Duke Digital Initiative

CIT and DDI iPad loans 2010-2011: Brief outcomes report

Amy Campbell — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:25:13 +0000

In fall 2010 and spring 2011 CIT and DDI loaned a pool of about 90 iPad 1s for exploratory course use. Our goal with the loans was mainly to get faculty and student reactions and feedback on various course activities from reading e-texts to annotating work, viewing media, creating recordings, presenting, and accessing course content [...]

Instant class feedback without clickers

Andrea Novicki — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 19:23:09 +0000

In an Introductory Psychology class, students were asked to compare three theories and select which theory offers the best explanation. Each student considers the question, then votes. The instructor shows the results; the class is more or less evenly divided. Students then turn to each other and compare theories, and the classroom [...]

iPads for ethnographic field research

Randy Riddle — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:01:47 +0000

Guest post by Jonathan Dueck, Thompson Writing Program Lecturing Fellow. Dueck is the 2011 winner of the Writing 20 Award for Excellence in Teaching Writing.

Ethnomusicologists produce a lot of what James Clifford slyly called “pre-texts”–fieldnotes, recordings, photographs, and a broader hodgepodge of notes that will someday constitute analysis, theory, et cetera. I spend [...]

The World Wide Classroom

Michael Faber — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 19:18:03 +0000

DDI blog pilot helps students expand discussion beyond the classroom By Cara Bonnett From DukeToday Wednesday, January 20, 2010 http://news.duke.edu/2010/01/classblog.html

Teaching and Learning with a Flexible Publishing Platform

Michael Faber — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 19:16:15 +0000

Teaching and Learning with a Flexible Publishing Platform: WordPress MU Pilot (Learning Technology) In fall 2009, Duke University offered a WordPress pilot focused on using WordPress MU specifically for teaching and learning. This session will feature examples from participating faculty and students who used WordPress to make their courses and projects more social, open, and [...]

How Tiny Camcorders are Changing Education

Michael Faber — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 19:12:06 +0000

Duke faculty members Jennifer Ahern-Dodson (writing) and Kevin Caves (biomedical engineering) describe how they used Flip cameras from the Duke Digital Initiative for student projects in their courses. Click below for the entire article: http://www.elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=articles&article=98-1

Virtual Worlds Course Brings Actual World Closer Together

Michael Faber — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 19:07:15 +0000

Julian Lombardi and Mark McCahill are knocking down the walls between worlds. This fall, the two instructors are using Web and video conferencing to link 17 Duke students with a classroom in Shanghai, China, as part of the new Information Studies and Information Science class, “Constructing Immersive Virtual Worlds.” The course offers a tour of [...]

Satti Khanna inspires students

Michael Faber — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:49:27 +0000

Satti Khanna wants to inspire his students to try to do more than they know how to do. An associate professor in Asian and African languages, Khanna was one of the first Duke faculty to incorporate iPods into his classes. In an earlier class on Indian cinema, his students worked with DDI equipment to create [...]

Laura Florand Adds Visual Dimension to Curriculum

Michael Faber — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:46:14 +0000

Laura Florand is a Senior Lecturing Fellow in the French Language Program in the Department of Romance Studies who has participated in a number of Duke Digital Initiative (DDI) programs, beginning with the initial iPod Experience. She was also an instructor in the earliest courses at Duke to incorporate student video projects with DDI support. [...]

Kevin Caves and DDI Technology Make a Big Difference

Michael Faber — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:36:54 +0000

In Kevin Caves’ class, senior-level biomedical engineering students put to use everything they’ve learned in order to design and build custom devices for people with disabilities. In spring 2008, the Duke Digital Initiative helped Caves and his students document that process, from initial interview to finished prototype. The result: powerful videos illustrating the use of [...]