to convey their own needs through the images they create. The images by these women were then used to draft and pass health and child care policy. Mellon interns Meredith Bookman '00, Johari Townes '00, and Annie Yang '01 created a web site both to enhance the exhibition as well as to bring the Village Works exhibition to the public at large. Viewers in the gallery can access message boards, similar to a traditional guest book, where they can engage in discussions about the exhibition. They can also type messages to the women in Yunnan which the curators will compile and send when the exhibition closes. In addition, the entire exhibition, along with context/editorial pieces by students and faculty members and links to related sites, is available both on and off-campus.

Classical Chinese Fables
Last Modified: October 20, 1999
Marlowe Shaeffer '01 and Annie Yang '01 worked with Professor Jing-Heng Ma to create a site designed to improve the listening comprehension of intermediate and advanced students of the Chinese language. Students listen to Professor Ma reading 15 classical fables, each illustrated with several drawings by a Chinese artist. Accompanying each fable will be a series of exercises to test students' comprehension of the material. Note: this site requires QuickTime 4.0 or later.

Listening Comprehension Exercises
Last Modified: August 31, 1998
Professor Weina Zhao of the Chinese Department has undertaken to enhance her textbook with web-based listening comprehension exercises. These innovative learning activities are presented completely aurally, to keep learning focused on listening skills, rather than reading skills. Anne Sterman '98 developed the user interface and two learning modules, in which native Chinese speakers of the Wellesley community speak dialogue, questions and answers. Other IS student workers did user testing on this interface, made revisions, and created exercises to complement Professor Zhao's entire textbook. This material will be used in the Beginning Chinese classes.

Chinese Character Writing
Last Modified: August 31, 1998
Building on the success of her award-winning instructional software HyperChinese, Professor Jing-Heng Ma of the Chinese Department is developing Keys to Chinese Character Writing, a self-paced tutorial designed to address the common problems students face when learning the orthography of Chinese characters. One of the toughest challenges for students is memorizing the order of the strokes for each character. This summer, Professor Ma worked with Keck student intern Caroline Tsai '99 and Knapp Center staff to first videotape the strokes of 125 Chinese characters as written by a calligrapher and then digitize the video. There are also accompanying audio clips that demonstrate the pronunciation of the characters. The QuickTime video and audio clips will become part of an interactive CD-ROM designed by Professor Ma and Professor Robert Smitheram of Middlebury College.

Wellesley Chinese Grammar Software Wins Award
Last Modified: November 15, 1995
Wellesley's Chinese department developed an interactive program that won awards for helping to teach Chinese to students. The software includes animation, graphics, and sound, and allows students to chose the direction and speed in which they wish to study. Its 14 modules introduce basic grammar to elementary and intermediate level students who already know some Chinese. Modules and units can be studied in any order, depending on the student's needs. The program covers the core grammar and the common areas of difficulty for English-speaking students of Chinese.

Award-winning Chinese Software Adds Pronunciation Modules
Last Modified: February 14, 1994
The developers of the Hyper Chinese program have added a new series of modules to teach pronunciation of Mandarin Chinese, focusing on the special needs of Cantonese and Taiwanese speakers (as well as those with no Chinese background). Due to a growing number of introductory students of Chinese coming from homes where Cantonese or Taiwanese has been spoken, the developers have added modules that address the different pronunciation problems these students alone face.

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Classical Mythology - Classical Studies 104
Last Modified: August 15, 2005
Knapp interns Amy Wong ’06 and Heather Barrett ’08 worked with Professor Carol Dougherty to create a new site for Classical Studies 104. The site will be used in lieu of a textbook and as a supplement to the primary classical texts. The material on this site includes basic resources such as maps, timelines, genealogies, and links to other mythology sites. There is also a page devoted to each god, hero, and story covered in the course. Most notably, the site features over one hundred images of gods, amazons, and heroes, illustrating how they have been depicted over time. Note: This site is available only to computers on the Wellesley campus, and replaced a site created by Keck intern Erica Severson '01 in the summer of 1998 for Professor Mary Lefkowitz' version of the course.

Epic and Empire - Classical Civilization 211
Last Modified: August 8, 2003
Professor Brendon Reay worked with Knapp intern Tara McGovern '04 to completely revise a course web site for Epic and Empire (CLCV 211) to reflect greater availability of relevant online texts (from Virgil and Homer to Milton and Whitman); make more research materials available to the students; add more digital audio of Greek recitations of the Iliad and Odyssey; and expand links to interactive quizzes on the Greek and Latin texts.

