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Highlighted Projects

Beam Classroom

When Kodak announced that they would no longer manufacture slide projectors, a cross-campus team at Bowdoin worked to replace the dual-slide carousels, often used in comparative art history courses, with dual-image digital projection…

Blackboard

Blackboard is a web-based course and content management system that consolidates many services and tools that IT traditionally provided to faculty and students separately, such as course web pages…

Botany Database

With funding from a Mellon Foundation grant awarded jointly to Colby, Bates, and Bowdoin, this web-based image database of plants includes QuickTime Virtual Reality images of selected plants and…

Bowdoin Buoy Facility Web Site

A dedicated web site was created to present information and the data to the public, students, researchers, and scientists about the ocean science taking place in coastal areas and…

Bowdoin College Art Museum Web Redesign

The Bowdoin College Museum of Art closed for renovation in 2005 beginning work that will preserve and protect the 100 year old landmark building while substantially improving access, updating systems…

Bowdoin Overall Website Redesign

The Bowdoin website should reflect an "academically and intellectually alive institution." …

Clickers (Personal Response Systems)

Clickers allow for instant polling or quizzing in classes. They have replaced some pen and paper polling, saving the instructor time and providing more immediate feedback. For larger classes the clickers have the potential for more student participation and engagement…

Coastal Studies Center Marine Biodiversity Database

With support through summer fellowships funded by John Gibbons, this marine biodiversity database augments a variety of courses at Bowdoin, including Biology of Marine Organisms, Biomechanics, and…

Datacenter Consolidation and Virtualization

Since the summer of 2004, Bowdoin's IT department has increased provided services dramatically, bringing the number of servers from 76 to 133. This was done without increasing the footprint in the…

Disaster Recovery Collaboration

Bowdoin is collaborating on a long-term disaster recovery and business continuity project with Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA. By working together and building an environment of trust…

Elementary and Intermediate Italian Web Sites

Elementary Italian and Intermediate Italian are web-based projects specifically designed for Italian 101, 102, 203, and 204 that bring together various audiovisual materials used in class to facilitate…

Exchange Unified Messaging

While Bowdoin provides excellent e-mail services, there has been a cry from the community to find a better solution to calendaring services. With the introduction of the Exchange Messaging system, we…

Flight to Freedom

With support through summer fellowships funded by John Gibbons, this web-based educational role-playing game simulates the experience of fugitive slaves in the American South before the U.S. Civil War…

Higher Availability Infrastructure

Bowdoin's IT division is working to provide a more secure and dependable infrastructure in every aspect of our service to the community. Over the past two years, we have been working to provide more…

Historical Mapping and Analysis with GIS

To understand the history of the United States and to gain experience using primary source documents, Dr. Patrick Rael wanted his students to gain insight by using historical data and visualizing…

Integrated Chinese Exercises

Integrated Chinese is an interactive website for Bowdoin students in introductory- and intermediate-level Chinese. It helps students prepare for upcoming exams by offering a variety of features to…

Japanese Gardens

Funded, in part, by a Freeman Foundation grant, the primary goal of the Japanese Garden Project is to create an in-depth resource for students composed of information on the history, aesthetic character…

Maine Student Web Design Award Ceremony

Students tour an exhibit about the history of computing at Bowdoin. As part of our service to the broader community, the IT division has hosted the 2005 and 2006 award ceremonies for the annual Maine…

Maine Watershed Web

The Maine Watershed Web is a site dedicated to collaborative watershed education, research and stewardship in the state of Maine. Initiated in January 2007, this web site has created an online community that is a core resource…

Round Table: Tablets for CS101

The primary goal of Round Table is to create a positive learning experience for students, who come to college with varying degrees of exposure to computer science. The technology design allows the instructors to…

Scrolls of the Mongol Invasions of Japan

This multmedia presentation of two scrolls, one formerly believed to be an accurate copy of the other, depicts the Mongol Invasion of Japan, a key event in the development in Japanese self-identity…

Sun Tzu: The Art Of War

A companion to the 4th Century B.C. Chinese strategy text translated by Professor Smith and colleagues, this web site contains all the associated scholarly apparatus to help explore the history and…

Support Bowdoin Web Redesign

The Development office's web site grew un-usable by unplanned growth in content. The resulting web site lost its main message and, left many users sending feedback about their confusing experience…

Unified Digital Identity

In the digital world we live in, everyone has an account, username, password, or PIN tied to most aspects of their lives. At Bowdoin, this is no different. We are working to make it a little easier for…