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
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 [...]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 final project in the American Southwest (EOS 181S.01). They took a field trip to the Mojave Desert in October to study geologic features, including volcanism, tectonics, soils [...]Duke Nursing Students Created Health Policy Advocacy Videos
Nancy M. Short Associate Clinical Professor, Duke School of Nursing Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) students engaged in a unique active learning experience in Spring 2009 as they tackled Nursing 652 Transforming The Nation’s Health at the Duke School of Nursing. Dr. Nancy M. Short regularly challenged students to push far beyond their level of comfort. One [...]Blackboard Great Ideas: Student website projects
Amaryllis Rodriguez Lecturing Fellow, Romance Studies Blackboard wikis (websites which allow collaborative editing) are a convenient means for students to create websites as course projects. Amaryllis Rodriguez had students in her Italian courses create wikis in Blackboard focused on topics relevant to the course content. Students created a wiki (in Italian) advertising an Italian cruise line as [...]Blackboard Great Ideas: Language writing practice
Robert Kilpatrick Senior Lecturing Fellow, Romance Languages French instructor Robert Kilpatrick uses blogs in Blackboard to provide students with opportunities to practice writing French in an unstructured manner, different from the other types of more formal writing students are asked to do in the course. The Blackboard blog was chosen over a public blog to allow the [...]About
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