CIT Showcase: The Twitter backchannel
No doubt, many attendees noted the increased use of iPhones, iPod Touches, netbooks and laptops during this year’s CIT Instructional Technology Showcase. Chances are, many of those using mobile devices …
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Presentation on 'Wired' course
Caroline Bruzelius, Sheila Dillon, Mark Olson, Rachael Brady, and Raquel Salvatella will discuss their experiences from this spring in teaching the course “Wired: New Representation Technologies for Historical Materials” and …
Blackboard upgrade is imminent!
Duke University will upgrade Blackboard from version 6.3 to version 8.0. During the conversion, from Thursday, May 7 at 6 pm through Sunday, May 10 at 6 pm, Blackboard will …
Virtual Worlds: Libraries, Education and Museums Conference
The Alliance Library System, a consortium of libraries in Illinois, is sponsoring the second annual online “Virtual Worlds: Libraries, Education and Museums Conference” on April 24-25, 2009. The conference aims …
Twitter, blogs and wikis in a film course
Digital Paper Cuts features an interview with Duke faculty member Negar Mottahedeh discussing how she uses social media in her classes. An assistant professor in the Program in Literature, Motthedeh …
Course wiki facilitates student participation and course design
At 4:05, when ENV 186S/PubPol 187 is scheduled to end, students enthusiastically continue their discussion, not noticing the time. Students all contribute, and learn from each other’s experience. Dr. Rafe …
OIT to hold media services focus groups
OIT’s Academic Services group will hold a series of four faculty and student focus groups to obtain feedback on current OIT digital media services. All sessions are in Perkins 217: …
Using Wikipedia for assignments
GMU Center for History and New Media‘s Jeremy Boggs has written an excellent blog post describing his approach to assigning Wikipedia in a US History course he’s teaching. Boggs provides …
Blackboard Great Ideas: Student website projects
Amaryllis Rodriguez Lecturing Fellow, Romance Studies Blackboard wikis (websites which allow collaborative editing) are a convenient means for students to create websites as course projects. Amaryllis Rodriguez had students in …
Blackboard Great Ideas: Language writing practice
Robert Kilpatrick Senior Lecturing Fellow, Romance Languages French instructor Robert Kilpatrick uses blogs in Blackboard to provide students with opportunities to practice writing French in an unstructured manner, different from …