Jeff Forbes, Associate Professor of Practice in Computer Science is developing, evaluating, and disseminating materials for a new course to equip Computer Science majors to mentor local middle and high school students with robotics projects.
Dave Johnston, Research Scientist, Nicholas School of the Environment Project Description Dave Johnston, along with his colleagues Ari Friedlaender, Larry Crowder, Andy Read, Doug Nowacek and Cindy Van Dover have …
As an experiment in online courses for undergraduates at Duke, Cathy Shuman taught Writing the Experience: Civic Engagement and Creative Nonfiction during the Summer of 2010. The course, targeting students in the Duke Engage program, provided an opportunity for students in the program to take a for-credit Duke course integrated with their on-site experience.
JoAnne Van Tuyl wanted to provide more opportunities for first and second year students to speak Russian in and out of class. Her goal was to build students’ comfort and confidence with taking the “risk” of speaking Russian, and to inspire students’ sense of Russian as a real language and not just a structured game of grammar played with Cyrillic letters.
Joan Munné, Lecturer, Romance Studies Joan Munné was one of fourteen faculty and one graduate student who participated in a Spring 2010 CIT Fellowship for language faculty interested in exploring …
Dan Wang, Instructor, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Dan Wang was one of fourteen faculty and one graduate student who participated in a Spring 2010 CIT Fellowship for language faculty …
Mbaye Lo wanted to use VoiceThread as a tool to create oral activities and assess oral language skills. Lo found limited research evidence that integrating technology and web based-assessment tools improve the core topics of psycholinguistics: comprehension, acquisition and production. He hoped that his use and research into the effectiveness of VoiceThread in enhancing language production would provide data that could enrich the literature on this topic.
Joan Clifford, Assistant Director of the Spanish Language Program, teaches Spanish 106CS and wanted to design a final course project requiring students to synthesize the course material with their service experience, while reflecting on the course’s multiple curricular goals.
Graciela Vidal, Lecturing Fellow, Romance Studies Graciela Vidal was one of fourteen faculty and one graduate student who participated in a Spring 2010 CIT Fellowship for language faculty interested in …
Germain Choffart, Lecturing Fellow, French Program, Romance Studies Germain Choffart was one of fourteen faculty and one graduate student who participated in a Spring 2010 CIT Fellowship for language faculty …
