All WIT Past Projects
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Bibliographic Database (1999)
Aalberts, Daniel (Physics) & Duarte Geraldino
The creati on of a searchable database of journal articles with a web interface that will allow students and faculty to catalog the results of papers for easier research.

BIMO Website (2001)
Altschuler, Marsha (Biology) &  
The BIMO program is an academic area that lies between Biochemistry and Molecular biology. This program does not have a physical home so we created the BIMO website to act as the community space and information center for students and faculty who are involved or interested in the program.

Bio 132 Website (2001)
Altschuler, Marsha (Biology) &  
Human and Social Biology is a biology class that deals with current issues in science that students in the class along with students at large find interesting. The site targets two audiences as it is smoothly integrated with Blackboard for the class while still maintaining its ability to function as a general information site.

Biology Department Website (2004)
Altschuler, Marsha (Biology) & Bright Future Behind
This project involved redesigning the current Biology Website with in intent of making it more attractive and easier to navigate. New information was included along with graphics, and a Cascading Style Sheet was used to simplify updates and create a uniform structure and layout.

Data Visualization (2008)
Amy Johns (CES) & Team WIT

Aerial Photographs for BIO 225 (2007)
Art, Hank (Biology) & Tentacle Goodness
Professor Hank Art’s course, the Natural History of the Berkshires delves into the biology, geography, climate and history of the Berkshires. The georeferencing, rubbersheeting and compiling of aerial photographs from 1942, 1952 and 1970 will be an important resource for students. In order to make the georeferenced images easily-accessible to students and the general public, images were uploaded onto the Natural History of the Berkshires database using ContentDM. We also made updates to the site, improving navigation and updating site maps.

Disappearing Farms (2004)
Art, Hank (Environmental Studies) & APE Team
This project is a DVD documenting the disappearance of dairy farms around Williamstown. In particular, it contains interviews for, and aerial views of, the Moon Farm, the Sunnybrook Farm, and the Rhodes Farm. Over the past weeks our group has worked on editing footage for inclusion with the DVD, using the Magic Morph program to show the changes in the farms over time and using ArcGIS to produce three dimensional maps of the areas. We used DVD Maker to put all of this content together. Here are two webified short clips: 1970 Moon Farm 3D Map and Rhodes Farm Magic Morph

Hopkins Forest Website (1999)
Art, Hank (Environmental Studies) & Harin Tantongsirisak
To create a web site to org anize and provide easy access to the history and collected data of the Hopkins Forest.

Natural History of the Berkshires (2005)
Art, Hank (Environmental Studies) & Delicious with Milk
Natural History of the Berkshires is an interdisciplinary (Biology and Environmental Studies) course taught by Professor Hank Art. The goals of this project were to provide a reference guide to the Berkshires for the public, create a use (student/public) friendly web site, and to create a means of collecting additional media.

Picturing Our Past (2003)
Art, Hank (Environmental Studies) & Webcrawlers
Picturing Our Past, Williamstown Photohistory Project , is primarily an image database that contains historical images about Williamstown and its residents. Our goal is to build a website that contains information on the project and allows users to search the database of images. In addition, audio clips of interviewing local people, who also owns some of the images in the collection, are added to the site as a part of the image information. This project will be growing in the future.

Williamstown Farming DVD (2002)
Art, Hank (Environmental Studies) & FindJam
Developed the prototype of an extended project which would entail creating multimedia catalogue of the story of three farms important to the Williamstown community. These three farms, different in the times they flourished and the capacities in which they served the community, also held farmers with differing viewpoints on the value of farming.

Geo 214 Course Website (2000)
Art, Hank and Dethier, David (Geosciences) & Marie-Michel Tasse
Creation of a web page for Web-served teaching materials for GEOS 214 (ENVI 214), Remote Sensing and GIS, (an image-and software-intensive course), where assignments could be mounted, images served, and links to databases enabled. The web pages will incorporate images, tutorials, past student projects and portions of the Hopkins Forest database for use next spring.

Field Botany Website (2006)
Art, Hank and Edwards, Joan (Biology) & Oh Bother!
The Field Botany Website incorporates two previous sites’ worth of content: the Botany course website from 1999 and the recent Blackboard site. The aim was to provide a site that students could easily use for reference while taking the course. The site includes a plant manual with descriptions and images of plant species and families, videos of plant habitats, PowerPoint presentations on evolutionary botany and much, much more!

Science Center Directory (2002)
Babcock, Bryce (Science Center) & Untamed Pigeons
A redesign of the previous Science Center Directory, found on the kiosks throughout the science center that had proved to be unhelpful and difficult to navigate. We made the directory web based, easier to use and more effective in directing users throughout the center. Features are additional search and browse functions and more contact and room information.

Baja Atlas Project (2006)
Backus, David and Johnson, Markes (Geosciences) & Ice Cream
Imagine you are a bird flying along the coast of the Baja peninsula with the ability to see the geological makeup of the coastline. With high resolution satellite images, elevation model data, and ArcGIS software, you can. For this project, short movie tours of various parts of the peninsula and islands in the region were created for DVDs that will be sold with an atlas, to be published in the near future. Here are three samples: 1) Isla Angel de la Guarda; 2) Punta Chivato Isla San Marcos; 3) Isla Carmen.

Community Profile (2000)
Bacon, Jean (Anthropology & Sociology) & Jason Carini
Design of a web-based community profile for Northern Berkshire County that will assist students in Applied Anthropology and Sociology 206 and other such courses search for and work with local demographic, housing, and other social indicator data.

Archbishop William King (2001)
Barton, Gayle (OIT) & Gianna
The catalog of the library of Archbishop William King. Research by Robert Matteson; published in collaboration with Gayle Barton; web site by Gianna Marzilli.

Historical Diary Project (2004)
Barton, Gayle (Instructional Technology) & with 3 e's?
The diary of a young farmer from 1869, living near Plattsburgh,NY, was transcribed as a TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) learning exercise. The diary tells of the weather and the daily tasks, as he plants and harvests potatoes, "carries" Grandma to church and to meetings, goes to "quoir", and plays euchre with friends, sometimes staying out as late as "2 1/2".

