PLAY.

This corner offers glimpses of some of the amazing things that can happen when liberal arts research and concepts meet digital technology.

Use the resources here to learn new things, explore ideas, test inclinations, play with narratives, read creatively, cook up a text, and draw inspiration for your own future projects.

Bonus: take a fun visual quiz that can offer insights about yourself. If you don't agree, doing the background research and making your own quiz as a class project is your choice.

This is, after all, where your best class projects will be showcased!

Enjoy!

Activities

JO WILDER AND THE CAPITOL CASE

"Practice historical inquiry skills with your students in this point-and-click adventure game featuring Jo Wilder, a girl who uncovers the real stories behind mysterious artifacts from two movements in Wisconsin State history. "

EXCAVATE! EGYPT

"Excavate and analyze four significant locations to make connections and deduce facts about the people who lived, worked and played there. Explore a worker’s village in Giza and the temple of Karnak, that highlight very different lifestyles and illustrate social class differences. Investigate the Valley of the Kings, where past Pharaohs are mummified. Examine the library at Alexandria to gain a deeper understanding of the importance of learning and studying. "

DIG

SOMETHING SOMETHING SOUP SOMETHING

"Because we don’t know what soup is, and neither do you!"

FIND OUT

THE WASON SELECTION TASK

"There are four cards, a simple rule, and all you've got to do is to work out which cards you need to turn over to see if the rule has been broken. That's got to be easy, right?"

TEST>

MY CAMERA AND ME

"Discover the portable cameras that shaped the history of cinema and changed our vision of the world. Learn about the cameras through film clips, informative fact sheets, podcasts and a virtual filmmaking activity. You can even try out the cameras by filming a clip in the Shoot your own Scene section."

would you eat your cat?

"The aim of this activity is to tell you something about how you view the morality of behaviour that many people would consider to be "disgusting" or "repellent" or "obviously wrong", but where it is difficult to explain exactly why the behaviour should be seen this way."

the periodic table as assembled by dr. zhivago, oculist

"You are entering a language laboratory — a hypertext poem organized according to the periodic table of elements. By selecting and combining elements you can cause a poetic reaction."

try

WHO AM I?

A highly enjoyable personality test based entirely on images by the VisualDNA. Ponder over the semantics as you see into yourself!

TAKE THE QUIZ

MY body-
a wunderkammer
(1997)

"a semi-autobiographical hypertext combining text and image in an exploration of the body." By one of the pioneers of electronic literature and author of Patchwork Girl (1995), Shelley Jackson.

READ