The Manufactured Housing Technology Database, Harvard Design School

This database contains digital still images and digital movie files, links to web-based resources, and citations from publications, taken from Associate Professor Darell Fields' research into technologies used in manufactured housing, which also serves as the core resource for a seminar ("Fabricating Suburbia") being taught for the first time in Spring 2001. Many of the media included come from Professor Fields' visits to manufacturing facilities, construction sites, and completed structures built using pre-manufactured technologies.

Zachary Burke of the Instructional Technology Group at the Harvard Design School undertook the development of the project during the summer of 2000. The underlying database is an Access database, with data entry, file upload, and search interfaces built solely for the web using Cold Fusion as the middleware. The system is housed on a Microsoft NT server running IIS. During the summer and fall the system was used by Professor Fields and his research assistant to populate the database. For the spring semester access will be provided to the graduate students in his seminar to both review existing material and upload new files created during the course of the term.

Chemistry Pre-Lab Project

Gregory Tucci Ph.D., Assistant Instructional Laboratory Coordinator. Mail to: #358, 12 Oxford St., Cambridge MA 02138. Office: 116b, Science Center. Phone: 496-5566. Email: tucci@fas.harvard.edu. David Pasternack, Specialist in Media Services. Office: Science Center B-01, 1 Oxford St. Phone 495-5357 Email: dpastern@fas.harvard.edu. Joy Woller, Instructional Computing Specialist for the Sciences. Office: FAS Computer Services, Science Center 123, 1 Oxford St. Phone: 495-9281 Email: woller@fas.harvard.edu.

Abstract. Currently, the only resource available to Chemistry 5/7 (General Chemistry) students for lab preparation is the laboratory manual. Our goal is to create another, possibly better, laboratory preparation source. We plan to make a series of digital videos about the experiments offered in this general chemistry course. The videos will be available to students over the web. In addition to lecture material these videos will contain demonstrations, animations, text overlays and embedded reference weblinks. Once completed the videos will serve as a ÔlibraryÕ of laboratory information for future Chemistry 5/7 students. Concurrent with the student use of these videos will be an ongoing assessment of their effectiveness in chemical education and their impact on student learning. This project unites staff from several areas of the university including members of the department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Media Services, the Instructional Computing Group, and the Office of Instructional Research.

CyberMap, David Pasternack

Final project for the Advanced Topics in Multimedia course at the Harvard Extension School. A brief description of the project called can be found at:

http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~dpastern/images/cybermap.jpg.

Harvard at Home, The FAS Alumni Initiative

The venture, called "Harvard at Home," brings short audio and video "stories," featuring faculty members and their scholarship, to alumni/ae over the Internet, through the Harvard Alumni Association website. The stories range from condensed versions of Gregory Nagy's recent alumni college on Homer and excerpts from Science Center lectures to special presentations created as brief programs for the "Harvard at Home" series.