The 62' Center for Theater and Dance in 42 Seconds (2005)
Barton, Gayle (Instructional Technology) & Gogurt
The ’62 Center for Theater and Dance in 42 Seconds involved creating a time-lapse movie, depicting the construction of the Center.

History of Science 224 Course Website (1999)
Beaver, Donald (History of Science) & Jennifer Dolloff
To design a page for the History of Science department and classes that includes course materials and a forum for online discussions.

History of Science Website (2000)
Beaver, Donald (History of Science) & Fred Hines
Further development and extended design of the History of Science web pages that include course materials and a forum for online discussions.

Lyrics and Albums for Music of 60s & 70s (2005)
Bell, Bob and Sheppard, Anthony (English and Music) & Gogurt
Music of the 60s & 70s is an interdisciplinary class about the music and lyrics of Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, and the Beatles, as well as those of many other well-known artists of the time. In this project, assigned songs were collected, digitized, and put into an online database accessible to the Williams College community. A syllabus-like webpage was also made on the database, allowing students to link directly to specific songs assigned for a particular day in a particular section.

Shakespeare's Major Plays (2007)
Bell, Ilona and Robert (English) & Bard in a Jar
The site created for Professors Robert and Ilona Bell features diverse content, including over 180 clips from numerous movie versions of 10 of shakespeare's plays; articles about Shakespeare and his plays; and images and cartoons relating to the Bard. The clips, which are the main focus of the site, play with matching text that runs alongside the clip for comparison, or as a full-screen version intended for classroom and lecture use.

Political Science Department Website (2001)
Bellows, Nancy (Political Science) & 404: Not Found
A redesign of the Political Science Department website to make it more attractive, informative, and interactive.

Visualizing Chemical Equations (2003)
Bingeman, Dieter (Chemistry) & Magnetic Lasso
The project for chemistry is for the course, Chemistry 153 which will be taught by Professor Bingemann in fall 2003. The project consists of six applets that are to be designed to enable the students of the course to visualize the behavior described by the equations graphically.

Chemcasts ( ) (2006)
Bingemann, Dieter (Chemistry) & Ice Cream
The only time in your daily routine that hasn't yet been exploited for learning purposes is your daily workout. Chemcasts are interesting stories about chemistry in the form of short podcasts, so that students can automatically download them from iTunes and work out while listening. Find out, for example, how to keep soda from exploding, why ice cream doesn't refreeze properly, and why diamonds actually are not forever.

Chemistry Lab Videos (2004)
Bingemann, Dieter (Chemistry) & Eight-Sided Die
The goal of the chemistry lab videos has been to create comprehensive visual instructions to familiarize students with intimidating equipment and confusing procedures before arriving in the lab. It is important to create a lab environment that looks as simple as possible, and maintain a visual continuity with the physical space even after editing. After filming on digital video we captured the footage on an external hard-drive and edited it using Final Cut Pro.

Renaissance Music and Saint Donatian (2006)
Bloxam, Jennifer (Music) & Pixel Pirates
An annotated score and listening component will be up on the website. The music was composed by Jacob Obrecht who was commissioned by Adriane de Vos in the 15th century to write a mass in the memory of her deceased husband Donaes de Moor. The website will also consist of an accurate historical account of what happened as this was an unusually well-documented event. Here are two examples (flash is required): Christe and Credo

Jewish Society (2008)
Bob Scherr (Chaplain Office) & Team WIT

Art Mecho Museum in Second Life (2007)
Bolton, Christopher (Asian Studies/Comparative Literature) & Team WIT
The Art Mecho Team designed and created an art-mecho museum featuring anime artwork in Second Life. Here is a short movie explaining the building process. The slide show of the building process is also available.

Digital Archive of Costumes (2005)
Brothers, Deb (Theatre) & Delicious with Milk
The Costume Archives at Williams is a digital collection of documentation of theatrical costumes. These costumes, designed by Deborah Brothers of the Williams College Theatre Department are from past productions, and represent different periods in costume history. The archives include three-dimensional rotatable videos of the costumes, as well as digital scans of corresponding costume sketches. This collection will serve as a useful resource to students, allowing them to view the costumes within a historical frame of reference and along with appropriate costume terms.

Mardi Gras (2001)
Brothers, Deb (Theatre) &  
We edited 20+ hours of raw Mardi Gras footage into a four-segment documentary video that takes the viewer through a weekend at Mardi Gras, including fabulous costumes, great music, and revelry. The documentary begins with Saturday and Sunday parades, and continues through Monday and into Fat Tuesday. The video will be used in Deb Brothers' course, Theatre 205: The Culture of Carnival.

Motul de San Jose (2001)
Brown, Michael (Anthropology & Sociology) & 404: Not Found
A video digitization and editing project using iMovie and Final Cut Pro on footage of the 2000 excavation of the Motul de San Jose, Guatemala, by Professor Antonia Foias.

New Anthropology/Sociology Site (2005)
Brown, Michael (Anthropology & Sociology) & Any Milkshake is Good
This project was to redesign the Williams’ Anthropology & Sociology web site with a focus on elegance with simplicity.

Williams Oral History Project (2002)
Brown, Sylvia (Libraries) & FindJam
The creation a website for the searchable transcriptions of the oral history project. The page we created needed to match the existing theme of the archives website. Additionally the website was updated in order to give it a slightly more contemporary feel.

Women In Film Website/Archive (2002)
Bundtzen, Lynda (English) & Yo
The creation of a web-based video clip archive for ENGL 371 - "Women in Film" whose primary purpose is to provide students with convenient access to video clips in order to provide practical examples of theories taught in class.

Dance Program Website (1999)
Burton, Sandra (Dance) & Sandina Green
To create a website for the dance program and THEA 207, a course on dance history, which will serve as a resource of dance and dance history for this course and the general internet community.

