Use digital images in a course
Images are a powerful tool to engage students and enhance learning in the classroom. Faculty can integrate images from their own research into lectures or place images in online course materials for students to explore, comment on, or use as a basis for a student research project. Online collections of images at Duke or at public sites such as Flickr can be researched and critiqued by students as part of their coursework or students can create their own images as part of a student research project for inclusion in presentations, papers and other class materials.Strategies
Use pre-existing images - Librarians can help you find sources for images to use in your course, including image databases licensed by the university. See the Library's online guide to Visual Image Resources or contact a Librarian in your subject area.
Scan images - The CIT Lab can be used by faculty and teaching staff to digitize materials; the Lab includes both flatbed and 35mm (slide and tranparency) scanners.
Use images in lectures and course materials - Images can be used in presentations or placed in Blackboard to enhance student understanding of concepts.
Encourage students to research images - Students can explore web sites or use tools such as Google's image search feature or the online photo sharing site Flickr, in combination with Duke based print and electronic resources, to enhance their understanding of subject matter.
Have students create images for assignments - Many students have a digital camera or cell phone that can be used to create original images for assignments; students can integrate original photographs into class presentations or their course research projects.
Learn more copyright and Fair Use - Find out how Fair Use and copyright impact your online course materials.
Examples
Enriching course materials with multimedia and evaluation tools
Sucheta Mazumdar, Associate Professor, History, created a rich set of course materials, including images and film clips, to complement the lectures and readings the courses (History 172B, China and the West, and 172C, China from Antiquity to 1400).
Design of a syllabus and activities for a FOCUS course
Teaching a Freshman Focus course for the first time, Amy Laura Hall, Associate Professor in the Duke Divinity School, received a CIT Course Design Grant to design class activities that would introduce the students to collaboratively researching and analyzing images and would allow her to integrate her research with teaching.
Creating a DVD compilation of advertising materials
Martha Reeves, Visiting Professor, Sociology, received CIT support to integrate examples of advertising/promotional campaigns (print ads, websites, podcasts, direct mail campaigns, advertising short films, etc) into her course MMS 170: Integrated Marketing Communication.
Visualizing historical Durham using Google Mapping tools
CIT is providing Trudi Abel with funding and student support to create and integrate several historical maps of Durham into a set of Google Earth files that will increase the integration of real-world research into her courses, including the use of geotagged images.
Tools
Picasa - A software package for Windows computers from Google for organizing and simple manipulation of images.
iPhoto - A software package included with Macintosh computer for organizing and working with images.
Flickr - A popular online site for sharing images.
CIT Lab - A facility available for use by Duke faculty and teaching staff for digitizing audio, video and images
OIT's Student Technology Services - Offers training to students on using multimedia applications.
