SIMILE Timeline: If the President can use it, you can too
If you’ve looked at the new Recovery.gov site recently, you’ve probably noticed an interesting interactive element at the bottom of the main page. This timeline is a good, simple example …
Display student work in Perkins library
Have your students produced work you’d like to show the world? Display it on the Student Wall in Perkins Library. The Student Wall, on the first floor of Perkins Library, …
Avoiding “Death by PowerPoint”
Recently, the CIT offered “Death by PowerPoint”, one of our regular workshops that look at using technology in your teaching. We offer ideas for improving student learning and engagement or …
Getting Personal (part 2): Michael Wesch and the ‘Just in Time’ personal web
NOTE: This post is part 2 in a series addressing concepts found in the 2009 Horizon Report. Part 1 can be found here. Michael Wesch, a professor of Cultural Anthropology …
Getting Personal (part 1): When blogs are more than blogs
Every year the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) release a report on the emerging trends and technologies that may in some way shape higher education …
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 …
Ideas for using blogs and wikis in your course
Some ideas for using blogs and wikis in teaching college science, from a session I moderated with Brian Switek (a science blogger and ecology & evolution student at Rutgers University) …
What your future students think
As part of conference for scientists, bloggers, science educators, and journalists; (ScienceOnline09), Stacey Baker and her students (mostly 9th grade) answered questions about how they use technology to learn biology …
NYT report ‘new approaches’ to teaching at MIT is no surprise to Duke faculty
The New York Times today reports “At M.I.T., Large Lectures Are Going the Way of the Blackboard”. Introductory physics courses are now taught in smaller classes that emphasize hands-on, interactive, …
“Flexible Learning Spaces” Fellows’ experiences posted
During Fall 2008, five Duke faculty and one graduate student participated in the CIT’s “Flexible Learning Spaces” Fellowship program, which focused on best teaching applications of the technology and space …