Williams-Mystic Website (2004)
Carlton, James (Williams in Mystic) & APE Team
This project is a redesign of the Williams-Mystic website. The goal was to produce a new look and feel for the site that would grab the attention of visitors and potential students. We also worked on reorganizing the navigation of the website to make information more accessible to visitors. The site was rebuilt from scratch to use CSS for layout and display.

Russian 203 Website (1999)
Cassiday, Julie (Russian) & Asako Kohno
To design a website for Russian 203: Nineteenth Century Russian Literature in Translation to provide a forum for online discussions of readings and course syllabus information, etc.

Russian Department Website (2001)
Cassiday, Julie (Russian) & 404: Not Found
In our attempt to make these websites more aesthetically and thematically pleasing, we developed a fairy tale theme for the Russian Department website. Just like a fairytale, the site will engage students and facilitate their interest in the Russian Program in Williams.

Virtual Tour of the 62' Center for Theater and Dance (2005)
Catalano, Cosmo (Theatre) & Exploding Apples
This project was to create a virtual tour of the many spaces in the new 62' Center, as a way of showing others the new features in the building, as well as a way to attract new directors to the space.

Latina/o Studies Website (2007)
Cepeda, Maria; Greene, Carrie (Latina/o Studies) & Tentacle Goodness
Maria Elena Cepeda’s Latina/o Studies Website is being rebuilt from the ground up. A totally new design as well as updated information that we will be getting from all of the professors involved in the concentration as well as students. It is coming along well.

May 4th Movement (2004)
Chang, Cecilia (Chinese) & Eight-Sided Die
We create an instructional website for an advanced Chinese course on May Fourth Movement. Students who take this course will study independently with the help of this project. The focus of this project is a 20 page article in Chinese. As they read the article, students, students will be able to read the English translation and listen to the audio file of the vocabulary words on that page. In addition, they will be able to listen to any part of the article when they click on the corresponding icons. Along with the article pages, web pages introducing the background information and leading intellectuals will also be provided.

Economics 385 and Mathcad (1999)
Conning, Jonathan (Economics) & Elliot Hibbler
Use of Mathcad software to develop course materials for Economics 385: Games and Information.

Experiential Learning Module (2007)
Consolini, Paula (Dean of Faculty) & CUP
We made a website that will introduce students in a number of classes across a wide variety of disciplines to key concepts in employee ownership and workplace democracy. Using footage from a recent documentary, we introduce the case of an employee-owned factory in Pittsfield, MA. The site includes exercises - a Flash game and a text-based problem - through which students try their hand at negotiating issues involving employee ownership.

Field Slides Digitization (2005)
Cox, Ronadh (Geosciences) & All
Professor Cox of the Geosciences Departments complied a collection of slides of different geological phenomena. In this project, students digitized these slides, using a Nikon slide scanner, its software, and Adobe Photoshop. Digitizing the slides allows Professor Cox to make the images more readily available for her students.

Science & Religion (2005)
Crampton, Stuart (Physics) & Delicious with Milk
The Northern Berkshire Center for Religion and Science: Professor Crampton, Emeritus at Williams College, heads the center for religion and science. The center's main goal is to help facilitate and foster discussion between scientists and religious leaders. To help realize this goal, Stuart Crampton asked WIT to slice interactive movies into Quicktime movie format to be used in Powerpoint presentations. Additionally, he requested an expanding universe model and a new web site design for the center.

Science & Religion - INTR 342 (2001)
Crampton, Stuart (Physics) & Hypernauts
An interactive, multimedia physics tutorial for an interdisciplinary class exploring the intersection between physics and religion. Together with our faculty sponsor, our team created content for a series of modular lessons, piecing together images, sound, text and computer programming into a course-specific CD-ROM.

Science & Religion - INTR 342 (2002)
Crampton, Stuart (Physics) & Entropy, Inc.
Continuing a project started by WIT 2001 interns, particularly focusing on increasing the interactivity of a multimedia CD-ROM tutorial for INTR 342, a class exploring the intersection between physics and religion, by creating additional modules explaining physics concepts and emphasizing implications of science for religion.

International Studies Website (2004)
Darrow, Bill (International Studies) & APE Team
This project is a new website made for the International Studies department. The site is both a frequently-updated resource for current majors and a lure for prospective students interested in the department. Using both CSS and Flash dynamic content, the site was designed to be catchy and cutting-edge, but still easy to update.

Green Energy Website (2003)
Dethier, David (Geosciences) & In Full Effect
The purposes of this project are to create a website where people will be able to learn about the seven clean energy basis and to educate people in The Berkshires on the availability and the uses of clean energy. There are three main categories in the site: Green Energy basis, Local Green Energy projects and Special features. As mentioned above, the Green Energy category tells about the seven clean energy basis and the Local Green Energy Projects tells about the Green Energy Projects around Berkshire. Dynamic maps and photo galleries are included under Special features. Dynamic maps are provided by a former Williams graduate and most photos for the galleries are gathered from NREL, NASA websites while some of them were taken by Infulleffect members.

Williamstown Weather (2002)
Dethier, David (Environmental Studies) & FindJam
A website which would display the weather in Williamstown in real time as well as put all the existing data from 1983 to present in a database so that it could be searched with parameters such as: daily average temperature, relative humidity etc.

Renewable Energy Data Visualization (2007)
Dethier, David; Johns, Amy (CES) & Business Socks
The Renewable Energy Data Visualization” project features a pair of animations illustrating the basics behind alternative energy sources. Using Adobe Flash, Team Business Socks developed two short movies—one exploring solar electric systems, and the other solar hot water systems. These animations, with colorful images and straightforward narration, are intended to appeal to college students by offering an alternative to the dry quality of industry models.

Significance of Sports (2004)
Dudley, Will (Philosophy) & Bright Future Behind
This project is for the course Philosophy 226/Religion 279 to be taught in the fall of 2004. The project goal is to create a database of images and audio and video clips for use by students enrolled in the course. This involves digitizing the footage and then uploading it to the CONTENTdm database. The database will be locked down with a password to avoid copyright violations.

