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Asian Games Village

Jin Zhang
The Asian Game Village project is an education project for Chinese language study at MIT. It aims at building an archive that presents students with video clips about the life in the Beijing Asian Game Village, through which students can encounter real spoken Chinese, get trained in listening comprehension, learn new vocabulary and phrases, and understand various facets of the current Chinese society and culture through these multi-media materials.
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The heart of Europe: Belgium unveiled by its contemporary artists

Cathy Culot
The heart of Europe: Belgium unveiled by its contemporary artists is a multimedia archive that features the personal stories of established and less established Belgian contemporary artists and introduces students of French to Belgian culture and history through Belgian contemporary arts. This online teaching resource increases learning about this trilingual country as it is used as an engine for self-discovery and self-teaching activities by beginning to advanced-level students.
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German Short Film

Kurt Fendt
The German Short Film project offers students a rich repository of contemporary German short film productions, video art, and relevant critical texts.
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Beijing Film Academy Project

Jing Wang; Henry Jenkins
The Beijing Film Academy Project aims at providing students with a perspective on the teaching methods of and artworks produced at the Animation School of the Beijing Film Academy.
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German Radio Art

Kurt Fendt
The German Radio Art archive allows students to investigate numerous examples of historical and contemporary German radio plays, sound art, and texts about this highly productive German radio genre.
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Contempor@rt

Johann Sadock
Contempor@rt is a project on the creation and interpretation of contemporary art by young artists from Quebec and Paris.
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Surviving the Holocaust

Monika Totten
The Surviving the Holocaust project presents the student with an archive of original audiotaped interviews with German Holocaust survivors, who have become well-known writers, (excerpts of) their published works, i.e. memoirs, novels, and chronicles; historical texts, audiovisual material, photographs, maps.
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Memory and Commemoration

Dagmar Jaeger
The digital media repository Gedenken und Gedächtnis is an extensive collection of interviews with authors and their various approaches to the representation of memory and commemoration in the works of literature.
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España de cerca

M. Ribas Groeger; A. Gutierrez-Gonzales
España de cerca is a Web-based project on Spanish life and culture centered on a collection of video interviews cross-referenced by topic and annotated with vocabulary glosses and links to relevant materials on the World Wide Web. Through these personal testimonials students explore issues such as education, work, family life, youth, women's roles, tradition and change in contemporary Spain.
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Au-delà du regard

Johann Sadock
Au-delà du regard: rencontres multiethniques is a Web-based module that contains original video interviews, live music and video footage of sites gathered in and around Paris during the summers of 1999, 2000 and 2001. The core material draws from interviews with more than thirty young people from various ethnic and cultural backgrounds.
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Marais Museum

Gilberte Furstenberg
The Marais Museum project presents students and researchers with an archive of more than 550 visual documents and 800+ text documents related to the history of the Marais neighborhood in Paris.
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Berliner sehen

Kurt Fendt; Ellen Crocker
Berliner sehen is a hypermedia documentary for German Studies that relies on an extensive collection of shared archives and the Internet to form a collaborative learning environment for beginning to advanced-level students.
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