Sharing references with your students
Kathy Franz (Duke Chemistry) expects her students to gather resources from the chemistry literature, and share them in her course. She has tried some social bookmarking tools, but some have …
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Help OIT improve video capture
Our colleagues in the Office of Information Technology, OIT, are working hard to improve their capture service (DukeCapture, aka Lectopia) and they would appreciate your feedback in the surveys linked …
Duke faculty use Flip cameras for teaching
Duke faculty Jennifer Ahern-Dodson (Writing) and Kevin Caves (Biomedical Engineering) are featured in the article How Tiny Camcorders are Changing Education published in eLearn Magazine. Ahern-Dodson and Caves participated in …
The next wave of e-readers
Last year, Amazon made headlines with their release of the Kindle, a new generation of portable e-reader that uses E ink, a low power display technology that mimics the look …
Bb Tip: Catch up with your reading on the Blackboard Discussion Board
Do you find it is tedious to read a large number of discussion threads, needing multiple clicks to read each one, reply, and read more? Let us introduce you to …
Explore cell phones in teaching
Meet with other Duke faculty and talk about ideas for using cell phones (or any small, mobile devices) in teaching, both in and outside the classroom. At a previous meeting, …
EtherPad: real-time collaborative writing
A Mashable blog post listing “15 Essential Web Tools for Students” includes several tools that faculty may also find useful. We’ve written about Evernote, Delicious, Zotero and even Google Docs …
I'm a Mac – but I don't get it: learning Mac OS X
Every semester more and more students and faculty return from break with shiny new Macs in place of their old PCs. Switching from a Mac to a PC involves much …
Talking about tweeting – DDI Twitter lunch
Earlier in September, several of us met as part of the monthly DDI Twitter program brown bag lunch discussion series. One of the overall goals of the program is to …
Join family and friends for an evening of chemistry
The Department of Chemistry at Duke University invites you, your students and families to the 5th Annual Evening of Chemistry Demonstration Program. Explore the chemistry of fire on Tuesday, September …