Sports and Religion (2007)
Dudley, Will (Religion) & Business Socks
Three years ago, WIT interns made a digital video archive for Professor Dudley's class on the significance of sports. This project's goal was to update the appearance and content of the archive. The home page and archive were redesigned to be more visually appealing and the archive was added to and updated for when Professor Dudley teaches the class again.

Afghan Media Project (2003)
Edwards, David (Anthropology & Sociology) & Screaming Streamers
This project branched off from Professor David Edwards' WAMP (Williams Afghan Media Project). It consisted of creating a short video presentation of Professor of Photography, Ed Grazda. The video was to be approximately fifteen to twenty minutes in length, and would comprise of an audio interview of Professor Grazda accompanied by the photographs he had taken of Afghanistan, its people and their way of life under the rule of the Taliban during the years of 1992-2000. It was decided that project would be done in Macromedia Flash MX.

Online Key for Aquatic Insects (2005)
Edwards, Joan and Smith, David (Biology) & Any Milkshake is Good
In the introductory Ecology course and Environmental Sciences course students study the aquatic insect fauna of local streams and rivers. To identify the insects to the family level, students use a rather cumbersome key where they have to flip back and forth between pages to link the written clues with line drawings illustrating the key characteristics. This project was to develop a web-based online self-study tool to guide students in identifying the insects without flipping back and forth between pages.

Fast Enough to Break Your Heart, Exploding Flowers (2005)
Edwards, Joan; Whitaker, Dwight (Biology and Physics) & Exploding Apples
The Exploding Flower project involved creating a new web site for Dwight Whitaker and Joan Edwards about their research and recent publication on the Dogwood Flower. This site is geared to two distinct audiences. One group is the academic audience who will be interested primarily in raw data, the video, and contact information section listing publications. The other group is the every day visitors. Children who have heard about the flower from their science teachers, or those who have read about the flower in a magazine and want to know more. For these visitors the section on the plant, with pictures and explanations about its life cycle will be particularly helpful. Since the high speed video is one of the most exciting features of the site, it too can be reached from the home page.

Art Department Website (2003)
Epping, Ed (Art) & Screaming Streamers
This project was essentially to have a redesign and reorganization of the existing Williams Art Department website in order to make it both visually more appealing and more user-accessible. The design was to incorporate a bridge between Art History and Studio Art and yet show the distinctions between them.

Art Portfolio (2007)
Epping, Ed (Art) & CUP
We created a website to showcase Professor Ed Epping's art for potential customers. The site is simple and easy to navigate, yet packed with information. It displays his drawings, paintings, collages, sculptures, digital prints, and artist books along with commentaries of each body of work. Highlights of the site are interactive Flash books with dynamic page flip and javascript image scrollers.

Oscilloscope Tutorial (2004)
Forkey, Kevin (Physics) & Bright Future Behind
The goal of this project is to develop a tutorial for instructing introductory physics students on how to use the oscilloscope. To do this, we have created an interactive Flash project that familiarizes students with the oscilloscope's basic functions and default settings. This will be used as a free-standing application that students can then in the lab.

Psych 262 Website (2001)
Friedman, Elliot (Psychology) &  
We designed a web page that provides tutorials on the general concepts of building web pages and organizing academic content into a web-friendly format for Elliot Friedman's Health Psychology class as well as an archive of past web pages done for the class.

CES Websites (2004)
Gardner, Sarah (Environmental Studies) & Eight-Sided Die
This was a three-part project, the purpose of which was to create new websites for the Center of Environmental Studies, the Matt Cole Memorial Library, and Hopkins Memorial Forest. These three are inextricably linked, yet very much distinct resources. The new design reflects this relationship, as all three sites have the same layout, yet individual color schemes and graphics. The site construction consisted mainly of transferring information from the pre-existing website, and re-organizing it to facilitate navigation.

Gaudino Educational Initiatives (2006)
Greene, Carrie, Cassiday, Julia and Riehl, Dale (Dean's Office) & Tragic Productions
A website that is inviting to all people to discover the legacy of Robert Gaudino. It is a site where students, factuly, alumni, and the general public can come and discover: what the purpose of Winter Study 99s is and how to apply for funding; the initiatives of the Gaudino Scholar; the mission of the Robert L. Gaudino Memorial Fund. The site is there to help advocate experiential education and uncomfortable learning as means to a greater and fuller educational experience inside and outside the classroom.

Williams College Timeline (2000)
Grudin, Peter (Dean's Office) & Tony Hoang
Development of a unique timeline designed to present history not only in length and in depth, but in the context of Williams College as well. The college history and world history are lined up so that the reader investigating the founding of the college can also see the significant events going on elsewhere in the world on that date.

Jewish Studies Website (2007)
Hammerschlag, Sarah; Dekel, Edan; Greene, Carrie (Jewish Studies) & Bard in a Jar
We designed a completely new look, more modern for the Jewish Studies site, tying in to themes of exile and the rich traditions of Jewish culture and history. The site was also expanded to include more content, including extended faculty biographies, more links, and more detailed descriptions of courses and requirements.

Historical Aerial Photograph (2008)
Hank Art (Biology) & Team WIT

Child and Family Research Labs Website (2003)
Heatherington, Laurie (Psychology) & In Full Effect
The purpose of this project was two-fold. First, members of the Williams College Psychology Department wanted to communicate information about their studies with people who lived outside of the immediate Williamstown area. This was addressed by building a web site that would provide information about the various ongoing studies along with contact information. Additionally, the site would allow for related background readings or other publications to be included in the content. Second, the Web Site needed to be interactive in its ability to provide secure online surveys and questionnaires that participants could send back electronically. This was addressed by creating secure .pdf files where participants enter a password before opening the documents. The password is granted to them after a brief phone interview with a faculty member. Once downloaded, participants can email the surveys back as attachments. This content-rich site with the downloadable .pdf files allows faculty members to communicate and interact with participants outside of Williamstown.

PoliSci 207 Course Website (2000)
Hedreen, Guy and Podmore, Amy (Political Science) & Yung-En Chen
The redesign of the Studio Art web pages to contain quality reproductions of all faculty art work and to add features that will provide more extensive information regarding art related activities within the Williams community and the surrounding area.

