Prof. Lewis received several grants to curate the exhibition "Forgotten Chapters of Boston’s Literary History," hosted at the Boston Public Library and the Massachusetts Historical Society in the spring of 2012. One of these grants was an ATIG to create an exhibit website to provide mobile content in the exhibit and make the content available online. He used this as an opportunity to collaborate with students, and have them conduct scholarly work in the digital humanities and generate content for both the exhibit and website. In doing so, he created a richer and more collaborative way to teach 19th century literature and culture and, he created a valuable online resource that will be available to the public after the exhibit is finished.

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Virtual Forensics Lab
Nursing professor Ann Burgess received an ATIG grant to develop a unique tool for teaching forensic science through game-based learning. In the past, she used used manikins and fake blood to create simulated crime scenes for her students to examine, but she wanted to offer them a richer and more interactive environment for learning forensics methods. The Virtual Forensics lab helps her solve this problem by enabling students to collect evidence and take photographs in 3-D game environment recreated from an actual crime scene. This project was mentioned in the latest 2011 Horizon Report.
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Walking Ulysses
English professor Joe Nugent received an ATIG grant to develop an interactive map for exploring James Joyce’s novel Ulysses. This unique learning tool plots the journeys of the novel’s main characters through Dublin on June 6, 1904, giving students a virtual means for experiencing what the city was like around the turn of the twentieth century. The site is unique not just because it makes the web browser a virtual window into Ulysses, but also because it can also be used while exploring Dublin in person, thanks to a mobile version of the site that can be viewed through a internet-enabled smart phone. A recent Chronicle of Higher Education article discusses the Walking Ulysses project.
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GenerationPulse: Social Networking for Social Justice 
Now in its fourth year, the web site GenerationPulse is reaching further in its mission to promote awareness and action on behalf of social justice. With the help of an ATIG, faculty director Belle Liang and a team of students from the Lynch School of Education launched a new version of the site last spring. The new site harnesses the power of social networking tools and provides a platform for digital "postcards" where students at BC and around the world submit postcards as an outreach to their peers. Professor Liang continues to use the site in Adolescent Psychology courses, and plans to pilot broader uses with educators in local schools.
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The Writing Fellows Program
The Boston College Writing Fellows Program, founded by Prof. Paula Mathieu in cooperation with the Connors Family Learning Center, has supported undergraduate writing in core courses at Boston College since 2004. The program pairs graduate students who are trained to respond to undergraduate writing with faculty members from any discipline who want to focus more attention on student writing in their course. As the program continued to grow and serve more students and faculty, however, it became clear that the program could be enhanced by using instructional technologies, and Prof. Mathieu received an Academic Technology Innnovation Grant to pursue this goal.
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Boston College Biology Commons
Professor Clare O’Connor (Biology) teaches an upper level laboratory course, and wanted to make a collection of methods available online so that it could be shared with her class, as well as colleagues at BC and other institutions. The web site she is creating includes visual tutorials as well as written instructions in pdf form, and links to resources for further study. A further stage of development will include publication of data from student experiments.
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Explorations: Student Research on the Becker Collection
Professors Shelia Gallagher and Judy Bookbinder of the Fine Arts department developed the Becker Collection website, a unique online archive of hitherto un-exhibited and undocumented Civil War era drawings that offer rich insight into history and culture of the 19th Century America. To integrate this material into their teaching, they worked with IDeS to develop another version of the site that would enable students not only to learn from the collection but also to conduct original research on the drawings. 
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First Hand Exhibit
Professors Shelia Gallagher and Judy Bookbinder of the Fine Arts department developed the Becker Collection website, a unique online archive of hitherto un-exhibited and undocumented Civil War era drawings that offer rich insight into history and culture of the 19th Century America. To enable the public to view these pieces in person for the first time, they collaborated with the university art museum to host an exhibit of selected drawings from the collection called “First Hand: Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection." Prof. Gallagher received an Academic Technology Innovation Grant to incorporate technology in ways that would enhance visitors' experience of the exhibit.
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Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) Oral History Project
As it celebrates the 125th anniversary of its founding, the GAA is working with Boston College - Ireland on an oral history project to create a record of what the Association has meant to the culture and people of Ireland. The project will collect interviews with everyone connected with the games, from players and coaches to grounds-staff and fans, as well as photographs and other related documents. Highlights from this emerging collection are displayed on a web site, where members of the public can watch video and listen to audio clips and view other content. The site features a different theme each month and includes information about how people of all ages can take part.
