UIT Academic Technology partnered with David Locke, ethnomusicology professor in the Department of Music, to design the Dagomba Dance Drumming site to present Professor Locke's research materials as an interactive learning resource for students in spring 2008 and beyond. The site includes audio examples, musical notation, and a custom-designed audio mixer to help students discern the contributions of different drums to the collective sounds. Students have provided rich feedback on the design and usefulness of the site at critical junctures in its development, and their input continues to inform the site itself and the ways that the interactive resources are integrated into Professor Locke's courses. In parallel with the creation of the wiki-based site, Professor Locke is working with the Digital Collections and Archives group at Tufts to prepare his research collection for inclusion in the Tufts Digital Repository. The Dagomba Dance Drumming site will then link directly to the multimedia collection resources in the Repository.