From Papyrus to Print to Pixel
Last Modified: August 12, 2002
Knapp interns Keigh Hammond '03 and Shannon Snow '02 worked with Classical Studies Professor Ray Starr and Special Collections Librarian Ruth Rogers to devise assignments on issues of electronic publishing and archiving the Internet for this new experimental course (EXPR 240) on the history of written communication.

Images of Greece and Rome
Last Modified: August 30, 2000
Classical Studies Professor Mary Lefkowitz worked with Mellon intern Karyn Lu '01 to digitize 100 images of Greece and Rome previously only available on slides. The images were uploaded to a FirstClass conference (Wellesley Conferences > Academic Departments > Classical Studies > CLCV-Images) in order to make them more widely accessible to all Wellesley students, not only Classical Studies majors. Note: this information is available only to members of the College community with a FirstClass account. A FileMaker Pro database was also created to store information about a Greek and Roman coin collection owned by the Classical Studies department. The database, which is secure and protected by password access, allows faculty members to browse the collection, as well perform searches for specific coins by entering in keywords.

Vergil and Augustus - Latin 201
Last Modified: January 26, 1999
Professor Ray Starr, working with Keck interns Ali Kraley '01 and Alexis Dinniman '00, created a complex of ten interlocking projects for his Latin literature course on Vergil's epic poem, the Aeneid. Students can now fill out an electronic worksheet reviewing basic noun and verb forms on the web, have it checked immediately and automatically on the same web page so that they can see right away exactly where they're having troubles, and submit their answers electronically from the web page via email to the professor, so he can focus class time on precisely what the students need. There are also web-based pages to be projected in class that call on the students in random order for drill items that are also produced in random order. Students in the classroom pay close attention (after all, they may be called on several times in a row, since it's all random), and routine drills become much more productive and even entertaining, as the students watch to see if their name has popped up on the screen.

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Creative Writing
Last Modified: August 6, 2004
Senior Lecturer Marilyn Sides worked with Knapp intern Maxine Wu '07 to develop a website for the Creative Writing concentration within the English major. The site features brief biographies of faculty who teach poetry, fiction, screenwriting, literary reportage, and personal essays; resources for creative writers; and a growing list of recent alumnae who have published their work.

Images of New York City
Last Modified: August 6, 2004
Professor Kate Brogan worked with Knapp intern Sara Kratzok '06 to compile an archive of images of New York City for a new seminar on New York City in Literature and Art (AMST 318). The archive features over eighty photographs and paintings of New York (along with accompanying metadata) from the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO). To comply with the AMICO license terms, the images are accessible only to students enrolled in Prof. Brogan’s class through a conference on Wellesley’s FirstClass server. Images are categorized into seventeen topics, such as Bridges; Broadway; Immigrants;New Amsterdam; Tenements; and Wall Street.

Middle English Literature
Last Modified: August 8, 2003
Knapp Intern Daphne Francois '06 created a personal web site for Professor Katherine Lynch. The site features links to Professor Lynch's courses and research on Middle English Literature, the Dream Vision, Chaucer, Shakespeare and the Middle Ages, Medieval cross-cultural studies, and Medievalism in modern culture and society. The site also contains images of medieval manuscripts that are part of Wellesley College Special Collections, as well as links to streaming video of a June 2003 lecture on Chaucer given at Reunion, and streaming audio from a June 2002 public radio program on the "taming" of Nancy Drew.

English Department Homepage
Last Modified: August 30, 2000
Professors Marilyn Sides and Vernon Shetley worked with Mellon interns Kavita Sridhar '02 and Karyn Lu '01 to redesign the English Department web site. In addition to including relevant information for studentsand faculty on course offerings and the English major, the site boasts a "Serious Fun" page, highlighting faculty interests through audio recordings of professors' favorite poems and prose passages, as well as a "What We're Reading" list.

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Glossary of Film Terms
Last Modified: August 28, 1998
Professor Vernon Shetley and Keck interns Tracie Lee '00 and Johanne Blain '00 created a glossary of film terms web site for Professor Shetley's course on Interpretation and Judgment of Film. For each term, such as eyeline match, following shot, tracking shot, etc., there is a definition as well as a digital video clip example. Note: this site is available only to computers on Wellesley's campus, and requires QuickTime 3.0 or later.

