March 5, 2008
Upcoming events: March session and CIT Showcase (one-day conference)
Service or program spotlight: Exploratory Equipment Loaner Program
Teaching resource of the month: Duke WebFiles
New and cool: WorldMapper and Mapdango
Project profile: Connecting students with experts for feedback on student work
Upcoming events
CIT March sessions
Tablet PC discussions
Tue, Mar 18, 2008 10:00 - 11:00 AM
OR Thu, Mar 20, 2008 8:30 - 9:30 AM
Effective use of student groups
Tue, Mar 25, 2008 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Blackboard Advisory Group meeting
Wed, Mar 26, 2008 3:00 - 4:00 PM
Teaching demo for GS 305
Mon, Mar 31, 2008 3:00 - 5:15 PM
Is there a workshop topic you would like, but don't see? We can customize any session for you - just ask us! cit@duke.edu.
Instructional Technology Showcase 2008 (CIT's annual one-day conference)
Thu, April 24, 2008 8:30 AM - 2:45 PM
Duke University Byran Center
This FREE one-day conference consists of presentations, panels and demonstrations of interesting uses of technology in teaching at Duke and beyond. Come talk with your colleagues about how they use tablet PCs, Google Earth, Wimba, wikis, blogs and many other technologies to engage students and energize their teaching. Breakfast and lunch are provided for pre-registrants - feel free to come for part or all of the day. Register at the link above.
Service or program spotlight
Exploratory equipment loaner programhttp://cit.duke.edu/help/exploratory_equipment.html
Heard about the new Kindle e-reader from Amazon and want to try it out before you buy one?
Interested in seeing what it's like to work on a REALLY small tablet-PC-like device?
Wondering how a GPS device might allow an interesting class activity?
CIT investigates various instructional technology devices and equipment to understand how they might be useful for teaching at Duke. Then we let you borrow them to explore them yourselves. The devices we have available vary each semester, as new items are acquired and as old ones become obsolete, so there's always opportunity to try out something new!
Teaching resource of the month
Duke Webfiles
http://www.oit.duke.edu/comp-print/storage/webfiles/
This new online service available to Duke students, faculty and staff makes it easy for you to store and manage important files online by providing 5 GB of personal file space. For teaching or collaboration, there is shared file space for collaborating with groups, including ready-made group space for your courses. This can be used for collaboration on webpages, sharing files and distributing large files to your students. Webfiles also gives you the ability to control access rights for directories and groups you manage, and provides personal video streaming via "DukeStream Personal."
New and cool
World Mapper and Mapdango
http://www.worldmapper.org/ and http://www.mapdango.com
World mapper is a collection of world maps, resized according to the subject of interest. This resource is useful for looking at any issues from a global perspective. If you'd like to explore one region in more detail, there's Mapdango - a map mashup that brings together maps, flickr pictures, wikipedia entries, events and weather.
Project profile
Connecting students with experts for feedback on student work
http://cit.duke.edu/ideas/projects/2007/11/02/readers-in-the-field/
Cary Moskovitz (University Writing Program) has been using the concept of "think aloud" responses in his writing courses, getting professionals in various fields at Duke to record comments and feedback on student papers using iPods. Students gain valuable insight from a reader familiar with the subject area of the paper and gain a better sense of ownership of their writing in a "real world" situation. Moskovitz is working with CIT to expand this concept this spring.
