Wondering how your colleague found great images for their PowerPoint presentation? Can’t figure out how to keep the .png of a table you inserted into your Google Doc from filling the entire screen? These quick tips will sort out how to find and format images effectively.
In a day-to-day class, it can be difficult to think of new ways to get students out of their “comfort zone” to look at course topics or a discipline with …
Many instructors go beyond text and tables and use graphic elements to illustrate their educational materials. When chosen and applied carefully, graphics can add valuable context and information. When chosen poorly, …
Most of us have heard that we should not use slides that contain long bullet points of text, but what does a good slide look like? Research on this topic has found …
Faculty and students routinely use Facebook, Twitter and other social media in their personal lives, so how might those same tools be put to academic use? Here are some uses …
Dave Johnston, a Research Scientist at the Nicholas School of the Environment, and his colleagues at the Duke University Marine Laboratory have terabytes of compelling photographs, video, audio, and illustrations of marine mammals and sea birds to share with students in their course Marine Megafauna (Bio 127). To better teach about the ecology and […]
Even if you understand Creative Commons licensing and know how to use Flickr, finding an image that you can legally use can still be a challenge. The blog post “A Complete Guide to Finding and Using Incredible Flickr Images” may help.
This Fall, Thompson Writing Program faculty member Jonathan Dueck is teaching a Writing 20 course, “Sounds of the Field”, where students will write ethnographically about sound and sport. For one section of the course, Dueck will be testing the iPad for various activities related to the assignments.
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 …
Back in December, I posted a comparison of five different models of microprojectors. At the time, the Optoma Pico PK-101 was almost the most impressive; its main drawback was the …