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Video for Beginning French
Last Modified: August 28, 2006
Project Leader Kristen Roth of Information Services worked with Interns Er-Si (Mercy) An '09 and Emily Arauz '07, and Professor Barry Lydgate to create an extension of the Interactive French Songs site. For this project, the film Amelie was broken down into a number of smaller, manageable parts for French beginners. Students can watch an online version of the movie, section by section, while reading the dialogue text and accessing vocabulary and images explaining both culture and vocabulary directly from the captions. Note: due to copyright restrictions, this web site is only accessible to students currently enrolled in these particular French courses.

Myth and Memory in Modern France: Images and Songs
Last Modified: August 28, 2006
Interns Marie Ayabe '08 & Brenda Montes '08 worked with Associate Professor Venita Datta to create a FirstClass conference that hosts approximately three hundred images and ten songs (via streaming audio). Among the subjects illustrated by the images are the Revolution of 1789; Napoleon; the Revolution of 1858; the Dreyfus Affair; Joan of Arc; and World War I. The images and audio will be used for Prof. Datta's course, French 332, "Myth and Memory in Modern France: From the French Revolution to May 1968."

Interactive French Songs
Last Modified: August 19, 2005
Professor Barry Lydgate worked with Tuyet Nguyen '01 and Knapp interns Christina L. Miller '08, Tomoyo Nakamaru '07, and Yang Song '08 to create multimedia versions of over forty French songs used in teaching both Introductory French and French 237 (Saint-Germain-des-Prés). Students must first listen to each song verse and try to puzzle out its meaning on their own. After three repetitions of a verse, students can see the lyrics of that verse. If they click on a highlighted word in the lyrics, students can see an explanation of the word (often accompanied by authentic French images illustrating French history, culture, or vocabulary). Note: due to copyright restrictions, this web site is only accessible to students currently enrolled in these particular French courses.

La Chanson Française
Last Modified: August 30, 2001
Mellon Intern Youlim Yai '03 and Professor James Petterson developed a web site for French 223a, a new course on French popular song from postwar existentialist poem-songs to contemporary French rap. Over thirty songs were digitized, compressed, and then embedded into web pages with lyrics and discussion questions. Students' answers to these questions are automatically sent to a FirstClass conference. In the summer of 2001, Mellon Intern Nora Jarrah '02 revised the site, adding fifteen new songs. In August 2004, Professor Petterson removed the site from the web as the course was retired from the French curriculum.

Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Last Modified: August 30, 2000
For French 223b, Professor Barry Lydgate's course on the legendary Parisian neighborhood, Mellon Interns Jennifer Redfearn D2 and Youlim Yai '03 digitized several dozen photos, songs, and brief video clips for easier presentation in class and for truer preservation of materials.

Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud
Last Modified: October 15, 1999
Together with Professor Michele Respaut, Mellon interns Marlowe Shaeffer '01 and Johari Townes '00 created a web site for intermediate French-speaking students enrolled in French 215 (Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud). The site, entirely in French, includes the text of 19 key poems that students will study in the course. Students can review the works as they improve their oral comprehension by listening to high-quality audio recordings of each of the poems. Some poems will also eventually have a slide show of paintings by contemporaries of the three poets which inspired or were inspired by their writing. Students can also access a list of French and English research sites about each of the poets and painters. Note: this site is available only to computers on Wellesley's campus, and requires QuickTime 4.0 or later.

French in Action digital audio
Last Modified: August 2, 1999
Wellesley collaborated with Yale University Press, publishers of the introductory textbook French in Action, to digitize all 66 hours of the audio program. The audio for each lesson was chunked into as many as 40 subsections (which correspond with the workbook exercises), and then compressed into 64 kilobits/second MP3 files. Students have responded very favorably to easy access from the campus network and across the Internet, as well as the increase in sound quality over conventional audio cassettes. Note: QuickTime 4.0 or later is required to view this site.

