Time to Twitter?
When New York Times technology writer David Pogue writes about a particular technology, you can be pretty sure that the technology is about to go mainstream. This week, Pogue wrote …
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Sharing web resources 2.0: Google Reader and Diigo
Faculty who find themselves outgrowing the ‘external links’ page on Blackboard, or constantly emailing new websites and/or web articles to your students, might want to take a look at two …
Ed Prado museum tour … now on Google Earth
Google has added the El Prado museum to Google Earth, allowing you to not only see the buildings, but to do a “virtual tour” of 14 paintings in the collections, …
NYT report ‘new approaches’ to teaching at MIT is no surprise to Duke faculty
The New York Times today reports “At M.I.T., Large Lectures Are Going the Way of the Blackboard”. Introductory physics courses are now taught in smaller classes that emphasize hands-on, interactive, …
“Flexible Learning Spaces” Fellows’ experiences posted
During Fall 2008, five Duke faculty and one graduate student participated in the CIT’s “Flexible Learning Spaces” Fellowship program, which focused on best teaching applications of the technology and space …
Creation of Multimedia Maps
Victoria Szabo, Program Director, Information Science + Information Studies Richard Lucic, Associate Department Chair and Associate Professor of the Practice, Computer Science, Information Science + Information Studies (ISIS) Curriculum Director …
CIT custom training offerings
Although CIT offers several scheduled workshops for faculty each semester, as well as a week-long series of workshops and discussions in early May, we realize that these sessions may not …
Library Guides in your Bb sites
If you use Blackboard, you will notice an addition to your sites’ course menus starting in Spring 2009. A “Library Guides” button in the menu will lead to a page …
Triangle-wide networking event for women scientists, engineers, educators, researchers, science writers, and students
On Friday, January 16th, there will be a networking reception with light food and drink, and a presentation by Rebecca Skloot, a freelance science writer, contributing editor at Popular Science, …
How do you keep up on the literature in your field?
Dr. Isis, who writes the blog “On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess” answers the question in detail, describing how she used to monitor the literature in her field, includes …