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Visualize Proteins

Proteopedia is a 3D, interactive encyclopedia of proteins, RNA, DNA and other molecules. Want to know what hemoglobin looks like? You’ve seen DNA, now take it out for a spin. …

Bb Tip: Get student feedback quickly!

Get student feedback quickly using the Blackboard survey tool. Create polls to find student interests and opinions, create evaluations of materials or teaching approaches that you try, and gauge student …

Using video and a blog in a music course

The Chronicle of Higher Eduation has a commentary this week on viewing teaching as passing on traditions.  The piece also looks at how two instructors of Irish tin whistle at …

The Orwell Diaries

The Orwell Prize, which sponsors a British prize for political writing, is publishing George Orwell’s diaries as a blog, with each entry appearing on the site exactly seventy years after …

Video journal gets respect

The Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) is now indexed in PubMed, the first video-journal to have that acceptance. “This is a major milestone for JoVE and also for new methods …

Strategic Initative Grants from CIT

CIT is offering grants to faculty to support instructional innovations with technology, tied to Duke’s strategic plan “Making a Difference.”  In particular, Chapter 4 of the plan “Academic Goals and …