The College of Arts and Humanities has been pairing UTAP students with professors since 2005. Here are some examples of the work previously completed by UTAP students:
Madison Henn worked with Dr. Belinda He from the department of Sinophone Cinema and Media Studies, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. She worked to create visual promotional material and a virtual viewing guide for a film festival titled Machines and Me, which was a global Chinese cinema screening series that spanned the course of three days in December 2024. Madison also collaborated closely with Dr. He to kickstart a video archive through a publicly accessible website. This website will highlight student video productions and film materials from the film festival, along with other supplemental films.
Allison Braatz worked with Dr. Irina Muresanu from the School of Music to create a database website of Romanian violin music. She researched composers and their musical works in order to find sheet music, recordings, and biographies. Dr. Muresanu was in contact with librarians in Romania who sent several hundred scans of music to put on the website. Allison used Squarespace to create the website of 100+ composers and included all of the information and files that were gathered.
Rachel Dolinka worked with Dr. Holly Brewer on the Slavery, Law, & Power (SLP) project. She did initial transcriptions of several manuscripts using HTML encoding. As a member of the project team, she attended weekly meetings where the team discussed their week’s goals and accomplishments. She also worked alongside the web developer to make changes to the website using WordPress. In addition to transcriptions, Rachel’s major project was helping the web developer create an interactive timeline for the website. She researched and compiled 89 historical events on the SLP website, wrote brief descriptions highlighting relevant information, and selected images for the events.
Abigail Gosaye worked with Dr. Madeline Hsu from the History Department in the Center for Global Migration Studies. Her work aimed at creating a digital archive in Omeka for Professor Hsu's and Professor Dr. Psyche Williams-Forson's new Maryland Ethnic Foodways class to preserve student projects about local ethnic culinary in Maryland, allowing their work to be shared with future students and those interested in Maryland's ethnic diverse food cultures. She also assisted students in developing their projects and constructing their stories for the digital archive.
Amy Kurian created a website to compile information about faculty working in the Global South. She created biographical pages with the faculty's thematic and geographical specializations to help students can see which faculty work in what areas. She also created a digital timeline displaying the time periods in which each faculty member specializes. Additionally, she produced and edited a video for the frontpage of the website that included interviews with the faculty and their experiences working in the Global South.
Isabella Dos Santos worked with Dr. Barbara Zocal Da Silva of the Portuguese department, within the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. Their work aimed to create a PORT405 Canvas/Elms page with content from a new Portuguese Textbook, Bate-Papo, received from department funding. She created quizzes, exams, presentations, and Canva graphics. In addition to this technical work, Isabella scanned numerous graphic novels to make them accessible for students in the newly offered Spring Semester class PORT388G. This option of PDF copies allows the class to be more inexpensive and inclusive for its students.
Allison Braatz worked with Dr. Irina Muresanu from the School of Music to create a database website of Romanian violin music. She researched composers and their musical works in order to find sheet music, recordings, and biographies. Dr. Muresanu was in contact with librarians in Romania who sent several hundred scans of music to put on the website. Allison used Squarespace to create the website of 100+ composers and included all of the information and files that were gathered.
Isabelle Watriss worked with Dr. Benito Vessels from the department of Spanish within the School of Language, Literature, and Cultures. They worked to create visual aids to accompany course materials for SPAN407 (Early Modern US and Early Modern Spain: A Common History) as well as images that accompanied Dr. Benito Vessels' book. Isabelle created a map depicting the journeys of numerous spanish expeditions and created detailed logs of what occurred along their routes.
Alexia Smith worked with Dr. Karin Rosemblatt in the Department of History on an NSF-funded initiative to help create and maintain content for the project’s multilingual website. She created and designed promotional flyers for events and workshops as well as a custom email sign off for faculty. She also assisted in contributing to the content for the website by finding photos as well as adding important design resources to the project’s content management system. She also assisted in some of the decision making for the web design while making sure to consider visual and textual presentations.
