SmARThistory – A teaching aide for art history
The site smARThistory is a unique, growing resource that aims to be an enhancement, or even a replacement, for the traditional art history textbook. It allows users to browse styles, …
Duke Dance Database: Creation of a Digital Multimedia Archive for Live Dance Performance
Tyler Walters, Associate Professor of the Practice, Dance Martin Brooke, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Project Description: Tyler Walters, using advanced students in Dance at Duke, collaborated with undergraduate …
“WIRED! New Representation Technologies for Historical Materials: Fusing Creativity with Scholarship and Communication"
Caroline Bruzelius, Professor, Art, Art History and Visual Studies Project Description: Caroline Bruzelius and faculty colleagues Mark Olson, Rachael Brady, Raquel Salvatella de Prada, and Sheila Dillon have developed a …
Ed Prado museum tour … now on Google Earth
Google has added the El Prado museum to Google Earth, allowing you to not only see the buildings, but to do a “virtual tour” of 14 paintings in the collections, …
Creation of Multimedia Maps
Victoria Szabo, Program Director, Information Science + Information Studies Richard Lucic, Associate Department Chair and Associate Professor of the Practice, Computer Science, Information Science + Information Studies (ISIS) Curriculum Director …
Google releases Picasa beta for the Mac
Instructors wanting students to do some simple photo management and editing in classes or in their own work have sometimes turned to Picasa, an application from Google. However, the application …
Using FlipCams to document art and community at Duke
As part of his course ARTSVIS 54, Introduction to Visual Practice, Bill Fick, Visiting Assistant Professor, had students examine representations of and community reactions to art at Duke. Using FlipCams, …
Google Earth in the Mojave Desert
Dr. Peter Haff’s class here at Duke used Google Earth for their final project in the American Southwest (EOS 181S.01). They took a field trip to the Mojave Desert in …
Reaching students in large classes with a tablet PC
Connel Fullenkamp, Associate Professor of the Practice, Economics Connel teaches ECON 51D, Economic Principles, a very large class held in Griffith Theater in the Bryan Center. Connel uses a tablet …
Drop Everything: drop.io is the Web2.0 dropbox
Sometimes you just want a way to collect a bunch of files all in one place – quickly and easily. A new tool called ‘drop.io’ aims to be the “simplest …