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. …
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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 …
Election year mapping and data visualizations
The Chronicle of Higher Education recently posted an article about the University of Richmond’s Voting America project, which features interactive animation and commentary dealing with US political data from 1840-2008. …
Back to the future: Using former students to help develop new curricula
Robert Duvall, Lecturer, Computer Science Project Description: Professor Duvall is redesigning his computer science course (CompSci 108 Software Design and Implementation) with the help of course alumni who are now …
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 …
Humanities, Arts & Technology festival seeks planners, projects
This invitation came to Duke CIT, so I’d like share it with the rest of campus. Collaborations: Humanities, Arts & Technology a state-wide digital arts and humanities festival in February …
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 …
Camtasia and Blackboard: Distributing library instruction to multiple general chemistry lab sections
Melinda Box, Instructor, Chemistry Project Description: Melinda Box and Anne Langley (Chemistry Librarian and Adjunct Professor of Chemistry) are working together to instruct chemistry students how to effectively find chemistry …