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November 2009 Calendar

CS Masters' Thesis Defense

Title: Java Based Dynamic Civil War Interactive Map
Speaker: Rahul Choudhary
Date: Monday, November 2, 2009
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Location: GMCS 405
Thesis advisor: Dr Carl Eckberg

Abstract:
Teaching students in the current culture is more difficult, since that culture is now rooted in the web and they are used to multimedia interfaces. Making lessons or lesson support similar to these experiences can help teachers motivate and interest today’s internet addicted students.

The idea behind the development of Java Based Dynamic Civil War Interactive Map tool is to ease the teaching of American Civil war fought between Union and Confederates states in years 1861 to 1865. The tool should be able to represent the Civil War data in an interactive way which inspires student to learn and explore at the same time. This tool is designed to show the Civil War data in a student friendly format using text, pictures, videos, animations, and quick links to learn from internet. It also incorporates a game to provide students an opportunity to exercise what they have learned in a fun way. For self analysis there are some practice quizzes and it also has the capability to create new practice/graded quizzes. The tool is easy to deploy, easy to use and can be configured manually by making changes to configuration file.
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