CIT Year In Progress

Duke Digital Initiative

Supported by the Office of the Provost, the 2008-09 Duke Digital Initiative offered expanded support for video production and collaboration tools to encourage students and faculty to integrate rich media into courses and co-curricular learning. CIT consultants worked with faculty who received grants or loans of hardware (Flip cameras, standard video cameras, tablet PCs, and webcams) and software (iMovie, Quicktime Pro, and screen recording software). In Fall 2008, DDI supported at least 135 faculty, 578 students and more than 100 courses.

Read more about the Duke Digital Initiatve

DDI supports a variety of video equipment, including Flip and HD video cameras (pictured above)

The Link in Perkins Library

CIT provided orientation and ongoing consultation services for faculty teaching in the new Link clasrooms in Fall 2008, as well as intensive support to a smaller group of faculty through our Flexible Learning Spaces semester-long fellowship program (May 2008 - Dec 2008). CIT will also provide support for faculty teaching in the Link during Spring 2009 including consultations and monthly meetings to encourage cross-disciplinary communication and collaboration among faculty teaching in this facility.

Shawn Miller (ATC for Social Sciences) serves as CIT's liaison to the Link Services Team, which develops policies, evaluates special requests, and supports Link planning and operations. Yvonne Belanger served on a Link assessment team with staff and faculty from across campus; their report is available on the Link web site. 

The Service Desk, staffed by OIT and Arts & Science, offers classroom support to faculty teaching in the Link as well as a broad range of services to the campus community. 

Programs for 2008-09 included:

• Strategic Initiative Grant program 
• Jump start grant applications (accepted on a rolling basis) - more information
• Materials Development projects (accepted on a rolling basis) - more information
• Exploratory equipment loaner program - more information
• CIT student video fellows program - 8 faculty and one graduate student are participating in this year-long program designed for instructors integrating student assignments using digital video. The program included a planning and exploration semester followed by implementation of the video projects in Spring 2009. 

A few highlights of active projects:

• A pilot project to explore a new tool for creating and evaluating portfolios of student work
• Applications of mobile technology in support of  service learning including explorations of handheld GPS-enabled cameras in Africa and smartphones in Vietnam
• Explorations of virtual world applications in campus-based language learning, with remote learners in Nursing, and in the Writing Studio
  
• A collaboration between faculty and students in Dance and Electrical Engineering to create a prototype for 3D recording and archiving of dance movements
• Support for the development of a new gateway course in Visual Studies that involves faculty from Engineering and Computer Science as well as staff at the Nasher
  

• Offered a series of training sessions for IT staff across campus in July and August 2008 to prepare for new initiatives in video and collaboration
• Distributed Fall 2008 and Spring 2009 print and electronic newsletters to instructors and faculty outlining grant offerings, support programs and events on themes including "Dynamic Classroom Teaching", "Exploring New Technologies" and "Digital Media for Teaching and Learning"
• Distributed customized reports summarizing CIT services for 2007-08 to departments and programs in Arts & Sciences and professional schools, including reports detailing library course support to A&S departments
• Developed new, more attractive email newsletter  (See our newsletter archives)
• CIT now has a presence on Twitter! Follow us at dukecit
  

• Expanded drop-in hours for CIT lab to 5 afternoons per week (1-5pm) beginning September 1 to offer better support for instructors; offered additional staff coverage of lab during morning hours during Fall 2008 semester to provide additional support during the early months of the Link opening
  
• Added two new video editing stations to the Instructional Technology Lab in 024 Bostock to provide instructors with the option of Mac or Windows video editing

• Added new equipment to our Exploratory Equipment loan program, including a 3D Space Navigator USB device (pictured, right)
  
• Created 2442 Blackboard course web spaces for Fall 2008 courses; over 1600 were activated by instructors
• Worked with OIT to launch a MapleTA pilot in August 2008 for engineering faculty building online quizzes and problem sets to replace Brownstone EDU (decomissioned in February 2008)
• Upgraded from Blackboard 6.3 to Blackboard 8 in May 2009