Education calling – teaching with cell phones
Now that many students carry a single device that can make phone calls, take pictures, record audio and video, store data, music, and movies, and interact with the Internet, how …
14 tweets that demonstrate the professional value of Twitter
Guest post by Julie Reynolds, Duke University Twitter posts are limited to 140 characters, but I discovered it takes slightly more than 140 characters to convince colleagues of Twitter’s value. …
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 …
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, …
Duke faculty come together to talk teaching with technology
Join us on Friday, April 24th 2009 to meet colleagues and share stories at the Center for Instructional Technology showcase. Talk with Julie Reynolds about using video to teach writing, …
Getting Personal (part 3): Mobile devices and the networked world
NOTE: This post is part 3 in a series addressing concepts found in the 2009 Horizon Report. Part 1 can be found here. Part 2 can be found here. In …
Educause Learning Initiative Conference 2009
Andrea Novicki and I (Shawn Miller) attended the Educause Learning Initiative’s 2009 Conference January 20-22 in Orlando. Link to Educause conference archive (videos, ppts, etc): https://connect.educause.edu/term_view/eliannual09 The conference: the meta-experience …
Geo-what?
According to the 2009 Horizon Report, “Geo-Everything” will significantly impact teaching, learning, research and creative expression within the next two to three years. (The report covers 5 other technologies, but …
Reaching students in large classes with a tablet PC
Connel Fullenkamp (Economics) teaches ECON 51D, “Economic Principles,” a very large class held in Griffith Theater in the Bryan Center. He uses a tablet PC so that he can sketch …
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 …