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 …
Rethinking Teaching in the Link, III: Guest blog by Caroline Bruzelius
This semester, Duke opened a new flexible teaching and learning space in Perkins Library, called the Link. The Link supports student and faculty learning, teaching, and collaboration by offering several …
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 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 …
Rethinking Teaching in the Link, II: Guest blog by Caroline Bruzelius
This semester, Duke opened a new flexible teaching and learning space in Perkins Library, called the Link. The Link supports student and faculty learning, teaching, and collaboration by offering several …
Ancient Rome in Google Earth
Recreating historical sites can be done in many ways – structures or parts of cities have been constructed in programs such as Second Life and many other 3d programs. Now, …
Duke senior creates virtual cathedral
The Duke Office of News and Communication has profiled a Duke senior, Charles Sparkman, who has created a virtual 3d cathedral in the Duke Immersive Virtual Environment (DiVE). Sparkman planned …
Re-envisioning the debate: web tools for election and debate coverage
In addition to an ever deafening volume of print, radio and television election coverage that the web has its own share of sites dedicated to following election-related data of all …
RENCI Open House 10/14/2008
The Duke University Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) invites you to its premier Open House, featuring its newly completed research environments. Tuesday October 14, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Remarks by …