EnzymAtion (2006)
Hutson, Lara (Biology) & Oh Bother!
EnzymAtion is a collection of the reactions of glycolysis with specific emphasis on the PFK-1 enzyme in the third step of glycolysis. This enzyme illustrates many principles of biology such as feedback inhibition and allosteric inhibition. This collection will serve as a useful tool to students to learn the process of the glycolic pathway, allowing them to view each step as it happens with the appropriate explanation.

Williams in New York website (2006)
Jackall, Robert (Williams in New York) & Ice Cream
Williams in New York is a pilot program with an existing website that was structured in such a way that did not convey the excitement and opportunity that the program offered. The project's goal was to restructure and redesign the site so that it would be more dynamic and enticing for future potential students, as well as alum who could help enhance the program.

Hopkins Observatory (2008)
Jay Pasachoff (Astronomy) & Team WIT

Obrecht (2008)
Jennifer Bloxam (Music) & Team WIT

Video Cast on Summer Science Program (2008)
Jo Procter (News Office) & Team WIT

Palazzo del Te: Virtual Reality Tour (2002)
Johnson, EJ (Art) & Gross Brothers
A website which provides a virtual reality tour of Palazzo del Te in Italy.

QSDT (2001)
Johnson, Stewart (Math and Stats) & Jon Salter
Creation of an online version of the Quantitative Skills Diagnostic Test on Blackboard. This online resource will enable the once cumbersome and time-consuming task of administering and evaluating the QSDT far simpler.

LabView Project (2007)
Jones, Kevin; Forkey, Kevin (Physics) & Bard in a Jar
Labview required substantial design overhal, to make the program more user-friendly to those not familiar with the programs. By redesigning the image and rearranging the functions so that they followed a uniform and engaging style, LabView becomes easier to navigate by the large number of students who come into contact with it for labs and projects. Also, the internal code, which is fairly unique in that it utilizes block (image) diagrams rather than text code, was rendered more efficient and effective.

New England Geology Webpage (1999)
Karabinos, Paul (Geosciences) & Junghee Yang
To creat e a web based interactive map of New England which will organize field trip data collected by the New Incollegiate Geologic Conference.

Music Department Website (1999)
Kechley, David (Music) & Kenric Taylor
To design web pages for Music 103/104 and the Music Technology Lab and a Music Department page.

Shakespeare At Williams Website (2001)
Knopp, Sherron (English) & Formerly Known As
The creation of a website on Shakespeare, designed to create the bridge from words on a page to real performances in our imaginations. Our goal was to make Shakespeare's works come alive, using a feast of various clips visualizing Shakespearean performances, graphics with filmstrips containing clips from different key moments in performance, rollover quotes on the main page, and more.

English Department Website (2003)
Knopp, Sherron and Malanga, Pat (English) & Screaming Streamers
This project involved a complete redesign of the current English Department website. The design was to reflect the English Department's vision and character at Williams and provide a stimulating and informative medium of presentation. It was decided that with the addition of JavaScript rollovers to home page involving photos of professors and students and their thoughts on the department would accomplish these goals and as an added dynamic to the site by introducing an easily updateable "Upcoming Events"; section on the front page. Page headers were designed specific to the content displayed on the inner pages to accompany the relevant content which would be provided by the department.

Jewish Studies Website (2003)
Kraus, Matthew (Classics) & Webcrawlers
Matthew Kraus, chair of Jewish Studies program at Williams, wanted to have a website for the program. Our goal was to build a website that serves as a regular department website, as well as an educational portal for the public.

Basic Spoken Chinese (2003)
Kubler, Neil (Chinese) & In Full Effect
This project involves creating a Director MX movie for use as an academic supplement to Chinese 101 and 102 students. The movie incorporates audio, video, and text to accomplish this goal. The completed project includes 88 videos and 352 dialogues synchronized to the audio in the videos. The dialogues consist of 2 speakers and the text can be set to English, Pinyin, Simplified, or Traditional characters. The audio mode can be set to full audio or one speaker only. The project can be delivered as a Shockwave movie, or a projector file for Windows or Mac OS X.

Planetary Nebula Spectra Website (2002)
Kwitter, Karen (Astronomy) & Entropy, Inc.
A website designed to display planetary nebula spectra through the incorporation of a large quantity of data into a searchable database. The data is visualized with a Java applet.

The Gallery of Planetary Nebula Spectra (2006)
Kwitter, Karen (Astronomy) & Pixel Pirates
A complete revisioning of the current astronomy site making it more assessible to users as well reorganizing the table of Nebula Spectra which consists of over 120 spectra. The goal was to make everything about the website more inviting and to make it look less text-based.

Envi 101 & 211 Websites (2000)
Lee, Kai (Environmental Studies) & Samantha Orme
Development of two course web sites and additional computer-based exercises for Environmental Sciences courses, ENVI-101, a course delivered primarily over the internet, and ENVI-211 (Global Trends, Sustainable Earth), a new course that may use simulation methods in addition to a course web site.

Game of Life (2002)
Lee, Kai (Environmental Studies) & Entropy, Inc.
Design modifications to The Game of Life grid which simulated and observed a basic living system. The existing simulation allowed users to watch the results of removing rules from the system. We have successfully enabled users to add their own rules and observe the effects, as well as made general interface and design improvements. An essential part of our task was also to document and comment the code structures driving the simulation.

Prisoner's Dilemma Project (2003)
Lee, Kai (Environmental Studies) & Webcrawlers
This project is a continuation of a Director-based game designed in 2000 by a student. The goal of the project for the summer is to add functionality to the game, entitled The Prisoner's Dilemma. To accomplish this goal, we developed a simulation of the game(less the graphics) in C, for research purposes.

Interactive Campus Map (1999)
Lewis, Michael (Art) & Jonathan Miles, Haibo Gu
The creation of an interactive map of the Williams College campus which will organise the vast ammount of information about the history of the school that has been collected over the last 10 years by various winter study programs.

