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Podcast on using audio in courses
The Chronicle of Higher Education features an 11 minute podcast on tips for using audio in courses. The interview features Shea Shackelford who assisted with a project at SUNY-Potsdam where …
iPods Aid Dramatic Imagination
To bring to life the era when the old technology of broadcast radio was the country’s main source of popular entertainment, Duke professor Daniel Foster employed a new technology: iPods. …
iPods Help Carry On Class Discussions
Duke University professor Richard Lucic’s course on information technology and society features frequent guest lecturers discussing how various technologies influence their disciplines. In order to capture and carry forward class …
Bach Accompanies Students on iPods
Students in Professor Anthony Kelley’s music theory and practice class carry around J. S. Bach’s “Saint Matthew Passion” on their iPods. They listen to the song at the gym, on …
Quotes Caught on iPods
Reporting on fast-paced breaking news is difficult. Covering a floundering local committee meeting may be even more difficult. That was the challenge three students in a Duke journalism class faced …
Accounts of Columbine Shootings Captured, Analyzed with iPods
First-year students Rita Baumgartner and April Edwards huddled around a speaker phone with their iPod digital devices set to record. They called the principal of Columbine High School, Frank DeAngelis, …
iPod Tunes Illustrate Engineering Principles
Snippets of songs — rock, rap, popular — burst from computers lined up on black lab benches. The songs are coming from students’ iPod digital music players, which are wired …
iPods Speed the Collection of Data in Engineering Classroom
Using iPods in the Electrical and Computer Engineering class “Fundamentals of Digital Signal Processing” had a two-part purpose: collecting and analyzing pulse rate data, and using that data to design …
Economics Lectures Recorded, Reviewed with iPods
Economics professor Lori Leachman gave her students an extra aid to achieve “basic economic literacy” in one semester: audio recordings of her lectures, which she made with an iPod. Before …