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Irish Studies Repository
The Irish Studies Program at Boston College offers courses in history, language, sociology and the arts. Codirectors Robert Savage and Marjorie Howes worked with other instructors to develop a repository where common resources for teaching can be stored, browsed and searched in ways that promote the interdisciplinary vision of the program. Featured content will include images and rare texts drawn from faculty members' collections and the BC Libraries, as well as resources gathered for exhibits and other special events.
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Still Present Pasts: Korean Americans and the "Forgotten War"
Psychology professor Ramsay Liem collaborated with several artists, an historian, and a documentary film maker to create a multi-media exhibit of installation and performance art, documentary film, archival photographs, and oral histories that explores memories and legacies of the Korean War. The exhibit travelled around the country for several years, but because he anticipated the day when it would stop touring, he wanted to create an online version that would enable visitors to continue experiencing the exhibit even if it was no longer possible to view it person.
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Global History Archive
The new History Department core takes a global perspective, ranging across continents and centuries, and Core Moderator Franziska Seraphim wanted to find a way for faculty to share material for these courses. The repository she and her colleague Robin Fleming have created, with the assistance of a number of the department’s graduate students, includes texts, images and maps, and can be searched by keywords and browsed through a menu which reflects the structure of the core. Instructors can contribute and comment on items and participate in forums, which will encourage ongoing exchanges about pedagogy and the teaching of history.
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La Muerte de Jesús: Cuatro Narrativas Evangélicas
After Phil Cunningham (Center for Christian-Jewish Learning) and Barbara Radtke (C21 Online) worked with IDES to create The Death of Jesus: Four Gospel Accounts mini-course, they collaborated with IDeS again to translate this site into Spanish to serve the large Spanish-speaking audience around the world.
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Spiritual Diversity in Social Work Practice
For a future Independent Study on Spiritual Diversity in Social Work Practice, Professor Othelia Lee (Graduate School of Social Work) wanted to offer her working graduate students the convenience of centralized content in the familiar environment of Blackboard Vista. She organized the content in learning modules, one for each class session, custom designed to open with an introductory overview and image selected to reflect the theme.
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Ad Theologiam
Theology core courses are taught by many instructors with differing approaches, not following a shared curriculum but often touching on common figures and texts. Professor Boyd Taylor Coolman saw the need for a repository that would allow faculty and Teaching Fellows (some of whom are planning classes for the first time) to share readings, images, syllabi and other teaching resources. He worked with Sarah Castricum, Instructional Designer in IDeS and occasional instructor for Introduction to Christian Theology, to develop a site where he and his colleagues could contribute, search for and comment on content.
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Becker Collection
A few years ago, Fine Arts Department professor Sheila Gallagher began taking a closer look at a box of old drawings that had been sitting in a closet in her parents’ home. The drawings belonged to her great-grandfather, Joseph Becker, and his fellow artist-reporters who worked at Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Weekly observing, drawing, and sending back for publication images of the Civil War, the construction of the railroads, the Irish immigration, the Chinese in the West, the Indian wars, the Chicago fire, and numerous other aspects of nineteenth-century American culture.
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The Birth of Jesus: Two Gospel Narratives
After finishing their first online tutorial, The Death of Jesus: Four Gospel Accounts, Phil Cunningham (Center for Christian-Jewish Learning) and Barbara Radtke (C21 Online) approached IDeS with an idea for a second mini-course that would enable participants to explore the nativity narratives in new ways. Their target audience for this tutorial included religious educators, liturgy planners, members of scripture study groups and preachers, as well as a general audience of anyone looking to deepen their understanding of the Gospel narratives.

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First-Year Writing Seminar Teachers' Lounge
Funded by a Faculty Summer Workshop Grant, Lad Tobin and Ricco Siasoco collaborated with IDeS to create an online teaching resource repository to support faculty who teach the First-Year Writing Seminar. This site is designed to offer faculty a collaborative space where they can share teaching resources such as syllabi, readings, and assignments and where they can discuss the challenging teaching issues they face.
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Immersive Environment for Psychological Research
Faculty members Maya Tamir (Psychology) and Aaron Walsh (Woods College of Advancing Studies) shared the goal of creating games based in a virtual environment which could be used in psychology experiments. Their collaboration allowed students of 3D Graphics and Virtual Reality technology to further their skills in those fields. Professor Tamir now uses the two games they produced to conduct experimental research on goal-driven human behavior, and to train students of social psychology about experimental designs through hands-on experience.
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Instructors' Workbook for Basic Skills in Clinical Practice
As Coordinator of a multi-section course required for all Graduate School of Social Work students, Clinical Assistant Professor Robin Warsh was seeking a way to deliver resources for the 8 – 10 instructors teaching the course each fall. Respecting their differences in approach, she envisioned a Blackboard Vista site serving as a repository for lecture material, powerpoint presentations, video clips and other resources that faculty could draw from as needed and to which they could all contribute.