Online Tutorial (2008)
Lori Dubois (Library) & Team WIT

PoliSci 207 Course Website (2002)
Marcus, George (Political Science) & Entropy, Inc.
A small website mainly comprising groups of links to news and information sites relating to American politics in order to supplement psci 207 in the area.

PoliSci 211 Course Website (2001)
Marcus, George (Political Science) & Formerly Known As
We designed a course website with clear, simple navigation, in order to provide students easy access to course materials and both print and online research resources.

Leadership Studies Web Site (2007)
McAllister, James; Greene, Carrie (Leadership Studies) & CUP
We redesigned the Leadership Studies webpage, and ended up with a clean and professional-looking result. The site includes faculty profiles, news and events, information on the purpose of the program and requirements for the concentration, a section on the Stanley Kaplan Program in American Foreign Policy, and contact information for current concentrators. Everything is easily updateable.

Housing Office Website (2001)
McEvoy, Tom (Facilities) &  
The Housing Office is a major destination for students and incoming faculty, but its web presence was lacking. Tom McEvoy wanted a website that would match the office's scope and service-minded orientation, and make it easier to find housing-related information. We improved and expanded the site, and attempted to focus more on residential life, an important component of the Williams program.

History of Williams Website (2003)
Murphy, Peter; Brown, Sylvia K and Johnson, Dave (English) & Magnetic Lasso
The Williams College history project (tentatively entitled "Change") seeks to digitize holdings in the College Archives, bring it into a manageable media database, and, utilizing the subsequent material, bring the history of Williams College in a suitable manner to a general audience. The WIT portion of this project is to explore, develop and prototype solutions for the creation, cataloging, storage, retrieval and delivery of all the materials necessary for the future growth of this ever-expanding project.

German Department Website (2001)
Newman, Gail (German) & 404: Not Found
In our attempt to make these websites more aesthetically and thematically pleasing, we developed a art-related theme for the German Department website. Just like a fairytale, the site will engage students and facilitate their interest in the German Program in Williams.

Online Resources Center (2008)
Nicole Mellow (Political Science) & Team WIT

Williams in OxFord (2005)
Nolan, James (Williams in Oxford) & Any Milkshake is Good
Design a new website to replace the old one that was childish like.

Astronomy Images/Animations (1999)
Pasachoff, Jay (Astronomy) & Feng Zhu
This project involves the use of existing images of eclipses to create composite images and animations.

Colors of the Sun (2007)
Pasachoff, Jay (Astronomy) & Business Socks
Professor Jay M. Pasachoff worked with WIT to produce an educational video about the sun. The video combines impressive solar images gathered by NASA and Professor Pasachoff with original footage and narration captured on the Williams College campus. Providing a concise and informative survey of the science behind studying the sun, the video is appropriate for use in high school and college classrooms.

Eclipse Website (2001)
Pasachoff, Jay (Astronomy) & 404: Not Found
Our task was to create an attractive and compact way to present all of the photos, video footage, and data brought back from this year's Solar Eclipse expedition to Zambia. We were also charged with updating the web page for the eclipse working group of the International Astronomical Union, lead by Prof. Pasachoff.

Eclipse Website (2002)
Pasachoff, Jay (Astronomy) & Yo
A modification of the Astronomy Solar Eclipses website created by WIT 2001 Interns that included the addition of new sites for the 2002 and other upcoming eclipses. We made the entire website easier to update for future use as well as came up with a new design and organization for the main page.

Eclipse Website (2003)
Pasachoff, Jay (Astronomy) & Magnetic Lasso
The Eclipse Website project involved an overhaul of the site structure, extensive modification of the underlying html code, and the addition of new photo and video content. Cascading style sheets were implemented across the site to facilitate a uniform appearance and to simplify maintenance and modification in the future. Dead links and redundant content were removed. Lastly, a small website created for the occasion of Professor Pasachoff's 60th birthday was incorporated into the larger Eclipse site.

Transit of Venus (2004)
Pasachoff, Jay (Astronomy) & with 3 e's?
The transits of Venus, when Venus crosses the face of the sun, occur at intervals of 100 plus years. Historically, transits of Venus have been the study and subject of worldwide expeditions in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. On June 8, 2004, the first transit of Venus since 1882 was witnessed. Professor Jay Pasachoff, along with a team of students and colleagues, received a grant from the Committee for Research and Exploration of the National Geographic Society to observe this transit from Greece. From the data collected from that expedition combined with data from NASA's Transition Region and Coronal Explorer and from several telescopes around the world, a website will be created.

Experiential Learning (2008)
Paula Consolini (Office, Dean of Faculty) & Team WIT

TNYC Web Site (2008)
Paula Consolini (Office, Dean of Faculty) & Team WIT

Ethics Bowl Web Sites (2006)
Pedroni, Julia (Philosophy) & Tragic Productions
We are creating two websites: the first one is for the Williams College Ethics Bowl where team members can discuss cases and get information about the Ethics Bowl and anyone who is interested in the Ethics Bowl can learn more about it; the second one is the Northeast Regional Ethics Bowl site that is there to inform people about the Regional Bowl and emphasizes more the logistical and rules oriented side of the competition.

Training DVD for Ethics Bowl judges (2007)
Pedroni, Julia (Philosophy) & Tentacle Goodness
The training video DVD was created to give prospective judges a full overview of the ethics bowl competition, as well as an introduction to competition procedures and responsibilities on the day of the competition The video introduces the four criteria central to judging and also includes a brief clip of an actual team presentation, emulating the actual ethics bowl situation. Each DVD includes a printable copy of the cases and scoresheet so the judges have a hard copy to reference during the film.

Biology 101: The Survival Guide (2006)
Raymond, Wendy (Biology) & Pixel Pirates
This website was designed with the goal of making biology appealing to non-majors. Making the subject less intimidating, the website consists of study strategies, research opportunities, resources for students, and a facebook of mentors, t.a.s, and professors. A video of how to approach professors was also created and will be up on the website. The video describes good and bad ways to approach professors to make the process of getting to know professors easier for first year students.

