Blackboard upgraded
Blackboard was upgraded over the summer; the new version of Blackboard is similar to the previous version. Those who use the gradebook (renamed the Grade Center) and the Discussion Board …
Map your world, with help from ISIS
Students in Victoria Szabo and Richard Lucic‘s capstone course ISIS 200 have produced a “mapping toolkit” that includes a list of devices, directions for using the devices to collect mappable …
Exploring architecture in Second Life
Annabel Wharton, William B. Hamilton Professor Art, Art History & Visual Studies How is our relationship to physical space changing as space becomes “virtual”? What do virtual spaces reveal about …
Library images on your iPhone
Looking for that perfect image for your class, but away from your computer? Now, search over 32,000 images from the Duke University Libraries’ digital collections on your iPhone, through DukeMobile, …
Google Earth in the Mojave Desert
Peter Haff, Professor of Geology and Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nicholas School of the Environment, Earth & Ocean Sciences Project Description: Dr. Peter Haff’s class used Google Earth for their …
Duke faculty come together to talk teaching with technology
Join us on Friday, April 24th 2009 to meet colleagues and share stories at the Center for Instructional Technology showcase. Talk with Julie Reynolds about using video to teach writing, …
Images Research @ the Library
Explore scholarly images sources and the concept of visual literacy with Art Librarian Lee Sorensen. Learn useful tips for projecting images in the classroom, creating personal visual collections and helping …
Open source tools for teaching, research and learning
I’ve just returned from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Research in Information Technology retreat at which project leaders are sharing information about open source projects in higher education and in …
Display student work in Perkins library
Have your students produced work you’d like to show the world? Display it on the Student Wall in Perkins Library. The Student Wall, on the first floor of Perkins Library, …
Ideas for using blogs and wikis in your course
Some ideas for using blogs and wikis in teaching college science, from a session I moderated with Brian Switek (a science blogger and ecology & evolution student at Rutgers University) …