6 reasons to use Firefox as your web browser

Sometimes we instructional technologists get so excited about the next big thing (or Wave) that we forget to let everyone know about some of the really useful tools we use on a daily basis. Case in point - Firefox. Firefox is a free “open source community-powered” web browser developed through Mozilla. The Firefox website provides [...]

Films on Demand

Guest post by Danette Pachtner, Lilly Library, Duke University Easily and legally share documentary videos in Blackboard. Duke University Libraries has acquired over 80 video titles from Films Media Group that include permissions to stream clips or entire documentaries in Blackboard at Duke. The Films on Demand collection offers a great opportunity to provide easily accessible [...]

Blackboard Tip: Email your announcement

New in Blackboard 8: When you post the announcement in Blackboard, you can choose to email your announcement to all of the users in the course site by clicking a check box. Blackboard automatically adds the course ID to outgoing email messages, in the email subject field. Usually a course ID consists of Course Subject, [...]

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 data, directions for creating maps with Google Earth, and a website to organize this material. The initial purpose of this mapping toolkit is for Duke Engage [...]

Exploring architecture in Second Life

How is our relationship to physical space changing as space becomes “virtual”? What do virtual spaces reveal about the people and circumstances that create them? Those are questions asked by Annabel Wharton, Professor in Art, Art History & Visual Studies, in her research on Medieval and Modern Architecture. Over the past few months, Wharton [...]