MMLC Welcomes Summer Interns

The MMLC welcomes three talented interns to the staff: Cambrey Thomas, Yana Myaskovskaya, and Aaron Menninga.

Posted by matt at June 30, 2008

Where Did Grandfather Go?

The MMLC welcomes to Northwestern University from France Mr. Michel Yačche, whose testimony figures in the Picpus Digital Archives. Mr. Yačche was a French-born Jewish teenager living in Paris during the German occupation. His family, originally from Salonica, was cruelly divided by the policies that initially protected Jews considered French citizens over those who were not.

Where did Grandfather go?
A talk with Michel Yačche

How the disparities between the policies of the Vichy government toward French Jews and immigrant Jews fractured one family.

Sunday, April 6
2 p.m.

Harris Hall Room 107
1881 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208


The Picpus Digital Archive is a Northwestern educational project funded primarily by the National Endowment for the Humanities, with additional grants from the Alumnae Association. The archive focuses on history, memory and commemoration.

This talk has been organized by The Department of French and Italian and the Multimedia Learning Center.

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Posted by matt at April 03, 2008

MMLC Makes Moodle Available

Starting this quarter, the MMLC has made available on a limited basis, a trial installation of Moodle, an award-winning open-source couse management system. The alternative CMS offers an enhanced multi-lingual option to Blackboard and is currently in use by three Portuguese language courses.

Posted by matt at January 08, 2008 | Comments (0)

New Digital Image Library Launched

The MMLC launched today, with the Northwestern University Library, and the Visual Media Collection, a new "Digital Image Library" website online at http://images.northwestern.edu/. Housed there are tens of thousands of artistic and cultural images useful for the teaching of art history, and throughout all humanities disciplines.

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Posted by matt at December 17, 2007