University of Houston · 2007

Hoaxes!

Another UH community project from the same era as James Surls — twelve narrated episodes about history's great hoaxes, illustrated by graduate students under Bernard's direction. Like Surls, the original site (hoaxes.coe.uh.edu) still runs but is blocked by many modern browsers and security tools, so this is an archived copy.

About the Project

The Hoaxes! logo — the word HOAXES in yellow jagged lettering against a red theater curtain

The twelve episodes here illustrate selected episodes of The Engines of Our Ingenuity, the long-running radio program by University of Houston professor John Lienhard. Bernard's graduate students in the Instructional Technology program built multimedia interpretations of Lienhard's scripts — using photographs, drawings, works of art, animations, and video clips — as coursework for the program, all dealing with the theme of hoaxes.

The project was created by ten graduate students: Sandra Castillon, Diane Fanning, Richard Halpin, Jahnette Harrell, Elizabeth Heil, Anita Knutson, Valerie Lawhorn, Julie Powell, Anne Rudnicki, and Stacey Wiggins.

More multimedia versions of Engines of Our Ingenuity episodes, from other UH student teams, are archived at digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu.

The 12 Episodes

All twelve episodes, in their original order.