French Poetry Homepage
Last Modified: August 28, 1998
Professor James Petterson and two Keck interns, Johanne Blain '00 and Meredith Sorensen '01, created a web site for his French poetry class, French 259. In addition to information on the course and the professor, the site provides background information on the poets, digitized audio for twenty-five of the poems (to improve pronunciation, voice inflection and intonation), visible vocabulary just a click away (to improve comprehension), and questions on the poem. The site also provides key vocabulary to help the students learn about French versification. All of these items are displayed at once to provide a dynamic and convenient interaction with the poems. Note: this site requires QuickTime 3.0 or later.

Interactive Video for Language Learning: "French in Interaction"
Last Modified: January 13, 1997
Professor Barry Lydgate has created an accessory to French In Action, the program widely viewed on PBS to allow students to learn French. Professor Lydgate is helping design software which will allow beginning students to interact with a laserdisc version of the widely used French language series French in Action. These laserdiscs allow students to jump between the dialog portion of each lesson and the pedagogical section nearly instantaneously, and interact with the lesson in ways previously unavailable on videotape.

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George Salter
Last Modified: August 6, 2004
Professor Thomas Hansen worked with Knapp interns Devyani Parameshwar'06 and Sara Kratzok '06 to create a website on the life and works of the book jacket illustrator and calligrapher George Salter, a German designer who emigrated to the United States in 1934. The project included scanning over fifty book jackets, letterheads, and magazine covers. The site showcases Professor Hansen’s research on Salter which led to his 2005 monograph Classic Book Jackets: The Design Legacy of George Salter.

Das Versprechen
Last Modified: August 12, 2002
Professor Thomas Nolden and Knapp interns Keigh Hammond '03 and Daiva Nevdomskyte '05 created a web site for third semester German. The site centers around Das Versprechen ("The Promise"), a 1994 film by Margarethe von Trotta about friends separated by the Berlin wall for 28 years. It includes grammar and comprehension exercises, as well as brief clips from the film. Note: this site is accessible only to computers on Wellesley's campus and requires QuickTime 5.0 or later.

German 101-102
Last Modified: August 8, 2003
Professor Thomas Hansen and Mellon Interns Selena Tang '03 and Nicole Hatch '03 created a web site in 2001 for Beginning German with a description of the course and the syllabus. They also digitized and compressed over ten hours of dialogs and audio comprehension exercises which accompany the sixteen chapters of the Neue Horizonte textbook. In the summer of 2003, Knapp interns Cristina Greavu '05 and Tara McGovern '06 updated the digital audio component of this site to match the new, sixth edition of Neue Horizonte. Note: the audio program is password-protected and requires QuickTime 4.0 or later.

The Comedian Harmonists
Last Modified: November 1, 2002
Professor Thomas Nolden, working with Keck interns Leila Toplic '01 and Tracie Lee '00, created a web site for fifth semester German students. Mellon intern Cameron Salisbury '02 revised the site in the summer of 1999, and Mellon Intern Kavita Sridhar made additional revisions in the summer of 2000. The site focuses on the Comedian Harmonists, a German singing group of the 1920s, and the events surrounding the period. Features include text with an accompanying glossary, sound clips and lyrics of some of the group's songs, and a timeline of contemporary events. In the summer of 2001, Mellon Intern Nicole Hatch '03 added more content to the time line area and added a new movie area where students can view clips from a film about the Comedian Harmonists for dictation exercises. Note: this site is available only to computers on Wellesley's campus, and requires QuickTime 4.0 or later.

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Professor Flavia Laviosa from the Italian Department produced a videotape entitled 'Donna 2000' for her intermediate language courses, using a camcorder and the Media 100 nonlinear editing suite. The videotape consists of a series of thought-provoking interviews with three Italian women representing three generations who discuss their private and professional lives; their contribution to the feminist movement; their views on women's achievements in the 1990's and their political agenda for the new millenium. The video is entirely in Italian and was developed to document the changing roles of Italian women in the past 30 years. The documentary is used in Italian classes to promote listening comprehension as well as cultural/political discussions in Italian.

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Readings for Advanced Japanese
Last Modified: August 12, 2005
Knapp Intern Tomoyo Nakamaru '07 worked with Professor Kazuko Ozawa to design a website for Japanese 231 featuring supplementary reading and listening materials for students to explore Japanese outside of the class. The site contains ten excerpts from the course textbook (read by Professor Ozawa); poems read by contemporary Japanese performing artist Hasse Mitsuko; and a series of interactive images of contemporary Japanese houses.

