Bulletin of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, Volume XXXV, Winter 2008
CONTENTS: Cover Illustration Description, AAR/SBL Split, Rhetorics Project, Future of the Past 2007, IAC Spring 2008 Lecture Series, Book Review, Book Review
Advanced Topics in Learning Object Design and Reuse
This course is designed to help you understand and apply advanced topics in the design, creation, and reuse of learning objects. The course is structured around a practical, hands-on project using learning objects, intermingled with readings and discussion on a variety of topics.
Flash
This course familiarizes students with Macromedia Flash. Topics to be covered include fundamental programming concepts (variables, variable types, code re-use, commenting code, and basic control structures) in addition to the fundamentals of the flash environment (animation, vector graphics, use of sound and video). Students finishing this course will have at least one completed fully functional Flash project for their portfolios demonstrating a strong knowledge of the tool and a good foundation
Cognition, Religion and Theology
Justin Barrett gives a talk for the Cognition, Religion and Theology Project Conference, held at Merton College on the 28th-30th June 2010
Creating the Past: Understanding Artifacts
After studying the historic events of Catlin's life, this project allows students to imagine the material culture of the time. They will become archaeologists and anthropologists, looking back on previous cultures for clues as to the motives and inspirations for the choices that shaped their lives. Each student will bring in a fabricated artifact from Catlin's life, resulting in a museum exhibit in the class.
Cajole club meeting, Pomona College
Edward Milliken raises his glass at a meeting of the Cajole Club. Half a dozen or so students sit around a desk with a clock and a "Cajole Club" ax. A stuffed dummy is propped up in one of the chairs. From left to right: Morrill Boynton, Vernon Wolcott, unidentified, dummy, William Jencks; Roy Thomas, Edward Milliken, and Ralph Noble. The figure who is partially cut off on the right may be Howard Ross.
An Examination of Interviews from the American Slave Narratives and the American Folklore Collection
Students will examine and interpret interviews obtained by authors working for the Federal Writer's Project during the 1930s. A close study of the narratives will allow students to: Understand the specific tasks undertaken by men and women employed by one of the work relief programs of the New Deal; Obtain a more personal sense of the past by examining the lives and careers of ordinary men and women interviewed during the period of the Federal Writer's Project; Learn about the process and issues
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
Founded in 1972 the TLG represents the first effort in the Humanities to produce a large digital corpus of literary texts. Since its inception the project has collected and digitized most texts written in Greek from Homer (8 c. B.C.) to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453 and beyond. Its goal is to create a comprehensive digital library of Greek literature from antiquity to the present era. TLG research activities combine the traditional methodologies of philological and literary study with the mos
Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation
The objective of this course is to teach you to apply the skills you have learned in the functional areas toward the goal of starting a business, i.e., becoming an entrepreneur. Working in teams, you will learn to identify, conceptualize, plan, finance, launch, manage and harvest new ventures. Finally, intrapreneurship, the application of entrepreneurial methods of management to established organizations, will also be discussed. Class discussion, readings, case studies, guest speakers, interview
Vertebrates are Cool!
As an introductory activity, students will read the eBook Vertebrates and then keep it as reference source. They will discuss the different animal species found in vertebrates. As a project, students will pick a vertebrate and create an eBook with one photo about that vertebrate. They will research the vertebrate both in the media center and on Web pages downloaded with FlingIt. Students will give an oral report of the special characteristics of their vertebrate and then beam their eBooks to oth
Interactive Animation on the Macintosh II
The efficiency of images in communication between humans has so far been used almost exclusively by TV and other mass medias. The costs have been too great to encourage the use of images in the financially restricted everyday practice of architecture. With a range of application programs for the Apple Macintosh II the vision has come close to reality. It is now possible to create guided walks with the chance to choose different routes and views in a model of buildings and surroundings in 256 col
Jama
Fotografija je posneta v Škocjanski jami. Učencem jo lahko pokažemo pri pouku zemljepisa in tudi fizike pri obravnavanju širjenje svetlobe.,Photo taken in Škocjan Caves.
A Life In Law
Legal biographies and autobiographies are a rich and important source of information about the legal system, statute law and the legal profession. Lord Bingham is patron of The Legal Biography Project. Ross Cranston is centennial professor of law at LSE.
A social context for punk
In this second episode looking at the Post-socialist research project, Ivan Gololobov talks about the social context for punk in Eastern Europe.
Lost Interpretations of Hamlet Performance- The Hamlet Project
Capital Centre presented Lost Interpretations of Hamlet, a look at four very different readings of Shakespeare's masterpiece. The culmination of this year-long project.
Andrey Tarkovsky- The Hamlet Project
The Hamlet Project re-created scenes from Tarkovsky's planned version, which was never produced.
Michael Chekhov- The Hamlet Project
The Hamlet Project re-reated scenes from Michael Chekhov's 1924 Moscow Art Theatre Studio production.
Meyerhold- The Hamlet Project
The Hamlet Project re-created scenes from Meyerhold's planned version, which was never produced.
Stanislavsky- The Hamlet Project
The Hamlet project re-created scenes from Stanislavsky/Gordon Craig's 1912 production. Tom Cornford is a freelance theatre director and Artist in-Residence (2008/9) at The CAPITAL Centre, The Hamlet team was co-ordinated by third year undergraduates.
Casa Del Fascio (House of Fascism)
Curator Robert Little discusses a project drawing for the House of Fascism, designed by Giuseppe Terragni in the early 1930s. The item is currently on display in Italian Arts & Design.
