Apple’s iPad for teaching and learning
Last month Apple announced their new slate-style computer, the iPad. With a nearly 10″ screen, multi-touch display and the ability to run applications like an iPhone, the iPad has potential …
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Open Educational Resources – what are they and how can you use them?
Many faculty have heard about “open course” initiatives such as MIT’s Open Courseware, in which materials and recordings from courses are put online for open and free access. Other initiatives …
Want to use interactive timelines in your course? CIT can help
About a year ago, we published a detailed blog post about Simile timeline, a tool for (fairly) easily creating interactive web-based timelines, such as the example below. There are a …
Student Video Fellowship: Biomedical Engineering capstone video project
Project summary Kevin Caves, Instructor in Biomedical Engineering,and Director of the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Communication Enhancement, participated in a CIT’s Instructional Technology Faculty Fellows program, to share ideas …
Bb Tip: Give student groups private spaces to work in Blackboard
Blackboard’s Groups feature allows instructors to provide a group of students with their own set of communication tools that only the group members can access. A group of students collaborating …
Texting your students?
The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Wired blog describes an English professor who blasts text messages to his students to remind them about assignments and due dates. The students have the …
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 …
DiVE into alcohol – virtually follow alcohol’s fate in the body
Rochelle Schwartz-Bloom, Professor of Pharmacology and Director, Duke Center for Science Education, and RISE (Raising Interest in Science Education) directed undergraduate students in Pharmacology 197/198 to develop an immersive 3D …
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 …
Google Earth for visualizing population density by student Osvaldo Venegas
Duke student Osvaldo Venegas participated in a Writing 20 class focused on Google Earth taught by Chris Erlien in the Thompson Writing Program; one assignment was to share ideas for …