Featured Projects

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.

Sports and Religion

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.

High-Speed Physics Videos

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.

Digital Archive of Costumes

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.

Lyrics and Albums for Music of 60s & 70s

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.