Category Archives: Arts/Humanities Website

Report on Bamboo Workshop #6

Posted on June 22, 2010 by Elizabeth Pyatt

Last week I attended the Project Bamboo workshop with John Harwood, the senior director from Teaching and Learning with Technology. Project Bamboo (http://www.projectbamboo.org) is a proposed platform for both a social network site for humanities scholars as well as a… More On: Report on Bamboo Workshop #6

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“Race” and Genetics Demo

Posted on September 28, 2009 by Elizabeth Pyatt

How different are the “races” really? According to the graphic on http://www.understandingrace.org/humvar/race_humvar.html not that much. This is a great Flash demo that shows that while there is a relatively large amount of diversity in Africa, the home of homo sapiens… More On: “Race” and Genetics Demo

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Researching the U.S. Presidents

Posted on April 3, 2009 by Elizabeth Pyatt

At a recent ID meeting, I commented that in high school I had to research information on each and every president in the United States (in batches of 6 throughout the year) Despite the active learning spirit of the exercise… More On: Researching the U.S. Presidents

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A Russian Pop Music Blog From ….

Posted on May 27, 2008 by Elizabeth Pyatt

I know it’s another foreign language example, but … I do like this Far from Moscow blog which combines audio, picture and photos to get you the latest info on the Russian pop music scene. This is a totally Web… More On: A Russian Pop Music Blog From ….

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Flickr Photo Contests

Posted on May 8, 2008 by Elizabeth Pyatt

I ran into three Flickr “Contest” Areas where users post photos/digital art on certain themes (e.g. color, abstract and black & white) and a user group votes on it. You can even invite people with a striking image to submit… More On: Flickr Photo Contests

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Google Map Mashup for Linguistics

Posted on May 1, 2008 by Elizabeth Pyatt

The World Atlas of Language Structures Online (http://wals.info/feature) from the Max Planck Digital Library is a great new resource that maps languages with phonological, morphological or syntactic features. I wrote it up in my linguistics blog If you’ve ever wondered… More On: Google Map Mashup for Linguistics

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Portraits of “Famous People” from Library of Congress

Posted on February 5, 2008 by Elizabeth Pyatt

I’m trying to track down images of key historical figures from U.S. history and I just found this site from the Library of Congress which lists peoples across the different collections. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/235_poa.html But I have to be honest here and… More On: Portraits of “Famous People” from Library of Congress

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Create a Comic Strip

Posted on January 21, 2008 by Elizabeth Pyatt

We’ve seen courses, especially social sciences, in which students are sometimes asked to write scenarios. Maybe it’s a vignette on a diversity issue or maybe you might be asked to write a script the miniseries on Balboa’s discovery of the… More On: Create a Comic Strip

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ESL Blog

Posted on February 26, 2007 by Elizabeth Pyatt

There are a lot of great applications for language learning with new technologies coming out these days, and this instructor is determined to explore them all. From Second Life to YouTube, you will fun something fun to do on this… More On: ESL Blog

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Birth Blog

Posted on February 16, 2007 by Elizabeth Pyatt

Sometimes the Penn State faculty are ahead of us. Here’s an interesting blog from Natalie Jolly on media perception of birth issues. http://www.nataliejolly.com/Blog/ Between TomKitten, Brangelina, and Brittney, she has no shortage of stories to comment on.