Name: David F. Tinsley

INSTITUTION: University of Puget Sound

LANGUAGE: German

STATUS: Full-time, tenure track

TYPE: CourseRelease

TYPE1: SoftwareGrants

TITLE: The German Map Project

DURATION: Spring 2000 - Spring 2001 and beyond

DESCRIPTION: Objective: To develop an annotated, on-line historical atlas of central Europe. Theoretical Justification: One of the most difficult concepts for American students of German to grasp is the fact that Germany did not exist as a political entity before 1871. Whereas for the French, the English, the Russians and, much more recently, for the Americans, geographical, political, and cultural unity are inextricably linked with identity; for the Germans, national unity brought nationalism and war, then economic chaos and failed democracy, and, finally, the nightmare of National Socialism, resulting in some forty years of occupation and division. This project will create eight digitized maps of ^ÓGermany^Ô at key moments in its history from 1000 (the Holy Roman Empire under the Ottonians) to the present (Reunification). These maps will not only allow students to visualize the geographical and political changes ^ÓGermany^Ô experienced, they also will allow the students to annotate the maps as part of their study of cultural and literary history.

OUTCOME: Technical Specifications: At the last NWLC conference in Williamette, Mark Otis and I demonstrated the technology that has made interaction with digitized maps possible. Students may now, within an cross-platform environment, use a mouse to scroll seamlessly across detailed color maps digitized from Droysens^ÒHistorical Atlas of Europe ( 1886). Using ^ÓCentennia^Ô map-software (www.clockwk.com) and ^ÓFlash^Ô animation, we shall also create a simplified interactive version of each detailed color map, in which students may manipulate political and geographical features for the purposes of memorization or project creation. In both the detailed and the simplified formats, our technology will permit the students themselves to annotate the maps, linking key cities and regions to websites, images, texts, audio recordings, and even brief video clips of re-enacted events. For example, students studying Goethe, Schiller, and Bettina von Arnim can create links from the cities of Weimar, Jena, and Berlin to pictures, letters, audio recordings of poetry readings, or brief video segments from films such asWerther . Pedagogical Advantages The maps would be available on consortium servers. Each school can then access the annotations that previous courses have made. The cumulative nature of the project will foster collaboration among students at each institution, among colleagues and students at different institutions, and between student generations. These maps also can be annotated in different languages for use in German and humanities courses. The technology may be adapted to other languages.

TIMELINE: History and Brief Time Line: Fall 1996-Fall 1999 Þ The U.P.S. photographer creates slide images of Droysens^Ò maps Þ The working model of cumulative web-based interaction developed in German 250 (History and Political Systems) in the spring of 1999. (See ^ÓThe Rosa Luxemburg Project^Ô at www.ups.edu/faculty/tinsley/ courses/germ250/rosa.htm) Þ Mark Otis and Jason Neighbors ^Óstitch together^Ô Droysens electronically to permit mouse-activated ^Ónavigation^Ô. Þ Otis and Tinsley present the map-prototype at Williamette. Þ Otis and Neighbors develop the simplified mapping technique using Centennia and Flash animation Spring 2000 Þ The digitized detailed colored maps are created for 1000, 14th century, 18th century, 1871, 1919, 1939, 1961, and 1990. Þ Simplified maps are created for 1990, including ^Ó German-speaking countries,^Ô ^ÓGerman states,^Ô ^ÓGeographical Features,^Ô and ^ÓGermany^Òs neighbors.^Ô Summer 2000 Þ Testing of prototypes at U.P.S. Prototypes made available to Robert Tobin at Whitman and Christina Gentzkow at Lewis and Clark. Academic Year 2000- 2001 Þ Tinsley^Òs German 301 and German 250 classes initiate work with the Map Project.

AMOUNT: $3300

BREAKDOWN: One course release for Spring of 2000 (ca. $3200) Centennia Software (ca. $100).