PebblePad is Duke’s New ePortfolio Tool
PebblePad was adopted at the beginning of the 2016/2017 academic year as the university’s ePortfolio tool. PebblePad allows students, faculty, and staff to create websites, blogs, and reflections to share …
New Features in Warpwire 1.7 Release
The latest version of Warpwire (Duke’s streaming media too), released on December 30, has two important new features that allow users to organize content in libraries more effectively: tagging and sorting. Other new features are batch editing and a drop box mode for private file transfer. Workshops are being offered by CIT on Jan. 8 and 19.
An alternative to PollEverywhere or Clickers
If you teach a large introductory course and are very interested in being able to use PollEverywhere, clickers, or something equivalent for in-class real time responses, you might consider the Q&A Poll tool in Piazza. …
Brainshark – A presentation tool in the cloud
Brainshark is a presentation tool that is well suited to creating movies based on Powerpoint presentations and using voice-overs you can provide at your computer or by phoning in with …