Blackboard Tip: Email your announcement
New in Blackboard 8: When you post the announcement in Blackboard, you can choose to email your announcement to all of the users in the course site by clicking a …
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Map your world, with help from ISIS
Students in Victoria Szabo and Richard Lucic‘s capstone course ISIS 200 have produced a “mapping toolkit” that includes a list of devices, directions for using the devices to collect mappable …
Exploring architecture in Second Life
How is our relationship to physical space changing as space becomes “virtual”? What do virtual spaces reveal about the people and circumstances that create them? Those are questions asked by …
Exploring architecture in Second Life
Annabel Wharton, William B. Hamilton Professor Art, Art History & Visual Studies How is our relationship to physical space changing as space becomes “virtual”? What do virtual spaces reveal about …
Google Books add embedding feature
Have you wanted to give your students easy access to a public domain book or to an excerpt of a copyrighted book available for preview at Google? Google Books has …
Library images on your iPhone
Looking for that perfect image for your class, but away from your computer? Now, search over 32,000 images from the Duke University Libraries’ digital collections on your iPhone, through DukeMobile, …
Website update! Check out our new Resources section
We recently made some substantial changes and updates to our website. The biggest change is the addition of a new section called “Resources.” Within the section, you’ll find three subsections: …
Blogs, wikis and discussion boards: Which one fits your course?
A frequent question that comes up from faculty, particularly after the recent May CIT workshop series, is how to decide which tool to use for activities in a course – …
Adobe Day @ Duke
Join Adobe at Duke University, where you will learn about Adobe’s tools to help you create, collaborate and connect with students and peers across campus. Participate in person or virtually …
Blackboard's new Grade Center
Blackboard’s gradebook has become a Grade Center, when Blackboard was upgraded to version 8.0 in early May. What’s new about the grade center? Instructors can: enter grades directly into grade …