Distribute online readings and materials in courses
There are a number of ways to create and distribute electronic materials for courses. In addition to the Library's e-reserves system, faculty at Duke can take advantage of new technologies and methods to distribute information in alternative formats, including podcasts or audio and video.
Strategies
Use e-reserves in your course - This service from the Duke University Libraries allows faculty to drop off paper copies of journal articles or book excerpts for scanning and placement into a Blackboard course site.Link to online resources - Librarians can assist you with finding online resources you can link to on your course sites, including electronic versions of paper-based material or online audio, video or image resources that may be useful in your class.
Use images in your course - Images can be scanned and place in your course site; Librarians can help you find sources for images to use in your course, including image databases licensed by the university. (View the Duke Libraries's online guide to Visual Image Resources.)
Place audio or video clips online - Excerpts of material can be streamed using servers at OIT and linked in your course; the CIT Lab can be used to digitize this material.
Create a podcast - You can use an iPod or your computer to record short audio pieces that might consist of a "mini lecture" or other material; the audio can be podcast using DukeCast. Users subscribe to a feed of the audio files, so podcasting works best for materials that will be released in a serial fashion throughout a class.
Learn more copyright and Fair Use - Find out how Fair Use and copyright impact your online course materials.
Examples
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.
Effective use of multimedia and Blackboard in a large class
In the Spring 2006 Fellows program, Catherine Admay, Visiting Lecturer, Public Policy, introduced multimedia materials and more effective use of Blackboard into two courses, Arts and Human Rights and a Capstone Seminar for professional graduate students. Admay surveyed the students and found that the use of images, sound and video in her course very enriching and challenging and encouraged her students to upload material.
Adult Physical Examination Video Project
Susan Denman, Penny Cooper and Margaret Bowers of the School of Nursing created video series that demonstrate a specific adult physical examination taught in N332 Physical Assessment. The various formats of the videos were integrated to online courses posted in Blackboard, to self-paced web tutorials for online learning and to video iPods for mobile learning.
Tools
Adobe Acrobat Professional - Software for creating PDF documents from Word, RTF or other types of files on your computer.Audacity - Software for the Mac and PC platforms that can be used to create and edit audio for streaming or podcasts.
CIT Lab - A facility available for use by Duke faculty and teaching staff for digitizing audio, video and images
DukeStream - The university's streaming media hosting service.
DukeCast - A university server that allows you to upload and publicly distribute podcasts.
OIT's Student Technology Services - Offers training to students on using multimedia applications.
