The Course

•Spanish Civil War: Images and Words

• images: photography,children's drawings, paintings, posters, film, ...

•words: novels, history, ...

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In the beginning

•Course materials large, bulky

•Unwieldy media

•Distant teaching location (N. Campus)

•Projection woes: What’s a document camera?

Something better is needed

•Consolidate material

•Improve access for students and instructor

•What about the web?

•Why not Blackboard?

•So, I need my own website?

EnterHewlett Fundfor Curricular

Innovation

Application Processhttp://www.weinberg.northwestern.edu/

faculty/hewlett.html

Winter

Submit Applications

Intersession

Selection Process

InternMatching

Pre-summer preparation &

research ProjectDevelopment

Summer(8 weeks)

Spring

Development Process

Preparation for Hewlett:gathering materials, solidifying syllabi,

setting outcomesSummer work: 8-week cycle

Collaborative process:intern, awardee, MMLC developer

Intensive faculty participation

Spanish Civil War•2008•Web framework•Images•Main concept

•2011•Expansion of image bank•Organization into thematic

modules

•Additional expository content

Unanticipated benefits• Value of partnership

• Student learns content, technology skills

• Instructor learns alternative perspectives from the target audience (students)

• Staff developer acts as manager / negotiator / cruise director

• Curatorship — the essence of these kinds of projects

Katie Reifurth (Hewlett Fund intern)

at the A.L.B. Memorial, NYC

Images of War(website)