Current Projects

Projects on this website have been supported by grants from the
National Science Foundation;
National Endowment for the Humanities;
USAID through the Center for Digital Divide,
University of Washington, Spokane, WA;
and the Mander Foundation, Chicago, IL.
Additional Support from Colgate University Project Afghanistan.

This website is primarilty dedicated to two projects (with several subprojects each) jointly developed by Alexander Nakhimovsky, Colgate University, and Tom Myers, N-Topus.com. The projects are:

• Multimedia Annotator - XML (MannX), a framework for creating time-aligned multimedia materials for language learning and other uses in applied linguistics.
  
  
• EventMap, a collaborative framework for representing sequences of events by annotated and timeline-controlled sequences of Google maps.

We gratefully acknowledge the contributions and support of: Bob Chitester, President of FreeToChoose Media for permission to use materials; Luke Connnolly, Colgate '09; Greg Golden, Colgate '09; Matt Hogan, for brief but immensly productive collaboration shortly before his untimely death; Sarah Beth Miller; Slava Paperno, Cornell University; Michael Parsons, Colgate 09; and many others at Colgate and elsewhere.