The following participants in the NEH Focus Study
Grant "Teaching the Humanities in a World Wide Web Environment" have created
projects in conjunction with the grant.
Arnold Bradford: I will create
a World Wide Web module that will support in-class and independent learning
in HUM 202, Survey of Western Culture II. The module will be on the
fifteenth century in Florence, and will address topics in a range of humanities
disciplines, including architecture, the visual arts, music, philosophy,
literature, theology, and history. The site will utilize text, graphics,
audio and video, a discussion forum, and URL links.
Project URL:
http://www.nvcc.edu/~nvbrada/Florence/
Jennifer Egan: I am developing
interactive and multimedia components of the Loudoun Campus Library web
site and my individual web site. Students will be able to submit
reference questions using email and view PowerPoint presentations providing
an introduction to library research. Faculty will be able to
utilize instructional matierals about ViVA and the World Wide Web for their
own research and classroom applications/
Project URL: http://www.nvcc.edu/~nveganj/nehproject.htm
Library Information URL: http://www.nvcc.edu/loudoun/library/information.html
Charles Evans: History of the Contemporary
World (HIS 135) is a web-based course in which students will study the
history of the world since 1945 using resources on the World Wide Web.
The course has been designed to enable students to proceed at their own
pace, to choose from a variety of different types of assignments, and to
study specific topics that they find most interesting in recent history.
I have also set up a sample
humanities web site as a place to work on futire humaniteis course modules.
Project URL:http:
//novaonline.nvcc.edu/eli/evans/his135/cte135.htm
Humaities in Space URL: http://novaonline.nvcc.edu/eli/evans/Grant/Index.html
Berta Finkelstein: I am developing a small
database program to gather data from students in my web-based Introduction
to Psychology II Extended Learning Institute course. I would like students
to collect data and then add their data to group data. They would then
be able to obtain a statistical analysis of the group information from
within their web course.
Project URL: http://164.106.136.5/FMPro?-db=memory.fp3&-lay=entry+form&-format=psychology/input.htm&-view
Rosemary Gallick: My NEH project is to create
a Web Course in a Box site for the History and Appreciation of Art I &
II. This site will contain many links to various museums. Since Art 102
is now online, I am having my students access it and provide suggestions.
I hope to add a quiz review for the Fall and provide a forum for class
discussions.
Project URL: http://novaonline.nvcc.edu/wcb/schools/NVCC/wo/rgallick/rgallick.html
Don Gregory: I am putting my PHI 101 syllabus
on the web effective Summer Semester 1998. It contains links to a number
of philosophical prime source readings (e.g. Plato's Apology) which
are part of the course assignments. Students will be given the option of
using these web links instead of and/or in addition to buying the books.
Project URL: http://mason.gmu.edu/~dgregory/101sys97.htm
Thomas Hardy: My syllabus
for Humanities 202 is now on the web. I am adding elements to it that will
supplement the course and will help students prepare for the three humanities
exams on the Renaissance, the Baroque & Enlightenment, and the Modern
Period (19th & 20th centuries). For each exam I am putting on the site
the following items: a page of the take home essay questions; a list of
the art, music and literary works discussed in class and in the humanities
text (Matthews & Platt's The Western Humanities) which the students
will have to identify and briefly discuss; and a list of the important
items (dates, technical terms, historical events, etc.) that will be used
in a matching test. I have also added an additional site that lists URLs
which will augment the text, the class discussions, and test assignments.
Hum 202 Syllabus URL: http://www.nvcc.edu/annandale/human/hardysyl.htm
Project URL:
http://www.nvcc.edu/annandale/human/hardsite.htm
Jud Sage: My project is a model project for
students to earn honors credit in an American history course by completing
an assignment much of which uses on-line resources. This particular project--which
can be replicated for other topics--is to investigate the life and career
of Franklin Delano Roosevelt by studying his life through biographical
information, his writings, the sound of his voice, and video clips of his
times. Links to various resources available on Franklin Roosevelt are provided,
and students are expected to locate, evaluate and select additional components
from the huge amounts of material available on line. Students are then
expected to prepare a conventional research paper or create an on-line
presentation in the form of a CD or a web site.
I have also put together
a small web ring as practice for our proposed humanities web site.
Project URL:
http://www.nvcc.edu/~nvsageh/HonProj.htm
Web Ring URL: http://www.nvcc.edu/~nvsageh/humweb1.htm
Barbara Seaman: My project is an annotated
list of links for the Harlem Renaissance. I hope to include relevant links
in history, art, and music as well as literature.
Project URL: http://www.nvcc.edu/grants/neh/harlren.htm
Agatha Taormina: I am completing
a number of small projects. The first is this web site, especially the
"Useful Links" pages which I have gathered from the participants, organized,
and annotated. The second is a list serv related to the NEH grant and formed
to continue to discuss topics and issues generated by the grant. I will
apply my experience with this listserv to a list serv I will set up for
each of my classes in the Fall Semester 1998. Finally I am experimenting
with a Front Page discussion web created for this grant. I want to set
up a similar forum for the English department at the Loudoun Campus.
Useful Links URL:
http://www.nvcc.edu/grants/neh/links.htm
ListServ information: http://www.nvcc.edu/grants/neh/humwebfaq.html
Discussion Forum: http://164.106.132.25/neh/
Diane Thompson: I am building
an interactive web site of resources related to stories of the Trojan War.
The Troy Web Site will eventually include images, electronic texts, and
instructional material. Students and faculty will interact in discussion
forums. The Troy Web Site will be a resource for world literature and other
humanities courses.
Project URL: http://novaonline.nvcc.edu/eli/Troy/troysites.html
David Whipple: My project is to develop
a learning module on the arts and crafts movement in America for students
in a furniture history class. The module will begin for the students at
WWW.Arts-Crafts.com/ From there the students will be able to browse the
many links on the site. A work-book type questionnaire will require the
students to search the links to find the required information. A web forum
among the students and the instructor will provide perspectives for the
students to consider. This module will constitute 10% of the requirements
for the course.
Project URL:
http://www.nvcc.edu/grants/neh/artscrafts.htm
John Wulff: Music Appreciation I surveys early music through
Beethoven (the classical era). This class utilizes the web for forum communication
among the class members as well as for the development of web-based presentations.
A presentation on the early church modes with actual notation and sound
is one part of my project; the other part is a sample web-based presentation
on the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Modes Presentation URL: http://www.nvcc.edu/~nvwulfj/121.html.
Mozart Page URL:
http://www.nvcc.edu/~nvwulfj/mozart.html