Marisa Silverman worked with Dr. Holly Brewer from the History Department and the Slavery, Law, and Power team on a digital humanities project and site called "Slavery, Law, and Power" that works to make source material about the legal system and enslavement available to the general public as an educational and research tool. She primarily worked alongside other members of the team to help transcribe these manuscripts for eventual upload to the site. She also attended weekly meetings, which gave insight into the grant application process, and other behind-the-scenes elements of large-scale academic projects. Over the course of the semester, she became familiar with transcription-related HTML and community conventions in historical transcribing and learned how to use the crowdsourced transcription website From the Page.
Andrei Davydov worked with Professor Valeria Federici from the University of Maryland Italian Program in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (SLLC). The first project he did was using the website Mailchimp to create a template newsletter for the Italian Department and compiling department news and information for the first newsletter. This allows for students interested and currently in the Italian department to learn about new courses and events happening within the department. The second project he did was create an introductory video to show prospective Italian students. The video combines animation and video testimonials from students and alumni to show prospective students the exciting opportunities available in the Italian department.
Vicki Zhang worked with Professor Adriane Fang from the Department of Dance to publish an online website about the Madden Professorship. In doing so, she became familiar with Google Sites and Wix, but was also informed about Squarespace. She communicated with other professors to gather information about their Professorship and prototyped the website according to each professor’s style. In addition, she researched content management systems to implement within the website.
Holland Schmitz created a website in collaboration with Dr. Michelle Rowley from the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. The website was created with WordPress, which Holland had the pleasure of learning how to use over the course of this project. The goal of this website was to highlight student work in the department such as papers, video interviews, and powerpoint presentations from Dr. Rowley’s class “Constructions of Manhood and Womanhood in the Black Community.” Holland organized the student work, wrote descriptions, and created pages for the website. Holland also attended a field trip with the WGSS department to learn about Harriet Tubman with Dr. Rowley and Dr. Barkley Brown’s classes in Dorchester County, Maryland to take photos and interview students.
Gabija Arciskeviciute worked with Professor Zhanna Gerus-Vernola from the Russian Program in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (SLLC). She created online vocabulary quizzes for two courses. The quizzes benefitted students by providing instant feedback, enabling them to take the quizzes anywhere with internet connectivity, and giving them more time in class to practice the Russian language. She created both online practice quizzes and graded quizzes in ELMS with a total of 2500 words for 10 units of Intermediate Russian. Questions in these quizzes are a mix of true/false and translations of nouns, adjectives, adverbs, useful phrases, and verbs.
Greta Mun worked with Dr. Holly Brewer from the Department of History to formally launch an online publication project called Slavery, Law & Power (SLP). She primarily collaborated with the project's web development team to format and upload side-by-side transcriptions of various early modern manuscripts. She also assisted with general site-wide revisions and new media postings to keep the site consistent and up-to-date. In doing so, she became more familiar with WordPress and Divi, but was also introduced to Transkribus, a platform that uses AI to recognize text and transcribe historical documents.
Julianna Kang continued to work with Dr. Elisa Gironzetti in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese within the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. She edited and cleaned recordings from previous Spanish pedagogical workshops and uploaded them onto a YouTube channel. She separated long clips into different lectures and inserted transitions and introductions using Adobe Premiere Pro. While doing so, she managed the video recordings and created playlists and worked with Dr. Gironzetti to update the Weebly website she had maintained last semester for the DMV Spanish Heritage Learning Research Center. She uploaded the YouTube videos to the website for easier access along with the presentations alongside them for ease of reference for viewers.
Mimi Nguyen created videos on multimodality for Dr. Kate Wilson's course in the Department of English. The videos prepared students for their multimodal argument project. Each week, Mimi prepared a video based on a different form of multimodality such as social media, podcasting, infographics, etc. These videos gave students options for how they wanted to approach their own projects. In addition, she conferenced with each student to ensure they were on track and gave them guidance when needed. At the end of conference week, students were sent on their way to polish their multimodal project drafts.