HHMI Science Grant website (2006)
Raymond, Wendy (Biology) & Ice Cream
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute Science Grant funds many projects for Williams and the community. This website is the first time all of these opportunities are organized in one place for easy access and informational purposes.

Symposia on Diversity in Sciences Website (2005)
Raymond, Wendy (Biology) & Any Milkshake is Good
With events already planned, this project was looking for a way to organize the incoming attendees for the Symposia on Diversity in the Sciences. In a short time, the group created a site to communicate the ideas of the Symposia and provide a mechanism for registration and organization - greatly simplifying the tasks of the organizers.

Bio 313 & 314 Websites (1999)
Raymond, Wendy and Roseman, Nancy (Biology) & Paul Holt
To create web sites for Biol 313 and Biol 314, Immunology and Virology respectively. The pages will include course information such as syllabus and handouts as well as online discussion forums for class issues.

History 110 Website (1999)
Reeves, Caroline (History) & Deborah Hsu
To design a web p age for History 110: The Personality Cult Of Mao which will contain course materials and links to other web sites on the current course topics.

Mao Website (2001)
Reeves, Caroline (History) & 404: Not Found
Continuing work on previous Mellon project.

Oakley Center Web Site (2005)
Reinhardt, Mark (Oakley Center) & Gogurt
The main goal of this project was to redesign the Oakley Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, giving it an updated look, making it easier to maintain, and more navigable.

Flash Cards, Self Study Tool for Art History (2005)
Reynolds, Linda (Art) & Any Milkshake is Good
The project was to develop a web-based study tool that tests ARTH101 and 102 students on the information for their weekly slide quiz. It will display 1 random slide at a time from the week's set, and ask for the information as provided on the syllabus. It will then display the correct information for that slide and move on to the next slide.

Lane Faison Video (2006)
Reynolds, Linda (Art) & Tragic Productions
S. Lane Faison, professor of art history from 1936 to 1976 and director of WCMA for more than two decades, was one of the key figures in the art restitution process after World War Two. He interrogated Nazi art collectors, wrote the official report on Hitler's personal trove, and briefly oversaw one of the major redistribution centers in Germany. The video project substantially augments archival footage of a lecture by Faison in 2002 and incorporates newly recorded interview material.

Lantern Slide Scanning (2004)
Reynolds, Linda (Art) & with 3 e's?
In the summer of 2004 we scanned approximately 300 lantern slides for a specific project proposed by Professors Eugene J. Johnson and Mike Lewis and supervised by Art Department Slide Librarian Linda Reynolds. The scans will be put into a ContentDM database as well as used for projection and presentation in Art History courses.

Virtual Slide Show (2008)
Rob Rivas (Admissions) & Team WIT

Employee Orientation (2008)
Rosemary Moore (HR) & Team WIT

CTAH Website (2000)
Rosenheim, Shawn (English) & Rebecca Barnes
Redesign of CTAH web pages.

Radio, Radio (2005)
Rosenheim, Shawn (English) & Gogurt
This project involved creating a space containing Professor Rosenheim’s collections from previous classes as well as audio clips of radio shows and organize those files with in Confluence (an enterprise wiki that makes it easy for your team to collaborate and share knowledge) for class, Radio, Radio. The program, Confluence, allows students to comment on each other’s work, as well as works from other outside sources. Professor Rosenheim can also post materials on the site and students can easily retrieve them.

Video Examples and CTAH Documentary (2001)
Rosenheim, Shawn (English) & Formerly Known As
These exercises were designed to teach students in English 204 about the process of video editing, and allow Professor Rosenheim to go beyond simply describing how challenging the editing process is. By doing the exercises the students will actually experience for themselves what it is like to edit a movie, using real source material from Boys, Blonde Venus, and Frankenstein. Additionally, we completed a documentary of Sherron Knopp and the Shakespeare Clip Archive for the CTAH website.

Cognitive Science (2008)
Safa Zaki (Psychology) & Team WIT

Landscape Slideshow Website (2002)
Satterthwaite, Sheafe (Art) & Yo
Completing the course website for ARTH201 with lecture notes integrated with slide images, illustrating aspects of American landscape history. We also created a database to enhance the display of the thousands of slide images used for the class.

Math Blog (2008)
Satyan Devados (Math/Stats) & Team WIT

WOOLF (2008)
Scott Lewis (Athletics) & Team WIT

Art History 462 CD (2000)
Shearer, Hartley (WCMA) & Ryan McNaughton
Development of a CD-ROM for the Shearer's course in Contemporary Art and Film.

Visualization of Dynamic Systems (1999)
Silva, Cesar (Math and Stats) & Ethan Katz-Bassett
The creation of a program that will allow for the visualization of measurable dynamic systems.

Environmental Health & Safety Website (2004)
Skinner, Anne (Facilities) & Bright Future Behind
The goal of this project is to create a website for the Department of Environmental Health and Safety of Williams College. Since the department has no prior website, the project involves designing the layout as well as structuring and collecting content. This content is provided by multiple sources, including Buildings and Grounds, Health Services, Dining Services, Campus Security and the Laboratory Science departments.

Chaplains' Office Website (2005)
Spalding, Rick (Chaplains' Office) & Exploding Apples
This project involved simplifying and redesigning a new web site for the Chaplains’ Office at Williams College to replace its old web site (http://link.to.the.old.site), giving it a more updated look, and making it easier to maintain.

Haystack Bicentennial Documentary (2006)
Spalding, Rick (Chaplain’s Office) & Oh Bother!
The Haystack Bicentennial Documentary was made to be shown during the opening ceremony of the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the Haystack event, when five Williams students decided to devote their lives to spreading Christianity as missionaries. The film recounts the events of that day and tells the story of the development of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.

Obesity, Dieting & Blood Pressure Website (2002)
Swoap, Steve (Biology) & Untamed Pigeons
This project incorporates blood-pressure data gathered from rats and mice, demonstrating the wireless implants developed in Prof. Swoap's lab. The data is displayed on animated graphs that allow comparisons of the animals' internal states in a variety of settings.