Resources for intermediate and advanced Japanese
Last Modified: August 12, 2005
Knapp intern Cathleen Chuang '07 worked with Professor Yoshimi Maeno to create a website for teachers and students of intermediate and advanced Japanese. The site suggests skills, material, themes, and textbooks for such courses. In addition, there are vocabulary lists in English, hiragana and katakana on such topics as crime, economics, medicine, and politics. These lists will be used in Japanese 309 (Readings in Contemporary Japanese Social Science).

Kanji characters in email
Last updated: August 12, 2002
Professor Eiko Torii worked with Knapp intern Alice Tiao '04 investigating methods for students to email in Kanji characters cross-platform (i.e., a system that allow both Macs as well as Windows PCs to exchange email in Japanese). One method would use Hotmail and the free Microsoft Windows Japanese Input Method Editors (IME). An alternative would use a commercial product (NJ Star Communicator).

Intermediate Japanese digital audio and video
Beginning Japanese digital audio and video
Last updated: August 7, 2001
Mellon Intern Mengjiao Jiang '03 and Professor Eiko Torri created a site for second year Japanese students, digitizing over 150 clips of audio and video from 16 lessons. While the sound quality of the original audio cassettes was quite poor, they were able to dramatically improve the sound quality using Pro Tools audio software from Digidesign. In the summer of 2001, Mellon Interns Leslie Chang '04 and Jerina Hajno '04 worked with Professor Torii to develop a similar site for introductory Japanese. The core conversation videos for fourteen lessons and the audio drills that go along with each of them were digitized, compressed and embedded into the site. Note: this site is accessible only to computers on Wellesley's campus and requires QuickTime 4.0 or later.

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Guitar Website and Music Department Lute and Guitar Webpages -- Intern Naoko Kogure '08 worked with guitar and lute instructor Glorianne Collver-Jacobson to create a website for guitar students at Wellesley College. This website features practice exercises and techniques, in the form of PDFs and MP3s, which students can use to enhance their learning. Naoko also also supplemented the current Music Department website with information about lute and guitar lessons offered at Wellesley College.

Collegium Musicum
Last Modified: August 13, 2004
Knapp intern Zsuzsa Moricz '06 worked with instructor Tom Zajac to create a web site for the Collegium Musicum, an early music ensemble directed by Zajac. The site features information on events, early music study at Wellesley, the vocal and recorder ensembles as well as the viol consort, and audio clips from recent performances.

Music Department
Last Modified: August 7, 2002
Knapp intern Shannon Snow '02 worked with Professor Claire Fontijn to revamp the Music Department web site. The revised site features ten digital audio clips of Wellesley ensembles and works by Wellesley composing faculty; more information on Wellesley performing spaces and the Charles B. Fisk organ; and more complete course descriptions.

Body and Soul Vocal Jazz Ensemble
Last modified: August 10, 2001
Body & Soul's Director Kris Adams and Mellon Intern Sena Tang '03 created a web site for Wellesley's student vocal jazz ensemble. The site contains pages such as the ensemble page, a calendar of the group's important events, recommended listening, and a contact page. One of the highlights of the site is a listening section with four short samples from one of Body & Soul's performances.

Electronic Reserves for Jazz History
Last modified: August 8, 2003
Mellon Interns Maren Swanson '02 and Jennifer Redfearn D3 created a web site for Professor Jay Panetta's course on jazz history. Most of the assigned listening for the course comes from the required 5-CD anthology. To supplement areas where the anthology is weakest (e.g., jazz after 1950), Panetta selected 51 recordings (approximately four hours of music) which were digitized and compressed by Swanson and Redfearn. For each recording, they created a web page with discographical information, an image of the musician, a link to the online Wellesley College library catalog record for the CD from which it was digitized, and a brief "mini-essay" on the music. Artists featured in the site include Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and many others. To comply with copyright guidelines supported by the Music Library Association, password authentication limits access to students currently enrolled in the course, and the site is completely inaccessible during semesters when the course is not offered. Thus, the URL for this site links to one sample page from the site, modified to present only a twelve-second excerpt. In the summer of 2001, Mellon Interns Nora Jarrah '02 and Nicole Hatch '03 revised this site, adding thirty recordings, as the required CD anthology had changed. In the summer of 2003, Knapp intern Erin Foti '04 revised the site yet again, adding thirty more recordings, as the required CD anthology had gone out of print. Note: this site requires QuickTime 4.0 or later.