Andrew Hicho worked with Dr. Mel Scullen, Head of French in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (SLLC), to aid in Canvas course creation for two beginner French courses. The courses were made based on input from Andrew and were originally designed in an online format that had to be converted back to in-person. After developing the two French courses, Andrew started to help create another French course on Canvas with Dr. Masha Solomon. The SLLC employed him to continue his work in spring 2022.
Julianna Kang worked with Dr. Elisa Gironzetti in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese within the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. She established a well-founded website for the DMV Spanish Heritage Language Research Center, a group focused on second language and heritage learning. While working together with Dr. Gironzetti, she organized page layouts, created new pages for past and upcoming events, and improved the aesthetics of the web page.
Kara Thompson created a website for Dr. Linda Coleman's English class, The Trojan War, An Ancient Tale Told and Retold. The Google Site provides an engaging digital landscape for learning about the Trojan War and Greek mythology in general and includes readings from the class, digital archives of Greek and Roman texts, multimedia presentations, and links to YouTube videos. In addition to designing and building the website, Kara learned how to cite and credit image sources via Creative Commons, located images for the website, and learned how to use Adobe Spark to create the multimedia presentations available on the website.
Maggie Johns assisted Dr. Irina Muresanu from the School of Music in training AI algorithms to recognize problems in violin students' posture and to suggest appropriate study pieces for violin students of various skill levels. Work for the posture portion of the project involved logging camera angles and general layout of several dozen videos as well as analyzing over seventy videos of violinists and annotating various issues in posture and position. Work for the study piece portion of the project involved categorizing violin study pieces by approximate difficulty level, various techniques needed in order to play each piece, character, and other elements of the music such as meter and tempo.
Shaniya Montgomery created a promotional video for the Portuguese Language Minor with Dr. Thayse Leal Lima from the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. Shaniya attests, "UTAP has been an enriching experience as this program has helped me to think outside the box while I was working on projects with my professor. I enjoyed doing interviews with Portuguese Minor students and hearing about their experiences with the program. UTAP also has helped improve my technical and filming skills through guidance by the program's supervisors. This apprenticeship is an opportunity UMD students can't deny."
Hannah Parker worked with Harold Burgess in the College Park Scholars Arts program to organize and transfer course files and create a guide for future users. The new archive is more accessible and will help the program staff and students in organizing files. Hannah also completed a social media audit and helped examine how to best connect to students and the greater campus community through social media.
McCauley Brown explored options for building a website that could feature the research of Dr. Matthew Suriano and colleagues on the Mount of Olives Funerary Monuments Digital Survey, an experimental survey of monolithic tombs on Jerusalem's Mount of Olives. She built a Google Site that serves as a hub for information on the project, bibliographical references, and archival images and maps of the tombs. She explored different ways to present this information, including interactive maps, timelines, and virtual reality modeling. In the future, the site will be combined with an Omeka exhibit to allow other researchers and students to explore digital reconstructions of the historic landscape and the tombs.
Thomas Donohue collaborated with Director Vessela Valiavitcharska and Assistant Director Thomas Earles on ways to modernize the promotional video for the UMD Writing Center. After working together to update the content of the video, Thomas used Sony Vegas to visually overhaul the promotional video and recorded a new voiceover using the updated content.
Delma Mbulaiteye assisted Dr. Christina Hanhardt in the Department of American Studies with developing tools for an upcoming revamp of AMST101. She taught Dr. Hanhardt new technology such as online quizzes, blog creation, and video editing to better engage with students in the online environment. She helped compile videos from Scholars for Social Justice on relevant current events to provide real-world examples for the classroom.
Isabel Knudson worked with Dr. Katherine Wasdin in the Department of Classics to create content for the department's website, social media, and online communities. She used Adobe Premier Pro to produce and edit videos about the department's academic programs. She improved pages, added a social media feed on the home page, developed social media campaigns, such as pets/graduate student spotlights, created an Instagram presence, and increased social media content and engagement by 200%. Lastly, she used Microsoft Publisher, Canva, and Adobe InDesign to create social media content and flyers to be used in years to come.