Real Fakes Website (2003)
Taylor, Mark (Religion) & Screaming Streamers
This project involved creating a website for a new course entitled "Reak Fakes" to be introduced in spring of 2004; and would be taught by Professor Mark C. Taylor. The design was to reflect the material and character of the course, so the front page was given an air of commercialism by making it 'flashy'. The site was extensively coded in Coldfusion.

Williams Blackboard Add-ons (2001)
Wang, Adam (OIT) & Shimon Rura
A new signup sheet application, accessible through blackboard, allows users to create and use signup sheets. Manage office hours, lab sections - anything where a physical signup sheet might be used, and make it accessible over the web, with email reminders, and a clear line-by-line display. Using a new Course Facebook browse the names and pictures of your students or classmates. Additionally, Instructional Technology has started up a pilot program for web application development using ColdFusion, and some behind-the-scenes work has been done to help blackboard talk to the registrar's database, so course enrollments and other information stay current.

Modeling of Biological Macromolecules (1999)
Weiss, Deborah (Biology) & Carli Malcolm
To create models of biological molecules using current software and create javascript web tutorials to demonstrate how to use these software packages.

Music Department Virtual Tour (2003)
Wells, Brad (Music) & Webcrawlers
The purpose of this website is to create a virtual tour of the Williams College Music Department. This project seeks to create a breath-taking web experience that will enable visitors to explore the department without having to be on campus.

Virtual Tour, Music Department (2005)
Wells, Brad (Music) & Any Milkshake is Good
The main goals of this project were to simplify the virtual tour section of Music Department’s web site and make the site more attractive to prospective students. This involved adding a space for audio and video clips of concerts sponsored by the department, creating a slide show of events, and making a new virtual tour of the inside of Thomson Chapel.

High-Speed Physics Videos (2006)
Whitaker, Dwight (Physics) & Oh Bother!
Using a high-speed camera taking thousands of pictures per second, Professor Whitaker shot videos of various phenomena that happen at speeds too fast to see. These pictures were compiled into videos that show, in extremely slow motion, events such as a wine glass being shattered by sound waves and a balloon being punctured. These videos, with descriptions of the physics behind them, were put into a website designed by the team to be viewed by physics students and the general public alike.

Philosophy Department Website (2000)
White, Alan (Philosophy) & John Morrison
Design of a web page that will complement next fall's Senior Seminar on time and time consciousness and redesign of the Philosophy Department's web pages to include relavent links, graduate school information, syllabi, a bibliography of recommended books, and many other features currently not available.

Biology Website (2002)
Williams, Heather (Biology) & FindJam
Our task was to redesign the Biology Website while retaining all the content of the old website and making it more attractive and easier to navigate while providing the relevant information to its audience.

Mathematics & Statistics Website (2001)
Wittwer, Janine (Math and Stats) & Jon Salter
The Math Department website targets a wide range of audience, including current and prospective students, alumni, and faculty from both Williams and outside. This posed a special challenge in creating a site that was simply designed, accessible, visually appealing and informational.

American Studies Website (2007)
Wong, Scott; Greene, Carrie (American Studies) & Business Socks
The American Studies Program needed a website that was more modern and more professional to better reflect the program on the internet. A new site was designed from scratch and constructed using the content management system Symphony to make it easy to update and so more likely to stay in use. The new site has updatable faculty and course lists as well as information from the old site with collages of appropriate images.

Japanese Katakana Assessment (2006)
Yamada, Reiko (Japanese) & Pixel Pirates
Consisting of 3 categories- Identification, Reading Comprehension, and Listening Comprehension, this website was designed purely for classroom purposes. For Professor Yamada's students taking japanese, this website offers a variety of exercises and practice problems ranging from identifying clip art objects to reading and listening to japanese vocabulary (the site is available only on campus).

Japanese 302 Website (2002)
Yamada, Reiko (Japanese) & Yo
A website intended for the use of Professor Yamada's 300-level Japanese students. While going through various discussion questions and situations assigned in class, students would be able to listen to audio clips and practice their language skills via the website outside of the classroom.

Japanese Program Website (2000)
Yamada, Reiko (Japanese) & Dan Shirai
Creation of a web page for the Japanese Program in Asian Studies, building on what is currently a link of the Asian Studies Department, and adding several new features including: Student links (Dictation exercises, Course listings, etc.), Study Abroad in Japan links, Life After Williams in Japan links (Alumni in Japan, Career Fairs, etc.), and Japan Net Links.

Japanese Utilization (2004)
Yamada, Reiko (Japanese) & with 3 e's?
This project is to update the available lessons for the Japanese Department’s Utilization program. The Japanese Department stresses its students’ ability to communicate orally, implementing syntactical and situational speech in an accurate way. Students in JAPN 201-02 and 301-02 use the Utilization programs, where they are given a situation in English and must construct an answer to the situation in Japanese. The program features a model audio file that students can play to hear the model answer, and a recording tool intended for checking the students’ speech skills. Not all of the lessons for the curriculum had a program created for it, and the recording feature did not work. Our group made programs for those missing lessons and enabled the recording feature. We also redesigned the program in the style of the Japanese Department's website, and implemented new situation-relevant photos within the program.

Japanese Quizzes (2005)
Yamamoto, Kasumi (Japanese) & Exploding Apples
This project included developing and updating quizzes for Professor Yamamoto’s introductory Japanese courses. All quizzes are made in Blackboard, for specific classes, and are a way students can practice pronunciation, and recognize grammar usage in everyday life (included conversational video clips).

Molecular Animations (1999)
Zimmerberg, Betty (Psychology) & Elizabeth Berg
The use of current 3D modeling technology to develop animations of neurotransmitters and the creation of CD's and web pages for these animations.

Simulated Interative Experiments (2002)
Zimmerberg, Betty (Psychology) & Untamed Pigeons
Exploring and creating an easy way for her future students to put their video projects up on the web. The project involved creating a website that would be easy for Professor Zimmerberg (or others) to maintain or add to as necessary and also to make instructions that students could follow to put their work up on the web as a class exercise.