Are you returning to Duke this semester with a shiny new iPad in hand? You may have successfully turned on the iPad, charged it up, and browsed the Internet but are wondering what you should do next. Take a look at some of the next steps for your new iPad:
Guest post by Deb Reisinger, Romance Studies
This semester, my Advanced Grammar and Writing students in FR 101 and I experimented with how the iPad can help us become better writers – in French!
Throughout the semester, I used an app called iAnnotate to correct preliminary versions of student compositions. Using a simple color-coded system of annotations that […]
Come learn from other faculty and staff about iPad tips, tricks, and apps at the iPad users meeting. These monthly meetings are to share how iPads improve productivity, increase efficiency, and enhance student learning. Please bring your lunch and the CIT will provide dessert and drinks. Attend any or all of the meetings this semester:
Thursday, […]
Emily Sposeto, Senior Lecturing Fellow, Romance Studies
Emily Sposeto was one of fourteen faculty and one graduate student who participated in a Spring 2010 CIT Fellowship for language faculty interested in exploring with colleagues the most effective and most efficient ways to increase students’ oral production […]
In this 15 minute video, Tom Chatfield makes compelling arguments on how lessons learned from gaming can be applied to education and other fields. His 7 lessons are :
Measuring constant progress, giving learners chances to constantly progress and showing that progress visually using experience bars.
Have multiple long and short term aims.
Reward effort constantly, even for […]
You’ve been distributing files to your students for the entire semester via Blackboard, and there’s just one that does not seem to be working correctly. Either it won’t upload, or …
Kristen Stephens, Associate Professor of the Practice, Program in Education
Project Description
Kristen Stephens’s Education 168 course for Summer 2010 was planned specifically as an online course from the start (one of the first online undergraduate courses offered in the summer at Duke), one of only two undergraduate courses at Duke offered in this mode. The course […]
JoAnne Van Tuyl, Associate Professor of the Practice, Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Project description:
In Fall 2010, JoAnne Van Tuyl is having her Russian language students practice writing in cursive with an iPad borrowed from the Duke Digital Initiative. Van Tuyl is interested in how the iPad can help teach handwriting skills and provide an opportunity to […]
Satendra Khanna, Associate Professor of the Practice, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
Project description:
Satendra (Satti) Khanna is teaching a small Hindi course in Fall 2010 that is using a contemporary Hindi version of the Mahabharata epic as the principal course text. Khanna is interested in students comparing three versions of the […]
Jessica Otey, Lecturing Fellow, Italian, Romance Studies
Project description:
Jessica Otey is using a browser-based platform called NowComment to facilitate the collective commenting of documents, as a central part of her Italian literature survey course (18th-21st centuries). Before class, students are expected to post comments by logging into NowComment and commenting while reading the assigned […]