Maddi Rihn worked with Dr. Julie Koser of the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) to assist with digital humanities research components of a project focused on "Mapping the Imagined Orient" in 18th-century German literatures. She performed optical character recognition (OCR) and topic modeling on the works of Benedikte Naubert and managed a digital collection of the author's works. Additionally, she created a user guide for ABBYY FineReader about how to run OCR on texts with gothic script, including Fraktur.
Valeria Medina collaborated with Dr. Ana Patricia Rodriguez from the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. She developed a bilingual website for Prince George's County schools and families. The website works in conjunction with a volunteering program created by Dr. Rodriguez known as "Aprendiendo Juntos" and pulls together resources for local families during the COVID-19 crisis. Valeria collected previous alumni documentation including digital stories, personal testimonies, and news articles and made them available on the website along with bilingual services (e.g. family counseling, emergency hotlines, meal distributions, housing/shelter, job search outlets, etc.).
Emmanuel Harley worked with Professor Haggh-Huglo in the School of Music to incorporate technology into her 19th century classical musicology course. He taught students to use Adobe Rush, Adobe Premiere Pro, and Google Sites, so they could apply course concepts and build online portfolios showcasing their work. Also, he developed a website to serve as a public place for students to link their portfolios and work and to receive instructions.
Ericka Njeumi assisted Dr. Abigail McEwen in the Department of Art History and Archaeology and created a UMD Public Art website. Dr. McEwen will use the website for a public art course she's teaching. As there was no official database of the University of Maryland’s public art, Dr. McEwen wanted to create this art resource not only for her students but also the public. The website and material Ericka created for this project include a database, map, virtual tour, photos, and additional media and information on public art.
Gustavo Quintero Rodriguez set up a template for an Arabic Studies course hub website for Dr. Valerie Anishchenkova in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. She plans to send prospective students to the site to see what the courses offer and will also use the site as a place to collect materials for students to use in conjunction with ELMS during course instruction. Gustavo populated the site with content from one course, and Dr. Anishchenkova plans to fill in the site with content from more courses over time.
Isabella Wajsowicz Macrae worked with Dr. Erica Cefalo and Dr. Mel Scullen, professors of French in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. Initially, she created a script and storyboard, preparing to shoot a video about flipped and blended learning; however, the sudden transition to virtual classes necessitated by the Covid crisis prevented her from filming on campus. She changed direction, researched, and produced two Adobe Spark videos about Corsica and Monaco. Also, she created rubrics and quizzes in ELMS.
Tierra Watson researched available online resources and created a comprehensive hub about African American Material Culture for Dr. Psyche Williams-Forson in the Department of American Studies. The Wordpress hub links to documentaries, blogs, gateways, repositories, and resources devoted to theatre, hair, food, and many other aspects of Black Material Cultures.
Yihan Zhao worked with Dr. Maxine Grossman in the Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies. She helped Dr. Grossman set up a Religious Studies Facebook page and created a website for Religious Studies. This Wordpress site serves as a hub for information regarding the academics, faculty, alumni, and resources for Religious Studies at the University of Maryland.
Ji Kim worked with Dr. Hester Baer and Dr. Michele Mason in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures to create multiple websites and graphic designs for their collaborative research and teaching project, Nuclear Futures in the Post-Fukushima Age. Ji developed a course blog for their graduate seminar, a digital platform and research blog, and a digital archives site. These spaces will serve as an open-access venue, repository, and communication hub for their multi-year project.
Oliver Bentham created a data visualization program for Dr. William Idsardi in the Department of Linguistics, which undergraduates used to analyze raw data and understand how machine learning works.
Yasmine Sawalhi created a professional website for Dr. Sahar Khamis in the Department of Communication. The Wordpress site houses all the information on her CV with links to her journal articles, media interviews and other various materials. Yasmine also revived her old YouTube channel and complied all of her media interviews that are available online and organized them into playlists.
Kara Phillips helped Professor Daune O'Brien in the Department of English make her materials and assignments more accessible to students. Also, she created PowerPoint presentations to incorporate visual elements and hyperlinks into the material.
