Welcome to the Duke Digital Initiative
Enabling Duke faculty and students to put new and emerging technologies to use in support of teaching and learning.
Through the Duke Digital Initiative, faculty and students can:
- Connect and collaborate remotely, with guest speakers and peers at other campuses, using Web and video technologies.
- Share comments and build discussions around images and video using VoiceThread.
- Explore new, flexible publishing platforms to share digital media and extend learning beyond classroom walls.
- Encourage new forms of student reflection and course content engagement with Twitter.
- Experiment with new teaching applications for mobile devices.
- Use microprojectors to teach in nontraditional spaces.
DDI Wordpress TechExpo 2009 Blog
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DDI staff members created a blog using the Wordpress MU Pilot infrastructure for TexExpo 2009. Click on the image of the poster below to visit the blog and download your special edition TechExpo 2009 DDI Program Poster.
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More Examples of Technology in Teaching and Learning
Featured article: A Rubric for Improving the Quality of Online Courses
International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship, a leading journal in its field has recently listed a featured article written by the CIT nursing fellows. The article published in 2008, “A Rubric for Improving the Quality of Online Courses” (by Jane Blood-Siegfried, Nancy Short, Carla Gene Rapp, Elizabeth Hill, Steve Talbert, John Skinner, Amy Campbell, and Linda [...]Student Video Fellowship: Video for writing projects
Students enrolled in Dr. Julie Reynolds’ Writing in Biology (Bio299), are writing honors theses. To graduate with distinctions in biology, they need signatures from three additional readers: their research supervisor, their faculty reader, and the Director of Undergraduate Studies. Therefore, the work produced is more public than most college courses. Student often get [...]Student Video Fellowship: Students create videos for Biodiversity
In Dr. Julie Reynolds‘ Biodiversity course, students used Flip video cameras to create a video for public audiences in their community to explain the value of local biodiversity. Students were required to identify their audience, investigate the audience’s assumptions about biodiversity, and created a compelling argument for why that audience should care about local biodiversity. [...]Student Video Fellowship: Brenda Neece
Brenda Neece Curator, Duke University Musical Instrument Collections During the 2008-2009 academic year, Brenda Neece, title, participated in the CIT’s Student Video Fellows program. This Fellows track offered a group of faculty from a range of disciplines the opportunity to investigate how to effectively design student video assignments, assess video work in the courses, and technology and [...]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 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 [...]About
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