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This course is your chance to get on the inside track of exciting new virtual environments such as Second Life. This course uses Second Life as a classroom and laboratory for examining models for virtual world law and government, economics and business, cultural norms, art, education and activism. |
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Cyberlaw: Law in the Court of Public Opinion This Extension School course take a lawyer's approach to determining the elements of a persuasive argument in the court of public opinion; the world audience on the Internet. Students study examples of successful argumentation and resource creation in various Internet media including wiki, blog, podcast, and other audio, video, and machinima. In addition to taped lectures from the Harvard Law School course, the class is conducted in Second Life, a 3D virtual world. |
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In an attempt to localize Chinese history, this resource offers a number of 360 degree interactive images from villages across China. The available images range from local temples to scenic mountaintops to personal homes and living rooms. Historical and contextual information is provided for many of the images. |
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This resource created by the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations provides audio and text resources for learning pronunciation of Chinese using the Pinyin system. |
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This site provides materials for Harvard University's Chaucer classes in the Core Program, the English Department, and the Division of Continuing Education. It provides a wide range of glossed Middle English texts and translations of analogues relevant to Chaucer's works, as well as selections from relevant works by earlier and later writers, critical articles from a variety of perspectives, graphics, and general information on life in the Middle Ages. |
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HSB-40 Pursuits of Happiness: 1771 Massachusetts Tax Inventory Drawing on tax inventory data from 38,000 individuals living in 152 Massachusetts towns in 1771, this resource allows users to investigate the lives of ordinary citizens in Revolutionary America. The online resource offers aggregate and individual commodity data, including real estate and livestock property, as well as an interactive map to help locate towns and counties in the state. |
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HSB-41 Inventing New England: The Age of Homespun Focusing on 18th century New England, an interactive resource displays data on homespun production and organization. The user can overlay geographical, social, and political information on top of the homespun statistics, offering a variety of views about the Age of Homespun. |
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HSB-41 Inventing New England: The Revolutionary Era, 1750-1787 An interactive map, developed for the course Inventing New England, allows users to overlay revolutionary war events, geographical information, and social-historical data on top of a map of the American colonies. The resource utilizes spatial and temporal aspects of the war to contextualize and enrich the history of America during the revolutionary era. |
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LAB-35 The Age of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent: Mosque Walkthrough Built in the mid-sixteenth century by the architect Sinan for Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent, the Suleymaniye complex, including the monumental Suleymaniye mosque lying at its center, is the largest of Ottoman building enterprises. The Mosque Walkthrough includes an overview layout and clickable hotspots, which present information and images for highlighted areas. |
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LAC-50 Russian Imperial Masterworks and Their Post-Histories:St. Petersburg Presidential Instructional Technology Fellows’ digitized a series of historical interactive maps of St. Petersburg from 1700 to 1914. Users can explore the city and observe how the city grew and changed during the Russian Imperial era. The PITF’s also developed a monument legend to indicate important places and locations within the context of the course. |
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Education E-104/W : Theory and Practice of Web Pedagogies As electronically mediated communication becomes more prevalent, new ways of enhancing and expanding teaching and learning are possible. This course examines theories of teaching and learning as well as best practices associated with incorporating web-based materials and teaching tools into traditional and distance education effectively and efficiently. |
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Museum Studies E-130 : Museums and the Web Technologies in the form of the Web and Internet have changed the way museums deliver information. This course explores the ways in which museums use the Web to deliver content for educational programming and exhibitions as well as how the Web is used in marketing, public relations, and fundraising. |
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French Cb: Intermediate French II Students continue the study of grammar begun in French Ca, and further develop their communicative skills. Students are introduced to the concept of "la Francophonie" as represented in literature and films from Quebec, the Caribbean, and Africa. |
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GSD-7213 International Design Practice: Business, Law, and Culture This course will explore the challenges and opportunities of international practice for architects and other design professionals, addressing critical business, legal, and cultural issues facing an architect who is working outside of his or her own country. |
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The Virtual Gardens course examines the special problems and opportunities involved in creating digital landscape models -for digitally literate landscape designers and others who wish to maximize the value of 3D modeling and animation for representing landscapes and landscape phenomena. |
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