Kevin DiCola worked with Professor Kumiko Akikawa in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. To give students practice in reading Japanese typescript, which is missing from their oral language focused textbook, Kevin developed a database driven website containing core conversations and drills in Engllish, romanized Japanese, and Japanese typescript.
Laurel Beavan worked with Dr. Scott Wible from the Department of English. She complied information about the Professional Writing minor and created instructional PowerPoiint presentations to facilitate student learning. She also interviewed alumni, and she wrote and designed online profiles to inform current students about the minor and to attract prospective students into the minor.
Miranda Morris worked with Dr. Ryan Long in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures to showcase his research on Swiss architect Hannes Meyer. She built an Omeka website, enhanced and uploaded images of documents and photographs, and organized information into online collections and exhibitions. Also, she created guidelines for Dr. Long, so he can continue to upload and share more of his research on the site.
Seung Min Lee worked with Megan Weng, Director of ARHU Web & Application Services. He produced Drupal webforms, polls, and newsletters for ARHU faculty, including scholarship application forms and university senate election polls.
Varvara Vasilchenko worked with Dr. Tess Wood at the Language Science Center. She developed an online application portal in Drupal for the Language Science Center website. It will be used by students applying for and enrolling in the Guatemala Field Station Summer School. Varvara also assisted in gathering language data to be used in the Language Science Center's interactive language map, Langscape.
Ben Lostocco worked with Dr. Irina Muresanu in the School of Music. He deciphered the text of a teacher-student geneology tree from the 1910s and built a website showing the lineage of violin pedagogy from the late 1600s to the 1900s. He used a mind-mapping tool called Coggle to diagram the geneology before uploading it onto the website.
Bintu Traore worked with Dr. Jan Padios from the Department of American Studies to develop a course ELMS site and orient and assist the course TAs. Additionally, she updated and created more engaging and interactive lecture slides and developed a professional website for Dr. Padios.
Courtney Cooper worked with Dr. Evelyn Canabal-Torres and Dr Roberta Lavine in the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures to organize and redesign their ELMS spaces. Part of her tasks included researching different open educational resources for undergraduate and graduate students and creating tutorials for the professors on how to create pages within ELMS.
Emily Tempchin worked with Dr. Peng Wang from the Department of Communication. She gathered data within the General Assembly of the United Nations website to ultimately collect videos from the 64th session to the 71st session. Additionally, she utilized the United Nations Official Document System to research and collect transcripts for each of the sessions and compile the information into a Google Drive folder.
Megan Conley collaborated with Professor Aharona Rosenthal from the Hebrew Program to create a WordPress blog students use to showcase their experiences at UMD in Hebrew and faculty use to make annoucements about relevant area events. Megan also assisted instructors and staff with ELMS, VoiceThread, CampusPack, and Drupal.
Musfika Hossain worked with Dr. Kim Coles from the Department of English on her Democracy: Then and Now website. She updated the site, created surveys, organized audio files from students, made them accessible to the public, and archived them for future use.
Anastasia Agapova worked with Dr. Nancy Raquel Mirabal of the U.S. Latina/o Studies Program to update the program's website content and visual aspects. She edited the website code to make the website more visually appealing and worked with Dr. Mirabal and USLT staff to add new information to it. In spring 2017, Anastasia redesigned the Literary Maryland Online website for Dr. Randy Ontiveros from the Department of English. She enhanced the website's public outreach component, making Maryland's rich literary history accessible to all. She showcased students' work and improved the graphics and visual, organizational, and layout designs of the webite.
Jinwoo Park assisted faculty members throughout the College with managing ELMS course spaces, creating course content, digitizing audio and video from analog sources, and editing and compressing videos for various types of delivery and presentation.
Marshall Tyers worked with Professor Thomas Earles in the Department of English on making the online component of his blended English 101 class more engaging. Marshall constructed a guided tour of the UMD Libraries website and the databases it offers. Similarly, he created several educational videos to assist 101 students with their argumentative papers and to walk them through the writing process. Also, he helped re-design several ELMS/Canvas course sites and created several websites for courses and programs.