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Clinical Strategies for the Clinical Nurse Specialist
Inspired by the Center for Home Care site, Professor Joyce Pulcini and her colleagues in the Connell School of Nursing envisioned a web site for CNS students and faculty as well as practitioners in local hospitals and agencies, some of whom supervise CSON students in the field. They also had the goal of providing a Blackboard Vista environment rich in content, communication and assessment activities, for a graduate CNS course with a significant online component.
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Covering Photography
Covering Photography is a web-based archive and resource for the study of the relationship between the history of photography and book cover design. It was created by Professor Karl Baden (Fine Arts Department), who wanted to make publicly available his 1000+ collection of images of classic photos, used and recontextualized in various ways on book covers. He envisioned a database which could be searched by a variety of categories (author, photographer, etc.) and which could display juxtaposed images of book covers to allow for comparison. The project is of interest to students of photography (he uses it in the courses he teaches), designers and critics alike, and has received national acclaim.
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C21 Online
C21Online is the online continuing education initiative co-sponsored by the Church in the 21st Century and the Institute of Religious Education and Pastoral Ministry. Dr. Barbara Radtke, Program Coordinator for C21 Online, wanted to expand the continuing education mission of C21Online through the development of a public website and a series of Blackboard Vista courses.
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Death of Jesus
Phil Cunningham (Center for Christian-Jewish Learning) and Barbara Radtke (C21 Online) approached IDeS with an idea for an online tutorial that would enable participants to explore the Gospel passion narratives in new ways. Their target audience for this tutorial included religious educators, liturgy planners, members of scripture study groups and preachers, as well as a general audience of anyone looking to deepen their understanding of the Gospel narratives. We created a website featuring interactive commentaries that guide users through each of the five scenes in the four Gospel narratives, supplemented by historical background materials and an introduction to reading the Bible in the Catholic tradition.
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Generation Pulse
Professor Belle Liang (LSOE) was moved by the devastation after Hurricane Katrina, especially its effect on displaced youth, and wanted to create a supportive environment in which they could help themselves and each other by exchanging experiences. She gathered a team of students and they set out to create a web site, which now has sections on issues facing teens, opportunities for outreach (for example through service programs), and global trends and events. One area is devoted entirely to writing and art work contributed by young people, and the "world" section also includes photojournals.
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Global Perspectives on Gender Inequalities
With observers of economic development and the growth of civil society increasingly recognizing the importance of gender issues to these concerns, Professor Karen Kayser proposed a new course on the subject for the Graduate School of Social Work. She wanted the course to have a significant online presence so that it could provide resources conveniently for GSSW students with limited time on campus, and include students at other institutions.
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John Adams
Marc Landy, a professor in the political science department, is the director of an NEH summer program on John Adams. As a collaboration with the Adams National Historical Park, this two-week workshop is designed to provide community college faculty the chance to deepen their understanding of John Adams in the rich historical context of Boston. Professor Landy needed a website that would serve as a marketing tool to spread the word about the program, as a communication medium for those planning to attend, and as a course website for participants during and after the workshop.
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20th Century and the Tradition
The Arts and Science Honors program wanted to develop a site that would serve as a common resource for the course "20th Century and the Tradition," a seminar required for all 3rd-year students in the program. Because this course is highly interdisciplinary in nature, the Honors Program needed a vehicle for distributing a wide variety of multimedia course material to both students and faculty.
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Torts
During the fall of 2006, the Law School changed it’s first year curriculum, moving three large section courses (torts, contracts and property) from a two-quarter format into a one-semester schedule. Professor Judy McMorrow, who regularly teachings the Torts course, approached IDES to help her devise a system of meaningful feedback that would help students prepare for final exam questions within the constraints of the shortened course.
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Center for Home Care
A collaboration between the Connell School of Nursing and the Visiting Nurse Association of Boston, the Center provides community health training for CSON students and professional development for VNAB staff members. Center Director Adele Pike wanted to establish a way for the two groups to share common resources, and better integrate theoretical and practical information.
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Child Growth and Development
Coordinating the social science core courses Child Growth and Development (PY030) and Family, School and Society (PY031), Professors Penny Hauser-Cram and Jackie Lerner provide a wealth of professional and multi-media material to 8-10 sections and their instructors. They saw the benefit of delivering these resources through a web site so students could continue to refer to them outside class, and have convenient access to the library databases essential to work in the field (one assignment involves writing a research literature review). With the site in place, meetings of all the section instructors can focus on the pedagogical questions of teaching their complex material.
