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Google releases Picasa beta for the Mac

Instructors wanting students to do some simple photo management and editing in classes or in their own work have sometimes turned to Picasa, an application from Google.  However, the application …

Teaching with a wiki

Gearing up for spring semester?  Interested in trying something different? Instructors have been incorporating wikis into their courses to allow students to work collaboratively, and wikis are available through Blackboard …

Duke's virtual oil field

Have you seen this around Duke’s campus?  It’s a model of a mock rock outcrop, to be measured and described by students in Dr. Alex Glass‘s EOS 11: Dynamic Earth …

Blackboard Exemplary Course Program

Blackboard, Inc. sponsors a program every year “to help faculty use e-Learning technology more effectively by identifying and disseminating best practices for designing engaging online courses.”  Blackboard’s 2009 “Exemplary Course …