Mary Garhart worked for Dr. Ida Meftahi in the Roshan Institute for Persian Studies with the Lalehzar Digital Project, a component of the Roshan Initiative for Digital Humanities. She collaborated in creating the website that presented information about the project and showcased some of the media files that would be included in the archive. She also helped in utilizing the Artstor Shared Shelf media management solution for the storing and archiving of media files which included videos, documents, and photography.
Yuehshan (Melissa) Huang worked with Dr. Lindsay Yotsukura in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. She created a web application students use for vocabulary drills. The application displays each vocabulary word in hiragana, katakana, kanji, romaji, and English.
Ariel Watkins worked with Dr. Andrew Schonebaum in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. She transcribed a Classical Chinese textbook from Word into iBook format, adding supplemental interactive content to it, such as the ability to click on a character within the text in order to bring up a definition of the character. Also, she created a Quizlet course site containing the key terms for each lesson, enabling students to test themselves on the vocabulary they learned in class.
Cheryl Wang assisted Professor Wendy Jacobs in the Department of Art in transforming and organizing her ELMS course space to make the space more accessible for students. Additionally, Cheryl collaborated with Professor Jacobs in examining different methods of transforming the traditional classroom "art critiques" and ways in which students can share artwork with their peers online.
Rebecca Kates worked with Professor Lyra Hilliard to create new videos for the blended learning sections of the Academic Writing Program. They worked together to establish new concepts for each video, and Rebecca created the videos in Camtasia.
Rivka Golding advised Dr. Charles Manekin in the Department of Philosophy on how to make his courses more engaging. They incorporated more in-class and online discussion, redesigned the syllabi, restructured his ELMS spaces, and experimented with blog, wiki, and journal assignments.
Sarah Feeney worked with Dr. Andrea Frisch to create a better web presence for the Graduate School Field Committee in Medieval & Early Modern Studies. She updated their website and a created a conference website with a "Give" button that directs people to their "Giving at Maryland" funding page.
Almendrita Vergara worked for Dr. Karen Nelson in the Center for Literary and Comparative Studies. She created promotional material (audio clips and interactive games) for the Sound+ Conference. She helped videotape the entire conference and edited the footage afterwards, and she recorded and edited all of the Writers Here and Now events for the semester. Towards the end of the semester, she shot portraits of Ph.D. students as part of a larger effort to revitalize the Department of English's Graduate Studies webpage.
Alyssa Thompson worked with Dr. David Sicilia in the Department of History to digitize and edit movie clips for use in his lectures.
Cara Reilly assisted Dr. Theodore Leinwand from the Department of English in transferring his lecture material on the major plays of Shakespeare into engaging PowerPoint presentations. She advised him in effective ways of presenting material to students in a lecture environment. She worked with Dr. Leinwand in editing the Powerpoint presentations and guided him through making presentations of his own. Additionally, she assisted him in organizing his ELMS course space.
Vanessa Abrahams assisted Dr. Linda Kauffman in the Department of English with navigating the ELMS course space, making the space more accessible to students. Vanessa also created tutorials for Dr. Kauffman, helped with various professional development projects, and collaborated with Dr. Kauffman to design a WordPress blog showcasing Dr. Kauffman’s professional and academic interests.
Zoë DiGiorgio assisted Dr. Clare Parsons with integrating concepts of gamification and "flipping the classroom" into Dr. Parsons’s blended learning business writing class in the Professional Writing Program. Zoë created videos in Camtasia to demonstrate library resources for the class, offered ELMS support to facilitate online communication for the class, and explored new methods of communication to enable Dr. Parsons to stay in touch with her students even though the classes only met once a week.
Dulce Hernandez advised many professors transitioning from Blackboard to Canvas. She staffed workshops, created flyers and text and video documentation, assisted instructors with migrating materials into Canvas, and guided them through designing their Canvas course spaces and learning to use the various functionalities available in ELMS, the ELMS Management Tool, and the Campus Pack blogs and wikis.
