iPads for your Fall course
The Duke Digital Initiative is providing a loaner pool of Apple iPads (some wifi, some with 3G capability) for exploration in undergraduate courses this year. Several faculty have already taken …
Back from Summer? Catch up on Blackboard!
If you’ve been gone for the summer, welcome back and don’t worry! Blackboard is the same as when you left with a few enhancements: Configure your Discussion Board to allow …
Provide course content for your students on the go
Mobl21 provides a way for instructors to create and distribute content to students without doing any actual mobile ‘app’ development. Currently, Mobl21 only works with iPhones and iPod Touches, but …
Expedition App: Projecting the web on an iPad
A new iPad app called ‘Expedition‘ provides a way to project the web from your iPad. “What?” you ask “I can’t project the web on an iPad by just using …
Using iPads for fieldwork
CIT recently funded the purchase of several iPads for use in Duke sociologist Jen’nan Read’s Research Methods course to explore the uses of Apple’s device for fieldwork. In a recent …
Build your own mobile app
Google has released a video and some information about a project they’re working on with Harold Abelson, an MIT computer scientist, to open the doors of creating apps for Google’s …
The new winner in microprojectors
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 …
Blackboard on your iPad
Duke faculty and students who own an iPad can now access Blackboard with Blackboard’s new Mobile Learn iPad app. To try it out, download the free app from the iTunes …
Find your ideas fast with Evernote
For a brief explanation of Evernote‘s usefulness, read “Take a Minute to Collect Your Thoughts With Evernote” posted on the Chronicle of Higher Education’s blog ProfHacker by our own Shawn …
CIT Showcase 2010: Practicing what we preach
When it comes to using technology, CIT tries to ‘practice what we preach’ – and our annual Showcase event is no different. In fact, the Showcase gives us an opportunity …