Build your own mobile app
Google has released a video and some information about a project they’re working on with Harold Abelson, an MIT computer scientist, to open the doors of creating apps for Google’s …
Online undergraduate course: Civic engagement and creative non-fiction
As an experiment in online courses for undergraduates at Duke, Cathy Shuman taught Writing the Experience: Civic Engagement and Creative Nonfiction during the Summer of 2010. The course, targeting students in the Duke Engage program, provided an opportunity for students in the program to take a for-credit Duke course integrated with their on-site experience.
Catching up with Second Life and Virtual Worlds
Several sites around the Web are reporting that Linden Lab, developers of the most well-known Virtual Worlds platform, Second Life, has gone through restructuring. The company has laid off a …
Facebook, social networking and student privacy
In recent months, the popular social networking site Facebook has come under criticism for not allowing users to fully understand and easily control their privacy when using the service. The …
Undergraduate online courses at Duke
Undergraduate online courses at Duke Duke Today recently highlighted two new online courses for undergraduates available at the university. The Center for Instructional Technology is consulting with the faculty teaching …
2009 Video Fellows best practices for video assignments
In 2008-2009, a group of eight Duke faculty from a variety of disciplines participated in the CIT’s Student Video Fellows program. The participants explored new ways of engaging students with video assignments and, at the end of the program, assembled a guide on resources, ideas and best practices for use by other faculty.
You can read the report and see examples of student work in this post on the blog.
Ideas for using course blogs
During the Fall semester, Duke OIT began a pilot of WordPress MU, a popular web publishing platform for academic use and the CIT has been working with faculty testing the …
Rewrite your textbook
Publishers continue to explore new models of textbook publishing, offering electronic versions of textbooks, integrated or supplemental multimedia and interactive content, and other options for faculty and students. Macmillan is …
Give us your feedback on VoiceThread
This year, the Duke Digital Initiative is piloting VoiceThread, online software for commenting on media. Later this Spring, we will be deciding on whether to make VoiceThread a fully-supported tool here at Duke. If you’re using VoiceThread in the Spring or have used it in the past, DDI is seeking your feedback about the tool.
MemoryMiner as a Multimedia Teaching Tool
Brenda Neece, Adjunct Assistant Professor and Curator of the Duke University Musical Instrument Collection Department of Music Project Description: Brenda Neece, Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Music, tested …