Todd Stabley,   OIT Academic Services

With over 60 classrooms hard-wired for capture on campus, and with multiple streaming, download, and podcasting options available through DukeStream, there are many choices available for instructors and presenters at Duke who wish to capture their classes and events and make them available for later viewing. In this session we will outline a number of these options, focusing on what purposes they serve and why you might want to select one over the other. Additionally, we will look at key enhancements on the horizon for these services as well as related ad-hoc options such as Duke on YouTube that are emerging as technology evolves.

Ask CIT and library staff any question, or ask for demonstrations.  We are waiting to talk to you!  Possible topics include the Blackboard upgrade, copyright, Library Guides, library instruction for students, making grading easier, redesigning your course, getting started with blogs and using Blackboard effectively.

The teaching and learning of organology, or material musicology (the study of the physical artifacts of music-making, in particular musical instruments), lends itself to the use of video technology. This semester students taking Music 150S, the introductory course to Western musical instruments, used video technology in interactive assignments about musical instruments. Students have created individual and group video projects to explore and share with their classmates aspects of instrument technology, history, and performance. This presentation is a discussion of the pros and cons of using video technology in the classroom, with particular attention to the software and hardware used, problems encountered, and the overall outstanding results (with examples) produced by the students.

The mobile furniture in the Link classrooms allows instructors to easily reconfigure classroom spaces to facilitate different kinds of student activities. In this brief presentation, you can see a number of different arrangements and talk with other instructors about how to take advantage of this flexibility.

Use of Google Earth as a tool for integrating class field trip experience by combining and displaying sequential geographic, photographic, and textual information.