Katrina Szabo supported Dr. Stefania Amodeo in building a public resource site on Canvas for beginning and intermediate students of Italian. Katrina worked to develop a graduated program of new practice and review materials for Italian, while also converting Dr. Amodeo's current review material to digital formats for use on the site and designing the site's overall layout.
Lauren Emanuel assisted Dr. Linda Macri, Director of the Academic Writing Program, by improving and editing instructional videos for blended learning English 101 classes. She utilized tools including Camtasia, iMovie, and Microsoft PowerPoint to create these videos and publish them on Dr. Macri’s YouTube channel. Much of her work included making English 101 content more engaging for an online environment.
Nava Behnam Shabahang supported Professor Miriam Phillips from the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies in designing and maintaining the course website on Canvas and organizing class content with TheBrain (mind mapping software) and Dipity (digital timelines). Nava also digitized a series of VHS clips onto DVDs to be used for class lectures.
Sarah Persing worked with Professor Ruth Lozner in the Department of Art's Graphic Design Program to explore what the new Canvas learning management system can do for art classes. She helped set up the Discussion area, where students posted weekly blog updates and 30 second commercials, and the Collaborations area, where students worked on group presentations.
Adam Jacobs collaborated with Brian Crawford, Digital Media IT Coordinator for the ARHU Academic Technology lab, to develop a Drupal site for “Postcards From My Country,” a poetry program involving students from Northwestern High School and the Jiménez Porter Writer’s House. He focused on the design aspect of the site: creating icons, images, and working on basic theming. He also collected and uploaded archival content from previous years of the program, and created a Facebook page for “Postcards.”
Julie France supported Dr. Avital Feuer from the Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies, who was preparing a book for publication. Julie sought copyright permissions from various sources, edited chapters, located images, and worked with Adobe InDesign to devise possible page layouts.
Kristen Yeung created illustrations for Dr. Feuer's textbook. She also worked with various professors in the Departments of Art, Dance, and History to develop their online course spaces in ELMS.
Marriam Shah worked with Dr. Lindley Darden from the Department of Philosophy to help her undergraduate class develop a virtual mind map that connected the theories of Charles Darwin with other works influenced by his research. Marriam also helped manage Dr. Darden's ELMS space and assisted in developing coursework that utilized the CampusPack wiki in ELMS.
Raishay Lin worked with internship coordinator Jennifer Dunsmore to develop videos showcasing student internship experiences. She used tools such as Audacity, iMovie, and Windows MovieMaker to compile voiceovers, video clips, and photos into videos for the UMD Department of English YouTube channel. Raishay also provided guidance to several students on how to create online portfolios.
Giovonni Furfaro worked with Dr. Thomas Zeller in the Department of History to locate and create images, video, graphs and maps about transportation in the United States and Europe. Giovonni also organized the ELMS space and set up online wikis for students in Dr. Zeller's class.
Jessica Maa worked with Dr. Tanya Clement, Associate Director of the Digital Cultures and Creativity Honors program, to design and update a weekly newsletter that was distributed to students. She also maintained the program's photo feed by editing and uploading event pictures, made updates to their website, and created their end-of-the-year slideshow.
Laura Williams worked with Dr. Psyche Williams-Forson of the Department of American Studies to develop a personal website and blog that showcased her students' final projects. Laura also helped manage Dr. Williams-Forson's ELMS course space and merged video clips from different sources into one movie using iMovie.
Nicole Cho worked with several faculty members developing fully online courses. She organized ELMS spaces, researched various tools they could use, and worked extensively comparing and contrasting different image galleries online, like Yutzu, Wordpress, and Mediawiki, among others. She created accurate documentation and helped to host a workshop about Screenflow and Camtasia for Mac software.
Robert Lee Wolfe III helped Dr. Meina Liu from the Department of Communication digitize a series of films to be added to her ELMS website, which he helped construct. He also helped put together documentation for teaching screencasting programs such as Camtasia and Screenflow, and he assisted in several screencasting workshops offered to faculty in the College of Arts and Humanities. In addition, he put together documentation for students to use for such other programs as CampusPack Wiki and YouTube.
