Re-imagining the Academy: Speaker Series

By On January 21, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Blog

CIT and the Kenan Institute for Ethics are co-sponsoring the inaugural 2011 Bass Society of Fellows speaker series: Re-imaging the Academy. The series invites five national experts to discuss the many challenges and changes facing American higher education, as they propose ways the academy might adapt and transform to embrace such changes.
The first speaker, Laura Palmer [...]

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Planning student multimedia projects: aren’t all my students digital natives?

By On September 30, 2010 · 3 Comments · In Blog, Teaching Strategies

by Shawn Miller and Andrea Novicki

Imagine assigning students a multimedia project, asking them to perhaps create a five minute digital video or a simple website, only to have the same students grumble, complain or even more shockingly – ask if they can ‘just write a paper instead’? What’s going on here? Aren’t all of [...]

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Social media workshop

By On September 17, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Blog, Events, Teaching Strategies

CIT recently co-hosted (along with Duke’s Office of News and Communications) a ‘social media’ workshop for Duke faculty. Here’s a link to the PDF version of the handout from the session. We didn’t want to fill our handouts up with long URLs – so [...]

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Short videos for your courses

By On August 30, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Blog, Teaching Strategies

During September, Duke instructors can experiment with INTELECOM Online Resources Network, a search-able repository of curriculum-based video learning objects. These 1 – 6 minute video clips address topics in Biological Sciences, Oceanography, History, Philosophy, Psychology, Political Science, Sociology, Health, and Environmental Studies. Rather than storing the video files on their computers or copying them [...]

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Duke WordPress: now available for courses

By On August 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Blog, Teaching Strategies

The Duke-hosted version of WordPress is now available for faculty to use for their courses this fall. WordPress is a popular blogging and flexible website creation tool that faculty can use for course sites, blogs, student website projects and more. Visit the new Duke WordPress website (http://sites.duke.edu) for more, [...]

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Provide course content for your students on the go

By On August 3, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Blog, Teaching Strategies

Mobl21 provides a way for instructors to create and distribute content to students without doing any actual mobile ‘app’ development. Currently, Mobl21 only works with iPhones and iPod Touches, but they’ll soon be expanding into other devices (iPads no doubt, and possibly Android phones and devices as well).

Here’s how it works:

Step 1: Develop [...]

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Expedition App: Projecting the web on an iPad

By On July 22, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Blog, Teaching Strategies

A new iPad app called ‘Expedition‘ provides a way to project the web from your iPad.

“What?” you ask “I can’t project the web on an iPad by just using the built-in Safari browser?” That’s right – one of my early criticisms of the iPad focused on [...]

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YouTube releases a simple video editor

By On July 13, 2010 · 1 Comment · In Blog

Ever uploaded a video to YouTube and then wished that you’d just removed the first few seconds from it? Well – now you can. YouTube recently announced a video editor. This being Google/YouTube, they decided to announce and explain the editor via a YouTube video:

A few things to [...]

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Using iPads for fieldwork

By On July 13, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Blog, Examples, Funded

CIT recently funded the purchase of several iPads for use in Duke sociologist Jen’nan Read’s Research Methods course to explore the uses of Apple’s device for fieldwork. In a recent article posted by Duke Global Health Institute, Read states:

“Our primary goal is to equip our students with a [...]

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Duke's Multimedia Project Studios needs you!

By On June 26, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Blog

Duke’s Multimedia Project Studios (aka MPS labs) would like to gather faculty and staff feedback on their service model as they plan for the next semester. Duke faculty and students rely on the 24/7 labs for access to equipment and support for their work with digital video, audio and/or other multimedia projects. To [...]

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