Claire Fontijn
Last updated: August 6, 2004
These pages contain information on the classes taught by Professor Fontijn, her work with Wellesley's early music ensemble (the Collegium Musicum) and her own research into women in early music. Program information for the Collegium performances that Professor Fontijn directed is included, as well as video clips from a performance of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas from the fall of 1995. Audio clips of music by Antonia Bembo, a Venetian and French composer who is the focus of much of Professor Fontijn's recent work, are also available. The site was originally created by Jennifer Arnott '98 and was revised in 2004 by Zsuzsi Moricz '06.

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Philosophy Department
Last Modified: August 13, 2007
Interns Marlie Philiossaint '10 and Ran Tao '09, in collaboration with Assistant Professor Catherine Wearing, restructured and redesigned the Philosophy Department website. The site will provide information and advice for majors and non-majors, as well as updated course offerings, faculty profiles, alumnae connections, and other resources for students.

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Image Research for Intro to Asian Religions
Last Modified: August 13, 2007
nterns Naoko Kogure '08 and Marlie Philiossaint '10 assisted Professor James Kodera in collecting and digitizing approximately 350 images that can be shown during lectures in his Introduction to Asian Religions course. These images will enable the students to better understand the different topics they encounter in the course.

Sacrifice of Isaac
Last Modified: August 12, 2005
Knapp Intern Nicole Smith DuRand '06 worked with David Bernat of the Religion Department updating the site for Religion 303 (The Sacrifice of the Beloved Child in the Bible and Its Interpretations). The online image gallery for the course now includes additional creative interpretations by students of the Aqedah. In addition, the site now contains a virtual discussion page open to the Internet where students and others can post comments on the verses of Genesis 22 describing the binding of Isaac.

Study of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
Last modified: July 30, 2002
Knapp intern Shelley Chien '03 worked with Professor David Bernat to create web site for Religion 104 (Study of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament). The site features links to study resources, as well as photos of a mock archaeological dig.

The Bible, Ancient Near East, and Early Judaism
Last Modified: August 10, 2001
Professor David Bernat and Mellon intern Leslie Chang '04 created a personal home page for Professor Bernat as well as a site for Religion 207, a new course on Goddesses, Queens and Witches in the Ancient Near East. His comprehensive home page includes his mission statement; course offerings; syllabi; study resources for the Bible, the Ancient Near East, and Early Judaism and Rabbinics; and current research. In addition, there is a trivia question for the chance to win a free beverage from El Table.

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Lev Tolstoy: Russia's Ecclesiast
Last Modified: August 28, 2006
Interns Suh-Mii Yi '08 and Sarah Coutlee '07 worked with Associate Professor Thomas Hodge to create a website for Russian 277. The site includes multimedia, complete texts of five novels (including War and Peace and Anna Karenina) in Russian and English, and links to further complement classroom learning, such as a virtual tour of Iasnaia Poliana (Tolstoy’s estate) and a silent film clip of Tolstoy's 80th anniversary .

19th Century Russian Classics
Last Modified: August 1, 2002
Knapp intern Keigh Hammond '03 worked with Professor Tom Hodge to create a web site featuring the syllabus for the course and course documents (some in Cyrillic). For on-campus users, there are some brief video clips (requiring QuickTime 5.0 or higher) of film versions of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, as well as images of Gogol, Dostoevskii, Lermontov, and Turgenev.

Pesnia Blends Music, Poetry, and Russian
Last Modified: August 30, 2000
Pesnia (the Russian word for "song") allows students to study the text of Russian songs and was first developed in the early 1990s by Susan Hafer Richman from Information Services and Russian Professor Thomas Hodge using Toolbook, a Windows-only application. Mellon interns Maren Swanson '02 and Nina Schloesser '02 completed the initial conversion of Pesnia to a web site. The site allows students to listen to songs by such composers as Borodin, Tchaikovsky, Glinka, and Rimsky-Korsakov set to texts by poets such as Pushkin, Baratynsky, Nekrasov, Fet and Lermontov; view the text in Cyrillic; read an English translation; and click on unfamiliar words for grammatical glosses or a direct translation. The web version of Pesnia greatly increases access to this material, and also adds a new feature (a QuickTime Cyrillic text track synchronized with the music). Note: Pesnia can be viewed on all Windows 98 computers as well as on Macs running OS 9 and the Cyrillic Language Kit.