Teresa Rostkowski worked with Dr. Lillian Doherty in the Department of Classics to design twenty quizzes in Ancient Greek on ELMS and record five podcasts for students of GREK101 and 102 to practice Greek vocabulary and pronunciation. She created copies of the quizzes in Respondus to make it easy to move the quizzes from one web-based learning system to another. In addition, Teresa set up Wimba Classroom spaces, so Dr. Doherty could still have classes during a school cancellation due to weather, and she guided Dr. Doherty through the process of making podcasts and setting up Wimba Classrooms for her future use.
Victoria Baramki worked with Dr. Inas Hassan from the Department of Arabic Studies to gather multimedia resources and learning tools for students studying Arabic. She also translated and added English subtitles to previous student video assignments in Arabic. Then, she designed a website to make the information available to Arabic students of all levels at the University of Maryland.
Ilana Shrier worked with faculty member Dr. Avital Feuer from the Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies to film a series of Hebrew language classes to demonstrate successful teaching techniques for new TAs. Ilana recorded each class, edited the footage using iMovie and then uploaded the resulting videos to the streaming media server in order to play them in an ELMS space which she also organized for Dr. Feuer.
Jamie Fernandez helped advertise and analyze the college's web presence during her apprenticeship with ARHU Director of Communications Nicky Everette. Jamie's accomplishments include creating and maintaining a College of Arts and Humanities fan page on Facebook, preparing monthly reports on web statistics from Google Analytics, and surveying departmental web sites to gain a better understanding of their communication needs.
Leigh Rollins helped Dr. June Hargrove and the Department of Art History and Archaeology develop and maintain Mediawiki spaces that served as class image galleries, where students could upload, arrange, share, and discuss their image selections.
Michael Dougherty digitized video clips of Japanese animated films for Dr. Lindsay Yotsukura in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures and put them into her ELMS course via the streaming media server for her students to watch at their convenience. Michael also helped Dr. Yotsukura set up her ELMS space and scan materials for class.
Zahra Ashktorab worked with Dr. Madeleine Zilfi in the Department of History to locate images, audio, and video and create visual maps and charts representing information about Muslim populations in Europe. Zahra also digitized film clips, designed PowerPoint presentations, and managed Dr. Zilfi's ELMS site.
Gregory Ambrose worked with Latin American Studies Center director Dr. Karin Rosemblatt to make minor updates to the LASC site and design a new site for the Latin American History Graduate Program. Additionally, he converted many audio cassettes into mp3 files for Dr. Rosemblatt.
Julian Stamerro, apprenticed to Dr. Linda Macri of the Freshman Writing Program, helped to create a set of instructional resources for the numerous English 101 teaching assistants. He is now working with Dr. Macri to record a series of podcasts about the English 101 TA experience, including advice from former TAs of the course.
Lindsey Porambo worked with Dr. Sahar Khamis, who conducted a cross-cultural survey in her class. Using programs devised by the campus Mobility Initiative, Dr. Khamis’ students recorded their media usage habits via their mobile devices, and Lindsey organized the data in Excel. Dr. Khamis’ students were also communicating with Arab students online through the Soliya Connect program, for which Lindsey served as the primary US technical contact. She also helped Dr. Khamis post assignments, grades, and announcements to ELMS and produced a PowerPoint presentation Dr. Khamis delivered at an international conference.
Maura Donovan videotaped student confessions from Dr. Regina Harrison’s Honors 239Q course “True Confessions: Literature, Film, Television” and edited them into a class narrative using Final Cut Express.
Yashar Borhani helped Dr. Kristy Maddux coordinate resources for the 120 students in COMM 401. The students worked in small groups to create video presentations, incorporating clips of speeches into their rhetorical analyses. Yashar compiled a list of on-campus hardware and software resources available for student use, and he set up ELMS groups to facilitate online group interactions. He held office hours, so students could consult with him about the technical issues they encountered.