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Professional Nursing II
NU 264 01: Professional Nursing II focuses on the transition from the student to practitioner role. The increased enrollment in this last required nursing course for graduating seniors motivated Judy Vessey of the William F. Connell School of Nursing to move from a straight lecture format to an interactive web-based format in order to meet the course goals of developing critical thinking and practical technology skills for the practitioner. Judy Vessey’s central aim for this site was to enhance the course content and delivery by using a variety of technological applications for class preparation and in-class activities. Web based class material enables students to access them ahead of time, as well as download audio-visuals onto a notebook computer for class use.
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OB Toolkit
With over 800 students in multiple courses, Professor Michael O'Leary in the Organization Studies Department wanted to create a web-based teaching toolkit containing learning objects (e.g., syllabi, articles, assignments, in and out of class exercises, video clips, etc) for faculty and teaching fellows teaching multiple Organizational Behavior courses. To create the content for the site, a number of learning objects professors typically use in their Organizational Behavior courses were collected, digitized, and uploaded into the site. Users of the site can comment on how they used individual resources as well as add additional resources. As a way to continue to add new content, the site has been integrated with a teaching practicum course.
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Perspectives I
Encompassing multiple instructors and more than twenty sections, this distinctive Boston College program seemed an ideal candidate for a digital repository of shared material. The faculty team also wanted a means of visually representing the relationships among philosophical and religious movements and leaders, and other forms of culture. To protect the resources they were gathering and observe copyright restrictions, the instructors decided to take advantage of the password protection offered by Blackboard Vista and have a course site established in which all Perspectives I students would be automatically enrolled.
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Roma: Caput Mundi
One of the most challenging pedagogical aspects of art history is to recreate the original context of art and architecture while teaching in the classroom. Through a collaboration between Stephanie Leone, Associate Professor, Fine Arts Department, O'Neil Library, and Instructional Design and eTeaching Services, Roma: Caput Mundi was created to facilitate students' understanding of Rome as a physical entity. By navigating the map and interacting with the monuments, students take a virtual tour of Renaissance and Baroque Rome, which helps them to learn about the interrelationships between monuments and the urban environment.
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The Shelley Project
“The Shelley Project” was developed by IDeS and Professor Mark O’Connor of the Arts and Sciences Honors Program with funding from the Davis Foundation. The Flash-application provides a contextual exploration of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein through the art of J. David, Géricault, Delacroix and Turner, and the music of Paganini, Liszt, Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Berlioz, Mozart, Beethoven, Monteverdi and Gregorian Chant.
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Astonishing the Senses Demo
As teachers of theater, one of the greatest challenges Professors Crystal Tiala and Jennifer Stiles in the Department of Theatre face is the ability to effectively convey the interdisciplinary nuances of theatrical style. Professors Tiala and Stiles developed a Flash-based demo for a media book that teaches the principle styles of Western theater.
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China Gateway
China Gateway was envisioned by Professor Rebecca Nedostup of the History Department as an introduction to the wealth of information available on China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the Chinese diaspora. To create the site, she drew on distinctive Boston College resources as well as the wider internet and digitized print material, supplemented by specially created learning objects. Taking an inter-disciplinary approach, she selected content that would be of use to both students and instructors in a variety of fields and for a variety of purposes, from general study to travel to Asia to discovery of the Chinese community here in Boston.
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XUL
Professor Ernesto Livon-Grosman of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures wanted to create an electronic version of XUL: Old and New Sign. XUL is a journal of experimental writing first published in Buenos Aires in the early 1980s during the time of one of the most repressive military dictatorships in Argentinian history. At the time of its first publication, XUL’s defiant gesture toward censorship made it possible to create a forum for experimental poetics. Professor Livon-Grosman owns one of the few complete sets of the 11 paper issues and has exclusive rights to publish XUL electronically.
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Patient Assignment Game
The Patient Assignment Game was envisioned by Professor Robin Wood in the Connell School of Nursing. Dr. Wood wanted to create an interactive simulation for post-Masters-level nurse educators. Simulating a clinical environment, users practice making patient assignments. Users play the game by pairing hypothetical students with patients on a typical clinical day. They also have the ability to revise the assignments when unexpected events ensue.
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Rhetorical Tradition
The Communication Department hoped digital technology could provide a way to make the media-rich offerings of this flagship course extend even further. Professor Bonnie Jefferson wanted to make the audio and video clips of the great speeches and other examples she was showing the students available to them outside class for further study. To deepen their experience with these canons of rhetoric, she also wanted to integrate supporting information such as text versions, biographies of major speakers, and supplementary video and audio.
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