Tuesday, May 28, 1996

8:30-10:00: Fifth-floor conference area/Taubman Center
Coffee and Demonstrations

Kennedy School of Government/Case program: David Eddy Spicer

Radiology Division of Computer Science, Brigham and Women's Hospital/BRAHMS, Brigham and Women's Clinical Imaging System: Bill Hanlon

Harvard Business School/Zaltman Technique: Latest Course Offerings: Marion Finkle and Nicole Raynard

Harvard Law School: Scott Glanzman and Jeremy Seeger

Center for World Religions/Harvard Divinity School/ Hidden Histories: Sensing Religion in the American Experience: Larry Sullivan and Karen Burke

Romance Languages, FAS/Beyond the Italian Classroom: Elvira DiFabio

Digitas/Harvard Computer Society: Jeff Tarr

Peabody Museum/FAS: Kathy Garmil-Jones

Harvard Graduate School of Education/TOEFL (Teaching Of English as a Foreign Language) Tutor: Tom Long

Harvard Graduate School of Education/Traveller San Diego: Roxanne Ruzic

Harvard Extension School: Jeremy Traub, Wanda Felder, Juerg Weder, and Bijoy Misra

Harvard Office of Health Education/Health Education and Healthful Living: Adrienne Landau

Chemistry Department, FAS/Chemistry Course Web Sites: David Heitmeyer

Sackler Museum/African Artifacts: Susan Blier and Michael Roy

FAS Planning Office/Access to Harvard: Phillip Parsons

Keynote address: What Happened to the Voice of the Author (and Other Multimedia Dilemmas)

Designing multimedia materials for education presents a number of dilemmas. This talk will focus on some of these dilemmas, along with their implications for course design. The speaker will raise a number of crucial questions rather than provide hard and fast answers.

Presentations:

• Artistic Use of Computer Music Software/Sean Varah, Assistant Director, Harvard Computer Music Center
  The Harvard Computer Music Center is a facility where composers in the doctoral program learn how to create electro/acoustic music with computers. Although the students have little or no technical computer programming expertise, center staff help them become thoroughly familiar with the technology to create the music they want to. The center's focus is on the art form and on using the technology as a tool for musicians. Staff strive to connect computer music to the tradition of art music through works for tape and instrument.

• Hidden Histories: Sensing Religion in American Experience/Lawrence E. Sullivan, Professor of the History of Religions, Harvard Divinity School. Is there anything innately religious about religious sensory experience? Probing this question led Dr. Sullivan to design a series of multimedia presentations that compare the Puritan and Shaker views of music, Martha Graham's view of dance, the Aztec codices' definition of ceremonial space, and the Navajo sandpainters use of vision. The speaker will discuss the evolution of his use of multimedia for ethnographic analyses of religious life.

• On-line Museum Exhibits/Katherine Jones-Garmil, Assistant Director, Information Services and Technology, Peabody Museum. Museums are increasingly using multimedia, imaging applications, and the Internet to broaden their audiences and provide access to their information. This presentation highlights a new on-line exhibit created by the Peabody in collaboration with the Museum of Cultural and Natural History. It also discusses the use of such technologies for museums.

• With a Song in Their Hearts: Music Beyond the Italian Classroom/Elvira DiFabio, Preceptor in Romance Languages, Faculty of Arts and Sciences. By coordinating music recordings on CD with computer assisted activities on the Macintosh, Dr. DiFabio is able to impart to students of Italian meaningful cultural as well as linguistic content for popular and operatic music selections. The computer allows this lyrical experience to be carried beyond the classroom so students can enjoy the beauty of the language and the music in a relaxed atmosphere, along with immediate feedback and guidance. The application was developed with the authoring tool MacLang, with a framework written in Macromedia Director.

• The Whole Brain Atlas/Dr. Keith Johnson, M.D., Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital. The application includes a collection of electronic brain images, along with associated clinical materials necessary to assist trainees and primary care providers, as well as specialists in neurology, neurosurgery, psychiatry, and radiology. The Whole Brain Atlas was developed to respond to this need; it is accessible via the World Wide Web:
  http://www.med.harvard.edu/AANLIB/home.html.
  The Web site allows people who use the application to view and compare images from the whole brain data sets by means of a specially designed Navigator, which enables choice of anatomic level, study date, and imaging method from data sets that are spatially superposed (or "in register"). Clinical information is related to images obtained with magnetic resonance, Xray, and readionuclide-computed tomography. The application contains a teaching atlas that demonstrates brain functional images together with the underlying anatomy. It also identifies the "top 100" brain structures, and includes movies showing three-dimensional views of brain arteries, as well as the evolution of lesions in multiple sclerosis and stroke, allowing viewers to observe their natural history and treatment impact. On average some 800 visitors access the atlas daily from 60 different countries. As more information is added to the atlas, its developers expect it will become a diagnostic reference standard for clinical practice as well as a forum for presenting recent advances in diagnostic imaging technology.

• Multimedia Documents/Bijoy Misra and students, Harvard Extension School. These student projects explore how to create synthetic multimedia documents from existing paper information. The projects are created as part of the Document Image Processing and Workflow course offered at Harvard Extension.