Student Course Video Project Archive
iPod Courses
• Spring 2007• Fall 2006
• Spring 2006
• Fall 2005
• Spring 2005
• Fall 2004
Other programs
The following courses and faculty have received Duke Digital Initiative support in the form of digital video equipment, training, and project planning assistance.
Spring 2007
French 76, all sections (Deb Reisinger). This course continued the project first piloted in Spring 2006, implemented in all sections of the course.
Information Science & Information Studies (ISIS) 140 (Richard Lucic). Students in this course, "Web-based multimedia communication", worked in teams to create a video project conveying a designated message to a target audience. The project was conducted in the form of a contest with the class voting on the the video that was judged to deliver the message in the most creative and compelling fashion, and that delivered the most effective impact to the target audience.
Public Policy 196S (Michele Strano). Students in this Spring 2007 course, “Media Campaigns and Public Policy”, created a Public Service Announcement to address a health or social problem they identified on the Duke campus. Their assignment was to design a research project that tests the effectiveness of their media message in changing knowledge, attitudes and/or behavior. Students used iPods to play the PSA for study participants and record their responses to the message. The inclusion of the video project enabled the student' to experience first-hand the difficulties involved in designing PSAs and in testing their effectiveness.
Writing 20 (Diana Solomon): This Spring 2007 course, "Austen's Costumes: The Novelist in Theater and Film" examined the way that plays influenced Jane Austen -and- the way that her novels have been adapted into films. Students read three Austen novels, two of which have been adapted several times and one, Northanger Abbey, which has not yet been adapted into a film. Their final course assignment was to make their own film adaptation of a scene from Northanger Abbey.
Fall 2006
In Fall 2006, we expanded to a pilot program and invited applications for support from anyone teaching in the undergraduate curriculum. The following courses received DDI video support for course activities.
French 63, section 4 (Laura Florand). Students in this third semester language course used DDI support to pilot the creation of video podcasts, which focused on the specific cultural and linguistic themes studied in class. Students used what they learned of French culture to reflect on their own culture and how it would appear to a French observer. Incorporating this reflection, they produced regular journalistic reports to present Duke University to the Francophone world. As a follow up activity, students downloaded their classmates' podcasts and responded to them in online blogs.
French 76, all sections (Deb Reisinger). This course continued the project first piloted in Spring 2006, expanding from one to all sections.
Japanese 125 (Naoko Kurokawa). As a final course project, students in this advanced level course produced short dramas with digital camcorders and iMovie. They used iTunes U to share their films with their classmates, who downloaded the files to their iPods to complete peer review and self-assessment activities.
Spanish 106C (Joan Clifford).Students in this course recorded video interviews with Latino students and parents at a local high school as part of a multi-year community project with the Durham Public Schools. They gathered footage for testimonials concentrating on themes that were included in a written survey distributed to Latino students at the high school in Fall 2005. The Duke students were involved in all aspects of the video project: planning, recruiting, filming, editing, analyzing, and reporting. The final video project, a montage of clips of interviews, was presented to administrators of Durham Public Schools as part of the overall community service project.
Spring 2006
French 76, Section 3 (Deb Reisinger). This section of Advanced Intermediate French Language & Culture was our initial proof of concept project for providing digital video equipment and access to video editing software in order to facilitate student creation of short films or other video projects to address curricular goals. Students in this section developed, filmed, and edited 8-10 minute short films. Students worked in small groups to write creative scripts based on literature and films studied throughout the semester. These "courts métrages" were designed to showcase an understanding of the course materials, an ability to think and write creatively in French, and fluency in the spoken language.