Verbs of Motion
Last Modified: August 31, 1998
Professor Thomas Hodge of the Wellesley College Russian Department, with IS Staff and Keck interns Leila Toplic '01 and Giselle Nevada '99, developed a prototype of a multimedia illustration of the complexities of Russian verbs of motion. The project uses short movie clips to illustrate untranslatable nuances among various verbs, providing a transcript, a glossary, and short explanations to illuminate the differences. Over the coming semester, the user interface will be tested, revised if necessary, and then populated with selected movie clips and associated text. There are several dozen verbs, and this project is expected to extend over a few more semesters.

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Elementary Spanish 101-102
Last Modified: August 13, 2007
Interns Thutrang Nguyen '08 and Kathryn Neugent '10 worked with Senior Lecturer Nancy Hall to create a website for the Spanish Department's elementary Spanish course. The website includes audio clips from the Spanish textbook Caminos, and images showcasing Spanish culture selected by the interns. To highlight dialect differences among native Spanish speakers, the interns also filmed interviews of current Wellesley faculty, staff, and students, edited the interviews and then incorporated these videos into the website.

The Clothed and the Naked in Colonial Latin America
Last Modified: August 28, 2006
Interns Jenny Lee '09 and Juliana Martinez '09 worked with Assistant Professor Evelina Guzauskyte to create a website for her 300-level Spanish seminar Los desnudos y los vestidos en América Latina colonial. This seminar examines the colonial period of Latin America, focusing on the cultural notions of “clothing” and “nakedness” in literature and art. The site contains over two hundred images that will be used extensively in the class, including representations of body, nudity and costume in pre-Columbian art, portrayals of early encounters between Christopher Columbus as well as Amerigo Vespucci and the indigenous tribes, depictions of cruelty, battles and slavery as well as more contemporary artwork by Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Rafael Olbinski.

Los Pollitos Dicen
Last modified: August 7, 2002
Knapp interns Alice Tiao '04 and Regina Liang '04 worked with Professor Jill Syverson-Stork to create a web site exploring translation issues using childrens' songs, traditional games, and nursery rhymes from Spanish-speaking countries. Based on a book written by Syverson-Stork and Professor Nancy Hall, the site contains digital audio versions of seventeen songs as well as lesson plans. Note: this site is available only to computers on Wellesley's campus, and requires QuickTime version 4.0 or higher.

El arte de los Moche
Last Modified: August 1, 2002
This web-based learning experience is targeted at intermediate-level Spanish students (Spanish 201). It introduces students to Moche pottery as a record of ancient Peruvian culture. In interactive exercises, students model the tasks of an archeologist studying the symbolism of the Mochica people. It is written in Spanish with an English glossary, and includes animation, video, audio, text and images, to optimize exposure to the Spanish culture and language. Working with Professor Jill Syverson-Stork, Knapp interns Alice Tiao '04 and Regina Liang '04 revised the interactive exercises in the summer of 2002, using Shockwave to create a virtual Moche jar which students can decorate with Moche symbols.

Spanish 247 - Multiple Meanings of Family in Hispanic Cultures
Last Modified: August 10, 2001
Professor Lorraine Roses, working with Mellon Intern Jerina Hajno '04, developed a web site for her new course on the institution of the family in the Hispanic world. This site provides information on course syllabus and related topics. It also contains a multimedia section with over twenty photos, as well as four brief interviews in Spanish with faculty, students, and others answering the question "Whom do you think of as your family?" Note: this site requires QuickTime 4.0 or later to be viewed.

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Nixon: An American Icon
Last Modified: August 14, 2005
Tiffany Mok '06 and Courtney Chin '07 worked with Professor Lynne Viti developing a site for her Writing 125 course on Richard Nixon. The site includes brief video excerpts from four of Nixon's most famous speeches and two press conferences; brief clips from several films and one opera about Nixon; and information about the Watergate scandal and the recent unveiling of the identity of "Deep Throat".

Contemporary Issues in Law and Society
Last Modified: August 8, 2003
Knapp interns Daphne Francois '06 and Erin Foti '04 worked with Professor Lynne Viti to create a web site for her new Writing 125 course. The site features background information, students papers, selected online resources, and student papers on four issues: affirmative action, gay marriage, euthanasia, and abortion.

Writing 125/CAMS 120-Women in Film
Last Modified: August 30, 2001
Professor Wini Wood and Mellon Interns Nora Jarrah '02 and Jerina Hajno '04 created a web site for a course which examines the position of women in cinema from the 30s to the present. The web site includes course information, resources for writing and movies in general, and pages with information about the movies to be viewed for the course. The site also contains brief clips from the movies for the class. Note: Due to copyright restrictions, access to the movie clips will be limited to members of the class through password authentication. This site also requires QuickTime 4.0 or later.

Crime and Punishment
Last Modified: August 6, 2001
Working with Professor Lynne Viti in the Writing Program, Mellon Intern Kathy Roche '03 created a course web site for Professor Viti's new fall course, Crime & Punishment. The web site includes course information, writing and research resources, and useful links such as pro- and anti-death penalty sites as well as to sites examine the Rosenbergs and Timothy McVeigh. There is also a multimedia section in which students can view brief clips from four movies that will be screened and discussed in class. Note: Due to copyright restrictions, the clips can only be seen by computers on the Wellesley College network. These clips require QuickTime 4.0 or later to be viewed.

Writing Program
Last Modified: August 30, 2000
Professors Lynne Viti and Wini Wood worked with Mellon intern Karyn Lu '01 to redesign the Writing Program web site. The new site serves as an excellent resource for students, featuring comprehensive information on the Writing 125 requirement, program offerings beyond the writing requirement, directions for electing courses, faculty biographies, Internet resources for writers, as well as information on the department's Writing Tutors and annual writing prizes. Overall, the site aims to convey a sense of the writing process and the Writing Program's dedication to familiarizing students with that process, as well as easing anxieties about writing.

Supreme Court Watchers
Last Modified: August 10, 2000
Professor Lynne Viti of the Writing Program and Mellon intern Amy Barao '01 created the web site for this Writing 125 course. In addition to course information and schedules, there are several digitized video and audio segments that students can watch so that they may better understand the Supreme Court cases that they are studying during the semester. Of particular note is an illustration of copyright law -- an online comparison of Roy Orbison's classic rock ballad, Oh, Pretty Woman with a hip-hop version by 2 Live Crew. In the summer of 2000, Viti and Mellon intern Karyn Lu '01 created a new opening page and replaced a segment of digital video.

Privacy and the Law
Last Modified: August 10, 1999
Professor Lynne Viti and Mellon intern Amy Barao '01 worked to create a web site for this Writing 125 course. The site contains brief digitized movie clips from The Conversation and The Net for students to view so that they can prepare themselves for class discussion in advance, and so that they can have a better background with some of the issues concerning privacy that they deal with during the semester.

Women and Law
Last Modified: August 20, 1998
Professor Lynne Viti, working with Keck interns Caroline Tsai '99 and Kristina McBlain (Postbac), created web sites for two courses in the Writing Program. For her course on Women and Law, students now can access extensive on-line resources, including text and audio files of the cases being examined, opinion pieces, course information and writing resources on such controversial topics as Roe v. Wade, assisted suicide, the death penalty, and same sex marriage. Students will both learn by example and participate in the continuing evolution of these pages as they fill the student writing pages with their work are now at students' fingertips.

Law, Literature, and Film
Last Modified: August 20, 1998
Another course taught by Professor Viti on Law and Film challenges students to examine and write about society's values concerning law and justice as seen through the lens of short works of fiction, popular film and TV. The web site uses QuickTime to make selected film clips available, along with explanatory text and links to many on-line resources and reviews.

Network Expands Writing Students' Reach
Last Modified: August 5, 1996
The Daedalus program allows students to converse in class via a group of networked computers and to review the transcripts of these discussions after class, as the conversation is logged. Conversation is done nearly wholly by computer, and 95 percent of the class is discussion among the students, to encourage students to learn from other students as well as from their professors, who "speak" much less.

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Created by: Tuyet Nguyen '01 and Erin Foti '04
Maintained by: Kenny Freundlich
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Date Created: December 29, 2003
Last Modified: August 15, 2007
Expires: June 1, 2008